Mercedes marks 120 years on track with legendary Goodwood sculpture
Mercedes is celebrating 120 years of motorsport heritage in style at this year’s Goodwood celebration of Speed. As if sponsoring the 2014 event weren’t enough, the German producer has even more made its mark in West Sussex with a 160 tonne, 90 metre long steel sculpture.
Officially revealed this evening by Lord March as well as Mercedes-Benz traditional manager Michael Bock, the rounded style spans a distance of 45 metres as well as straddles Goodwood House, clearing the four hundred-year-old country stack by 26 metres.
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It’s the brainchild of artist Gerry Judah, who explained the style as pushing “the limits of what is possible with size as well as complexity in engineering”.
Crossing paths on the arch are two Mercedes, a replica of the 1934 W 25 Silver Arrow raced to success by Manfred von Brauschtisch at the Nurburgring Nordschleife Grand Prix, as well as one of Lewis Hamilton’s 2013 formula 1 cars. separated by 80 years, together they represent the marque’s very first as well as last eight-cylinder Grand Prix racers, with F1 adopting V6 hybrids for the 2014 season.
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Commenting on the structure at the unveiling ceremony, Goodwood creator Lord March said: “This year’s central function is the most architecturally as well as creatively difficult sculpture that we’ve ever had at Goodwood as well as it’s a testament to the out-of-the-box believing of Gerry Judah, which is extremely much aligned with our viewpoint of constant development around the celebration of Speed.”
A fireworks screen gone along with the evening reveal, as well as there was likewise a procession of Mercedes road as well as track cars, which made their method up the Goodwood hill in the near darkness. This collection ranged from a century-old Grand Prix vehicle to the somewhat much more recent SLS AMG Black Series, as well as included an SSK from 1928, the 1955 W 196 R as well as a Sauber-Mercedes C9 from 1989.
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