The Mercedes-Benz W165 was a racing car that Mercedes-Benz designed in late 1938 to meet voiturette, or Formula 2, regulations, with the aim of winning the non-championship Tripoli Grand Prix of 7 May 1939 in Italian Libya. Built in eight months by scaling down the current Grand Prix car, it had a supercharged 1.5 litre V8 engine of 1,493 cc. Hermann Lang and Rudolf Caracciola took a one-two victory in it, Mercedes' greatest surprise. It was never raced again: a private Caracciola entry in the 1946 Indianapolis 500 was blocked when Swiss customs refused to let the car out of the country, and in 1951 Daimler briefly planned to build five new cars for Formula One.
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