Juan Manuel Fangio 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 Silver Arrow on Auction at Bonhams

When talking about the Mercedes in terms of race, all the experts they immediately think of the famous Silver Arrow and Juan Manuel Fangio at the wheel. Bonhams annual auction at the Festival of Speed ​​Goodwood this year will be the most important car of the 20th century.

It's 1954 2 ½ liter straight eight Mercedes Benz W196 einsitzer chassis number '00006 / 54 'in which five-time world champion driver Juan Manuel Fangio won the 1954 Grand Prix Germany and Switzerland. These are the first two victories of the line Formula 1 team Mercedes Benz Factory in his career after the war again. Chassis '00006 'also has a special significance as the first single-seater Mercedes Benz body slipper war to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix of.

Annual Bonhams sale at the Goodwood Festival of Speed ​​this year will not only one of the most important car of the 20th century, but also the historic Grand Prix racecar largest ever offered at public auction
W196 innovative design of the car also marked the success of Formula 1 in the next release technologies: Injection engine, fully independent suspension chassis design multiple lightweight tubular frame along inner mounting brakes, right engine online or eight lay 's reduce the overall height of the vehicle, the PTO center along the crankshaft 8 cylinder engine to minimize vibration configuration.

Juan Manuel Fangio and teammate Karl Kling finished first and second in both qualifying and the race in the 1954 French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux. However, W196 Stromlinienwagen cars with closed impellers have proved difficult to place in the most twisted after the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Fangio called an aperture wheel W196 variant for German Grand Prix in Nurburgring course 14.2 miles winding road. Mercedes Benz immediately responded by adapting new vehicles '00005 'and '00006' Fangio recommendation.

And it is in this car chassis '00006 'now be offered by Bonhams at the Goodwood immediately Fangio won the German Grand Prix.

Bonhams’ annual Sale at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed will feature not only one of the most significant motor cars of the 20th Century but also the most important historic Grand Prix racing car ever offered at public auction

1954 2½ liter straight 8 Mercedes Benz W196 einsitzer