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| The French Grand Prix; Reims, July 4, 1954 |
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Reference #: 54C7D-2A |
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| At this race Mercedes introduced their new streamlined W196 Grand Prix cars. The new machine was victorious in this its first outing, with Juan Manuel Fangio, seen here in the ultra-fast right hand bend after the start/finish line, the easy winner ahead of his colleague Karl Kling and the privately-entered Ferrari of Robert Manzon. To some motor racing observers, it was almost as if Mercedes had come back right where they had left off in 1939. Lying on the ground right at the apex, Klemantaski captures Fangio’s concentrational sangfroid perfectly. |
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