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The final World Championship F1 race in East London saw drivers from one country dominate a race like never before or since.

New fans of Formula 1 could be forgiven for thinking that the Mercedes team only got involved in the sport in the past decade or so. But the Silver Arrows’ history goes back much, much further than that… So far, in fact, that in 2019, Mercedes-Benz celebrated a full 125 years of involvement in motorsport – while prior to the inauguration of the F1 World Championship in 1950, Mercedes had been hugely successful in pre-war era Grand Prix racing, with their cars driven by heroes of the day like Dick Seaman and Rudolf Caracciola. 1954 saw Mercedes enter the World Championship as a construct...

Photo: Fox Photos (Getty Images) Long before the era of British racing legends like Stirling Moss and Graham Hill came the pre-war Grand Prix era, a time whose most popular UK driver was a man named Dick Seaman. There was just one problem: Seaman raced for the Nazi-backed Mercedes-Benz team, resulting in a memory that was quickly scrubbed out of the history books by a country increasingly uncomfortable with the specter of facism. A Race with Love and Death by Richard Williams tells the story of this young driver’s life and death in great detail, reviving a legacy that had long been forgott...

Richard Williams tells the tragic tale of British racing star Dick Seaman. By The42 Team Thursday 24 Dec 2020, 5:28 PM Dec 24th 2020, 5:28 PM 67,296 Views 20 Comments Dick Seaman pictured in 1936. Image: S&G and Barratts/EMPICS Sport Dick Seaman pictured in 1936. Image: S&G and Barratts/EMPICS Sport THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE is an extract from A Race with Love and Death by Richard Williams. He could see the umbrellas going up again in the grand...