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Track limits

28. Aug 2022 
by Ziv Knoll
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No debate about track limits back in 1939, on the circuit of Spa-Francorchamps… If you went off in this corner, the Eau Rouge, you would most probably end much lower and in a very bad shape. No way to pass flat out, like nowadays, it was wise not to try anything silly there.

Picture above: Nino Farina (Alfa Romeo Tipo 316) is leading the pack into Eau Rouge, at the 1939 Belgian Grand Prix held at Spa-Francorchamps.

Hermann Lang won this pre-was Grand Prix in a works Mercedes-Benz W154, in front of the Auto Union of Rudolf Hasse and the Mercedes of Manfred von Brauchisch, in a race marred by the death of his team-mate Richard Seaman, who crashed at high speed into a tree (picture below).

Source: DR

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