AIACR European Championship
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The European Drivers' Championship was an annual competition in auto racing that existed prior to the establishment of the Formula One world championship in 1950. It was established in 1931 and ran un
Hermann Lang demonstrating a Mercedes-Benz W125 at the Nürburgring in 1977. Lang drove a W125 to victory on its 1937 début.
Hermann Lang, despite finishing second on points in 1939 in the Mercedes-Benz W154 (shown here in 1986), was declared champion by the Nazis.
Rudolf Caracciola
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Otto Wilhelm Rudolf Caracciola was a German racing driver. He won the European Drivers' Championship, the pre-1950 equivalent of the modern Formula One World Championship, an unsurpassed three times.
AIACR European Championship
…Category Single-seaters Country Europe Inaugural season 1931 Folded 1939 Drivers 32 (1939) Teams 8 (1939) Constructors 7 (1939) Last Drivers' champion Rudolf Caracciola (1938) The European Drivers' Championship was an annual competition in auto racing that existed prior to the establishment of the Formula One world…
Caracciola in 1928
Caracciola (left) and his riding mechanic Eugen Salzer celebrate after winning the 1926 German Grand Prix
Caracciola (seated) with his first wife Charlotte at AVUS, Berlin in 1931
Caracciola in practice for the 1929 Monaco Grand Prix. He finished third after a delay at a pit stop