n 1999 Mercedes’ new Le Mans prototype car, named the CLR, famously decided to take up aerobatics, ending up airborne on three separate occasions at the famous track in Sarthe, France.

That rocking, in turn, upset the airflow over the car, and turned the CLR into the pinwheeling Mercedes that's forever stuck in our nightmares of Le Mans, 1999. For an even more detailed analysis ...

In the late 1990s, Mercedes-Benz and ... to create of a new race car that would finally triumph at Le Mans. Gerhard Ungar was the chief designer in charge of the CLR project, and because of ...

At extremely high speeds on the long straights at the Le Mans Circuit de la Sarthe, the Mercedes CLR tended to build up air pressure under its nose, effectively pushing the whole car away from the ...

If you watched the 1999 Le Mans 24 Hours, you undoubtedly remember Peter Dumbreck's spectacular crash on the way to Indianapolis corner, where his Mercedes CLR took ... a race car uses a negative ...

This will mark the first time a Mercedes-badged car has raced at Le Mans since 1999, at which the famous incident of the CLR getting airborne on the Mulsanne forced Mercedes into an abrupt ...

Mercedes ended the CLK LM program, replacing it with the CLR prototype. That car had a disastrous outing at the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans, with aerodynamic issues causing multiple high-speed flips.