Month: December 2020

Grands Prix
Myths & Curios
Sports Car Racing
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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Grands Prix
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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