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Mar 11 2010, 05:15 PM
by
Andy Blackmore
with 35 comment(s)
The Formula One season starts this weekend in Bahrain and given our F1 preview was so popular last year, it is time for Speedhunters bring you a brief preview for the 2010 season. Biggest changes surround World Champions, past and present. The 2009 World Drivers Champion, Jenson Button, left Brawn GP at the end of 2009 to join McLaren Mercedes, where Lewis Hamilton is firmly entrenched. It is going to be a challenge for Jenson to get into the tight McLaren-Hamilton relationship and beat Lewis…but...
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Feb 21 2010, 03:26 AM
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Jeroen Willemsen
with 43 comment(s)
Just found this picture of a Mercedes Benz W126 that looks mighty impressive. check out the size of those rear tires! Would love to cruise the unrestricted parts of the autobahn in this car. -Jeroen Willemsen
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Posted
Feb 03 2010, 02:39 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 18 comment(s)
What’s up Speedhunters! My name is Marco Zeitler and I live in Bavaria, Germany.
Cars have always been my passion. As a child I was sitting in my grandpa’s old Peugeot 309GT, driving –deep in thoughts- down the road, imagining how cool it would be to finally drive it indeed. My father is also a car freak. He always told me about his bygone times, when he used to race with his BMW 2002 Turbo and with his 3.0 CSI E9 against Capris, Golf 1 GTIs and even against Porsches.. until he had a serious accident at work with his truck. From now on he suffers from chronic bronchitis and has a 100% severe disability....
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Posted
Jan 02 2010, 04:38 PM
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Jeroen Willemsen
with 15 comment(s)
Just saw this incredible picture of the Mercedes C11, the one that Michael Schumacher drove during the 24hrs of Le Mans. The car only weighed 900kg and was powered by a twin turbo 5 liter V8 with 730bhp. In 1990 he managed to take his first major international victory in this car together with Jochen Mass on the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City, at that time Michael was only 21 years old. What will he be able to do 20 years later when he will return in another Silver Arrow...
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Posted
Dec 23 2009, 12:36 AM
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Rod Chong
with 29 comment(s)
Word on the street is that Schumacher is definitely coming back to F1 next year at the wheel of the new Mercedes team. Several news sites are now reporting that the deal has been signed and will be announced shortly. It's worth remembering that Michael used to be a member of the factory Mercedes Sports car team in 1990-91 so there is some history between these two entities. ...
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Posted
Dec 21 2009, 06:01 AM
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Jeroen Willemsen
with 15 comment(s)
A DTM enthusiast on youtube has provided us with these three cool videos from the DTM. It all starts with ‘The golden years', with flying cars like the Mercedes 190 and Alfa Romeo 155. The second part is called ‘First Class' and last but not least the third part ‘Newborn Starts'. Be sure to watch them in HD and enjoy the ride.
-Jeroen Willemsen
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Posted
Dec 18 2009, 11:00 AM
by
Jonathan Moore
with 8 comment(s)
It was three championships in a row for Audi in 2009 as Timo Scheider in an A4 carried a narrow mid-season lead through to the title, using consistency over outright speed to clinch the prize at the last race. He narrowly beat a charging Gary Paffett in a 2009 C-Class Mercedes, who took four wins to Scheider's two but just couldn't match his results mid-season. Scheider hit a rich vein of form at the fifth round, with a 6th place at Brands Hatch the only result lower than first or second...
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Posted
Nov 20 2009, 09:46 AM
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Mike Garrett
with 35 comment(s)
Yes, people in Europe do fit airbags on cars besides VW's and Audis - case in point, Mike Neirinck's 2006 Mercedes W203. In case you aren't too familiar with Mercedes chassis codes, a W203 is second generation C-Class sedan. Mike is actually a master of all things air ride. Together with his cousins he owns a small company in Belgium dedicated to custom air ride kits. Being a fan of Mercedes cars, it was only natural that Mike chose one to serve as the company's demo car....
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Posted
Nov 09 2009, 10:07 AM
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Jeroen Willemsen
with 24 comment(s)
I just got a link to this website called Mizenkoltd.com . I spotted this Mercedes on airbags and wire wheels. I love the look of a retro car slammed to the ground. -Jeroen Willemsen
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Posted
Oct 13 2009, 04:10 AM
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Rod Chong
with 12 comment(s)
Do we have any Schumacher fans in here? Schumacher haters? Personally speaking, I've had an on-off opinion of "Schumi" over the seasons. He was rather good at playing the villian racing driver for many years, although after a few seasons this became "the saviour of Ferrari" and then later on the centerpoint of total domination. I'm not going to attempt to write a full length Retrospective on Schumacher though. We just don't have access to a complete enough Formula...
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Posted
Oct 08 2009, 02:57 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 1 comment(s)
Le Mans 1991 will always be remembered as the year that a Japanese constructor won Le Mans. It was a moment of glory for the Mazda 787B and its unexpected victory... But look further into the 1991 Le Mans record books and you'll see the Mercedes race team start to come up:
Pole Position - #1 Team Sauber Mercedes - 3:31.270, Highest Trap Speed - 342 km/h (race), 363 km/h (qualifying), Fastest Lap - #31 Team Sauber Mercedes - 3:35.564....
Now what is interesting about this fastest lap is that a certain Michael Schumacher was behind the wheel of the C11 at the time this record was set. I've read accounts that his race team was rather alarmed at just how fast he was going at the time, but he didn't think much of it...
Have look at the video to see the man in action at the world's greatest race!
:R
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Posted
Aug 28 2009, 04:00 AM
by
Rod Chong
with 24 comment(s)
Speed Month on Speedhunters just wouldn't be complete without a look at the one and only German race track built for the purpose of all-out top speed: Avus. This is a temple of speed which will forever be linked with the pre-WWII era Auto Union and Mercedes Silver Arrows streamline Grand Prix cars and even the creation of the Autobahn itself. Although planned out as early as 1909, Avus opened in 1927, just on the outskirts of Berlin, as a 12.160 Miles or 19.569 km two-way blast through the Grunewald...
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Posted
Jul 28 2009, 12:22 AM
by
Rod Chong
with 11 comment(s)
A lot of the Retrospective articles we put together for Speedhunters tend to focus on lost golden eras of motorsports -- brief moments in racing history when the conditions were ripe for some truly wild race cars to hit the track. Perhaps it was the eras that burned short but sweet which resonate the most with us race fans... It's a bit like James Dean -- it seems a life cut short helps in the creation of legend. This rings true for the DTM Class1 era from 1993 to 1996. For four breathtaking...
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Posted
Jul 03 2009, 09:35 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 11 comment(s)
As the British DTM driver, Jamie Green sat on the grid at last weekend's Norisring race, he probably didn't fancy his chance of winning the race. He had only qualified in 7th position and surrounded by so many similar cars, victory wasn't exactly within his grasp... But win the race he did!...
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Posted
Jul 03 2009, 02:29 PM
by
Andy Blackmore
with 10 comment(s)
Other than family, the biggest thing I miss about the UK is Goodwood Festival of Speed. I went to every one until 2005 and it was always a highlight in my Motor Racing year. I would see few cars run up the hill climbs. I would spend most of the time in the paddocks or on the front lawn where a stunning display was always to be had. The very wet 1997 FoS was the second date with my future wife, Joanne! Must be a petrol head. Anyway, I digress. Gerry Judah always creates a fantastic sculpture each...
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Posted
Jun 30 2009, 02:40 PM
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Jeroen Willemsen
with 15 comment(s)
Before every new Speedhunters theme starts at the beginning of the month, I always try to find some exclusives cars to feature. One of the cars I wanted to do was the Mercedes CLS owned and driven by RJ De Vera. I remember reading about RJ in a Belgium magazine called Opgezet, which featured his deep candy apple red NSX. The next month, the same magazine featured his mother's car, a turbocharged Honda Odyssey. So for this Luxury and Exotic month, I knew I had to feature his latest design, this...
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Posted
Jun 08 2009, 03:49 AM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 7 comment(s)
Just spotted this Mercedes Benz S Class at Ben Shaffer's blog . Wouldn't you like to be driven in a car like this to your next appointment with some executives in the industry? I think I would like to drive it myself... -Jeroen Willemsen
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Posted
Jun 01 2009, 10:18 AM
by
Kevve
with 24 comment(s)
Yes, here I am again with a car on air suspension! Air suspension is for me is an easy way to display your car off at shows but then also have the ability to drive it safely back home... In Belgium, where the owner of this fabulous Mercedes 250S lives, most of the roads are quite bad and there are plenty of speedbumps. So it's more a way of making it easier to own a car like this. However air suspension is forbidden in Belgium, but none the less there are plenty of aired bagged cars over here...
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Posted
May 27 2009, 04:54 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 21 comment(s)
As we wind down our Volkswagen Group features I thought it would be a good idea to pay a homage to Audi's winged warriors; their modern DTM race cars The modern era of DTM was relaunched in 2000 and is comprised of some of the most extreme looking race cars on the planet. The first Audi efforts in the DTM were from the privateer team Abt Sportsline with a stretched wheelbase TT. They managed to take the 2002 Championship with Laurent Aïello driving. If you study the image closely you'll...
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Posted
Apr 23 2009, 06:28 PM
by
Carl Jarrett
with 20 comment(s)
Last week Düsseldorf hosted a spectacular DTM event to show over 210,000 fans how rad DTM is. They put down a short course through the city center where Audi and Mercedes could show off thier goods. Burnouts, donuts, and acceleration sprints were the excitement of the day. Imagine the sound of those uncorked NA V8's ripping it up to their redlines. Not sure who this dude is, mascot of Düsseldorf? Maybe just move over so we can see what AMG is bringing to the table in 2009. 2009's...
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