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Mercedes-Benz Classic is sending four racing cars from the company?s collection to take part in the 1.86 kilometre Hillclimb at the largest motorised garden party in the world, the Goodwood Festival of Speed (28 June-1 July 2)

Under the slogan: ?Young Guns-Born to Win?, the former WWII airfield on the Sussex Downs estate of countless Dukes of Richmond will host exhibits ranging from F1 and classics to bikes and aeroplanes, plus a huge pop concert that together attracts over 150,000 fans.

The Mercedes-Benz W 125, which was constructed for the 1937 season, is a reminder of the early successes of the ?Silver Arrows?. As the ancestor of the SL-series, the 300?SL racing car (W?194) from 1952 marks the start of an era.

The 1963 tail fin saloon 220 S (W 111) which has been reconstructed for use as a racing car at historical motorsport events on race circuits will be making its debut at Goodwood alongside a 1997 CLK-GTR with about 600hp, representing more recent motorsport history.

As festival tradition demands, Merc racing cars will be driven on the Hillclimb by well known drivers such as Paul Stewart, Klaus Ludwig, Jochen Mass and Bernd Schneider.

The Festival of Speed was first held in 1993 and was invented by Charles Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and Kinrara an active and enthusiastic car racing fan and host at Goodwood who traditionally is addressed as Lord March.

The foundation stone for the festival was already laid by his grandfather, the then Earl of March and 9th Duke of Richmond, was well known in England as the car designer, engineer and racing driver Freddie March, who in 1936 organised a private hill climb in the park of Goodwood House.

Strollers and automotive fascination

The Festival of Speed is not only a fascinating experience as a motorsport event; it is also an elegant promenade along automotive cultural highlights. From the pits, open to all visitors, to the car shows in the park grounds up to the automotive works of art which the British sculptor Gerry Judah creates anew every year. His temporary sculptures placed directly in front of Goodwood House always focus on one brand and its special vehicles.

The Mercedes-Benz Classics at Goodwood are:

W?125, 1937?- In 1937, Daimler-Benz introduced a completely new racing car, the W?125 the backbone of which was a sturdy nickel-chrome-molybdenum steel frame with four cross members. The torsional strength of the vehicle without its engine increased to three times that of its predecessor, the W?25. The W?125 was the first racing car from Daimler-Benz where the compressor was installed after the carburettor, which meant that the final mixture was compressed. The Silver Arrow was fitted out differently depending on the racing circuit with tank capacity, carburettor, supercharger, tyres and rim size, tyre profile and its overall dimensions varied from race to race. Construction year: 1937; Cylinders: R8; Cubic capacity: 5660cc; Output: 600hp (441kW); Top speed: over 300km/h.

300?SL (W?194) 1952 -?In 1951, work began at Daimler-Benz on the construction of a three-litre sports car with an aluminium body and by the following year a prototype of the Mercedes-Benz 300?SL, originally designed purely for racing, was presented to the press. It was the forerunner of the legendary 300?SL (W?198) ?gull wing? coup?.?The complex tubular frame construction of the 300?SL originally did not allow conventional doors to be installed. Because of this, experimental engineer Rudolf Uhlenhaut envisaged winged doors in the first prototypes they are only small hatches reaching down to the bottom edge of the side windows. It was only the sixth of the ten original 300 SL that was fitted with larger doors extending downwards to the mid-flanks in keeping with the Le Mans regulations.?In its first race, the Mille Miglia in 1952, the 300?SL achieved a noteworthy second place. In the same year, it succeeded in coming in first and second in the more than 3,000?kilometre long Carrera Panamericana in Mexico and it celebrated a brilliant double victory in Le Mans.?The 300 SL entered in the same year for the Hillclimb at Goodwood is now owned by the McCaw family in the USA and is the original vehicle that won Le Mans in 1952.?Construction year: 1952; Cylinders: R6; Cubic capacity: 2995cc; Output: 170hp (125 kW);?Top speed: about 240km/h.

220 SE (W?111) 1963?- At the beginning of the 1960s, Mercedes was very active, especially with ?tail fin? saloons with six-cylinder engines (220?SE and 300?SE) and these served as models for the construction of the Mercedes-Benz 220?SE (W?111) used at Goodwood. During this period, competition vehicles and production models were technically very close to each other with the most common modifications involving making the chassis elements and parts of the body more rigid, increasing the tank capacity and adapting engine characteristics to the intended use. The light grey ?tail fin? car dates back to 1963 and was remodelled last year as a racing circuit car at the Mercedes-Benz Classic Centre for historical motorsport events. Construction year: 1963; Cylinders: R6; Cubic capacity: 2195cc; Output: 120hp (88kW); Top speed: about 170km/h.

CLK-GTR, 1997?- The Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR is a racing touring car developed in cooperation with AMG for the FIA GT championships founded in 1997. The CLK-GTR is fitted with state-of-the-art racing technology and a centrally located 12-cylinder, 6-litre engine with an output of 441kW (600 hp). FIA regulations state that, apart from engine, ignition and injection control, the racing cars are not allowed any electronic assistants such as anti-lock braking system (ABS), acceleration slip control (ASR) or an active suspension. As a production line racing car in a batch of 25 licensed for road use, the CLK-GTR could also be purchased by interested customers with no racing ambitions and at a cost of nearly $2m was the most expensive production run car in the world. Construction year: 1997; Cylinders: V12; Cubic capacity: 5986cc; Output: 600hp (441kW) Top speed: 345km/h.

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