{"id":370289,"date":"2013-07-12T11:30:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=51278"},"modified":"2024-12-29T13:39:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T13:39:47","slug":"mercedes-benz-w196-breaks-auction-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mercedes-benz-w196-breaks-auction-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz W196 Breaks All-Time Auction Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_792727\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-792727\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1954-Mercedes-Benz-W1961.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-792727\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1954-Mercedes-Benz-W1961.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1954-Mercedes-Benz-W1961.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1954-Mercedes-Benz-W1961-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1954-Mercedes-Benz-W1961-100x64.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1954-Mercedes-Benz-W1961-770x493.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1954-Mercedes-Benz-W1961-293x188.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-792727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 sold for \u00a319,601,500<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196R shattered auction records at the Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed 2013 auction, selling for \u00a319,601,500 (USD $29,650,095, \u20ac22,701,864) on Friday 12 July. The sales price for the ex-Juan Manuel Fangio Formula 1 racing car is the new world record for an automobile sold at public auction, easily surpassing the previous record of \u00a310,086,400 (USD $16,390,000) set by a Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa in 2011.<br \/>\nRobert Brooks, Bonhams Chairman, said, \u201cI have handled some of the world\u2019s most desirable and important motor cars during a motoring auction career spanning five decades, but I have reached a peak today with this legendary Grand Prix car. It was a personal privilege to preside over the sale of this vehicle, which is not only one of the most significant motor cars of the 20th century, but also the most important historic Grand Prix racing car ever offered for sale.\u201d<br \/>\nDoug Nye, racing historian, also commented, \u201cIf he were here today Fangio would shake his head and smile his slow smile. He was a humble man, originally a mechanic from a potato town in Argentina \u2013 and he never forgot his roots. As a driver, he was simply a genius. As a man he had no enemies. He was universally loved, even by those he regularly beat on track. No standard-setting sportsman could have a better epitaph. Mercedes has long been recognised for the world-class quality of its products and in 1954\/55 they set out to rebuild their reputation for automotive excellence post-war. With this W196 and its sports car sisters they did just that&#8230;and how!\u201d<br \/>\nThe 2 1\/2-litre straight-8 W196 \u2013 chassis number \u201800006\/54\u2019 \u2013 was the car in which Fangio won both the 1954 German and Swiss Grand Prix races. These great victories were the first two to be achieved in succession by the frontier-technology Mercedes-Benz factory Formula 1 team in its post-war racing comeback. Chassis \u201800006\u2019 also has special significance as the first open-wheeled \u2018slipper\u2019-bodied post-war Mercedes-Benz to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix race.<br \/>\nThe FIA governing body of international motor sport launched its first post-war Grand Prix regulations in 1954, demanding unsupercharged engines of no more than 2 1\/2-litres engine capacity. Mercedes-Benz \u2013 who had previously dominated Grand Prix racing in 1908, 1914 and from 1934-39 \u2013 missed the first two 1954 World Championship rounds in Argentina and Belgium, but made their shattering debut in the 1954 French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux.<br \/>\nTheir all-new W196 cars ran there in enveloping-bodied \u2018Stromlinienwagen\u2019 form, instantly setting new performance standards, with Juan Manuel Fangio and team-mate Karl Kling finishing first and second in both qualifying and the race. National media and the specialist sporting press trumpeted the same simple message: \u201cMercedes are back!\u201d<br \/>\nAfter the W196 cars with their enclosed wheels proved difficult to place upon the more twisty venue of the following British Grand Prix at Silverstone, Fangio requested an open-wheeled W196 variant for the following German Grand Prix on the twisty 14.2-mile Nurburgring road circuit. Mercedes-Benz reacted instantly, tailoring new cars \u201800005\u2019 and \u201800006\u2019 to Fangio\u2019s recommendation.<br \/>\nIt was in chassis \u201800006\u2019 that Fangio immediately won the German Grand Prix. He then repeated the feat in the following Swiss Grand Prix on the daunting Bremgarten forest circuit at Berne \u2013 storming round at uncatchable pace in \u201800006\u2019 to win by 58.7 seconds from Argentine compatriot Jose Froilan Gonzalez\u2019s out-classed Ferrari. This Swiss victory was Fangio\u2019s third in four Grand Prix races, and assured him of his second Drivers\u2019 World Championship title.<br \/>\n[Source: Bonhams]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196R shattered auction records at the Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed 2013 auction, selling for \u00a319,601,500 (USD $29,650,095, \u20ac22,701,864) on Friday 12 July. The sales price for the ex-Juan Manuel Fangio Formula 1 racing car is the new world record for an automobile sold at public auction, easily surpassing the previous record of \u00a310,086,400 (USD $16,390,000) set by a Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa in 2011. 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