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AVUS, 162
drivers, 72, 104, 111, 118, 135, 208, 261
Eifel race, 108–9, 134
engines, 122
French Grand Prix, 93–96
German Grand Prix, 99, 113, 170
Italian Grand Prix, 116
military production, 98
Monza testing, 224–25
nationalistic fervor, 105
NSKK and, 97–98
speed records, 213–17, 215, 216
state sponsorship of racing program, 71, 97–98
Swiss Grand Prix, 101, 148
Tripoli Grand Prix, 107, 131–33, 162
Vanderbilt Cup, 162–64
AVUS racetrack, 4–5, 21–22, 32–35, 33, 109, 162. See also German Grand Prix
B
Baer, Max, 228
Balbo, Italo, 106, 131, 132, 133, 160–61
Bauer, Hans, 170–71
Beck Automotive, 90
Bedouce, Albert, 151
Beer Hall Putsch, 40, 70, 97
Beinhorn, Elly
aerial expeditions, 135, 136
Caracciola and, 148
marriage, 135, 136, 149, 162–63
pregnancy, 163, 206
Rosemeyer’s death and, 216–17
Rosemeyer’s speed records and, 209, 216
Belfast, Northern Ireland, 140
Belgian Grand Prix, 76, 100, 110–11
Beltrando, Ciafredo, 177–78
Benoist, Robert
death, 268
French Grand Prix, 129–30
Million Franc prize, 179–80, 187, 197, 199
on Rosemeyer’s death, 219
World War II, 268
Benz, Karl, 29
Benz & Company, 27, 36
Berlin Motor Show, 68–69, 171, 220–22
Bira, Prince of Siam, 65–66, 260
Blue Bird (car), 3, 204
Blue Buzz team, 121, 123, 128–29
Boillot, Georges, 11, 26
Bollée tricycle car, 55, 125
Bonneville Salt Flats, 204, 207
Bormann, Martin, 131
Borzacchini, Mario, 17, 75, 78
Bouhler, Philipp, 131
Bradley, Jimmy, 127
Brauchitsch, Manfred von
AVUS, 3–4, 21–23
Berlin Motor Show, 68
European Championship, 117
French Grand Prix, 94–95, 109
German Grand Prix, 113–14, 170–71
Hitler and, 69, 71
as Mercedes team driver, 71, 80, 104
Monza training, 223–26
Nazi atrocities and, 105
Rosemeyer’s death and, 215–16
Roxy bar, Berlin, 3–4, 22–23
social connections, 4
speed records and, 210, 213–16
Tripoli Grand Prix, 104, 161
W25 testing, 91
World War II, 265
Brauchitsch, Walther von, xxii, 3, 225
Bremen (ocean liner), 162–63
British Special Operations Executive, 268
brownshirts, 95
Bugatti, Ettore (“Le Patron”)
background, 10
car design, 10, 94, 138
Dreyfus and, 66–67, 94, 102
factory strike, 129
factory team, 10, 13, 19–20
Million Franc prize, 152, 190
physical appearance, 66–67
Swiss Grand Prix, 100–101
Weiffenbach and, 57
Bugatti, Jean, 129, 177–80, 196–98, 208–9
Bugatti Brescia (Type 13), 5–7, 10–12
Bugatti cars. See also specific models
“automotrice” design, 94
Cork Grand Prix, 260
La Turbie hill climb, 87
Marne Grand Prix, 168–69
Monza Grand Prix, 7
Pau Grand Prix, 231–32, 234, 250–51
Three Hours of Marseilles, 128
Bugatti (company)
factory strike, 129
Fonds de Course, 122, 235
Million Franc prize, 173, 177–80, 183, 187, 195–99
Bugatti factory team
1932 season, 66
1933 season, 76
1936 season, 130–31
1938 season, 207–8
cars, 13
drivers, 11, 19–20, 66–67
Bugatti T35B, 13–19
Bugatti T35C, 13
Bugatti T44, 43–45, 48–52
Bugatti T51, 24, 63–65, 64
Bugatti T54, 22
Bugatti T59
compared to other cars, 100
design, 94
engine, 152
Fonds de Course, 158–59
French Grand Prix, 93–94, 96
Million Franc prize, 177
Pau Grand Prix, 157–58
Bugatti Type 57G Tank, 129–30
C
Campari, Giuseppe, 38–39, 78, 111
Campbell, Sir Malcolm, 3, 204
Caracciola, Baby. See Hoffmann, Alice “Baby”
Caracciola, Charlotte “Charly” Liemann
Baby Hoffmann and, 72, 73
concerns about Rudi’s racing, 35
death, 82–83
divorce, 29
German Grand Prix, 33, 34, 35
meeting Rudi, 28
Mercedes and, 36–37
Monaco Grand Prix, 73–74
with Rudi, 36
Rudi’s injury and recovery, 75, 79–82
Caracciola, Hertha (sister), 26–27
Caracciola, Mathilde (mother), 26
Caracciola, Rudolf “Rudi”
accident, injury, and recovery, 73–76, 79–83, 90–91
ACF dinner, 119, 203
Alfa Romeo team, 41, 73
allegiance, 25, 92–93, 98, 108, 133, 161, 171, 172, 225, 225–26
AVUS (1926), 32–35, 33
AVUS (1932), 3, 21, 22
AVUS (1934), 91–92
AVUS (1935), 109
AVUS (1937), 162
background, 25–27
Belgian Grand Prix, 110
Berlin Motor Show, 68, 220, 222
with Charly, 36
Charly and, 28, 29, 33
Charly’s death and, 82–83, 90–91, 104
Chiron and, 91, 118, 149
death, 267
Dreyfus on, 305 n161
Eifel race, 24–25, 41, 108–9, 162
European Championship, 117, 133, 148, 171, 203
as Fafnir Auto Works mechanic, 25, 26
French Grand Prix, 94–95, 109, 110, 119
friendship with Baby Hoffmann, 72–73, 91, 104, 132
friendship with Chiron, 72–73, 91, 104, 132, 149
German Grand Prix (1926), 32–35, 33, 37
German Grand Prix (1932), 41
German Grand Prix (1934), 96–97, 98
German Grand Prix (1935), 113
German Grand Prix (1936), 136
German Grand Prix (1937), 170–71
German Grand Prix (1938), 225
Hitler and, 39–41, 69, 172, 204, 221, 225–26, 286 n39
Indianapolis 500, 266–67
Italian Grand Prix, 99–100
love for Baby, 132, 149, 156, 161
marriage to Baby, 162–63
memoir, 172
Mercedes abandoning racing, 35–38, 41
as Mercedes car salesman, 27–29
Mercedes team and, 28–29, 80–82, 118, 132, 149
Mercedes voiturette, 265, 266
Mille Miglia, 38–39, 158, 267
Monaco Grand Prix, 72–76, 91
Monza, 41, 223–24
Moritz (dachshund), 66
Nazi atrocities and, 105
Nazis, ambiguity concerning, 133
nicknames, 26, 35, 134
NSKK enlistment, 92–93, 98
Nuvolari and, 234, 305 n161
Pau Grand Prix, 231, 232, 234, 236–39, 242–54, 249, 251, 260
personal character, 25–26, 109
physical appearance, 25–26
Reich Rekordwoche, 205
rituals and superstitions, 242, 244
Rosemeyer rivalry, 109, 135–36, 148, 157, 162, 204
Rosemeyer’s death and, 215–17
Scuderia CC, 72, 73
self-evaluation, 305 n161
speed records, 203–4, 206, 209–17, 211, 212, 222
Swiss Grand Prix, 147–48
Tripoli Grand Prix, 104–8, 131–33, 161, 162, 265
Tunis Grand Prix, 133
Vanderbilt Cup, 162–64
W125 Mercedes, 156–57, 171
World War II, 265
Chamberlain, Neville, 223
Le Chanteclair (restaurant), 269–70
Chapron, Henri, 268, 271, 273
Charbonneaux, Philippe, 271
Chassagne, Jean, 34
Chasseloup-Laubat, Gaston de, 204
Chiron, Louis
Baby Hoffmann and, 72, 149, 156, 161
background, 11
bicycling with other drivers, 206–7
Bugatti factory team, 11, 66, 73
Bugatti T51s, 24, 65
Dieppe Grand Prix, 111
Dreyfus and, 65
female drivers and, 86
French Grand Prix, 95–96, 151, 168, 232
friendship with Caracciola, 75, 104, 132, 149
friendship with Dreyfus, 109
German Grand Prix, 149
La Turbie hill climb, 7
Marne Grand Prix, 111
Mercedes team, 118, 132
Monaco Grand Prix, 14–19, 72–74, 75, 91
as Monaco Grand Prix master of ceremonies, 268
Monte Carlo Rally, 48
on Montlhéry circuit, 94
nicknames, 7, 11
retirement, 268
Scuderia CC, 72, 73
Scuderia Ferrari, 79, 102, 104, 111–12
Spanish Grand Prix, 79
Swiss Grand Prix, 101
Talbot team, 207
Tripoli Grand Prix, 104
Circuit de Gattières, 9–10
Citroën, xxi, 53
Clément-Bayard, 8
Comminges Grand Prix, 63–65, 64, 128, 130–31
Comotti, Gianfranco, 229–32, 235, 238, 248, 250, 253
Concours d’Élegance, 227
Coppa Acerbo, 147
Cork Grand Prix, 260
Corum, Bill, 163
Costantini, Bartolomeo “Meo,” 66–67, 78–79, 102, 208–9, 228
Coupe des Dames, 87
Coupe Robert Benoist, 268
Cristea, Petre, 120–21
Cugnot, Nicolas-Joseph, 29
Czaykowski, Stanisław, 66, 78–79, 100, 191
Czechoslovakian Grand Prix, 135
D
Daimler, Gottlieb, 29, 260
Daimler automobile company, 27, 31
Daimler-Benz. See also Mercedes
1937 Grand Prix formula, 180–81
abandoning racing, 35–38, 41
financial recovery, 181
Hitler’s support of automobile industry, 69–71, 80
military production, 98, 181, 265–66
nationalistic fervor, 105
racing budget, 180–81
state sponsorship of racing program, 71, 181
World War II, 265–66
Daley, Robert, 31, 219
De Dion-Bouton, 6, 9
Delage (company), 122
Delahaye, Émile, 54–56
Delahaye 135
design, 115, 140
engine, 139
French Grand Prix, 129–30
Marne Grand Prix, 130
Monte Carlo Rally, 115, 119–21, 152–56, 153, 218–20
nomenclature, 298–99 n115
Paris–Nice Rally, 121
Pau Grand Prix, 157–58, 232
postwar variations, 268
Lucy Schell’s 1937 season plans, 141
Lucy Schell’s personal car, 114–15
Three Hours of Marseilles, 128–29
Tourist Trophy, Belfast, 140
24 Hours of Le Mans, 165
Delahaye 145, 166
design, 138–40, 141, 150, 165
design costs, 227
engine, 138–40, 159, 161
French Grand Prix, 167–68
Marne Grand Prix, 168–69
Mille Miglia, 226
Million Franc prize, 173–77, 179, 180, 182–95, 189, 198–200, 201, 271–73
Montlhéry testing, 164–67
Paris Motor Show, 202–3
Pau Grand Prix, 227–32, 234, 236, 238–39, 243–57, 249, 259–60, 272–73
postwar fate, 271–73, 272, 320 n272
safeguarded from Nazis, xx, 271
speed enhancements, 220
tires, 169, 192
Tripoli Grand Prix, 261
Delahaye 155 monoposto, 235, 260, 262
Delahaye Automobiles (company)
board, 54, 288 n54
Écurie Bleue Grand Prix cars, 124–26
Great Depression, 53–54
Hotchkiss merger, 269
innovations, 56
Million Franc prize, 152
Paris Motor Show, 202–3
philosophy, 140
postwar, 268–69
racing history, 54–55, 57, 60
reputation, 56
Weiffenbach as production chief, 53
World War II, 268
Delahaye cars. See also specific models
design, 56–58
engines, 56, 58
model names, 289 n59
Paris Motor Show, 58–59
Delahaye factory team, 130
Delahaye Type 1, 54–55
Delahaye Type 134, 84, 289 n59
Delahaye Type 134 Super-Luxe, 59–60
Delahaye Type 138, 59, 83, 88–90, 89, 289 n59
Delahaye Type 138 Special, 84, 86–88
Delius, Ernst von, 163, 170
Desmarais, Léon, 54, 55
Desmarais, Marguerite, 54, 57, 125, 288 n54
Dhôme, Marcel, 89
Dieppe Grand Prix, 111
Donington Grand Prix, 261
Dreyfus, Alfred (father), 8–9, 9, 77
Dreyfus, Alfred (French army captain), 77
Dreyfus, Clelia (mother)
Bugatti Brescia and, 10–11
death, 263
religion, 77
René’s racing, 5, 10, 15
World War I, 8
Dreyfus, Gilberte “Chou-Chou” Miraton
background, 76
Concours d’Élégance, 76
divorce, 263, 264
family, 102–3
friendship with Hoffmann, 109
friendship with Stucks, 183
Pau Grand Prix, 253
plans to settle in Paris, 262
René’s love for, 76
René’s Million Franc prize and, 183–87, 190, 193, 194, 194, 196, 200
as René’s timekeeper, 109, 187, 190, 193
Dreyfus, Maurice (brother)
anti-Semitism against, 118
Bugatti Brescia, 10–11
Le Chanteclair, 269–70
childhood, 8
conversion to Catholicism, 118
French Resistance, 265
La Turbie hill climb, 5–7
Mathis car, 9
