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| | Ugo Fadini LSR Models / Omicron / Mercedes W25, the story |
 | | Daimler-Benz could not sit and watch the rivals get all the press exposure and the glory, and anyway the government was pushing competition between the two companies to guarantee better results, so they quickly set to turn out something of their own to do the job. |
 | | Like Auto Union, they took their very successful W25 GP car and equipped it with the latest version of their supercharged eight-cylinder, M25B, that was still under development for the 1935 GP season. |
 | | Certainly, the aerodynamic efficiency of the car without the roof looks very doubtful to say the least and one wonders why, at that point, they should not have used the sister open cockpit car for the record, which was certainly much better balanced and aerodynamically efficient... |
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