Michał Nahorski

Michał Edward Nahorski (born 1909 in St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Polish, later Soviet racing driver.

Before WW2, Nahorski was a keen motorcycle racer - winning the Polish Junior Motorcycle Grand Prix in 1938. Following the war, Nahorski opened a watchmakers in Katowice which helped fund his motorcyle racing career. Nahorski became one of the finest riders in Poland before moving into car racing in the mid-1950s.

Nahorski began to excel in cars and in 1956 he entered the East German Grand Prix under the psuedonym of "Michael Naysmith" - an amateur driver from Plymouth, England. He was joined by highly rated Romanian driver Marin Dumitrescu who was racing under the psuedonym of "Martin Drummond". In reality, the team - Brown Racing Enterprises - was set up in order for several British and Eastern European engineers and drivers (including Team Principal Donald Brown, Nahorski and Dumitrescu) to defect to the Soviet Union. After the pair qualified for the race - the team's loaned equipment was found abandoned in the paddock on the Sunday morning with news that all personnel had defected. Little was heard of Nahorski after the defection although it is believed he was killed in a rally event in the Soviet Union in the late 1950s.