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In January 1938 record-breaking attempts were back on the agenda. Over past years, Caracciola had set several records on autobahns and oval circuits. This time on the Frankfurt-Darmstadt autobahn he attained a speed of 432.7 km/h. To this day it is the highest speed ever attained on a public road. It was a record marred by tragedy, however, since his friend and rival Bern Rosemeyer would die in an attempt to break Caracalla record in an Auto Union car.

A new formula was drawn up for the 1938 races that limited displacement to 4.5 liters without supercharger and 3 liters with supercharger. Daimler-Benz designed the new W 154 racing car for this “3-litre formula”; it developed a maximum output of 453 hp from its V12 engine. In 1938 Caracalla won the Coppa Acerbic (14 August) as well as the Swiss Grand Prix (21 August). He placed second or third in the Grand Prix of Pau (10 April, with Herman Lang, second), Tripoli (15 May, third), the French Grand Prix

(3 July, second), the German (24 July, with Hermann Lang, second) and Italian Grand Prix (11 September, with Manfred von Bronchitis third). Now 37, Caracciola won the title of European Champion for the third time and consolidated his reputation as the most successful racing driver of the era.

In the Grand Prix of Tripoli, for which Daimler-Benz specially developed the 1.5-liter vinaigrette W 165, Caracalla took second place behind Herman Lang – a double victory for the Silver Arrows. But the premier racing car of the season was the redesigned W 154, with which Caracalla won the German Grand Prix on 23 July. In 1939 he was German road racing champion; however, the European title that year was captured by the promising young talent, Lang.

Alice and Rudolf Caracciola lived through the Second World War in their adoptive country Switzerland. Caracciola was intent on racing in America after the war ended. However, in 1946 his car crashed during practice for the Indianapolis 500. In 1952 he actively resumed racing and finished the Mill Millia in fourth position in a

Mercedes-Benz 300 LS But a serious accident during the Grand Prix of Bern in 1952 put an end to his career for good. Caracalla was dependent on a wheelchair and crutches for a long time afterwards.

In 1956 he was given responsibility for the sale of Daimler-Benz cars to Americans and Britons stationed in continental Europe. Aged just 58, Rudolf Caracciola died in Kassel on 28 September 1959. A monument was unveiled in Remagen to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth in 2001, and the banked curve at the Incurring was named after him.

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