Hermann Lang on the twelve-cylinder Mercedes-Benz
Hermann Lang on the twelve-cylinder, 490 bhp, 3 litre Mercedes-Benz with which in 1939 he made the fastest timed laps of four Grand Prix circuits with an astonishing peak of 117.5 mph in practice for the French Grand Prix at Rheims. During the same year he piloted the car to victory in the Belgian and Swiss Grands Prix and in the Eifel Races
Picture No
10699868
Media ID
46088777
Size
5828px x 4176px
(7.7MB)
Credit
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers/Mary Evans
Source
The Grand Prix car 1906-1939
Date
1939
