books.google.co.uk - This history illuminates the early period of automobile racing from the beginnings in 1895 until the First World War in 1915 when racing had to cease temporarily. Focusing on the races themselves, the drivers, mechanics and engineers and the technical progress of the cars, it tells the story of the German...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Mercedes_and_Auto_Racing_in_the_Belle_%C3%89.html?id=1dxZK6iHPXQC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareMercedes and Auto Racing in the Belle Époque