Our Blog 4/2024

This amazing phograph taken by Abel Lourenço dos Santos at the Circuito da Gávea in 1935 shows the fatal accident of Irineu Corrêa (who had won the race the previous year) on Avenida Visconde de Albuquerque on the first lap.

Rudolf Caracciola leading the pack through Quarry, just after the start of the 1936 Swiss Grand Prix

It ended as an Auto Union 1-2-3 with Rosemeyer taking the win from Achille Varzi and Hans Stuck.

It took me a second or two to realise that the side cars had passengers who seem to have had the sole purpose of providing ballast! This is Les Archer with unknown passenger, followed by (I think) Ben Bickell at Brooklands on 5th October 1929