Re: Magnums no more

From: Robert Trottmann (rotrottmann@davidson.edu)
Date: Sat May 09 1998 - 13:48:08 EDT


David Coulthard and Mika
                                               Hakkinen again dominated practice

                                               Friday, setting up another
                                               qualifying duel in the Spanish
                                               Grand Prix.

                                               Their McLaren-Mercedes were the
                                               only cars to better 1 minute, 23
                                               seconds on the Circuit of
                                               Catalunya.
Just a little snip out of the Post-Dispatch in St. Louis. Mercedes is still in
racing.
Later,
Robert

Sam Parthemer wrote:

> *snip*
> >442s, etc.When it came to handling it was a no brainer. They are very
> active in
> >motorsports today competing in F1 and Indy car. They dropped out of sports
> car
> >racing in the late 80s because they dominated, it was a case of Mercedes
> >against Mercedes.
>
> Err... Mercedes dropped out of sports car racing back in the 50's or 60's
> after a
> crash involving a Mercedes race car, and the tire flew into the stands
> killing a few
> people. This is the story I've been told by the Mercedes mechanic friend of
> mine,
> years ago. I then saw a story about Mercedes return to racing on tv years
> ago (in the
> late 80's I believe), and the same story was told... and they showed the
> crash, and the
> tire that flew into the stands. As I recall, it was a 300 that was involved
> in the crash.
>
> Sam '95 SLT

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