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Rudi Caracciola: his great grandparents were from Naples. The most successful pre-war driver, despite surviving an awful smash at Monaco in 1933 which left him in hospital for seven months and with a limp for the rest of his life. He lost his wife Charly that same year. The original rainmaster.

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Rudi Caracciola: his great grandparents were from Naples. The most successful pre-war driver, despite surviving an awful smash at Monaco in 1933 which left him in hospital for seven months and with a limp for the rest of his life. He lost his wife Charly that same year. The original rainmaster.

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