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The 1939 Belgian Grand Prix was a race held on June 25, 1939 at Spa-Francorchamps. Richard Seaman suffered severe burns on 60 percent of his body after crashing into a tree. He died later that night in the hospital, at only 26 years of age.
Richard Seaman crashed in the La Source hairpin into tree and then wrapped itself around another tree with a broken fuel line. 250 litres of fuel rushed into the cockpit and over the exhaust and in the next moment the car was an inferno. Seaman's right hand was broken and the driver was trapped behind the steering wheel. After a minute of futile rescuing efforts a Belgian soldier walked right into the fire and released the driver. He had however suffered burns on 60 percent of the body and Britain's greatest pre-war driver died before midnight.
Giuseppe Farina
Hermann Lang
Richard Seaman
Raymond Sommer
Adolfo Mandirola