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81-533: The two companies which were merged to form the Mercedes-Benz brand in 1926 had both already enjoyed success in the new sport of motor racing throughout their separate histories. A single Benz competed in the world's first motor race, the 1894 Paris–Rouen , where Émile Roger finished 14th in 10 hours 1 minute. In spring 1888, Roger was granted the sole agency rights for Benz vehicles and engines in France. Roger

162-498: A vapor lock in the fuel pump . This left another local driver, Roberto Mieres in the Maserati , in the lead after starting sixteenth. Sadly, his fuel pump faltered as well and he spent 10 minutes in the pits, coming home in fifth. Besides Mieres, Fangio would be the only classified driver not to have switched cars during the race, and went on to win. Two Ferraris completed the podium, but each had seen three different drivers behind

243-424: A Peugeot, a Panhard & Levassor, and different seating. Le Petit Journal , on the morning of the event, still officially expected Lemoigne and his gravity-powered vehicle to participate, although he was included as an additional member of group five. The groups that set off from Porte Maillot on Thursday 19 July were: On Friday 20 July a second qualifying event was run over two routes. On Saturday 21 July

324-593: A disappointing season only finishing 10th in the World Constructors' Championship standings. On 13 September 2019, Williams and Mercedes-Benz agreed to extend their partnership until 2025. In 2003, the partnership between Mercedes and McLaren was extended into the production of a Mercedes-McLaren roadcar, the SLR . Mercedes also supplies the cars to the FIA for use as safety cars and other race official roles, such as

405-607: A dry spell in 1996, Mercedes-Benz came back in 1997 with nine wins and won the Manufacturers' Championship. However, a lack of competitive results in the following seasons and the CART / IRL split meant Mercedes gradually lost interest and the German manufacturer shut down its CART Champ Car operations at the end of the 2000 season as DaimlerChrysler re-allocate their resources for NASCAR Winston Cup Series from 2001 onwards via

486-405: A few laps and was slowly closing up to his teammate in front. After the two drivers behind Moss pitted, Ascari was left in a lonely third place until, at half-distance, Fangio stopped on track with a broken transmission and, on lap 81, Moss's engine blew up. Ascari took the unexpected lead of the race, but mere seconds later, crashed coming out of the harbour chicane and plunged into the water. He

567-499: A four-year deal for Mercedes-Benz to be an engine supplier for McLaren in the beginning of the year 2021. McLaren's first season back with Mercedes power saw them achieve a 1-2 result at the 2021 Italian Grand Prix with Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris finishing 1st and 2nd, respectively, and 3 further podiums (all from Norris) to finish 4th in the Constructors' Championship, by losing 3rd place to Ferrari. In early 2013, it

648-483: A minute ahead of Musso. This was the first race since the 1950 French Grand Prix that none of the cars on the podium were powered by a Ferrari engine. For the British Grand Prix , Stirling Moss scored his first career pole position in front of his home crowd. Fangio started second, Jean Behra third for Maserati. The second row was filled by two more Mercedes: Karl Kling and Piero Taruffi . Fangio had

729-610: A one off works Tarmac Rally Car to compete with full factory support in the 2001 Targa Tasmania tarmac rally in Australia. Mick Doohan , 5 time motorcycle world champion, was chosen as the works driver. In 2011, Mercedes-Benz announced that a GT3 version of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG would be made available for private racing teams. Beginning that year, the SLS AMG GT3 has taken numerous endurance racing wins at

810-655: A pair of Holden VF Commodores , bringing an end to Mercedes-Benz' involvement in the Supercars Championship for the foreseeable future. On July 24, 2017, Mercedes announced that they would enter the FIA Formula E Championship for the 2019–20 season with a works effort, leaving the DTM series in favour of the new venture. The team was known as the Mercedes EQ Formula E team and made use of

891-725: A row, the championship opened with the Argentine Grand Prix . José Froilan González started on pole position . The Argentine had been a full-time Ferrari driver in 1954 , but it would be his only race this year. Next to him on the front row started two double World Champions: Alberto Ascari in the Lancia and Juan Manuel Fangio in the Mercedes . Fangio took the lead at the start, but lost it to Ascari on lap 3. Teammate Stirling Moss went from eighth to third, while behind them, drivers and cars were beginning to succumb to

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972-405: A row. Teammate Stirling Moss was second with 23 points and Eugenio Castellotti third with 12. Mercedes withdrew from F1 after this season, marking it the final race until the team's revival in 2010 , their final win until the 2012 Chinese Grand Prix and final championship title until 2014 . Points were awarded to the top five classified finishers, with an additional point awarded for setting

1053-482: A third qualifying event was run from Paris to Poissy. At 8:00 am on Sunday 22 July, twenty-one qualifiers started from Porte Maillot and went via the Bois de Boulogne , Neuilly-sur-Seine , Courbevoie , Nanterre , Chatou , Le Pecq , Poissy, Triel-sur-Seine , Vaux-sur-Seine , and Meulan , to Mantes where they stopped for lunch from noon until 1:30 pm, whence they set off to Vernon , Gaillon , Pont-de-l'Arche , and

1134-606: A total of four drivers' and four teams' championship titles in the Formula Three Euroseries and British Formula Three Championship . The H.W.A Mercedes-AMG M271 was based on a 1.8 litre 4-cylinder from the C-Klasse , bored out to the regulation 2.0 litre capacity. Formula Three engine regulations demand a naturally aspirated, 4-stroke, 4-cylinder, production-based specification, with a capacity of not more than 2,000 cc. The M271 made its competitive debut in

1215-482: Is one of France's most successful F3 teams. During that period, it brought drivers' titles for Jamie Green , Lewis Hamilton , and Paul di Resta . 2006 also saw Mercedes' first participation in the British F3 Championship, when it partnered with Räikkönen Robertson Racing , co-owned by Kimi Räikkönen , and two other teams. Double R Racing's lead driver, Mike Conway , dominated the championship. In

1296-602: Is set to run two AMG GT3's in the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship . Mercedes-Benz had intended to enter rallying with the Mercedes-Benz W201 in the early 1980s. Yet, as all wheel drive and turbochargers were introduced by the competition ( Audi Quattro ) at that time, this was cancelled. Instead the W201 ended up being used in the DTM touring car series from 1988, with the car again being prepared by AMG, who became an official partner and continue to enter

1377-575: The 1955 Italian Grand Prix . McLaren and Mercedes-Benz still, however, finished fourth in the Constructors' Championship behind the same three teams as the previous two seasons, but they had collected more than twice as many points in '97 as they had in '95. With an Adrian Newey designed MP4/13 for 1998 , McLaren went on to win both the Drivers' Championship with Häkkinen and the Constructors' title, their first in seven years, by twenty-three points to their nearest rivals Ferrari. Häkkinen went on to win

1458-555: The 2002 season, although he would later represent Mercedes in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters series. Fellow Finn Kimi Räikkönen replaced him. McLaren dropped down the order in terms of Constructors' Championship position, losing its second-place position to the BMW - Williams team, with the season still being dominated overall by Schumacher and Ferrari. For the following four years McLaren proved to be one of

1539-478: The 2007 British F3 season , Mercedes powered the majority of the Championship field. Paris%E2%80%93Rouen (motor race) Paris–Rouen , Le Petit Journal Horseless Carriages Contest ( Concours du 'Petit Journal' Les Voitures sans Chevaux ), was a pioneering city-to-city motoring competition in 1894 which is sometimes described as the world's first competitive motor race. The contest

1620-628: The 2010 Bahrain Grand Prix , with an all-German driver line-up of Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher and was their full return to factory sponsored motorsport in F1. Over the next few years, with Lewis Hamilton in the team, Mercedes would go on to win eight consecutive Formula One World Constructors' Championships from 2014 to 2021 the third highest total in Formula One history. Mercedes also won seven Drivers' Championships until Hamilton lost

1701-512: The 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix . For the 2014 Season , McLaren-Mercedes would use the Mercedes PU106A Hybrid, a 1.6-litre V6 turbocharged engine. In their final season as McLaren-Mercedes the team finished 5th in the World Constructors' Championship standings with 181 points. At the end of the season, Mercedes-Benz officially ended its 20-year partnership with McLaren . On September 28, 2019, Mercedes-Benz and McLaren agreed to

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1782-484: The 24 Hours of Dubai , 24 Hours of Nürburgring and 24 Hours of Spa and has won many other races in national and global GT3 championships. In 2015, the new Mercedes-AMG GT3 was launched to replace the SLS AMG GT3. This was then followed up by an "Evo" version of the AMG GT3 in 2020, which has also seen tons of success. In late 2024, it was announced that Mercedes-AMG would return to Le Mans after 25 years as Iron Lynx

1863-455: The 24 Hours of Le Mans - all achieved with the C9. For the 1990 World Sportscar Championship season the C9 was replaced by the all-new C11 , while the team was renamed Mercedes-Benz (though the outfit was still run by Sauber). The team dominated the season, again winning all but one race to become world champions. Mercedes-Benz eventually withdrew from sportscar racing after a dismal 1991 season with

1944-719: The C291 . Mercedes-Benz returned to sportscar racing in 1997, with the CLK GTR which was entered in the new FIA GT Championship world championship series. In its first year, the CLK GTR won the teams' and the drivers' championships. It would again dominate the FIA GT in 1998, and would go on to win its second championship in a row. The CLK GTR would be the last car to win the FIA GT Championship. The successor to this car,

2025-590: The CLR was a spectacular failure. It was entered in the 1999 Le Mans race, but a series of accidents involving the car become airborne brought about the cancellation of the CLR project and Mercedes-Benz (as a factory team) has not participated in sports prototype racing since. In 2001, Mercedes-Benz and AMG returned to tarmac rallying, with a specially modified version of the W208 CLK55 AMG. Mercedes-Benz and AMG created

2106-663: The Dodge brand (Mercedes-Benz and Dodge were sister brands at the time as well as R5P7 engines were also helped development by Mercedes-Benz ). In total, Mercedes achieved 18 wins and one driver runner-up finish in the CART championship ( Al Unser Jr. in 1995). In the five years since Mercedes-Benz began its involvement in Formula Three , it has developed into the formula's most dominant engine supplier. Its engines, which are built and serviced by H.W.A GmbH, have so far contributed to

2187-816: The Elgin Trophy three consecutive years with driver Ralph DePalma (1912, 1913, 1914). Benz was involved in Grand Prix motor racing from 1923, when the Benz Tropfenwagen (described as having a teardrop shape) was introduced to motorsport at the European Grand Prix at Monza . These, the brainchild of Benz chief engineer Hans Nibel (1880–1934), were inspired by the Rumpler Tropfenwagen and were intended to increase public acceptance of mid-engined cars. They resembled

2268-664: The First World War , the DMG Mercedes 35 hp won the French Grand Prix , finishing 1–2–3. Karl Benz 's company, Benz & Cie. built the "bird beaked", Blitzen Benz that set land speed records several times, reaching 228.1 km/h (141.7 mph) in 1911. That record gained that model the reputation of being faster than any other automobile—as well as any train or plane. They constructed many aerodynamically designed race cars. Mercedes-Benz won

2349-492: The French Grand Prix . However, the Dutch Grand Prix was next on the F1 championship and went on undisturbed. Mercedes managed to occupy the front row with Fangio, Moss and Karl Kling . At the start, Luigi Musso put his Maserati into second position, but was outbraved by Moss. Kling tried his best to keep up with the leading trio but, on lap 21, spun off and retired. Fangio and Moss scored another one-two finish,

2430-574: The Jordan team . In a season dominated by the Renault powered Benetton B195s and Williams FW17s , the McLaren-Mercedes partnership produced thirty points with 2 podium finishes from Mika Häkkinen . 1996 produced similar results to '95 with the team finishing behind the trio of Williams, Benetton and Ferrari , but the team still scored three times as many podium positions in comparison to

2511-548: The Lancia team was left with two cars and just one driver. Soon, all assets would be merged into the Ferrari team, but this did not stop Eugenio Castellotti from scoring his first career pole position in the Belgian Grand Prix . The Mercedes cars of Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss started beside him on the front row. Championship leader Maurice Trintignant started down in eleventh out of thirteen. At

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2592-815: The Spa 24 Hours and the European Touring Car Championship . In 1985 Mercedes-Benz returned to the World Sportscar Championship as an engine supplier for the privateer Sauber team. The first car produced by this relationship, the Sauber C8 was not particularly successful. However the successor, the C9 won several races, including 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1989. After the Sauber team parted company with their sponsor Kouros at

2673-699: The new DTM . However, Mercedes-Benz ceased its factory involvement in DTM at the end of the 2018 season in order to join the Formula E series for Season 6 (2019–20). In 2013, Mercedes-Benz entered the V8 Supercars Championship with the Erebus Motorsport team, fielding three Mercedes-Benz E63s V8s in 2013 and two in the 2014 and 2015 championships. For the 2016 season, Erebus ceased development of its E63 AMGs to instead field

2754-527: The 'Champ de Mars' at Rouen. Count de Dion was the first to arrive in Rouen after 6 hours 48 minutes at an average speed of 19 km/h (12 mph). He finished 3 min 30 sec ahead of Albert Lemaître ( Peugeot ), Auguste Doriot (Peugeot) (16 min 30 sec back), Hippolyte Panhard ( Panhard ) (33 min 30 sec) and Émile Levassor (Panhard) (55 min 30 sec). The winner's average speed was 17 km/h (11 mph). On Tuesday 24 July Le Petit Journal announced

2835-468: The 190E 2.3-16 touring model. In 1994, Al Unser Jr. won the Indianapolis 500 with a Penske -Mercedes IndyCar. The engines were developed and built by Ilmor , but were badged as Mercedes-Benz. Ilmor which, realizing that a loophole in the rules for production-based engines would include any pushrod engine , built a very unusual purpose-built pushrod engine with a significant power advantage. This

2916-547: The 1950s. The Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR was derived from the W196 Formula One car for use in the 1955 World Sportscar Championship season . At Le Mans that year, a disaster occurred in which a Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR collided with another car, killing more than eighty spectators. The team went on to win the two remaining races of the season, and won the Manufacturer's championship, but it had already been planned at

2997-621: The 2002 German Formula 3 Championship in two of Mücke Motorsport's three Dallara F302 chassis, driven by Markus Winkelhock and Marcel Lasse. Winkelhock achieved Mercedes' first F3 win at the Nürburgring in August 2002. In 2003, Mercedes expanded its Formula Three program by supplying three teams in the inaugural year of the F3 Euroseries . Its engine powered the seven cars of Mücke Motorsport, Team Kolles, and ASM Formule 3. Speiss-Opel

3078-603: The Championship. The success continued into the 1955 season , where the same car was used again. The team's drivers, Fangio and the young Stirling Moss (1929–2020), won 6 of the 9 rounds between them, and finished first and second in that year's championship. Following the 1955 Le Mans disaster , Mercedes-Benz withdrew from all factory-sponsored motorsport. Mercedes made its return to Formula One in 1994 as an engine supplier to Sauber , with whom they had already enjoyed success in sportscar racing, after 1993 funding their engine partner Ilmor , Mercedes and Sauber announced that

3159-510: The aftermath of the 1955 Le Mans disaster , it was decided to reschedule the French Grand Prix from 3 July to 25 September. It was later cancelled, along with the German , Swiss and Spanish rounds. The circuits at Pedralbes and Bremgarten were never used again for racing. Motor racing was banned altogether in Switzerland until the 2018 Zürich ePrix . For the third year in

3240-421: The aftermath of the 1955 Le Mans disaster . This left just one race in the championship and effectively handed the title to Fangio. The Italian Grand Prix was run on the 10 km (6.2 mi) Monza layout including a new steep banking . Nino Farina crashed in practice when his rear tyre came apart under the load of the banked turn and the heat of the sun. He escaped unhurt but his Ferrari -run Lancia

3321-495: The beginning of that year that the company would retire its teams at the end of the 1955 season. In fact in the aftermath of the Le Mans disaster, it would be several decades until Mercedes-Benz returned to front line motorsport. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Mercedes returned to competition through the tuning company AMG (later to become a Mercedes-Benz subsidiary), which entered the big Mercedes-Benz 300SEL 6.3 V8 sedan in

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3402-407: The best start, but Moss regained the lead on lap 3, his car set up with a lower top speed but better acceleration out of the corners. Behra retired on lap 10, handing the top four positions to Mercedes, with Fangio once again in front. A couple of laps later, Moss retook the lead, grew his advantage to ten seconds and set a new lap record. Unused to having the team leader behind him, Moss looked back on

3483-488: The cars on the roads around Paris". The 22 vehicles were split into five groups who completed complex interwoven tours of Paris and its environs, including Mantes-la-Jolie , Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye , Flins-sur-Seine , Poissy , Triel-sur-Seine , Rambouillet , Versailles , Dampierre-en-Yvelines , Corbeil-Essonnes , Palaiseau , Précy-sur-Oise , Gennevilliers and L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise . The groups were carefully balanced to ensure each included petrol and steam,

3564-531: The end of 1987, Mercedes-Benz increased their involvement with Sauber for the 1988 season to become a factory entrant under the Sauber-Mercedes name. Still using the C9 the team won 5 races but came 2nd to the TWR Jaguar team in the championship. However, 1989 was to be a different story with Sauber-Mercedes winning all but one championship race to become world champions (including coming 1st and 2nd at

3645-470: The expected public acceptance did not materialize. Financial difficulties led to a merger with Daimler . In the 1930s, the new joint company, Daimler-Benz , with their mighty Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows , dominated Grand Prix racing in Europe together with its rival, Auto Union . In fact the colour of the cars, which was later to become legendary, was unintentional—they had initially been painted white as

3726-514: The fastest cars in the field but lacked in reliability, most notably in 2005 and 2006 ; the 2006 season marked the first since 1996 in which McLaren had failed to win a race. In 2007 McLaren's drivers finished second and third in the Drivers' Championship, only 1 point behind Champion Kimi Räikkönen. The team was also disqualified from the championship. In 2008 Lewis Hamilton won the Drivers' Championship by 1 point from Ferrari's Felipe Massa. Jenson Button won McLaren-Mercedes’ last win in 2012 at

3807-482: The fastest lap, regardless of finishing position or even classification. Only the best five results counted towards the championship. Shared drives result in shared points for each driver if they finished in a points-scoring position. If more than one driver set the same fastest lap time, the fastest lap point would be divided equally between the drivers. Numbers without parentheses are championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored. Points were awarded in

3888-630: The finishing line at Rouen was Jules-Albert de Dion , but he did not win the main prize because his steam vehicle needed a stoker and was thus ineligible. The fastest petrol-powered car was a 3 hp (2.2 kW; 3.0 PS) Peugeot driven by Albert Lemaître . The premier prize, the 5,000 franc Prix du Petit Journal , for "the competitor whose car comes closest to the ideal", was shared equally by manufacturers Panhard et Levassor and Les fils de Peugeot frères ('The sons of Peugeot brothers'), with vehicles that were "easy to use". In 1894, Pierre Giffard , editor of Le Petit Journal , organised

3969-409: The first car led off, followed at 15-second intervals by the others. The 50 km (31 mi) qualifying event had to be completed in under three hours to be eligible to start the main event, the 126 km (78 mi) race from Paris to Rouen; 21 were selected for the main event. Qualifying was used as a major publicity tool for both the event and the newspaper: "for our readers who want to see

4050-412: The heat of 52 °C (126 °F). On lap 21, Ascari crashed out by himself, leaving González in the lead. However, he was still recovering from his accident in the 1954 RAC Tourist Trophy and got exhausted. Fearing he could not hold Fangio behind, he pitted to hand the car to teammate and 1950 World Champion Nino Farina . Fangio pitted as well, for new tyres and to cool off, while Moss retired due to

4131-482: The journey", the main prize being for "the competitor whose car comes closest to the ideal". The "easy to drive" clause effectively precluded from the prizes (but not the event) any vehicles needing a travelling mechanic or technical assistant such as a stoker (i.e. steam powered vehicles). Le Petit Journal announced prize money totalling 10,000 gold francs – 5,000 for first place, 2,000 for second, 1,500 for third, 1,000 for fourth, and 500 for fifth. The main prize

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4212-543: The last lap and hesitated. But Fangio hang back, two tenths behind, leaving the home hero to take the win. In the Drivers' Championship, Juan Manuel Fangio ( Mercedes ) led with 33 points, ahead of Stirling Moss (Mercedes) with 22 and Maurice Trintignant ( Ferrari ) with 11 1 3 {\displaystyle {\tfrac {1}{3}}} points. After the British Grand Prix, the German , Swiss , French and Spanish Grand Prix were cancelled, in

4293-481: The later Auto Unions (also built in part by Rumpler engineers), and used the virtually unchanged Rumpler chassis. They were fitted with a 1,991 cc (121.5 cu in) DOHC inline six producing 60 kW (80 hp) and demonstrated "impeccable roadholding" at 140 km/h (90 mph) and above. Despite a promising start, with a fourth and a fifth (and one retirement) in their debut, they did no better in three years of Grands Prix and hillclimbing , and

4374-614: The medical car, at Formula One races. Currently, in Formula One , Mercedes and Aston Martin both supply the Safety Car and alternate per race. At the moment the Mercedes safety car is a red design. On November 16, 2009, it was announced that Mercedes would buy Brawn . They purchased 75% which gave them the controlling stake in the 2009 championship-winning team Brawn GP . The team, renamed and branded Mercedes GP , debuted at

4455-510: The previous year. Outside Formula One, Mercedes-Benz had increased its shareholding in the Ilmor company in 1996 and took full control nine years later. They have continued to design and build engines for McLaren. In the opening race of the 1997 Formula One season , David Coulthard produced victory for McLaren and ushered in a new era of success for the British based squad. Coincidentally this

4536-436: The prizes : 1955 Formula One season The 1955 Formula One season was the ninth season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the sixth World Championship of Drivers , which was contested over seven races between 16 January and 11 September 1955. The season also included several non-championship races for Formula One cars. Juan Manuel Fangio won his second consecutive World Championship title. It

4617-521: The qualifying event. Qualifying was held from 19 to 21 July 1894, and was preceded by a public exhibition of 26 cars to Neuilly-sur-Seine on 18 July. Journalists reported great crowds and excitement throughout the routes, and at Précy-sur-Oise they finished through a triumphal arch. On 19 July, 26 cars lined the side of the Boulevard Maillot , stretching to the Bois de Boulogne , each parked 10 m (33 ft) apart until, at 8:00 am,

4698-417: The remaining sessions on Friday and Saturday morning. This was done to entice spectators to come and watch every session, but it was an unpopular idea with the drivers. Fangio set the fastest time, ahead of Ascari and Moss, so they could relax and use the remaining sessions to try out car set-ups for the race. At the start of the race, Fangio held on to the lead, but Ascari fell back. Moss took second place after

4779-485: The same powertrain development facility as the Formula One team , Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains in Brixworth, UK. One of the teams that ran Mercedes cars in the DTM entered the 2018–19 season as HWA Racelab , which became the full works team in 2019–20 . They won both the 2020–21 and 2021–22 Formula E World Drivers' and Teams' Championships, with Stoffel Vandoorne and Nyck de Vries , before selling

4860-459: The start, Fangio and Moss quickly took the lead and never looked back. Castellotti retired on lap 16, allowing 1950 World Champion Nino Farina to finish third for Ferrari. On 11 June, the 24 Hours of Le Mans took place and many F1 drivers participated. During the race, Pierre Levegh crashed into the spectator area, killing 83 people and injuring at least 120 others. This led the FIA to postpone

4941-495: The team repeating their procession run from last race. However, Moss pitted on lap 19 for a new windscreen and subsequently retired on lap 28 when his engine cut out. Kling's gearbox broke and he retired as well, leaving the German team worried, but Fangio and Taruffi finished the race untroubled, scoring another Mercedes 1-2, ahead of Eugenio Castellotti for Ferrari. Juan Manuel Fangio ( Mercedes ) had collected 40 points and won his third Drivers' Championship, his second in

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5022-528: The team to McLaren . On August 13–21, 1983 at the Nardo High Speed Track in southern Italy, the new compact-size W201 190 class, sporting a 16-valve engine, built by Cosworth, broke three FIA world records after running almost non-stop (only a 20-sec pit stop every 2½ hours) in a total of 201 hours, 39 minutes, and 43 seconds—completing 50,000 kilometres (31,000 mi) at an average speed of 248 km/h (154 mph). It went on to become

5103-487: The teams' engines will be rebadged "Mercedes-Benz" for the 1994 season thus signaling Mercedes partial return to factory-sponsored motorsport the first time since 1955 . In the one year that Sauber ran Mercedes badged engines they only managed to score twelve points. 1995 saw the normally aspirated Mercedes-Benz-Ilmor F1-V10 move to the Woking based McLaren team, replacing Peugeot who moved to supplying their engines to

5184-483: The technologically advanced Mercedes-Benz W196 which was run in both open-wheeled and streamlined forms. Juan Manuel Fangio (1911–1995), a previous champion (1951) transferred mid-season from Maserati to Mercedes-Benz for their debut at the French Grand Prix on 4 July 1954. The team had immediate success and recorded a 1–2 victory with Fangio and Karl Kling (1910–2003), as well as the fastest lap ( Hans Herrmann ). Fangio went on to win three more races in 1954, winning

5265-486: The title for the second time in succession the following season , however, the team failed to retain their Constructors' title, losing it to Ferrari by four points. 2000 and 2001 saw McLaren and their drivers play second fiddle to the dominant partnership of Michael Schumacher and Ferrari, as the Italian-German partnership won nineteen of a possible thirty-four races. Häkkinen retired from Formula One before

5346-544: The title to Max Verstappen in 2021 . It was in 1952 that Mercedes-Benz returned to racing after the war, again with Alfred Neubauer as team manager. The gull-winged Mercedes-Benz W194 , won several races in 1952 including the 24 Hours of Le Mans , the Carrera Panamericana , and did well in other important races such as the Mille Miglia . Mercedes-Benz was also dominant in sports car racing during

5427-438: The wheel, so Fangio had an immediate lead in the championship. The Monaco Grand Prix returned to the calendar after three years and was given the honorary title of European Grand Prix . A new rule to qualifying had been added: only the times recorded in the first practice session on Thursday afternoon would count for the front row of the grid and, thus, for pole position. The rest of the starting places would be decided by

5508-446: The world's first motoring competition from Paris to Rouen to publicise his newspaper, to stimulate interest in motoring and to develop French motor manufacturing. Sporting events were a tried and tested form of publicity stunt and circulation booster. The paper promoted it as "Le Petit Journal Competition for Horseless Carriages" ( Le Petit Journal Concours des Voitures sans Chevaux ) that were "not dangerous, easy to drive, and cheap during

5589-443: Was traditional for German cars, but the paint was stripped away to reduce weight. The cars set speed records up to 435 km/h (270 mph). The team was guided by the great Rennleiter (racing team manager) Alfred Neubauer (1891–1980) until the company ceased racing at the start of WWII. In 1954 Mercedes-Benz returned to what was now known as Formula One racing (a World championship having been established in 1950), using

5670-414: Was announced that Mercedes-Benz would be the engine supplier to Williams for the 2014 season. The team finished the 2015 season placing third in the World Constructors' Championship standings with 257 points, with both Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas scoring 4 podiums during the season. For the next two seasons, the team finished 5th in 2016 and 2017 . For the 2018 season, Williams-Mercedes faced

5751-466: Was dominant, thanks in part to Ryan Briscoe and Prema Powerteam, but Mercedes was winning by the eighth round. Its most notable win was provided by Christian Klien at Zandvoort in the non-championship Marlboro Masters . Between 2004 and 2006, Mercedes-powered cars dominated the drivers' and teams' championships in the Euroseries, due in part to its close relationship with ASM Formule 3 , which

5832-592: Was done knowing that the "forgotten" loophole would be closed immediately after they took advantage of it, and so the engine would in fact be usable only for this single race. Starting from 1995, Daimler AG entered the CART IndyCar World Series full-time via the Mercedes-Benz brand by rebranding the Ilmor engines. They achieved six wins in their first full season, also reaching second in the Drivers' Championship powering Al Unser Jr. After

5913-708: Was for the first eligible vehicle across the finish line in Rouen. One hundred two people paid the ten franc entrance fee. They ranged from practical manufacturers like Peugeot , Panhard , de Dion-Bouton , and Serpollet to amateur owners and "over-ambitious concepts." Seventy-eight entrants did not show up for qualifying on 18 July, which included some 25 powered by unfamiliar and improbable technologies such as: gravity (nine); compressed air (five); "automatic" (three); electricity (three); gas (three); hydraulics (two); and one each for liquid, pedals, propellers, and levers. Additionally, 19 petrol-powered designs and 26 steam-powered cars, quadricycles, and tricycles did not show up at

5994-512: Was his third in total, a record that would not be beaten until Alain Prost in 1993 . This was the last championship for a Mercedes driver until 2014 . The season was coloured by tragedy. Two drivers were killed during the 1955 Indianapolis 500 : Manny Ayulo and Bill Vukovich , winner of the two previous editions. Italian Mario Alborghetti died at the non-championship Pau Grand Prix . Alberto Ascari , World Champion of 1952 and 1953 ,

6075-399: Was killed while testing a Ferrari 750 Monza at Monza . And ex-Formula One driver Pierre Levegh was killed in the 1955 Le Mans disaster , along with 83 spectators. This would lead to the cancellation of four F1 Grands Prix. The following teams and drivers competed in the 1955 FIA World Championship . The list does not include those who only contested the Indianapolis 500 . In

6156-486: Was leading with 11 1 3 {\displaystyle {\tfrac {1}{3}}} points, ahead of Juan Manuel Fangio ( Mercedes ) with 10 and Bob Sweikert ( Kurtis Kraft ) with 8. Sweikert would not compete in any other rounds. Four days after the Monaco Grand Prix, double World Champion Alberto Ascari was tragically killed in a test session at Monza . Further burdened by financial troubles,

6237-465: Was lucky to escape with just a cut on the nose. Maurice Trintignant took the win for Ferrari, the first of his career, ahead of Eugenio Castellotti for Lancia and Cesare Perdisa in Jean Behra 's Maserati. The Indianapolis 500 was included in the Formula One championship, but no F1 drivers attended. Bob Sweikert won the race. In the Drivers' Championship, Maurice Trintignant ( Ferrari )

6318-415: Was not only a high-performing sales partner for Carl Benz, selling vehicles from Germany with great success; this step also marked the beginning of foreign sales for Benz. The Mercedes Simplex of 1902, built by DMG, was Mercedes' first purpose-built race car —much lower than their usual designs—which were similar to horse carriages; that model dominated racing for years. In 1914, just before the beginning of

6399-500: Was organised by the newspaper Le Petit Journal and ran from Paris to Rouen in France on 22 July 1894. It was preceded by four days of vehicle exhibition and qualifying events that created great crowds and excitement. The eight 50 km (31 mi) qualifying events started near the Bois de Boulogne and comprised interwoven routes around Paris to select the entrants for the main 126 km (78 mi) event. The first driver across

6480-552: Was the first race in which McLaren had competed with a silver livery due to West replacing Marlboro , who moved to Ferrari, as title sponsor. The colour drew inevitable comparisons to the Silver Arrows of a previous era, and the nickname was applied to the McLarens. This was a significant result in F1 racing, McLaren's first victory for three seasons and the first win for Mercedes-Benz since Juan Manuel Fangio 's success at

6561-534: Was written off, and although Sunday was substantially cooler, the other Lancia was withdrawn as a precaution. Like in Zandvoort , Mercedes-Benz in Formula One#Mercedes occupied the front row in the order of Fangio , Moss , Kling . Moss took the lead at the start, but gave way to his Argentinian team leader before the first lap was run. The fourth Mercedes of Taruffi went from ninth to fourth,

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