Following the 1955 Le Mans disaster, Mercedes-Benz had withdrawn its factory-backed race team from all motorsport activities. It was not until 1985 that Mercedes reintroduced … 展开

The CLK GTR debuted at Mercedes' home track, the Hockenheimring, at the 1997 FIA GT Hockenheim 4 Hours. Bernd Schneider qualified on pole and took the fastest lap, but had to retire due to braking problems. The sister No. 10 CLK GTR only mustered a 27th … 展开

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• Carfection, Mercedes CLK GTR: The ULTIMATE Group Test Part 3 | Carfection 4K, YouTube, 22 May 2021. A video review of the CLK GTR in conjunction with the Porsche 911 GT1 and McLaren F1.
• Simanaitis, Dennis; Millen, Steve, Driving the Championship … 展开

The chassis of the CLK GTR was a carbon-fibre monocoque mated to an aluminium honeycomb frame, constructed by Lola Composites, a division of Lola Cars. The engine was a derivative of the M120 engine found in the R129 SL-Class and W140 S … 展开

The road-legal homologated version of the CLK-GTR would simply gain the suffix Straßenversion, German for Street version. In a similar fashion to the Porsche 911 GT1 in 1996, only a singular road car was completed in 1997 and was shown in that year's Frankfurt … 展开