
No more nicknames?
Nicknames seem to have become obsolescent in modern-era motor racing. Perhaps it was the wartime service background of so many past heroes which sparked the nickname habit. Physical traits had…
PREVIOUS WINNERS.
1921. 0,pel (Opel) 128.44 k.p.h. (143 k.p.h.).
1922. Riecken (N.A.G.), 133.8 (133.103).
1923. Kliible (N.S.U.), 119.46 (125.552). 1924. Scholl (N.S.U.), 120.78
. (127.408). 1926. Caracciola (Mercedes-Benz),
135.10 (154.800). 1981. Caracciola (Mercedes-Benz),
185.705 (196.773).
1932. von Brauchitsch (MercedesBenz), 194.40 (209.840).
133. Varzi (Bugatti), 206.690 (221.720).
1934. Moll (Alfa-Rorneo), 205.30 (225.843).
1935. Fagioli (Mercedes-Benz), 238.50 (259.200).
The figures in parentheses show the fastest lap accomplished by the winner.