Automotive
Published on December 14th, 2015 | by Daniel Sherman Fernandez
0Hamilton’s car to be added to Mercedes-Benz Museum
They are the latest additions to the banked curve at the Mercedes-Benz Museum – the 2014 MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS F1 W05 Hybrid and the gooix Mercedes-AMG C 63 DTM. Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton and DTM champion Pascal Wehrlein unveiled their cars today on the Races and Records banked turn in the presence of many famous racing drivers and the media.
Many visitors followed the proceedings and then continued on to the autograph-signing session with Sir Stirling Moss, David Coulthard, Mika Häkkinen and Bernd Mayländer.
The MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS F1 W05 Hybrid is the world championship-winning Formula 1 car from 2014, with which Lewis Hamilton secured a total of 11 wins. The Mercedes-AMG C 63 DTM is the vehicle that brought Mercedes-Benz racing driver Pascal Wehrlein success in the 2015 DTM, the German Touring Car Championship.
Both cars were unveiled at a press conference in the Mercedes-Benz Museum to mark the end of the 2015 motor racing season, while Head of Motorsport Toto Wolff and Ola Källenius, member of the board at Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz Car Sales & Marketing Division watched on along with many famous racing drivers.