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	Rudolf Caracciola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Caracciola, born in Germany to a hotelier family, was a champion racer in Europe in the Grand Prix motor racing era.
		Caracciola died of a bone disease in 1959.
		In 1998, Rudolf Caracciola was elected to the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rudolf_Caracciola (465 words)

	Grand Prix Hall of Fame - Rudolf Caracciola - Biography
		Caracciola pulled into the pits and in those days the driver had to do any repairs required on the car so Caracciola pulled each of the eight spark plugs out one by one.
		Caracciola would hear none of this and chose to continue spurred on by a sense of duty to the factory.
		Rudolf Caracciola's career was plagued by painful leg injuries and later ill health yet he continued to win many honors.
	www.ddavid.com /formula1/cara_bio.htm (767 words)

	Mercedes-Benz/com/e/M/motorsport/Magazine/History/Motorsport History/1926-1939/
		Rudolf Caracciola drives a two-litre eight-cylinder supercharged race car to the first Mercedes victory in the German Grand Prix on the AVUS circuit in Berlin.
		Caracciola, this time in a Mercedes S, goes on to win the Eifel race, the first to be held on the Nürburgring.
		Caracciola drives the W 25 to first place in the Grand Prix races in Monaco and Tunis.
	www3.mercedes-benz.com /motorsport/e/magazin/history_1926_1939.htm (221 words)

	Bultmann, Rudolf -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The modern period is marked by advances in textual criticism and in the study of biblical languages and history, all of which contribute to the interpretation of the Bible.
		The German-born physicist Rudolf Mössbauer was the corecipient of the Nobel prize for physics in 1961.
		Austrian-born U.S. pianist Rudolf Serkin was a keyboard virtuoso renowned for his intensity, superb technique, and unsentimental interpretations, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?eu=18322 (752 words)

	8W - Who? - Rudi Caracciola
		Caracciola was transfered to a private clinic where he spent half a year with his lower body in plaster before the slow and painful exercises trying to walk with crutches started.
		Rudolf Caracciola participated in the Lotteria di Tripoli many times and won it in 1935 with the Mercedes W25B 3.7 litre Daimler Benz #26.
		Caracciola was one of the three Mercedes drivers with a competition of two Auto Unions and six cars of the Scuderia Ferrari (two Bi-Motore's posing the real threat).
	8w.forix.com /caracciola.html (2061 words)

	The French Grand Prix 1934 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The team was led by Rudolf Caracciola, who had long been recognized as the German champion.
		Behind waited Momberger on another Auto-Union with Rudolf Caracciola beside him on a Mercedes, and these cars revealed a second aspect of the race as a fight between representatives of the new-style machine.
		Caracciola was with him, his Mercedes howling furiously; Varzi and Stuck were still fighting behind.
	www.bonus.com /contour/Grand_Prix_History/http@@/www.ddavid.com/formula1/french1934.htm (5609 words)

	East Meets West: Mercedes-Benz at Indy
		Caracciola went to Indy anyway, and was hired by Joel Thorne, owner of the Thorne Engineering cars, who had previously driven in the Indy 500 himself before World War II and had been trying to win the Indy 500 for nearly a decade.
		Caracciola was scheduled to drive Thorne's "Big-Six" Thorne-Sparks racer, which was basically a supercharged version of the traditional 4-cylinder Offenhauser engine used at Indianapolis, with two more cylinders added to the engine block.
		Caracciola, who had experience on banked circuits from the Avus track in Berlin to the Monza banking in Italy, adjusted well to the oval track and to the car and was soon lapping at 118 mph, which was good enough to qualify for that year's Indy 500.
	www.atlasf1.com /2001/jan03/okeefe.html (1759 words)

	Today in Technology History - Jan 28
		Caracciola and Rosemeyer became fierce (but friendly) rivals, with one or the other of them taking victories in many major races.
		That morning, Caracciola and the Mercedes racing team set out to break one of Rosemeyer's speed records -- the record for one kilometer on a road, with a "flying start" -- driving on a stretch of highway near Frankfurt.
		Within minutes of Caracciola's run, Rosemeyer and his Auto-Union team were ready to reclaim their record on the same stretch of road.
	www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2003/jan28.htm (413 words)

	Rudolf Caracciola
		Nicknamed "The Ringmeister" for his success at Nurburgring, Caracciola began racing as an employee for Daimler Benz in 1922.
		Caracciola was the European driving champion three times even in the light of devistating injuries and the death of his wife in an avalanche.
		After spending World War II in exile in Lugano, Switzerland, Caracciola returned to the track in the late 1940s.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/rudolf_caracciola (219 words)

	Mercedes-Benz - Heritage - Classic Today - News - News Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Rudolf Caracciola won the 1929 International Tourist Trophy in the Mercedes-Benz SS (Super Sport).
		Rudolf Caracciola’s first race in a Mercedes was in 1923 at the ADAC “Reichsfahrt”, a race he won on his debut.
		With performance like that, the SS was predestined for a career in motor sport, and it was not only works drivers like Rudolf Caracciola who took advantage.
	www.daimlerchrysler.com /emb_classic/0,,0-195-79271-1-240263-1-0-0-0-0-0-4276-78641-0-0-0-0-0-0-0,00.html (253 words)

	Hermann Lang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lang's big break came when he landed a job at the Mercedes factory where he became part of their Grand Prix motor racing team.
		He was made head mechanic for the W25A model to be driven by the Italian star Luigi Fagioli who had left Alfa Romeo to create a powerhouse Mercedes factory team that also included Rudolf Caracciola.
		Following a very successful season in which Fagioli won both the Italian and Spanish Grand Prix, Hermann Lang was given a chance to drive for the Mercedes team.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hermann_Lang (694 words)

	Mille Miglia - Italy
		Rudolf Caracciola could not imagine his career ending just as he was gaining prominence he was forced to contest the Mille Miglia as a private entrant.
		Caracciola closed up behind the unaware drivers and when they came up to a sharp bend two of the cars spun off the road.
		At 7:22 A.M. the lone Mercedes crossed the finish line and miraculously Caracciola was able to fight the long odds and claim the first victory for a foreigner in the Mille Miglia.
	www.vpracing.com /The_Races/Mille_Miglia/mille_miglia.html (1686 words)

	The Story of the Grand Prix Pt2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		A European Championship for drivers was introduced and was promptly claimed by Rudolf Caracciola after victories in Belgium, Switzerland and Spain.
		Rudolf Caracciola would go on to win the title again in 1937 and 1938 while Bernd Rosemeyer would triumph in 1936.
		Their independent racing department established in 1935 and under the direction of 30-year-old engineer Rudolf Uhlenhaut was given a fresh infusion of the best Mercedes engineers and ordered to develop a brand new car.
	www.bonus.com /contour/Grand_Prix_History/http@@/www.ddavid.com/formula1/story1.htm (2239 words)

	1935 GRAND PRIX SEASON - PART 1
		The driver lineup for 1935 was the same as in 1934 with Rudolf Caracciola, Manfred von Brauchitsch and Luigi Fagioli as drivers and Hanns Geier as reserve.
		Caracciola retired with a broken valve on lap 60 and Étancelin's Maserati lost both brakes and oil pressure and had to see the Alfas of Dreyfus and Brivio pass.
		At lap 16 Caracciola was in the pits for the third time, but he was not the only one, the speed and the heat were putting tremendous pressure on the tyres.
	www.kolumbus.fi /leif.snellman/gp351.htm (4161 words)

	ITV Motoring - Rudi Caracciola: Part One
		Rudolf Caracciola was born on January 30, 1901 in the Rhineland town of Remagen, upstream from Bonn.
		In 1923, Caracciola took 22 victories and two second places in the curious weekend events which were all the rage in Germany then.
		Caracciola and Louis Chiron took over two of the ex-works cars for their Scuderia CC.
	www.carkeys.co.uk /features/people/657.asp (1114 words)

	Mercedes-Benz Owners' Association news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Born in 1905, von Brauchitsch’s early passion was for motorcycles until a serious accident in 1928 brought to an abrupt end his career, not only as a motorcycle racer, but also as a regular officer.
		His greatest rival in that arduous event, driving an Alfa Romeo, was Rudolf Caracciola, later to become his team-mate at Mercedes.
		Not only had he won the race in the last couple of metres, he had also established a new record for the class of car he was driving.
	www.mercedesclub.org.uk /news/details.asp?newsid=306 (305 words)

	This Day in History
		Their star driver, Rudolf Caracciola, was crestfallen at the prospect of missing such an important race in his racing prime.
		Caracciola, one of the greatest racers in the world, took a four-man crew to Italy.
		Nevertheless, the undermanned Caracciola took the victory in dramatic fashion, passing three Alfa cars near the finish line and proving the adage "He who leads at Rome is never first home." The race was halted by World War II.
	www.historychannel.com /tdih/tdih.jsp?category=automotive&month=10272958&day=10272986 (459 words)

	Legends of Grand Prix Racing 1907 - 1939
		At that time, drivers like Rudolf Caracciola, Bernd Rosemeyer, Hans Stuck or Tazio Nuvolari were idols, stars whom everybody knew, comparable with a Franz Beckenbauer or Michael Schumacher nowadays.
		Rudolf Caracciola gewann mit dem W 25B nach Siegen in den Großen Preisen von Frankreich, Belgien, der Schweiz und Spanien die Europameisterschaft.
		Rudolf Caracciola gewann mit dem W 125 nach Siegen in den Großen Preisen von Deutschland, der Schweiz und der Tschechoslowakei den Europameister-Titel.
	www.research-racing.de /ems04-x1.htm (3836 words)

	FagioliI Luigi (2)
		Teamed with the wild and inexperienced Manfred von Brauchitsch and the injured Rudolf Caracciola, Fagioli believed himself to be undisputed Number 1 in the team, and was therefore enraged when team manager Alfred Neubauer ordered him to allow Brauchitsch through to win their first race, the Eifelrennen.
		Caracciola became the first European Grand Prix champion, but remarkably Fagioli was retained for 1936.
		Yet again there was a clash between the two drivers, with Caracciola using the whole circuit and more to keep his fifth place from the lunging and veering Fagioli, free of any team orders and seething for revenge.
	www.histomobile.com /histomob/prespil.asp?meteo=60&lan=2 (696 words)

	Classic Driver - Magazine - features - Mercedes speed record cars of the 1930s
		January 28, 1938: Rudolf Caracciola, a Mercedes-Benz racing car and the all-time world record of 432.7 kilometers per hour on the motorway; "Once again, the road ahead contracted into a narrow white band and bridges across the motorway into small fl holes.
		In this condition and mirror-polished, the car was carried to Frankfurt for the record week organized by the ONS (the highest-ranking national sports authority in Germany at the time) between October 25 and 31.
		Caracciola was on the scene as early as five in the morning but did not wish to start before the early-morning hoarfrost had thawed and dried.
	www.classicdriver.com /uk/magazine/3200.asp?id=11459 (2166 words)

	Nürburgring: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The Nürburgring has for quite a while been the German circuit, which has no equal in the whole world, and most of the German motor sport fans focus on it.
		Hermann Lang sets a lap record on the 22.81-km Nordschleife in his 12-cylinder (3-litre engine) Mercedes at 9:52.2 minutes (138.5 km/h) during the 1939 Eifel race, a record that stood until 1956.
		This was to be the last Grand Prix on the Nürburgring for a long time, not to speak of a victory of a German driver.
	www.nuerburgring.de /index.php?id=91&L=1 (4000 words)

	rpm.espn.com: Nürburgring still spectacular
		NÜRBURG, Germany -- Seventy-five years ago, on June 17, 1927, Rudolf Caracciola, driving a Mercedes S Compressor, won the first auto race to be staged on Germany's newly built track called the Nürburgring.
		After winning here in 1927, Caracciola wrote: "When we arrived at the newly opened Nürburgring in 1927 we were all struck in amazement.
		Old met new Wednesday when Coulthard and Raikkonen, wearing cloth helmets and goggles, drove Rudolf Caracciola's 1927-winning Mercedes S Compressor for a slow lap around the new track to commemorate 75 years of racing at the Nürburgring.
	espn.go.com /rpm/f1/2002/0620/1397052.html (1164 words)

	Vintage F1 Items pre-war retired before 1970 - Autosport.Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Caracciola signed in fountain pen, therefore no obvious indentation.
		Rudolf Carracciola, one of the greatest drivers in the history of racing.
		Rudolf Caracciola - Mercedes Benz 3 litre supercharged
	autosport.net /items/vintage/vintage1.htm (1531 words)

	Rudolf
		Rudolf is the modern form of an Old Germanic name (Hrodulf, Hrodwulf, or Hrólfr) which means “Famous Wolf,” from “hrod” (famous), and “wulf” (wolf).
		Rudolf (or Rudolph) was introduced into England from Germany, where it had long been a favorite name among the ruling Hapsburg dynasty.
		The hero of the book was a character named Rudolf Rassendyll.
	www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/r/rudolf.html (106 words)

	Otto, Rudolf -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
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		Austrian-born German politician who was a leading representative of the Viennese development of Marxism and who served as finance minister in 1923 and 1928 in two German Social Democratic Party (SPD)-led governments.
		The German engineer Nikolaus A. Otto developed the modern four-stroke cycle engine in 1876, which—coupled with the invention in 1885 of the carburetor by another German, Gottlieb Daimler—ushered in the automobile age.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9374249?tocId=9374249 (634 words)

	Louis Chiron, the monegasque Gentleman driver, the Bugatti years"
		Rudolf Caracciola and Bernt Rosemeyer from Germany ; but compared to these champions, Louis Chiron had an extraordinary long driving career ; aged 56, he ended the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix in sixth place with a Lancia D50 !
		Achille Varzi and Caracciola start chasing René Dreyfus and Varzi manages to overtake the Frenchman in the 7th lap.
		Caracciola and his Mercedes get into serious problems and in the 53 rd lap its clutch gives way.
	www.flyandrive.com /Louis_chiron2.htm (1727 words)

	Caracciola, Rudolf -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
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		He participated in hill climbs and speed trials as well as races.
		also called Rudolf Of Rheinfelden, or Rudolf Of Swabia, German Rudolf Von Rheinfelden, or Rudolf Von Schwaben German anti-king, opponent of Henry IV.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9318723?tocId=9318723 (568 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > Luigi Fagioli
		The woeful short-chassis Mercedes and the onset of chronic rheumatism blunted Fagioli's challenge.
		He parted company with Mercedes at the end of the season and was widely expected to retire, yet reappeared at Tripoli with Auto Union eager to put one over Neubauer, Caracciola and Mercedes-Benz.
		Clearly Caracciola was not suitably cowed, as Fagioli then grabbed a knife and rushed at the German, needing to be restrained by Neubauer and the Auto Union mechanics.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/drv-faglui.html (662 words)

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		1935 - Rudolf Caracciola - (Germany) - Mercedes-Benz
		1937 - Rudolf Caracciola - (Germany) - Mercedes-Benz
		1938 - Rudolf Caracciola - (Germany) - Mercedes-Benz
	www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/s/sw/swiss_grand_prix.html (224 words)

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