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Rivals - Lancia D50 & Mercedes Benz W196

Rivals - Lancia D50 & Mercedes Benz W196
Rivals - Lancia D50 & Mercedes Benz W196
Rivals - Lancia D50 & Mercedes Benz W196
Rivals - Lancia D50 & Mercedes Benz W196
Rivals - Lancia D50 & Mercedes Benz W196
Rivals - Lancia D50 & Mercedes Benz W196
Rivals - Lancia D50 & Mercedes Benz W196
Rivals - Lancia D50 & Mercedes Benz W196
Rivals - Lancia D50 & Mercedes Benz W196
Rivals - Lancia D50 & Mercedes Benz W196
Rivals - Lancia D50 & Mercedes Benz W196
  • Stock: In Stock
  • Author: Chris Nixon
  • ISBN: 0851840590
  • Publisher: Transport Bookman Publications Ltd.
  • Publication Year: 1999
  • Edition: 1st Edition
  • Revised: No
  • Reprint: No
  • Language: English
  • Pages: 212
  • Illustrations: Black and White
  • Format: Hardback - With Dustjacket
  • Signed Author: Chris Nixon
  • Condition Book: Very Good
  • Condition Dust Jacket: Very Good
  • Dimensions: 235.00mm x 305.00mm
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Rivals, is the story of what are perhaps the best and least known Grand Prix cars of all: the Mercedes-Benz W196 and the Lancia D50. The W196 is an icon of racing car design, rightly remembered as one of the most innovative and successful GP cars of all time, winning all but three of the 12 Grandes Epreuves it entered. In truth the D50 was even more innovative, but it achieved no real success, largely due the failure of the Lancia company in 1955. The Mercedes are still well known because Daimler-Benz retired them to their superb Museum and they are frequently shown and demonstrated around the world. Not so the Lancias. Following the collapse of the company, six of these fine cars were given to Scuderia Ferrari and suffered the humiliation of being systematically deprived of their innovations and turned into something bland, boring and thoroughly uncompetitive. As a result, the D50 became a forgotten car of Grand Prix racing, a fate that is unjust, to say the least. Fortunately, two cars were retained by Lancia and survive intact. With their pannier fuel tanks between the wheels, the D50s are every bit as exciting to look at as the W196 streamliners, and the two rivals - one red and the other silver - are, without doubt, two of the most charismatic racing cars ever to take to the circuits. The two marques should have been locked in combat - driven by World Champions Alberto Ascari and Juan Manuel Fangio - throughout 1954-55, but, sadly, that was not to be. Their story is a compelling one, nonetheless, and - illustrated with almost 200 largely unpublished photographs - is told here for the first time by Chris Nixon.

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