Jurgen Schwarzmann riding a BMW WR 750 at the 2016 Goodwood Festival of Speed
The BMW WR 750 was a supercharged racing motorcycle from BMW with two-cylinder, four-stroke flat twin engine starting production in the year 1929. The idea to equip the flat twin engine with a supercharger came from the designer of the BMW R 37 race bike, Rudolf Schleicher. But after his departure from BMW, the concept was transferred to the racing mechanic Josef Hopf, closest confidant of Rudolf Schleicher, and the BMW works driver and German Champion of 1926 and 1927, Ernst Jakob Henne. The first engines ran on the test bench in 1928. The WR 500 and WR 750 could not break the dominance of the English brands in the international came with the next generation of supercharged BMWs, with the Type 255, which went on the hunt for records and racing successes beginning in 1935. Jürgen Schwarzmann is a journalist for Motor Presse Stuttgart.
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Location: Goodwood, West Sussex, UK
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