RAISING THE BAR ON THE TALE OF RICHARD SEAMAN
Mar 19, 2020
3 minutes
MARCUS SIMMONS
BOOK REVIEW
A RACE WITH LOVE AND DEATH
RRP £20.00
Hours after Richard Seaman had claimed his first victory in a car race, he set about helping to organise the funeral of his team-mate.
Such was the life of a 1930s racing driver – or ‘racing motorist’ to use the parlance of the time. Aged 21, Seaman had scored his breakthrough win in the 1934 Prix de Berne voiturette race – curtain raiser to the prestigious Swiss Grand Prix – at the wheel of an MG Magnette. When his team-mate Hugh
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