7 Kasım 2011

1939 Mercedes-Benz W165

Bayram Special. 
We can consider this silver arrow as parked for this special occasion.




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  1. Walking around Munich streets at night time...and then suddenly we hit this Mercedes showroom by coincidence.

    This car entered to one official race only - it completed the race and it won the race as well. Ultimate "one hit wonder".

    *History from DDavid*
    http://www.ddavid.com/formula1/merc165.htm

    Alfred Neubauer, the Mercedes team manager, was told in 1938 that next years Tripoli Grand Prix would be limited to 1.5 liter cars the better to insure an Italian victory. The minimum time required for producing a racing car at that time was approximately 18 months. They would only have 8 months before the Tripoli Grand Prix and the situation looked hopeless. Back at Stuttgart a meeting was held and all around the table there was a sense of gloom. The Italians were about to kick the Germans out of the riches race of the year.

    The new car was designated the type W165 which was except for its engine, a scaled down W165 which itself was derived from their very succesful W154. The engine for this car was a new V8 with four ohc and two-stage supercharging developing 254 bhp. The German car's performance rating of 170bhp/liter was unmatched by the Italian Alfa Romeo and Maserati cars.

    Two cars would race at Tripoli and finish one-two with Lang leading Caracciola before the stunned Italian crowd. This was to be the Mercedes W165's only victory, in fact their only race before Europe erupted into flames.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W165

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