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Mercedes and Benz Racing 1900-1955 by Roy P Smith (Hardback)
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Product Ref. (e.g. ISBN, SKU)
9781836440024
Published:
15 Apr 2025
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
608 pages
Dimensions:
305x250mm
Weight:
0.000kgs
Author:
Mercedes and Benz Racing 1900-1955 is an appreciation of the incredible racing performances from 1900 up to 1955 when Daimler-Benz withdrew from Grand Prix and Sports car racing: the first 55 years of trials, tribulations, victories, setbacks, and the external influences that impacted on the Mercedes-Benz racing department.
The book sets out to show, utilising current publication technologies, the first 55 years of trials and tribulations, the victories and setbacks, and the outside influences that impacted on the Mercedes-Benz racing department, the 'Rennabteilung'. It is an appreciation of the racing performances, commencing with the prologue era including the invention of the motor car for racing. From Daimler and Benz, the birth of the Mercedes marque, and then, racing in all its forms. From 1900 up to 1955 when Daimler-Benz withdrew from Grand Prix and Sports car racing. It is a work, designed to be one where the reader can pick up the story whenever, wherever, in the history they like, to explore and immediately understand without the encumbrance of excessive technical detail, but letting the facts and stories about the racing in each period develop, not the least to marvel at the huge advances in the technology of a series of incredible racing cars. The developments and the victories are both descriptive and visual. The story covers racing in Europe and in the USA, long distance races and races of endurance, for example the Mille Miglia, the Targa Florio and of course the Carrera Pan Americana. Grands Prix, Hill climbs, Land speed records, even wooden board racing in the USA. Great characters appear, Emil Jellinek, Ferdinand Porsche, Camille Jenatzy, Christian Lautenschlager, Otto Salzer, Ralph de Palma, Barney Oldfield, Alfred Neubauer, Manfred von Brauchitsch, Rudolf Caracciola, Rudolf Uhlenhaut, Juan Fango, Stirling Moss, to list only a few. Mighty cars like the Gordon Bennett racers, Blitzen Benz, 1914 Supercharged Mercedes. W25, W125, W154, W196, 300SL. All explorable within the 1200 + evocative period black and white images, many not published before, mixed with those recognisable ones that it would be churlish to leave out. Both the Porsche archives and Audi Archives contribute outstanding images that support the bulk of the dramatic photographs that come from the depths of the Mercedes-Benz Classic Archives.It is an appreciation of the first part of the of the racing life of what became one of the most impressive Racing teams of all time.
About the Author: Roy Smith is a retired company director with a lifetime passion for motor sport. He began writing in the 1960s for club magazines, recording details of interviews with notables of the time.A 40-year business career in sales and marketing developed an attention to detail that is crucial to writing a work such as this and his previous works about the development of the first turbo Formula 1 car, the complete history of the Alpine Renault sports prototypes (for which he was awarded the Guild of Motoring Writers Mercedes Benz Prize and the Montagu of Beaulieu Trophy in 2010), a comprehensive study of the racing legend Amédée Gordini and the definitive work on Alpine Renault berlinettes. He has written and continues to write many specialist articles for websites and magazines in the UK, and internationally as a UK historic correspondent.His aim in this book is, as before, is to record another first in English for future generations.
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