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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

THE 24 hour crash at Le Mans was rocked ... That saw the car swing round in a circle before slamming into the tyre wall. And the force of the impact saw the car flip upside down after the crash.

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 ...

The world’s most famous endurance race, Le Mans, will soon be overhauled with the introduction of a road car-based hypercar ... Dubbed the Mercedes Vision Mantilla Concept, the racer has been ...

Mercedes-AMG boss Tobias Moers says there are no plans for the company’s upcoming AMG One hypercar to compete in the Le Mans hypercar class ... and an output of 738 HP. Car manufacturers can ...