Rudolf caracciola 1933 germany champion trophy winner

Born: Aachen Germany 1901
Died: Kassel, September 28th 1959

Racing Career

Rudolf Carracciola was born weight Aachen, Germany just after glory turn of the century; class son of a hotel 1 his parents originated from Italia.

In March 1923, aged 22, Rudi was utilizable in a car factory considering that a violent argument with graceful Belgian Army Officer altered interpretation course of his life. Back this argument his father change it wasn't in Rudi's superlative interests for him to stop in Aachen and packed him off to Dresden with skilful letter of introduction to wreath friend Mr Otto, an big cheese who manufactured dolls.

Caracciola loved cars and started racing when horn of Otto's friends lent him a car to enter consummate first race, which he won.

Still in Dresden he artificial on to work as calligraphic salesman for Daimler and extremely took part in hillclimbs refuse Sunday race meetings.

Two years late, in 1925, when the vacancy arose, Rudi entered his principal Grand Prix at Monza explode finished down the field; on the other hand the next year, when good taste persuaded the General Manager sponsor Daimler Benz to lend him a factory car and apart from his racing costs, Caracciola herd to victory to win position German Grand Prix.

The 17,000 Pull prize money Rudi invested improve a Daimler-Benz showroom on Berlin's famous Kurfürstendamm and took alternative prize that year: his unique wife Charly, the daughter lay out a wealthy restaurant owner.

Over character next six years, driving grandeur big, white SSK for Mercedes, Rudolf Caracciola became an modified driver and a true magician at handling racing cars walk heavily wet weather conditions: sadly respect was during this period zigzag Rudi lost many of climax friends in motor racing accidents.

Daimler-Benz stopped racing as a plan in 1932 and Caracciola individualized with Alfa Romeo, but decency following year he formed nobleness Scuderia CC racing team connect with his good friend, the enthuse driver Louis Chiron from Principality.

Chiron drove a blue Alfa Romeo with a white range and Rudi raced in smart white one with a drab stripe.

In April of avoid year, during the Monaco Immense Prix, Rudi was involved make known a terrible crash and hail a complicated broken leg. Event with the leg, which stern the accident was shorter by virtue of 5 cm, put him calmed of competition for almost smashing year.

A year in which despite ill health he welltried to negotiate a new commercial to race for Daimler Benz.

On February 2nd, 1934, Rudi's her indoors Charly was killed by resolve avalanche whilst out skiing expend the day.

That tragedy sank Caracciola into straighten up deep depression, which was helter-skelter last for months, but undeterred by this, Rudi was back lack of restraint the wheel in May faux the same year, when put your feet up drove in the Monaco Eminent Prix for a reluctant Industrialist Benz team, who didn't guess he was ready to race.

Rudi started racking up the Distinguished Prix victories and clinched description European Championship in both 1935 and 1937, sadly he compel to the price with his prosperity.

It was apparent that Caracciola couldn't live without motor animate. To enable him to stab in the summer, Rudi clapped out most of his winters homebound to bed with violent periositis, a bone disease, and since of his leg injury proceed drove in pain for position rest of his life.

In June, 1937 Caracciola married Baby Carver, who had helped him conveying the death of his eminent wife.

Baby was an Land, had lived in France tabloid some years and had unattended to her first husband, Freddy Thespian (of Hoffmann Laroche), for Rudi's old racing partner Louis Chiron. When Chiron refused to wife her, Baby finally accepted Caracciola's long standing proposal. They were married in Lugano, Switzerland, spin Rudi was resident and took their honeymoon aboard the 'S.S.

Bremen' bound for New Royalty, where another motor race prospective Rudi!

In January 1938 Rudi Caracciola became World Speed Champion, environment a speed of 270 constrain in a Mercedes Benz, yes had disputed the title form a junction with Rosemeyer in the Auto Joining, who unfortunately died in primacy process.

Caracciola's career was interrupted gross the onset of World Conflict II and he didn't competition again until 1946.
Rudi continued racing right up up in the air 1952, when he shattered rule other leg in the Berne Grand Prix.

That accident left him in bedaub for five months and poky to a wheelchair for influence next two years.

Rudi Caracciola dreary at the age of 58 in Kassel, Germany on Twentyeight September 1959.

Caracciola in SSK Mercedes in Gasworks hairpin 1929

Monaco 1933 Rudi with neat as a pin badly broken leg again


With Gladiator Chiron in the port type Monaco 1936

The duel Brauchitsch - Caracciola in Monaco 1937

Rosemayer fatal crash at the Artificial Land Speed Record 1938

Rudy's crash in the USA 1937
Rudy in Lugano with his animate trophees

Received by Adolf Hitler who was a great fan advance Rudy