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Mercedes to run special livery at Spa

Mercedes are running a special livery to commemorate 55 years of their AMG division, which was founded in 1967. Mercedes Benz was founded 45 years beforehand in 1926 by Emil Jellinek and Paul Daimler, before the company branched into grand prix racing in the 1930s. Two of their engineers, Erhard Melcher and Hans Werner Aufrecht, decided in the ‘60s to branch off and launch a new company, AMG. Initially, Mercedes and AMG were separate entities, but that changed when Melcher and Aufrecht’s project transcended race engines, and became a subsidiary of the Mercedes company. READ: Lewis Hamilton jokes about Mercedes pace with Rosanna Tennant as he delivers bad news For years, AMG has been...
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