{"id":771,"date":"2018-06-17T15:29:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T18:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/werner.med.br\/w143\/?page_id=771"},"modified":"2022-03-06T10:08:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T13:08:44","slug":"mercedes-benz-300-slr-19-diecast","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/mercedes-benz-300-slr-19-diecast\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR #19 – Minichamps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR<\/strong> 
Pilots: J. Fangio, S. Moss 
Team: Daimler Benz Ag.<\/em> 
Race: DNF (S 3.0 class) at Le Mans in 1955 
Minichamps - 432553019 (diecast) <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Published 09\/12\/17<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Designed in 1955 by the great Rudolf Uhlenhaut, the 300 SLR  was based on the W196<\/a>. The W196 brought Mercedes-Benz the Formula One championship in 1954 and 1955. The SLR name came from Sport Leicht-Rennen<\/em> or \u201cSport Light-Racing\u201d – later on the SL-R became just SLR. Internally known as the W196S, it had a welded aluminum tube space frame chassis<\/a> covered by an ultra-light Elektron<\/em> magnesium-alloy bodywork. The engine was a straight-8 with 2982 cm\u00b3 of displacement with an output of around 300 hp. For better weight distribution, it sat longitudinally just behind the front axle. Certainly a pretty sophisticated engine, with desmodromic valves and mechanical direct fuel injection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Cockpit detail in the SLR #19 is not astonishing, but quiet nice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Stopping the car was the job of huge inboard drum brakes, helped by a large rear mounted “aero brake”<\/a> that hinged up above the rear deck. The use of Elektron made the car very light, but also very dangerous: magnesium is highly flammable. And to make matters even worse, the engine ran on a high-octane mixture of 65% gasoline and 35% benzene. Consequently, that combination was the recipe for probably the worst disaster<\/a> in the history of motorsports. Pierre Levegh\u2019s 300 SLR #20 rear-ended an Austin-Healey, exploding and going airborne over the crowd of spectators. The fireball killed 82 people, and injured dozens more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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VERY nice, but I think I would prefer it with a roof.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Subsequently, director of motorsports Alfred Neubauer pulled the remaining SLR #19<\/strong> and #21 cars from the race, and Mercedes-Benz would only return to motorsports in 1985. This #19 is chassis #0007\/55, and after the race it was modified by Rudolf Uhlenhaut. He transformed it in to the most outrageous company car ever, the \u201cUhlenhaut Coupe\u201d<\/a>. And of course, he drove it daily to work! A fantastic car with a tragic history, and because of that, another grail car for me. Model-wise it’s a pretty good Minichamps, exactly what you would expect from them. Maybe not a model for everybody but probably a must-have for the Le Mans nut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
03\/04\/22: The W-143 Garage now has a better version of this model.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Pilots: J. Fangio, S. Moss Team: Daimler Benz Ag. Race: DNF (S 3.0 class) at Le Mans in 1955 Minichamps – 432553019 (diecast) Published 09\/12\/17 Designed in 1955 by the great Rudolf Uhlenhaut, the 300 SLR  was based on the W196. The W196 brought Mercedes-Benz the Formula One championship in 1954 and … Continue reading “Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR #19 – Minichamps”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-771","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13586,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/771\/revisions\/13586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}