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Historic Mercedes automotive pushed by Moss and Fangio sells for report price
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Historic Mercedes automotive pushed by Moss and Fangio sells for report price

By Miles Cooper February 3, 2025
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Historic Mercedes automotive pushed by Moss and Fangio sells for report price

A automotive raced by Sir Stirling Moss and set a report for a grand prix automotive, promoting at public sale for £42.75million (€51.155million) on Saturday.

The smooth, silver W196 R Stromlinienwagen, one among solely 4 full examples in existence, was offered by on the Mercedes museum in Stuttgart on behalf of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS).

The automotive had a worth estimate of greater than £41.6m (€50m) and, whereas the bidding quickly reached €40m in five-million increments, it eased off earlier than a last hammer determine of £38.6m (€46.5m).

The ultimate worth contains the consumers’ premium. The customer was not instantly named.

The most costly grand prix automotive beforehand offered at public sale was one other ex-Fangio Mercedes W196 from 1954 that fetched £19.6million ($29.6m) at in 2013.

The most costly automotive ever offered at public sale was a 1955 Mercedes 300SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe sportscar that modified palms for £112m (€135m) in Could 2022.

The IMS automotive is the primary W196 R to turn out to be out there for personal possession with the streamlined physique fitted.

The automotive was pushed to victory by five-time world champion Fangio on the non-championship Buenos Aires Grand Prix in 1955, however with a extra typical cigar-shaped physique on the identical chassis, and absolutely open wheels.

Teammate Moss then raced it with the broader, streamlined physique extending over the wheels on the season-ending Italian Grand Prix at Monza, retiring after setting the quickest lap at a mean pace of 134mph.

That grand prix marked the tip of an period for the Mercedes secure’s ‘Silver Arrows’ because the agency withdrew from factory-sponsored motorsport in 1955, after a 24 Hours catastrophe that killed 84 individuals.

Mercedes returned to as an engine supplier in 1994 and with its personal works crew from 2010.

The automotive offered on Saturday, chassis quantity 00009/54, was donated to the IMS by Mercedes in 1965 and was auctioned to boost funds for the museum’s restoration efforts and acquisitions with extra U.S. focus.

“It is an exquisite automotive, it is a very historic automotive, it is just a bit bit outdoors our scope window,” mentioned curator Jason Vansickle.

“We have been lucky to be stewards of this car for almost 60 years and it has been an amazing piece within the museum however with this public sale and the proceeds raised, it actually will permit us … to be higher sooner or later.”

Extra reporting by Reuters

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