n the 1960s, engineers Hans Werner Aufrecht and Erhard Melcher received some terrible news. Daimler-Benz had decided to end all motorsport activities — tough luck for a duo working in the engine development department, where they’d been wrenching on a new racing engine for the 300 SE. Rather than kill the project, the engineers took the power plant to Aufrecht’s
RISE OF AN ICON
Jul 19, 2022
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