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3500 km in the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR racing sports car - AR endurance test (ZQ)

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Created on December 12, 1956

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Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (1956) - bei Messfahrten in Monza

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Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (1956) - Armaturenbrett

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Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (1956) - Interieur

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Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (1956) - Schaltkulisse

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Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (1956) - Seitenansicht

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Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (1956) - Seitenansicht

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Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (1956) - Vorderansicht

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Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (1956) - der imposante Reihenachtzylinder-Motor

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Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (1956) - Fahrer und Auto

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Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (1956) - Interieur wird geprüft

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Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (1956) - Messapparaturen im Testwagen

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Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (1956) - Nummernschild und Nationenkennzeichen

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Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (1955) - vom W196 abgeleiteter Rennsportwagen

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Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (1956) - das Chassis des Rennsportwagen

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Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (1956) - mit Tank und Reserveräder prall gefülltes Heck des Testwagens

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Summary

In "AR"-LANGSTRECKENPRUFUNG NR.87, Automobil-Revue invites its readers to take a ride in a Mercedes 300 SLR racing sports car. Not a short trip, but 3,500 km were covered. And the AR test team were thrilled. Not only the driving performance was impressive, but also the almost everyday qualities of the car, which was actually built for the racetrack. With a sprint time of 7.1 seconds from 0 to 100 km/h, a top speed of 284 km/h and braking deceleration of up to 9.8 m/s2, these are qualities that may be standard for sports cars in 2010, but must have seemed sensational in 1956. The significance of such a racing sports car is not limited to its successes or the enthusiasm it arouses in fans of sporting masterpieces. Rather, it shows that there is still untapped technical potential in automobile construction.

This article contains the following chapters

Race car performance - utility car quality
Dealing with 300 hp

Estimated reading time: 7min

Preview (beginning of the article)

We invite our readers to accompany the "AR" test team in their thoughts on a 3,500 km drive in one of the fastest automobiles ever built by a designer for use on normal roads. The performance of the 300SLR from Mercedes-Benz described above, a two-seater racing sports car derived from the Grand Prix racing car, is just as oversized for today's traffic conditions as the first motor cars of the last century were for the roads of our grandfathers. We are driving in a car that can accelerate from a standstill to 160 km/h on a straight half a kilometer long and can be braked to a standstill again, a car that overtakes the vehicles of other traffic in just over a second, a car in which 200 km/h on a traffic-free highway is a strolling speed, a car whose cornering safety seems to defy the laws of centrifugal force, a car that needs less gasoline at 160 km/h than some sedans at more modest speeds, but also a car that you will never be able to buy and that no average driver would ever buy.

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