Sunday, April 8, 2012

Silver Sausage

The Mercedes-Benz SSKL was a streamlined variant of the famous SSK 'Kompressor'.
This supercharged streamliner was built especially for 1932 Avusrennen - 2nd international race at Avus circuit.
Manfred von Brauchitsch was at the wheel.
He won the race, doing 294.42 km in 1h 30m 52.4".
Average speed was 194.39 km/h.

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