{"id":498535,"date":"2019-12-17T20:44:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T04:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=99680"},"modified":"2025-01-06T00:47:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T00:47:30","slug":"v-for-voiturette-1939-mercedes-benz-w165","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/v-for-voiturette-1939-mercedes-benz-w165\/","title":{"rendered":"V for Voiturette &#8211; 1939 Mercedes-Benz W165"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p><strong><em>Fed up with seeing their major races won by the Germans in the 1930s, the Italians allowed only 1\u00bd-liter entries in their 1939 races to eliminate their opposition. They reckoned without the astonishing skills of the Daimler-Benz Racing Department.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The most glamorous Grand Prix race of the 1930s was not at Monaco, not at Dubai, not at Singapore. It was in Northern Africa in the Italian colony of Libya, at Tripoli. 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