Never said they weren't in racing. I said they dropped out of sports car racing.
KW
Robert Trottmann wrote:
> 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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