Valtteri Bottas from Saturday to test in 1937 a silver arrow.Valtteri Bottas was in a retro mood on Saturday. AOP
Mercedes has been the engine in the sport involved for 125 years. To mark the occasion the company held a Saturday night party at silverstone.
Feast for the track was taken from one of Mercedes most legendary cost of the games: the 1937 Mercedes-Benz W125, which Bottas get to try.
W125 offers a huge development leap silver arrow. Its eight-cylinder and 5.6-liter engine delivers a whopping 650 horsepower. The car will debut to Avusrennenin the track was followed by no less than 300 000 people. Racer had a top speed of over 300 miles per hour.
Avusrennenin the track design was involved in the German chancellor Adolf Hitler , which gave birth to the country’s car fever. Hitler designed, for example, Avusrennenin the northern curve of tilt, so that cars could drive through it as quickly as possible.
Hitler was important that the German cars showed the technical superiority of their EM-in the series, so as well as the Mercedes that a new competitor Auto Union (later Audi) got the power to party all possible assistance.
the winning W125-car European championship in 1937. Through five races, three ended in a German victory. Caricciola was he the nazi paramilitaarisia parts (NSKK) member, but is certainly appropriate to ask whether Caricciolalla any other possibility.
Bottas jumping it was really a legendary ride.
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