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“Burning rubber”

 Rudolf Caracciola powers away from the start line in his fabulous Mercedes 154 at the French Grand Prix, Rheims, 3^rd July 1938. 

The Mercedes team dominated the race and finished  1, 2 and 3.  All three drivers led the race at one stage, with Von Brauchitsch being first to the chequered flag.  The only other finisher was R. Carriere’s Talbot.

 

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 “Flight of the Silver Arrow”

Donington 2^nd October 1937.

An account of this race was my boyhood introduction to the mighty Silver Arrows, and especially the Mercedes W125 - the most powerful Grand Prix car until the advent of the modern turbo era.  Within that account is a stunning photograph with a caption: “Lap after lap, Brauchitsch was bringing the big Mercedes through Coppice Corner in exuberant but fully controlled power slides, to the delight of the crowd.”  This was his undoing, for tyre stops would cost him the race which was won by Bernd Rosemeyer (Auto Union).  Von Brauchitsch would, however, claim the lap record at 85.62 m.p.h.  The painting shows the German at the spectacular “Deer’s Leap”.

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"Chain your dogs"

“Chain your dogs and lock up your fowls” proclaimed the posters on the first Vanderbilt Cup road race of 1904.  In those pioneering days of the sport, most spectators were oblivious to the potential danger.  These races were held annually until 1910, with crowds of between twenty-five thousand and two hundred and fifty thousand.  Featured is the unique fifty horsepower Christie driven by its designer, J. Walter Christie, driving in the 1905 race, and can be seen passing Aloyous Huwer’s Bull’s Head Hotel, Long Island.  It met with little success.  The year before, he had equalled the world record for petrol-driven cars covering a mile in 51.15 seconds.  His racing career would end in a near-fatal accident in 1907.  This great inventor is, however, remembered now as “the father of the modern tank”.

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