Mercedes-Benz can trace its motorsport origins back through three centuries, to 1894, when Daimler engines powered the world’s first winners on the rough roads of France.
Gerry Judah Mercedes-Benz
Gerry Judah’s sculpture for the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2014 represents Mercedes-Benz’s motorsport origins, traced back to 1894.
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- 01 July 2014
- Chichester, West Sussex
It’s appropriate then, that this year’s sculpture at Goodwood Festival of Speed represents that enormous span through thirty decades. Soaring 26 metres over Goodwood House, this 160-tonne steel sculpture is 90 metres long and was created by artist Gerry Judah.
It was 80 years ago when the legend of the German racing “Silver Arrows” was born. Stripped of their lead-based white paint, the 1934 Mercedes-Benz W25 – like the example installed here – won at its first outing at the notorious Nürburgring Nordschleife, with Manfred von Brauchitsch at the wheel – and since then, the company’s works cars have always been silver. The other Silver Arrow soaring overhead is the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team’s F1 W04. This car, chassis number 04, was raced in 15 Grands Prix in 2013 by Lewis Hamilton.
Mercedes-Benz Sculpture, Goodwood Festival of Speed 2014
Design and Production: Gerry Judah
Engineering: Capita
Client: Mercedes-Benz
Fabrication and Installation: Littlehampton Welding