Racers

by Neal Bascomb

Before World War II, Adolf Hitler wanted to prove the greatness of the Third Reich in everything from track and field to motorsports. With a stable of supercharged automobiles called Silver Arrows, their drivers dominated the sensational world of European Grand Prix racing. So in 1937, Lucy Schell, an American heiress and top Monte Carlo Rally driver, hired Rene Dreyfus, a Jewish Frenchman, to take on the Silver Arrows as the world held its breath in anticipation of who would triumph.

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