Back in 1988, Mercedes’ board gave the go-ahead for a new challenger to the forthcoming 3.5L World Sports Car Championship era to start from 1st of January 1991 and this would become known as the Mercedes-Benz C291. Not only it … Continue reading #MotorsportFail – The 1991 Mercedes-Benz C291.
AMG is nowadays known as the performance tuning division of Mercedes but it all started around two guys, Hans Werner Aulfrecht and Erhard Melcher. Both ex-Mercedes engineers they had everything in hand to put together some fantastic of high-performance German metal. The … Continue reading #TouringCarMadness – The 1971 Spa 24 Hours and the AMG 300SEL 6.3
1996 saw the end of the glorious DTM/ITC years and the BPR series was to become the FIA GT for 1997, all that being the result of Bernie’s TV rights madness..! Mercedes and AMG were to enter the evolution of … Continue reading #Focus – The McLaDes or the Mercedes CLK-GTR testbed.
Historic Motor Sport Central. 