This website is now dormant. Please visit racingdaydreams.com for the latest version of this piece, and much more. – CJ This piece – previously published here as: ‘The 1929 Tourist Trophy – Mercedes versus Bentley, in the Belfast Rain.’ – is reposted to mark the 120th anniversary of Caracciola’s birth. It’s 90 years since theContinue reading “120 Years of Caracciola: 1929 RAC International Tourist Trophy Race”
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The 1929 Tourist Trophy – Mercedes versus Bentley, in the Belfast Rain.
This website is now dormant. Please visit racingdaydreams.com for the latest version of this piece, and much more. – CJ It’s 90 years since the greatest racers did battle in Belfast. 17th August 1929 saw ‘Tim’ Birkin’s blower Bentley challenge the works’ Mercedes-Benz of Rudi Caracciola, in the rain, for the Tourist Trophy. There wasContinue reading “The 1929 Tourist Trophy – Mercedes versus Bentley, in the Belfast Rain.”
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