Mercedes-Benz Stromlinienwagen

The Mercedes-Benz Stromlinienwagen was a Formula Libre race car that Mercedes-Benz designed for the 1937 AVUS Grand Prix, run on the AVUS circuit of two long straights and two bends under rules with no weight or power limit. Mercedes rebodied three of its cars in the Streamline style: a W125 with its original M125 engine for Rudolf Caracciola, a W25K with a 736 hp DAB engine for Manfred von Brauchitsch, and a W25 with an M125 engine for Hermann Lang. Two further cars in original configuration, a W125 for Richard Seaman and a W25 with a DAB engine for Goffredo Zehender, completed the Mercedes entry. Hermann Lang won the race in the W25 with the M125 engine.