The German legend who raced and beat Nuvolari

Rudi Caracciola was the Alain Prost to Tazio Nuvolari's Ayrton Senna – except when it rained and roles were reversed. Their 1932 season spent as rival Alfa Corse males was muddied by prearrangements permitted by the superiority of their machinery. It was perhaps the German, however, who burnished his reputation the more.