Year: 2020

Deal with Austrian Businessman Secures Daimler’s Racing Future
Oh… no… sorry… wrong photo. Hang on a minute… There we go! December 22nd 2020 will be the 120th anniversary of the first car, as we know it. Commissioned by the gentleman in the photo – Austrian businessman & diplomat, Emil Jellinek – the 35HP model was designed by Wilhelm Maybach and Paul Daimler. A […]
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Simon Says… Change Drivers!
- Racing Daydreams
- 2 December 2020
- F1
- Fangio
- Grand Prix
- Mercedes-Benz
- Monaco
- Monte Carlo
- Moss
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
Sehr geehrter Herr Kollege! There has been some last-minute drama. ‘Mercedes-Benz-Team’ cannot field their driver. A substitute has been chosen, and he is already revelling in the ‘Mercedes-Benz-Formel-rennwagen’. The drive has gone to… André Simon. Who?! What?! Monaco and Mercedes have history. The race began in 1929 – as Caracciola and the SSK were creating […]
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The Man From Conti – He Says, Hmmm…
- Racing Daydreams
- 28 November 2020
- F1
- Grand Prix
- Mercedes-Benz
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
“And these tyres are called slicks, because they’re very slick!” Murray Walker – legend What constitutes a ‘slick’ racing tyre? Most have some allowance for tread expansion or initial deformation – the odd cross cut in the past, or tiny incisions at the edge today. So what about four shallow circumference grooves? Not at all […]
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Spats in The Sand Pit – The Lost Tripoli Streamliner
- Racing Daydreams
- 15 November 2020
- Bahrain
- F1
- Grand Prix
- Libya
- Mercedes-Benz
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
- Tripoli
The 2020 Formula One titles have been decided and the teams are preparing to leave for Bahrain. This season – this mad year – we will see two races at the Bahrain International Circuit, the second of these being held on the high-speed outer circuit. Described variously as an oval(!), or like Thruxton – according […]
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A Last Day in the Sun? – ’55 Targa Florio
- Racing Daydreams
- 9 November 2020
- Fangio
- Mercedes-Benz
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
- Stirling Moss
- Targa Florio
Sicily – 16th of October, 1955. Snap! The tail of the silver machine snaps-out from under him… just like at Padova. No time to catch it at 100mph. Spin! Crunch! Falling… “Christ!” The Mercedes hits the rock-strewn ground, fully ten feet below the road. A sickening belly-flop. Landing with the full force of its 900 kilogrammes… and the […]
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Neubauer, The Kilo & The Strippers – ’34 Eifelrennen
- Racing Daydreams
- 8 November 2020
- Grand Prix
- Mercedes-Benz
- motor racing
- motor sport
- motorsport
- Myth
- Nurburgring
I love a ‘Ripping Yarn’ – a ‘Tall Tale’ – a ‘Shaggy Dog Story’… and a myth or legend is a nice angle for marketing. Just ask the folks at Loch Ness. So let’s talk about ‘Grand Prix Nessie’ – the myth (?) that Alfred Neubauer of Mercedes-Benz ordered all the paint be stripped off […]
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