{"id":20240,"date":"2011-05-06T12:03:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T11:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=20240"},"modified":"2023-01-24T14:38:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T14:38:41","slug":"mercedes-c11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/mercedes-c11\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Beautiful Silver Arrow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/C111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20242\" title=\"Purposeful lines combined with the monochrome meanness of the Merc...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/C111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/C111.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/C111-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/C111-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/C111-624x415.jpg 624w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/C111-278x185.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/C111-251x167.jpg 251w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/C111-526x350.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/C111-666x444.jpg 666w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/C111-572x381.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The C11 &#8211; Mercedes&#8217; 1990 Sports Car stallion might appear to be retro in design terms these days, but we&#8217;d more readily call it a classic.<\/p>\n<p>Carbon Fibre hulled and packed with that monstrous twin turbo-ed engine packing over 700 horsepower, this was the car that Michael Schumacher drove when promoted from his drive in F3 &#8211; before moving on of course to make F1 history.<\/p>\n<p>The young Schuey was mentored in the C11 by died in the wool racers Jochen Mass and Mauro Baldi &#8211; while his current F1 technical director and team principal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercedesamgf1.com\/en\/\">Ross Brawn<\/a> was working across the pits for Mercedes\u2019s great rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaguar.co.uk\/index.html\">Jaguar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"\" class=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Com1ska9WE?rel=0&#038;showinfo=0&#038;controls=1&#038;enablejsapi=\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Strangely enough Mercedes decided to swerve Le Mans for that year, choosing instead to focus on defending their the Group C sports car championship itself &#8211; which in fact they did easily.<\/p>\n<p>In our opinion this was the prettiest of the bunch of that late-period sports cars &#8211; F1 would soon come to totally eclipse these sorts of cars in popularity &#8211; mainly because of the complex machinations of the FIA &#8211; it had the aggressive essence of the Porsche 917 with a hint of the carbon-fibre trickery that changed Motor Racing forever.<\/p>\n<p>This was a real bridge builder between the steel and valves ancien regime and the CG-dominated future&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/c11_1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20243\" title=\"Now retro, but beautifully classic...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/c11_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/c11_1-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/c11_1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/c11_1-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, 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