Notes:
Just before La Source hairpin at Spa-Francorchamps, Richard Seaman negotiated Club Corner - a flatout lefthander - too fast. He missed the apex and left the track sideways. His Mercedes-Benz W154 #26 left the track, hit a tree and then wrapped itself around another tree with a broken fuel line. Two hundred and fifty 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.

The accident occurred on Sunday, 25 June 1939, on 22nd lap of the Belgian Grand Prix. Winner of the race was Seaman's Mercedes-Benz team mate Hermann Lang.

After the end of the race the drivers went to the Croix-Rouge hospital in Spa where Seaman had recovered consciousness for a short time. He had however suffered burns on sixty percent of the body. Seaman, one of the greatest British pre-war drivers, died before midnight.

In present days Dick Seaman is mostly remembered for having been a British official driver and winner of the Grand Prix of Germany for the German Mercedes-Benz brand, only a few months before the outbreak of World War II.

Seaman's death certificate was issued by the British consule at Liège and clearly shows his complete name as Richard John Beattie Seaman, with Seaman being his surname, although some other sources, including The Observer website, indicate him as Richard John Seaman-Beattie.

After his death, General Conrad Huhenlein, head of the NSKK-Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps (National Socialist Motor Corps) sent a message of sympathy to the Royal Automobile Club: "In the two years of his membership of the Mercedes-Benz racing team, Richard Seaman has won our affection and respect to a high degree by the chivalry of his nature, by his cheery enterprise and his outstanding sporting achievements, which contributed so much to the increasing of fame of the German colours."

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• Book "Les Grandes Heures de Francorchamps", by Raymond Arets and Eric Faure, Editions Gamma, Tournai, Belgium, 1983, ISBN 2-7130-0562-0.
• Book "A Race with Love and Death: The Story of Richard Seaman" by Richard Williams, Simon & Schuster Ltd., 2021, ISBN 978-1471179372.
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• Newspaper Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer (Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK), issue of Tuesday, 27 June 1939, page 10, article "GERMAN TRIBUTE TO A BRITON", retrieved by website http://search.findmypast.co.uk/ .
• Website The Observer, article "The Master Race", by Jonathan Glancey, published on 01 September 2002, page http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,6903,782811,00.html.
• Website The Golden Era of Grand Prix Racing - 1934-1940, by Leif Snellman, page http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/gp383.htm#18 .
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• Website The Guardian, article "The master race" by Jonathan Glancey, page https://www.theguardian.com/observer/osm/story/0,,782811,00.html .
• E-mail by Hans Fohr, dated 16 March 2005.
• E-mail by Adam Ferrington, dated 6 May 2005, citing Seaman's death certificate.
• E-mail by Adam Ferrington, dated 11 May 2005.