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Originally Posted by meek
I posted about 4 years ago. How can anyone dispute the late 70's collaboration in making the 190E 2.3-16?
Ask any of the old guys that were living in Affalterbach then. I actually lived in Affalterbach during the summer of '83 when the public got their view of Senna driving one.  |
The 2.3-16 was not a "collaboration" with Melcher or Aufrect, it was with Costin and Ducksworth.
AMG was not part of the development of the twincam, either engine or bodywork. They were contracted to support the privateer DTM teams, and then later the factory works cars.
BTW, the special Mercedes sponsored race at the Nurburgring with grand prix drivers in 20 2.3-16 was in 1984. Those drivers included no less than nine World Champions and six current Grand Prix stars plus one of the most successful drivers of all time, Stirling Moss. (For the record, the World Champions were Jack Brabham, Phil Hill, John Surtees, Denis Hulme, Niki Lauda, Jody Scheckter, James Hunt, Alan Jones and Keke Rosberg and the then current GP drivers Niki Lauda, Keke Rosberg, Alain Prost, Elio de Angelis, Jacques Laffite and Ayrton Senna, the field being completed by Carlos Reutemann, John Watson, Hans Herrmann, Klaus Ludwig, Manfred Schurti and Udo Schultz.)