It may be irrelevant to ascribe beauty to a racing car designed expressly for its function. But the 1938 W154...
July 3, 1938; French Grand Prix; Reims-Gueux Hermann Lang, in the Mercedes-Benz W154, at full speed across the fields of...
After a great fight between Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes W154 and the Delahaye 145 V12 of René Dreyfus in the early going of the 1938 Pau Grand Prix, Caracciola began experiencing pain from an old leg injury suffered at Monaco five years before, and made a pit stop on...
Quite simply, cars raced by Dick Seaman are few and far between. The British driver was active in our sport...
Mention the words “Rudi” and “Mercedes” and what comes to mind? Chances are good it will be images of famed...
The ashtrays were a collector’s delight. Shaped like Bugatti radiators and advertising the Le Chanteclair Restaurant and Bar at 18 East 49th Street, New York City. A gourmet’s heaven, with a very French menu of specialities that included coquille Chanteclair, Feuillet au Roquefort and, on Fridays, filets de sole Cardinal,...
You wouldn’t need all the fingers of one hand to count the number of men who could beat Juan Manuel...
Motor racing was banned in Switzerland in the aftermath of the 1955 Le Mans disaster, one of the most catastrophic...
May 2009 At the Donington Grand Prix in England on October 22, 1938, Silver Arrows pilot Dick Seaman applies the power to his Mercedes-Benz W154—along with a touch of opposite lock. He would finish 3rd, a lap behind Auto Union’s victorious Tazio Nuvolari and teammate Hermann Lang. Photo courtesy of: ...
Mercedes-Benz rocked Donington Park with its mighty “Silver Arrow” confrontation with Auto Union in 1937 and 1938. Back then, the...
It may sound corny, but Dick Seaman’s short life really was the stuff of Hollywood movies. He was tall, handsome,...
The noise! It took my breath away. A BMW M12 4-cylinder or Honda V-6 at around 10,000 rpm. Totally ear-splitting in any environment, but here, at Pau, in the Parc Beaumont, the noise bounced around between the Armco barrier and the park benches, but then was trapped under the trees...
