It was at this time that Alfred Neubauer, who now saw himself more as an organiser than a racing driver, first formulated his idea for detailed communication between drivers and the pits with a system of flags and sign boards, and for a meticulously planned process during pit stops. While the Monza racing car did not play any major role in the new company’s involvement in motor racing, the first German Grand Prix did mark the beginning of a new era in motor sport. In order to race as a sports car, the Mercedes-Benz racing department converted the body of the grand prix design into a four-seater. Caracciola completed the distance of 392.3 kilometres with an average speed of 135.2 km/h. It was in one of these cars that Rudolf Caracciola won the first German Grand Prix for sports cars on 11 July 1926, at the Avus track in Berlin. The most powerful of those vehicles was the eight-cylinder Monza car of 1924. Mercedes had already been making racing cars with mechanical superchargers of this kind for some years. This was also the background to the focus on the Kompressor vehicles made in Stuttgart in the two years before the 1926 merger, and after the completion of the transaction.
Victory in Mille Miglia 1931 as the first non-Italian winnerĪhead of the merger, Benz and Daimler had agreed that the racing activities of both brands would be continued for the time being by DMG.Impressive vehicles dubbed ‘white elephants’.1926: debut of Mercedes-Benz Kompressor cars on the racetrack.
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