75th anniversary of the Mercedes Benz W125 Silver Arrow - 595 bhp and 750 kg in 1937
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The 1937 Mercedes Ben Silver Arrow W 125
The 1937 Mercedes Ben Silver Arrow W 125
The 1937 Mercedes Ben Silver Arrow W 125
The 1937 Mercedes Ben Silver Arrow W 125 streaks down a road in Libya during the 1937 Tripoli Grand Prix
The 1937 International Avus race, with Manfred von Brauchitsch (36 - in a streamlined W 25 with a 12-cylinder engine, Luigi Fagioli (33 - Auto Union), Hermann Lang (37 - streamlined W125) and Rudolf Hasse (34 - Auto Union). Lang won.
The 1937 International Avus race just weeks after the Triploi GP saw Hermann Lang pilot a streamlined W 125 to the win
The 1937 International AVUS race, with Manfred von Brauchitsch (36) in a streamlined 12-cylinder W 25, ahead of Hermann Lang (37) driving a W 125 and Rudolf Hasse in an Auto Union
Shortly after the start of the 1937 German Grand Prix at Nürburgring, with the W 125s of Hermann Lang (16) and Rudolf Caracciola (12), leading the field. Behind them Auto Union drivers Bernd Rosemeyer and Hans Peter Müller, followed by Manfred von Brauchitsch in another W125.
The start of the 1937 Swiss Grand Prix in Bremgarten. Eventual winner Caracciola (14) is in a W125, while Bernd Rosenmeyer (8) and Hans Stuck (10), are both driving for Auto Union.
The 1937 Monaco Grand Prix winner Manfred von Brauchitsch leads runner-up Rudolf Caracciola at Loews corner, both in W125s.
Coppa Acerbo, Pescara, August 1937. Manfred von Brauchitsch (start number 14) finished in second place at the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz W 125.
Double victory at the Italian Grand Prix in Livorno, September 12, 1937. The winner Rudolf Caracciola (start number 2) and Herman Lang (start number 6), who finished in second place, both in Mercedes-Benz formula racing cars W 125.
Mercedes-Benz formula racing car W 125, 1937 (on the test track in Untertürkheim, 1972).
The streamlined W 125 on the Frankfurt - Darmstadt Reichsautobahn on January 8, 1938.
Mercedes-Benz sports cars – here a W 125 Grand Prix racing car – were part of a special exhibition at the 1938 International Motor Show.
Record-breaking attempts on the Frankfurt - Darmstadt Reichsautobahn. Rudolf Caracciola with the Mercedes-Benz W 125 12-cylinder record-breaking car at Frankfurt am Main airport.
Richard Seaman at the 1937 Masaryk Grand Prix near Brünn, 26 September 1937.
Record-breaking attempts on the Frankfurt - Darmstadt Reichsautobahn. Rudolf Caracciola with the Mercedes-Benz W 125 12-cylinder record-breaking car at Frankfurt am Main airport.
Mercedes-Benz 12-cylinder record car W 125, 1938. At the wheel of this record car, Rudolf Caracciola established a new record on the Darmstadt – Frankfurt/Main motorway. One kilometer from a flying start at an average speed of 432 km/h.
The first outing of Mercedes Benz new 1937 Grand Prix car was not in Europe, but in the politically important Gran Premio di Tripoli one of the legendary Grand Prix venues and the only major motor race ever to have been "fixed"
British driver Richard Beattie Seaman ended his life during the 1939 Belgian Grand Prix. Leading the race by 28 seconds, Seaman's Mercedes slid off the rain-soaked track into a tree.
Some of the posters for the Grand Lottery which were seen across Italy during the early thirties.
The Mercedes-Benz team at the 1938 German Grand Prix. From left: Manfred von Brauchitsch, Alfred Neubauer, Richard Seaman, Hermann Lang and Rudolf Caracciola.
Driver fashion 80 years ago consisted of normal shoes and a mechanic style suit this is 1931 'Mille Miglia' winner Rudolf Caracciola being greeted by wife Charly and Mercedes team manager Alfred Neubauer
The Monaco Grand Prix eighty years ago offers a wonderful glimpse of the days when motorsport was truly conducted on public roads - you will note that the footpaths on the side of the track had not been closed.
Article Summary
With the world's most watched event, Formula One, returning to lounge rooms across the globe today, Mercedes is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its dominant 1937 W125 Grand Prix car - the Silver Arrow had a 595 bhp turbocharged, desmodromic 5.7 liter straight eight which comprised one third of the car's 750 kg dry weight. Launched at the Grand Prix of Tripoli (yes, in Libya), the car was a technological marvel for its day, and averaged 132 mph at its first outing - amazing images and actual video of the 1937 Tripoli Grand Prix.
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