In 1936, Stuck returned to Shelsley Walsh. It was a very wet meeting and Raymond Mays’ Zoller supercharged, 2-liter R4B (not C or D as it became in 1938) managed a time of 41.6. The German driver, Walter Baumer, in the little 750-cc Austin and A.F.P. Fane’s Frazer Nash single-seater managed a 42.6. Hans Stuck in the huge 6-liter, 600 bhp Auto Union managed a 45.6 as his first climb in the pouring rain and the spectators felt his second…

Neville Hay
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