To list all the victories and championships which have been won by DKW before the second world war, would definitely be too much for this homepage. Therefore, we are going to list only a few of them, mainly victories in the 250cc class.

One of the biggest victories DKW achieved, was winning the Tourist Trophy on the Isle of Man in 1938. Ewald Kluge raced the 250cc DKW and won the Junior TT. Kluge, who was leading the race in 1937 and then had to cancel, had that year an unbelievable win. He obtained an average speed of 127,3km/h, and the fastest lap was 129,3km/h! The record for the full race was broken by Wood on a Moto Guzzi 13 years (!) later in 1951. The fastest lap was unmatched until 1949! The DKW pilot had to fill up his petrol tank twice because of the very high consumption of the supercharged engine. All other drivers had to refuel only once. Kluge was so fast, that he won the race anyway with more then 11 minutes ahead of the second driver.
DKW was the first company to win on the Isle of Man with a foreign motorcycle and driver. Very often you can find literature which says, that Georg Meier on the BMW won a TT race as the first foreign driver on a foreign motorcycle. Meier won a year after Kluge in 1939.
The people on the island, who witnessed Kluge's drive, testify that a blower-DKW is still the noisiest motorcycle ever on this race. Everybody who has the chance to hear a racing DKW starting, will undoubtedly get the same impression.

Before the second world war started in 1939, the famous DKW drivers were: Bauhofer, Stegmann, Walfried Winkler, Gmelch, J. Klein, H. Winkler, K. Henkelmann, H. Sprung, K. Friedrich, Zündorf, Frentzen, Ley, Steinbach, H.P. Müller, Ewald Kluge, Siegfried Wünsche, Kirchberg, A. Müller, H. Fleischmann, W. Herz, K. Bodmer, Mansfeld, Rosemeyer, Babl, Braun, Schuhmann, Petruschke and the English drivers Stanley Woods and Erni Thomas.

The DKW works racing team won many races and championships during that time.