Dec 22 2014
McLaren’s entrance into the FIA GT1 class required that its already outstanding McLaren F1 road car be outfitted in racing trim. By contrast, the AMG solution to homologation was quite the opposite. Instead of building a race car from an existing sports car, AMG set about creating an all new GT1 contender whose homologated variants […]
Dec 18 2014
Ready for Le Mans… Mercedes-Benz would use the 1997 CLK GTR AMG for the first two rounds of the 1998 season before upgrading to the CLK GTR AMG LM. After conquering the FIA GT Championship with CLK GTR, Mercedes-Benz set its sights on competing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1998, which it had not been at since 1991 with Sauber-Mercedes […]
Dec 17 2014
As the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft/International Touring Car Championship had folded in late 1996, with both remaining competitors Opel and Alfa Romeo leaving due to the high costs of their 4WD designs, Mercedes-Benz had no top series to compete in. With the success of the BPR Global GT Series leading to the FIA taking over and turning it into an international series, known […]
Jan 5 2015
1999 Mercedes-Benz CLR
Despite winning the FIA GT Championship in dominating fashion for the second year running, the AMG Mercedes-Benz team could not look back at a perfect 1998 season. The big stain on their record was the complete failure of the CLK-LM in the 24 Hours of Le Mans; by far the most important race of the […]
By PaRaDoX • FIA GT, MB MotorSports 1 • Tags: 1999 mercedes, 1999 mercedes-benz clr, Mercedes benz CLR, mercedes motorsport, mercedes-benz