F1: Mercedes signed his first triple since 1955 …

this morning the Grand Prix of China has kept all its promises. Suspense, fighting, overtaking, strategy, all the ingredients were on hand to offer a superb spectacle. But remember also that race for its final result, the first hat-trick of a Mercedes engine for nearly 55 years. 1955. That year the great Juan Manuel Fangio, participates in his second season in the invincible armada of silver arrows. The previous year he won the second of his five world titles driving a Mercedes but had started the season with Maserati. The German team had made a sensational debut in the championship by crushing the competition in Reims. On June 16, 1955, the Grand Prix Great Britain is the penultimate race of the season. Fangio arrived at Aintree in a solid lead in the championship. The Argentine has won three races and has 13 points ahead of his young teammate Stirling Moss. In tests, the British signed the first pole position of his career before his illustrious elder. In race two men are not going to leave an inch above and ironing repeatedly. Under the checkered flag, Moss has an advance of 0 2 on Fangio. It was his first success in Grand Prix. As Fangio, this result gives him a third title of world champion. The podium is completed by a third person in Mercedes driver Karl Kling. The firm will offer himself to the star even quadrupled thanks to Piero Taruffi. After the arrival, Moss Fangio ask if he has been won but the latter, a gentleman, he will otherwise until his death. For Mercedes, this raid a bitter taste. Even though this was his first hat-trick (and a fortiori quadrupled), the feast is overshadowed by the tragedy that rocked the 24 Hours of Le Mans four days earlier. Surprised by a maneuver Mike Hawthron Pierre Levegh, driver of the Mercedes SLR No. 20, faces the Austin-Healey Macklin. His car was thrown against the wall and disintegrates. Several body parts and the engine of the car will finish their race in the public spreading death in their wake. Pierre Levegh and 82 spectators lost their lives in this accident remains the worst ever known motorsports. Following the disaster, Mercedes will pull out of F1 and not return in 1993 powering the Sauber team. He will then have had to wait 55 years to place three of its top three drivers in a Grand Prix as Button, Hamilton and Rosberg did today. Also read: 75 years of For Mercedes Silver Arrow and Hermann Lang would have been 100 years.