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Old 03-04-10, 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Rick@OCRR
Mercedes-Benz used to make their race car body-frames from magnesium. It just took one bad accident in France to get them to stop that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXtb5eDUuQw

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The '55 Mercedes Crash was (tragically) historic -- I never knew the frame was magnesium.

That '55 crash got a lot of press again when a Mercedes car "took flight" during warm-up for the '99 race:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFN_Gp1eHN0
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