10.5.2019. One thousand pure fascination and Passion miles: This is the 1000 Miglia. This year, the regularity with which travel on the tracks of the legendary road race of 15. to 18. May 2019.
Mercedes-Benz is taking part with numerous classics and celebrates “125 years of Motorsport”. This anniversary commemorates the first automobile travel in the history of betting in the year 1894 from Paris to Rouen, won by cars with Daimler engines.
Mercedes-Benz Classic documented highlights of the 1000 Miglia 2019 with current image material. It is published for journalists and bloggers during the event continuously in the Multimedia database M@RS. Available days, it is currently at the following Link: http://mb4.me/mm19
Stuttgart. Mercedes-Benz celebrates 2019, even at the 1000 Miglia the anniversary “125 years of Motorsport that Mercedes-Benz”. And the highlights of the Stuttgart-based brand are on the 1,000 miles from Brescia to Rome and back.
Record: 2019 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (W 196 S), with Hans Herrmann and Bernd Mayländer, the official formula 1 Safety Car driver opened, at the wheel of the 1000 Miglia. This is an absolute goosebumps moment. Because on a identical racing cars Herrmann drives in the year 1955, the long race distance, the finally win of Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson in a 300 SLR, with a record time of 10 hours, 7 minutes and 48 seconds.
Partnership: Mercedes-Benz supports the 1000 Miglia as a Global Partner in the area of automobile manufacturers. In addition, the brand with several 300 SL “Gullwing” (W 198) from the company’s collection on the track. You remember, in particular, to the racing result of the series sports of the brand in the 1950s, and the class victory of the 300 SL “Gullwing” at the 1000 Miglia in 1955.
Anniversary: Historical star of Mercedes-Benz’s legendary victories at the 1000 Miglia in 1931 by Rudolf Caracciola, and in 1955, by Stirling Moss. Both successes, highlights of 125 years of Motorsport, the Stuttgart-based brand. Mercedes-Benz celebrates the anniversary in Italy as well as throughout the remainder of the year with numerous events and took part in international Events.
Stars: At the 1000 Miglia in 2019 the Mercedes-Benz brand Ambassador Ellen Lohr and Bernd Mayländer, are expected to be in addition to Hans Herrmann. Ellen Lohr is in this year, a Team with Sophia Flörsch, currently the most successful young German race car driver. In the race series FIA F3 European Championship, they went with engines from Mercedes-AMG in 2018 at the Start and denies in 2019 for the first time a complete season of the Formula Regional European Championship. The women’s team is driving at the 1000 Miglia in a 300 SL “Gullwing”, as well as Bernd Mayländer, together with Michael Diamond, better known as Mike D of the Beastie Boys, and an avowed lover of the character cars from Mercedes-AMG. Another “Gullwing” is so the fashion designers, sports car collector and author Magnus Walker is on Italy drive. He knows the car: in 2018, he has denied the Silvretta Classic rally Montafon and discovered the great joy of driving the Gullwing.
Motorsport today: A special Display in Brescia-to-date motor sport competitors. To see the formula 1 car, Mercedes-AMG F1 W10 EQ Power+, as well as the cars of Ferrari and Alfa Romeo. Mercedes-AMG is also a GT4 racecar.
Mercedes-Benz 1000 Miglia Challenge 2019: in honor of the sporting heritage of the brand, the participants from nine countries, with almost 40 vehicles in the run-up to the classic Cars on the same route and the same stages. Prominent passenger in 2019: Esteban Ocon and Klaus Ludwig. Authorised Mercedes-Benz SL sports cars of different generations, and vehicles from Mercedes-AMG and historically particularly valuable types of the product’s history.
“Gullwing” of 1954: ALL-TIME STARS, the car trade from Mercedes-Benz Classic offers in the Parc Fermé in Brescia, a 300 SL from the first months of Production, with characteristic features such as screwed-on fender spears and an interior space ventilation. For special equipment the rare Rudge wheels. The classic colour scheme in silver grey (DB 180) with blue checkered seat cover fabric. The vehicle is since 1990, in the possession of Daimler AG, has an FIA passport and is therefore eligible for Top Events such as the 1000 Miglia. After a comprehensive restoration, it is presented in a visually new condition. The technology is continually maintained. For more information: http://mb4.me/W198
History of 1000 Miglia Between 1927 and 1957 is aligned to the original road race over 1,000 miles from Brescia to Rome and back. In 1977, the regularity with which travel will take place for the first time with classic cars. Are only approved vehicles, whose types were already racing to the original road. More than 400 classics, many with the Mercedes star form every year, a splendid “rolling Museum” in Brescia and Rome and along the route for fascination. This year the Route in four stages initially leads from Brescia to Cervia-Milano Marittima (15. May) and then to Rome (16. May). On the third day (17. May) is the field to travel to Bologna the Italian inventor Leonardo da Vinci in his honor, whose death this year at the 500. Anniversary: It visited the place Vinci. Finally, the 1000 Miglia returns to Brescia (18. May).
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- The vehicles from Mercedes-Benz Classic at the 1000 Miglia in 2019
- Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR racing sports car (W 196 S, 1955)
- Mercedes-Benz 300 SL “Gullwing” (W 198, 1954 to 1957)
- The brand Ambassador of Mercedes-Benz Classic at the 1000 Miglia in 2019
- Hans Herrmann
- Ellen Lohr
- Bernd Mayländer
The vehicles from Mercedes-Benz Classic at the 1000 Miglia in 2019
Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR racing sports car (W 196 S, 1955)
The 300 SLR (W 196 S) Mercedes-Benz developed for the sports car world championship in 1955 from the successful formula-1 racing car W 196 R in addition to the two-seater body, the main difference in the engine: The racing is not tied to the car, the engine displacement limit of the formula 1 and is driven by a three-liter Version of the inline eight-cylinder engine. This requires no special racing fuel, but runs with the regular super petrol. Its high performance and its unsurpassed durability and reliability make the 300 SLR to its competitors of 1955, far superior to The double victories at the Mille Miglia, the race in the Eifel, in the Grand Prix of Sweden and the Targa Florio (Sicily), the triple victory in the Tourist Trophy in Ireland, and finally, winning the world sportscar championship this is an impressive demonstration.
Technical data of the Mercedes-Benz car 300 SLR racing sports (W 196 S)
Use: 1955
Cylinders: 8/In-Line
Displacement: 2.982 cm3
Power: 222 kW (302 HP)
Maximum speed: up to 300 km/h
Mercedes-Benz 300 SL “Gullwing” (W 198, 1954 to 1957)
In February 1954, the 300 SL series sports car (W 198), on the International Motor Sport Show in New York world premiere. The coupe is called because of its distinctive roof-hinged Gullwing doors of the “Gullwing”, and “Gullwing” (gull arm) or “Papillon” (butterfly). The high-performance sports car based on the legendary 300 SL racing car (W 194) from the 1952 season. It is the first production car with four-stroke engine and fuel injection. With an engine power of 158 kW (215 PS) – a good 25 per cent more than in the case of the carburetor, mounted on a racing version of 1952 and a maximum speed of up to 250 km/h of the W 198 in the top area of the production sports car of its time, which makes it ideal for sports bets. Legendary is the triple class victory of the 300 SL Gullwing at the Mille Miglia in 1955. John Cooper Fitch and his co-driver Kurt Gessl come in the vehicle with the starting number 417, which stands for its start time to 4:17 p. m., on the fifth place in the overall standings and lead the class of series-production sports car with more than 1.3 liters of displacement and two other “Gullwings”. From 1954 to 1957 a total of 1,400 vehicles, the 300 SL “Gullwing”, and his Mille-Miglia incurred in the year-class victory in 1955, not less than 867 copies.
Technical data Mercedes-Benz 300 SL “Gullwing”
Production period: 1954 to 1957
Cylinder: 6/In-Line Displacement: 2.996
Cubic centimetres power: 158 kW (215 HP)
Maximum speed: up to 250 km/h
The brand Ambassador of Mercedes-Benz Classic at the 1000 Miglia in 2019
Hans Herrmann
Born on the 23. February 1928 in Stuttgart, Germany
The 1955 season could be the big year for the young racer Hans Herrmann in the Mercedes-Benz racing Department. The Talent he has, anyway. For the Premiere of the new Mercedes-Benz W 196 Grand Prix of France on may 4. July 1954 in Reims, the young racing driver sets new standards, as he achieved the fastest lap time. However, in 1955 the bad luck with the in-the-Cockpit-of-the-stuttgar ester. In the case of a training accident prior to the Grand Prix of Monte Carlo in Monaco Herrmann is seriously injured and can not start in this season. Trained as a pastry chef began his racing career in 1952 at the Hessian winter driving a private Porsche 356. In the same year he won the tour of Germany a class victory. In 1953 and 1954 Herrmann then Porsche a class victory at the Mille Miglia brings. Mercedes-Benz racing Manager Alfred Neubauer is aware of him and get him in 1954, as a Junior driver in the new formula 1 team. Over his career, Hans Herrmann at the Grand Prix races of the formula 1 and formula 2 is, in sports car racing and rallies as a very versatile motor sportsman of the car. Except on the car of Mercedes-Benz, he starts, in particular, with racing and sports cars of Porsche. Inserts come race cars in the Cockpits of B. R. M., Cooper, Maserati and Veritas. His greatest successes Herrmann for long-achieved-distance race. These include victories at the Targa Florio (1960), the 24 hours of Daytona (1968) and the 24 hours of Le Mans (1970). include, for example, the total of the second place in a Mercedes-Benz 220 SE (W 111) in the Large road price of Argentina in 1961. For his eight took part in the Targa Florio, Herrmann, 2012, will be honored by the on the track, the city of Collesano. The ceremony of the Ex-factory driver drives the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR. Hans Herrmann crowning his racing career in 1970 with the Le Mans victory, and makes it official, retires in the same year from active Motorsport. As a brand Ambassador of Mercedes-Benz Classic, he wants to remain with the company and the Motorsport today. 90. Celebrates birthday Herrmann 2018 in the Classic Center of Mercedes-Benz Classic in Fellbach. Among the laudators of the Daimler Board of management Chairman Dr. Dieter Zetsche.
Ellen Lohr
Born on 12. April 1965 in Mönchengladbach, Germany
Motor sport-Ellen Lohr comes from karting, which she runs from 1979 to 1983. Of Their greatest achievements is the participation in the Kart Junior world championship, as well as a first place in the North-West German Kart championship. To race in the German formula Ford 1600 (German champion in 1987), the first Races in the DTM (BMW) and German formula 3 championship with Volkswagen in 1989/90, they obliged the AMG-Mercedes Team for the German touring car championship. As the first and until today only one woman, Ellen Lohr posted a DTM-victory At the 24. May 1992 and she wins the first race at the motor racing festival in Hockenheim on an AMG-Mercedes 190 E 2.5-16 Evolution II To the 1995 season, changes to the Mercedes-Zakspeed Team, and drives in 1996 in the AMG-Mercedes Team Persson MS. in 1997, it starts in the Truck Racing European championship at the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz race trucks. After that Lohr is in many other racing series active since 2005 in the Paris–Dakar rally, and since 2012 again in the Truck Racing. In 2019, the race car driver in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series at the Start.
Bernd Mayländer
Born on 29. May 1971 in Waiblingen, Germany
Bernd Mayländer drives in formula 1, regularly at the top of the field. Because of the in 1971 in Waiblingen born racer controls since 2000, as the official driver of the Mercedes-AMG has provided the Safety Car of the formula 1 – currently, a Mercedes-AMG GT R (fuel consumption combined: 12.4 l/100 km; CO2 emissions combined: 284 g/km*). Mayländer will begin the race in a 1990 car to drive and starts first in the Porsche club sport, Porsche Carrera Cup (overall victory in 1994), Porsche Supercup and in the case of long-distance races. For the Team Persson Motorsport and he departs from 1995, first in the German touring car championship (DTM) and International Touring Car Championship (ITC), from 1997 in the FIA GT championship in a Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR. 1997 Mayländer wins here, together with Klaus Ludwig and Bernd Schneider to the race in Spielberg. In the year 2000, he wins in a Porsche 996 GT3 in the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring. His last DTM season, Bernd Mayländer, in 2004, completed the Team Rosberg in a Mercedes-Benz C-class DTM.
* The specified values were determined in accordance with the prescribed measuring procedure. It is the NEDC CO2-values as defined in art. 2, no 1 implementing regulation (EU) 2017/1153. The fuel consumption values were calculated on the Basis of these values.
Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR
