The Stuck Saga – Part 1

At the first Shelsley Walsh meeting after the war, only the weather was as predictable as the belief among spectators that Raymond Mays would establish Fastest Time of Day (FTD). The weather was dreadful and, for a small boy, it was almost like the echo of voices from the past to hear spectators who had been present in 1936 recall when Hans Stuck and the Auto Union was there. After 10 years and the Second World War, Hans Stuck was a legend.

In July 2016 his son, Hans-Joachim Stuck, President of the German Motor Sport Association, was at Shelsley driving one of the 1936-’37 Auto Unions some 80 years after his father drove one there. So, who are the Stuck legends, father and son?