5.4.2019. Highlights from 125 years of Motorsport that Mercedes-Benz.
Big Bang: in 1894, takes place in France, from Paris to Rouen is the first automotive competition in history. The first place two vehicles share both in the license-built Daimler engines. Thus, the 125-year history of motor sport from Mercedes-Benz begins.
The Era Mércèdes: In 1901, Emil Jellinek dominated the 35-HP Mercedes, the racing week of nice. The car is a milestone in the history of innovation and is regarded as the first modern automobile. He characterizes the development of the Automobile and serves as a model for the entire industry.
Publisher, artist, and Prince: The competitions of the important founders of the Automobile at the beginning of the 20th century. Century, the publisher James Gordon Bennett, of the painter, Hubert von Herkomer and Prince Henry of Prussia. The racing driver Camille Jenatzy wins the Gordon Bennett in a Mercedes 60 HP in the fourth Gordon-Bennett race (1903), Fritz Erle on Benz, the third Herkomer (1907) and the first Prince Heinrich journey (1908).
Slaughtered: The Grand Prix of France in 1908, a Mercedes 140 HP in front of two race cars from Benz. The winner, Christian Lautenschlager must during the race on the gruelling 22 changing a tire track in total to complete.
Quick as a flash: The Benz 200 HP record-breaking car from the year 1909 will be a world star. In 1909, he overcomes the first country in the vehicle in Europe, the magic speed mark of 200 km/h and achieved in the following years, a number of speed records.
Triple: 1914 the Mercedes Team wins in the Grand Prix of France a triple victory with its new Grand Prix race cars that are painted in White for the Gordon-Bennett race, the colour of German racing cars.
Mercedes sees red: The Targa Florio, a strapaziöses road race in Sicily, to win a Mercedes with a red-painted vehicle. The purpose of the unusual color: The Italian Fans do not recognize from afar, a German – seam usually painted white racing car. Because on unpopular competitors will certainly ever thrown stones.
With high pressure: in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the Mercedes-Benz compressor-set of the S-series standards in the European racing sports cars. The high-performance cars of the types S, SS and SSK are also available as series-production vehicles for sportily ambitious private driver available.
Silver arrow Grand Prix race car Mercedes-Benz W 25, the legend of the “silver arrows”. The racing cars of the Stuttgart-based brand, which dominate in 1934 the European racing hot. On the W 25 the consequences of the W 125 (1937), W 154 (1938 to 1939), as well as the 1.5-litre”Voiturette”racing car W 165 (1939).
World record: in addition to the race wins Mercedes-Benz excited by numerous speed records. Rudolf Caracciola, in the twelve-cylinder record car based on the W 125 in January 1938, the world speed record for a public road: 432.7 km/h over the kilometre with flying Start. A record that has almost 80 years.
Record giant: The ambitious Mercedes-Benz record-breaking car of the 1930s, the T 80 is. The three-axis and the 8.24-metre-long vehicle will be powered by a up to of 2,574 kW (3,500 HP) aircraft engine. The T 80 never comes. Its original chassis is powered by Mercedes-Benz Classic in the year 2018 as a spectacular showpiece.
Door-debut: After the Second world war, Mercedes-Benz, a rise in the season 1952 with the 300 SL racing sports car (W 194) in the world of Motorsport. At first successful competition car is based on the legendary production sports car 300 SL (W 198).
Successful season: The season in 1955, completed Mercedes-Benz with a double Triumph In the formula 1 Juan Manuel Fangio on W 196 R the second world Cup in a row. And with the 300 SLR racing sports car (W 196 S) wins, the Stuttgart-based brand in the sports car world championship. A perpetual highlight: Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson in the Mille Miglia win in the best time ever made on the legendary road race. A recent Echo of this most successful season of Motorsport history, the double championship from Mercedes-AMG in formula 1 and the DTM 2018.
Blue wonder: To the Stars with the Mercedes star belongs in the 1950s, in addition to the race car is a race car fast Transporter. The vehicle is created as unique, with Parts of the Mercedes-Benz 300 S (X-frame), 300 SL (engine) and 180 (doors). Numerous custom components.
Long-athlete-distance: After the end of the 1955 season, Mercedes-Benz refers to the height of success from the formula 1 and sports racing cars. The brand focuses on the production vehicle development. The rally sport benefits, especially in the late 1950s and the early 1960s, the near-series Mercedes-Benz vehicles are extremely successful. Another rally success in the late 1970s and early 1980s for the SLC coupé (C 107) and the G-model (overall winner of the rally Paris–Dakar 1983).
Passion for performance: 1967 reasons, Hans-Werner Aufrecht and Erhard Melcher, the engineering company of AMG. The small company, the Mercedes-Benz series vehicles for the race, prepared or sporty and optimized, today’s sports – car and Performance brand Mercedes-AMG.
Record icon: From the 1969 presented the C 111, a futuristic study for a super sports car with a Wankel motor, the car is a whole family of record. Place from 1976 to 1979, with Diesel and petrol engines and numerous speed records with speeds of up to 403.978 km/h (C 111 – IV).
Return to the circuit: In group C, Mercedes-Benz is rising again in international racing, starting in 1985, initially as an engine supplier to the Sauber team, and from 1988 on as the official Sauber-Mercedes factory team. A further heyday, the Era of the FIA GT championship, with Wins in 1997 and 1998.
Master-makers: The innovative compact class (W 201), a predecessor of today’s C-class, is the basis of the DTM success of Mercedes-Benz. From 1986 to drivers, first as a private with the Mercedes-Benz 190 E 2.3-16 in the German touring car championship. Are legendary the DTM racing car as a 190 E 2.5-16 Evolution (1989) and Evolution II (1990). Mercedes-Benz wins the DTM manufacturers ‘ championship in the years 1991, 1992, 1994, and 1995. DTM-champion), this time in a Mercedes-Benz, Klaus Ludwig (1992 and 1994) and Bernd Schneider (1995.
The second DTM: After the end of the German touring car championship and the International Touring Car Championship 1996 Mercedes-Benz increases from 2000 in the successor series, the German touring car Masters. Up to the triumphant farewell season 2018 (winning the driver, Team and brand championship) Mercedes-Benz a total of eight times DTM champion and win ten times the single-brand championship.
The customer is the racing king: Since 2010, Mercedes-Benz offers customer sports racing car based on the Mercedes-AMG high-performance sports car. After the successful Premiere with the SLS AMG GT3, the types of Mercedes-AMG GT3 (2016) and Mercedes-AMG GT4 (2017) are currently based on the Mercedes-AMG GT (fuel consumption combined: 12,5–11.4 l/100 km; CO2 emissions combined: 284-261 g/km*).
Silver arrow-Renaissance: ever Since the season 1994 Mercedes-committed-Benz in the formula 1. First of all, the Clean-Team Partner in the Premier class of racing, starting with the 1995 season, McLaren. 2010 starts for the first time in a private factory team. The new silver arrows from Mercedes-AMG Petronas in Motorsport are as successful today as her legendary predecessor in the 1930s and 1950s: From 2014 to 2018, the Team brings in a row, five drivers ‘Championships and five constructors’ world Championships. Lewis Hamilton belongs since 2013 to the Team. He wins in 52 Grands Prix and is world champion of the years 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018. In 2016, Nico Rosberg takes the title.
Racing under power: In the anniversary year of 125 years of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport, the Stuttgart-based brand opens a new Chapter of racing. Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport is at the start of season 2019/20, as a Team Mercedes EQ formula E in the formula E for battery-electric race car.
Tangible history: the Mercedes-Benz Classic regularly sends racing cars from the company’s own collection to international events. And the Mercedes-Benz Museum in the steep curve in the exhibition area myth 7: silver arrows – races and records many highlights from 125 years of Motorsport come to life.
Mercedes Grand Prix Racing Car, 1914. Studio shot, exterior, left
