MERCEDES-BENZ W196 TETHER CAR
ercedes shortened its W196 racer for the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix, certain that the standard chassis was not ideally suited to the Principality’s tight street circuit. The team wasn’t sure, though, of the optimal weight distribution in the short-chassis W196, so it prepared one car for Stirling Moss with the engine in the usual place, and shifted the straight-eight forward
