Mercedes W196
Formula 1 Racing Car
Streamlined Body
The 1954 Italian Grand Prix was won in September 1954 by Juan Manuel Fangio in a Mercedes W196 with a streamlined body, sealing his world championship title in a year that included eight Formula 1 Grand Prix wins. Two months earlier, the streamlined version of the W196 was tested for the 1954 French Grand Prix on the high-speed triangular circuit of Reims-Gueux. However, its fuel consumption on practice days, at 40 liters per 100 km, was too high to reach the checkered flag after 500 kilometers with the original tank capacity. Therefore, the W 196 was upgraded with an additional tank in the left sidepod on the last night before the race. Fangio won this third Grand Prix of the 1954 season in the beautiful Champagne region. It was a special day for German athletes: It wasn't until 1954, nine years after the end of World War II, that German athletes were finally allowed to participate in official international sporting events, and the German football team won the final in Bern's Wankdorf Stadium, thus becoming World Cup winners on that very same day. Hans Hermann said: "At first, we as German athletes felt very uncomfortable, being on French soil for the first time after this terrible war, but this day of victory for the Mercedes team and the national team in the summer of 1954 helped us all to see our shattered self-image a little better in the reflection of ourselves as Germans." Hermann set the fastest lap time at the French Grand Prix, but his engine gave up too early. Fangio and Kling took first and second place.
A watercolor by Uli Ehret
Limited edition art prints of 100 Piece.
Art prints in "XS format"
Outer frame: 38 x 15 cm (Lück wooden frame)
Glass format / passepartout format: 35 x 12 cm (Normal glass)
Art print: 30 x 8 cm (260 g/m² paper)
Art prints in "XS Plus format"
Frame outside: 53 x 20 cm (gap Wooden frame)
Glass format / passepartout format: 50 x 17 cm (standard glass)
Art print: 45 x 12 cm (260 g/m² paper)
Art prints in "XSOR format"
Art print: 73 x 33 cm
260 g/m² Fine Art Velvet paper, printed in 8 colors,
UV light protected,
Shipped rolled up in a cardboard tube, additionally packed in three-layer cardboard
Upon request and with a quote, we can supply a passepartout in the format 73 x 33 cm
(with mediated image section 63 x 23 cm)
and also a wooden frame in the format 78 x 38 cm, 3.5 cm wide and 2 cm deep,
matt black with fine wood grain (without glass) with.
Canvas Prints
The standard format specifications mentioned indicate the outer dimensions of the stretcher frames.
The stretcher frames are 2 cm deep. The wooden slats of the stretcher frames are approximately 3 cm wide.
The art prints are delivered with a nano-film protected against UV light.
Upon request, we also deliver the canvas art prints rolled - not on the wooden stretcher frame., and we can also have them mounted on 4 cm thick wooden stretcher frames. Please send your request directly to: info@ehretdesign.de by email..
Special formats and prints on other surfaces
We are happy to offer paper prints, canvas prints and individual framing upon request.: Please send your inquiry to info@ehretdesign.de.
