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Here is a story of one of the most successful 1930s racing car types - the Mercedes-Benz W25. For Mercedes-Benz the arrival of a new German government in 1933 and a thoroughly revised rule-book for the 1934 season provided the final push to build a Grand Prix car for the first time the Daimler and Benz merger. Appalled by the defeat at Avus in May of 1933 to the French and Italians, the new 'Reic…