{"id":210575,"date":"2016-04-18T16:34:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T16:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=210575"},"modified":"2024-12-29T18:01:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T18:01:17","slug":"1903-mercedes-60hp-simplex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1903-mercedes-60hp-simplex\/","title":{"rendered":"1903 Mercedes 60HP Simplex"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>1903 Mercedes 60HP Simplex<\/h1>\n<p>The 90 hp car built for the Gordon Bennett Cup race was destroyed in the great factory fire at Cannstatt in 1903. After that, the DMG borrowedsome of its already sold 60 hp cars to let them run in the race. 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<\/div><\/figure>\n<h3>In Detail<\/h3>\n<table class=\"cardetails\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"label\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">submitted by<\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supercars.net\/garage\/72036\/index.html\">Richard Owen<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"boldlabel\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">engine<\/td>\n<td class=\"boldvalue\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\">M 14514, Cast Iron, Inline-4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"label\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">position<\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\">Front Longitudinal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"label\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">aspiration<\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\">Natural<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"label\" 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width=\"30%\">driven wheels<\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\">Chain Driven RWD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"label\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">front tires<\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\">910 x 100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"label\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">rear tires<\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\">920 x 125<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"label\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">front brakes<\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\">None<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"label\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">f brake size<\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\">mm \/ in<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"label\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">rear brakes<\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" 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The race was won by the Belgian Camille Jenatzy. &#8212; Daimlerchrysler In Detail submitted by Richard Owen engine M 14514, Cast Iron, Inline-4 position Front Longitudinal aspiration Natural valvetrain 2 Valves per Cyl displacement 9293 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2180,5975,73,9348,17100],"tags":[18319,6830,16870,22447,22758,75,6910,6735,13061,6722,245],"class_list":["post-210575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1900s","category-mercedes","category-mercedes-benz","category-guides","category-model-guides-race-cars","tag-1900s-all","tag-1900s-cars","tag-mercedes","tag-mercedes-model-guides-all","tag-mercedes-model-guides-race-cars","tag-mercedes-benz","tag-mercedes-model-in-depth","tag-mercedes-race-car-in-depth","tag-car-profiles","tag-race-car-in-depth","tag-race-car"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>1903 Mercedes 60HP Simplex<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1903-mercedes-60hp-simplex\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"1903 Mercedes 60HP Simplex\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"1903 Mercedes 60HP Simplex The 90 hp car built for the Gordon Bennett Cup race was destroyed in the great factory fire at Cannstatt in 1903. 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