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Karl Kling

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was a defining point in assuring the Daimler-Benz management that motorsport had a place in Mercedes' future. Called up to the revived Mercedes Grand Prix squad in 1954 he finished less than one second behind the legendary
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Having won all world championships they competed for, F1 in 1954 and 1955, plus sports cars in 1955, Mercedes retired from international racing after 1955 to focus on road car development. Kling succeeded
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as head of Mercedes motorsport, with stock models only. He was in this post during their successful rallying campaigns of the 1960s, occasionally taking the wheel himself. On one such occasion he drove a
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Grands Prix, debuting on 4 July 1954. He achieved 2 podiums - the first German ever to achieve a Formula One podium - and scored a total of 17 championship points.
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It is said, that he was born too late and too early. Too late to be in the successful Mercedes team of the 1930s and too early to have a real chance in
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at Mercedes in 1955 Kling was effectively demoted to third driver. However, away from the World Championship, Kling took an impressive victory in the
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Kling was instrumental in developing Mercedes' return to international competition in the early 1950s, and his win in the 1952
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in the mid-1930s, competing in hillclimb and trials events in production machinery in his spare time. During the
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aircraft, and after the cessation of hostilities he resumed his motorsport involvement in a
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circuit. This promising start was not to last, and with the arrival of
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Index


Giessen
German Empire
Lake Constance, Germany
Formula One
Nationality
Germany
1954
1955
Mercedes
Championships
Wins
Pole positions
Fastest laps
1954 French Grand Prix
1955 Italian Grand Prix
[kaʁlklɪŋ]

motor racing
Germany
Formula One
1954
1955
Daimler-Benz
Second World War
Luftwaffe
BMW 328
Carrera Panamericana
Mercedes-Benz 300SL
Juan Manuel Fangio

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