Albert Scherrer (28 February 1908 in Riehen – 5 July 1986 in Basel) was a racing driver from Switzerland.
He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, the 1953 Swiss Grand Prix. He finished 16 laps down and unclassified, scoring no championship points. Info from Wiki
Bio by Terry Trump
A Basel-based businessman who raced purely for pleasure, Albert Scherrer competed in local races and hillclimbs from the late 1940s. He drove an old Alfa Romeo 8C-2300 “Monza” in 1949 and finished third in the Prix de Berne that supported that year’s Swiss Grand Prix.
A Jaguar XK120 was acquired for the following season and Scherrer proved consistent on home soil. Third at Bremgarten and second in Geneva, he was beaten on both occasions by Willy Peter Daetwyler’s Alfa Romeo 412.
Class winner with the car in the 1951 Prix de Berne and a regular in the country’s hillclimbs, it was a surprise when he hired the third works HWM-Alta for the 1953 Swiss GP. Eighteenth in qualifying, he spun in the race before finishing in a distant eighth. That was the only major single-seater race of his career.
Scherrer later bought a Mercedes-Benz 300SL and returned to national obscurity. His last result of note was another class win in the Ollon-Villars hillclimb in 1956.
