The magnificent 300SLR took Stirling Moss to a record-shattering victory in the Mille Miglia, the grueling Targa Florio, victories took Mercedes-Benz to the World Manufacturers' Championship that year. With unique and rarely seen images, Karl Ludvigsen presents the dramatic story of these racers with their tubular space frames, inboard brakes and fuel-injected desmodromic-valved eight-cylinder engines.
