Mercedes-Benz W125 Grand Prix car at the Nurburgring Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Colin Chapman

Colin Chapman

'Castle seen through trees'

holding a lancet in one hand

18th August 1965

a Stock-jobbing cards

Mercedes-Benz W125 Grand Prix car at the Nurburgring Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Colin ChapmanMercedes Benz W125 Grand Prix car at the Nurburgring, Germany, 1937. The Mercedes Benz W125 was the ultimate pre war Grand Prix car with the most powerful engine seen in Grand Prix racing until the turbo era in the 1980s. Mercedes drivers won six races in the car in 1937, Rudolf Caracciola, with four of them, becoming European Champion in the process. This is the car of Manfred von Brauchitsch. The unmistakable figure of Alfred Neubauer, Mercedes team