Future meets past - the two variants of the Mercedes W 196 from 1954/1955
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Summary
In 1954, Mercedes Benz surprised the motorsport world with the aerodynamic W198 formula racing car, whose wheels were under the bodywork. The superiority in the first race was overwhelming, but in the following races the disadvantages of the unclear bodywork became apparent and a second variant with free-standing wheels was created. Together, the two siblings won two world championship titles and have therefore become legends. This report compares the two model variants in words and pictures.
This article contains the following chapters
- First the streamlined version
- Free-standing wheels and compact body for tight circuits
- First test drives
- Complete success at the first start
- Invisibility as a disadvantage
- Tragic 1955 season
- Another world championship title for Mercedes and Fangio
- Last success of the streamlined Silver Arrow
- No successes for the copiers
- Driving impressions of the modern era
- Comparison of the technical data
Estimated reading time: 7min
Preview (beginning of the article)
Only once in the history of the F1 World Championship has a team driven two completely different current cars in one season. It often happened that the season started with the previous year's car, but this was replaced by the new design after a few races. Mercedes Benz, however, designed two cars for the 1954 racing season that differed in many respects. Rudolf Uhlenhaut (head of the racing department) and his team (Prof. Dr. Fritz Nallinger, acting board member for technology, Prof. Dr. Hans Scherenberg, successor on the board, and Ludwig Kraus) built the W196 "Streamliner" for Mercedes-Benz as an aerodynamically more favorable, fully clad car with a Cw value of 0.43 and the type designation "Monza".
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