Grand Prix drivers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 75. Chapters: Enzo Ferrari, Tazio Nuvolari, Juan Manuel Fangio, Malcolm Campbell, Rudolf Caracciola, Harry Schell, Birabongse Bhanudej, Alberto Ascari, Luigi Villoresi, Philippe de Rothschild, Giuseppe Farina, Louis Rosier, Philippe Étancelin, Hans Stuck, Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, George Abecassis, Louis Chiron, Luigi Fagioli, Bob Gerard, William Grover-Williams, René Dreyfus, Hans Ruesch, Hellé Nice, Kenelm Lee Guinness, Léon Théry, Bernd Rosemeyer, Toulo de Graffenried, Raymond Sommer, Achille Varzi, Hermann Lang, Whitney Straight, Albert Clément, Charles Pozzi, Jean-Pierre Wimille, Paul Pietsch, Henry Segrave, Manfred von Brauchitsch, Luigi Chinetti, Clemente Biondetti, Emilio Materassi, Guy Moll, Ferenc Szisz, Richard Seaman, László Hartmann, EliSka Junková, Alfred Neubauer, Ferdinando Minoia, Enrico Platé, Billy Cotton, Georges Boillot, Kay Petre, Jules Goux, Stan Jones, Brian Lewis, 2nd Baron Essendon, Aldo Gordini, Maurice Farman, Louis Wagner, Eddie Hertzberger, Christian Lautenschlager, Stanislaw Czaykowski, Marcel Lehoux, Arthur Waite, Guy Mairesse, René Le Bègue, Antonio Ascari, Aymo Maggi, Albert Divo, Attilio Marinoni, Giulio Masetti, Antonio Brivio, Cuth Harrison, André Boillot, Boris Ivanowski, Eileen Ellison, Ernst von Delius, Renato Balestrero, Doug Whiteford, Buddy Featherstonhaugh, Mario Mazzacurati, Emilio Villoresi, Thomas Pitt Cholmondeley-Tapper, Pietro Bordino, Eddie Pullen, Luigi Arcangeli, Guido Meregalli, Pietro Ghersi, Eugenio Siena, Charlie Martin, Goffredo Zehender, Jannine Jennky, Felice Nazzaro, Carlo Maria Pintacuda, Rudolf Hasse, Huntley Gordon, Caberto Conelli, Austin Dobson, Arthur Charles Dobson, Arthur Terdich, Georges Bouriano. Excerpt: Otto Wilhelm Rudolf Caracciola (January 30, 1901 - September 28, 1959), more commonly Rudolf Caracciola (pronounced ), was a racing driver from Remagen, Germany. He won the European Drivers' Championship, the pre-1950 equivalent of the modern Formula One World Championship, an unsurpassed three times. He also won the European Hillclimbing Championship three times: twice in sports cars, and once in Grand Prix cars. Caracciola raced for Mercedes-Benz during their original dominating Silver Arrows period, named after the silver colour of the cars, and set speed records for the firm. He was affectionately dubbed Caratsch by the German public, and was known by the title of Regenmeister, or "Rainmaster", for his prowess in wet conditions. Caracciola began racing while he was working as apprentice at the Fafnir automobile factory in Aachen during the early 1920s, first on motorcycles and then in cars. Racing for Mercedes-Benz, he won his first two Hillclimbing Championships in 1930 and 1931, and moved to Alfa Romeo for 1932, where he won the Hillclimbing Championship for the third time. In 1933, he established the privateer team Scuderia C.C. with his fellow driver Louis Chiron, but a crash in practice for the Monaco Grand Prix left him with multiple fractures of his right thigh, which ruled him out of racing for more than a year. He returned to the newly reformed Mercedes-Benz racing team in 1934, with whom he won three European Championships, in 1935, 1937 and 1938. Like most German racing drivers in the 1930s, Caracciola was a member of the Nazi paramilitary group NSKK, but never a member of the Nazi Party. He returned to racing after the Second World War, but crashed in qualifying for the 1946 Indianapolis 500. A second comeback in 1952 w...