{"id":30493,"date":"2018-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/mercedes-benz-190-e-2-3-16-of-niki-lauda\/"},"modified":"2020-10-02T13:25:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T13:25:10","slug":"mercedes-benz-190-e-2-3-16-of-niki-lauda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/mercedes-benz-190-e-2-3-16-of-niki-lauda\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz 190 E 2.3-16 of Niki Lauda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In its long and interesting history the N\u00fcrburgring in German area Vulkaneifel is rich of anecdotes and stories only life can tell. One of them happened in 1984. Because of growing interest in drivers safety it was necessary to build a modern racetrack for Grand Prix cars and motorbikes. The 20.8 kilometers long Nordschleife (Northern Loop) couldn’t cope with the fast race cars anymore. If nothing before, specially the fire accident of Niki Lauda in 1974 showed this clearly for everybody.

A completely new racetrack was developed on sketch and than built alongside the Nordschleife. It opened in mid of May 1984 and for this event the organisers cooperated with Mercedes-Benz to set up a special race with 20 identical pre-series cars of the 190 E 2.3-16 seated with well-known racedrivers of the time. Next to Nelson Piquet, Stirling Moss, Klaus Ludwig and Keke Rosberg also Niki Lauda was around. As were two young F1 drivers who didn’t have won a world championship back in those days: Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna. Even before the race started there were some big legends out on the track: Juan Manuel Fangio and Herrmann Lang did some demo laps in old Grand Prix racecars from Mercedes-Benz.<\/p>\n\n\n

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