And not just any 300 SLR, but no less than "722," the famous Stirling Moss-Denis Jenkinson Mille Miglia winner of 1955. On the other hand, a fabulous surprise awaited us along pit row: For our photos, Klaus Seybold had brought out a Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR from the company's museum.
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Driver extraordinaire and two-time IMSA GT champion Steve Millen and Engineering Editor Dennis Simanaitis got some in depth experience with this car and its Persson Motorsport race team at Germany's Hockenheim circuit Millen in the drivers seat and Simanaitis chatting up the engineers, technicians and support people who play important roles in the CLK-GTRs winning ways. (Background: The Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR placed 1st in the 1997 FIA GT Championship and continued garnering laurels well into 1998. This time around, though both Steve and I arrived at Hockenhiem in production Mercedes-Benz CLKs borrowed from the factory, we now knew enough to leave these perfectly competent road cars parked in the paddock.
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THE STREET/TRACK COMPARISON: Take a winning race car and its road going counterpart to the test track, assess their levels of performance and, most important, compare and contrast the characteristics that define each.Īs recently as August 1998, this format seemed so logical.Īnd then, in that issue of R&T, Senior Editor Kim Reynolds and driver Steve Millen brought together the Champion Racing Porsche GT1 and a road-going 911–and guess what: The race car had little in common philosophically with its sibling, except maybe its cupholders, and even these were specially fabricated from aluminum.Ī new breed has evolved for the likes of FIA GT racing. From the November 1998 issue of Road & Track.