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History of the German company Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft, to produce cars Mercedes, started in 1900, and the following year was registered first win a race car Mercedes. In 1926, a model Mercedes-Benz SSK. For a lot of weight (about two tons) and white color car nicknamed the "white elephant." At this bolide July 9, 1927, Rudolf and Adolf Rosenberger Karachiolla occupied the first two places in the Eifel race at the Nürburgring. For the year cars Mercedes SSK participated in more than 90 competitions and won many mountain and racing circuit. In 1928, once again wins Karachiolla Nurburgring, and his companions, Otto Merz and Christian Werner took second and third place.
The most outstanding was a triumph for Mercedes in a grueling 1,600-kilometer race Mille Miglia. For this competition have created a new modification of cars Mercedes SSKL. All went well, but the Association of racing AICAR changed technical regulations. Weight of cars was limited to 750 pounds. Created SSKL not fit this requirement. And in Stuttgart created a new model that has received index W25. But still invest in the weight limit was not possible. And then on the eve of the first race of the championship, Alfred Neubauer (head race of the concern Daimler-Benz) ordered to tear the whole car with white paint! That helped - the maximum weight was 750 kg. A blazing fireballs silver aluminum body. Manfred von Brauchitsch won the race. After that lucky silver color became the official color of Mercedes, a car nicknamed "silver arrows".
By car W25 Karachiolla Rudolph in 1935 became the European champion, and a year later won first place in the Grand Prix racing in Monaco and Tunisia. In 1937, a new model Mercedes W125 Hermann Lang achieved incredible at the time of speed - 380 km / h All competitors were defeated. The following year, Mercedes wins four wins in the Grand Prix, and in 1939 - five. After these victories attended races and competitions had to be stopped, as the Second World War, and the Mercedes-Benz plant changed its production of engines for the fighters. Return took place in 1951, when Hermann Lang, Karl Kling and Juan Manuel Fangio won the second, third and sixth in the Grand Prix of Argentina. The following year, the Mexican race Carrera Pan Americana in a car windshield at a speed of 220 km / h hit the bar. But even that did not stop Karl Kling record to its credit another victory.
In 1954 Manuel Fangio at Mercedes victory in three races, and next year - five, becoming double world champion. "Silver Arrows" leaving motorsport for 34 years, but returned in 1989 and immediately won 16 of 18 races Championship GT, including a first place win at Le Mans. In 1990, Michael Schumacher made his debut and won his first major victory in the Grand Prix of Japan. Mercedes-Benz is still at the forefront of world motorsport and race cars still a nice deal of the first "Silver Arrows".
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