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  • 3-4 February: This Weekend in Motor Sport History

    ~4 February~ 1913: Richard John Beattie “Dick” Seaman, one of the greatest British pre-war Grand Prix drivers was born. He famously drove for the Mercedes-Benz team from 1937-1939 in the Mercedes-Benz W154 car, winning the 1938 German Grand Prix. He died of his injuries after his c ar crashed into a tree and caught fire…