Motor racing is dangerous. As a kid I avidly followed the stylish Prince Bira’s racing exploits. His cars were entered by his cousin Prince Chula whose Swiss-Russian PA took this frightening photograph. His name was Alexander Shura-Rahm and here during practice at the Brno circuit in Czechoslovakia an inexperienced local driver named Josef Brazdil had just crashed his brand-new Maserati 6C-34. I’m afraid the poor chap died…