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Greatest Formula 1 Races – 1937 Donington Grand Prix

Donington Grand Prix - October 2, 1937

Dennis David

1937 Donington Grand Prix – When The Germans Came to Donington

by Rodney Walkerley

The Donington Grand Prix of 1937 was the race and the year in which the already legendary German Grand Prix cars made their first appearance in Great Britain.

Although I had been watching these cars and reporting their races since they first emerged from their factories in 1934, the race on that October day remains in my memory, not so much on account of the racing, which developed on the usual lines, but because of little incidents and one moment which was profoundly impressive.

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