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Originally Posted by GuidoK
I think that there are multiple car brands that have racing in their dna (Ferrari probably at most).
Porsche started out as a general engineering firm (designed the beetle, but also tanks etc), and after ww2 started to make the 356. A light little sportscar not initially intended to race.
Ferrari started as a racing team and started to make sportscars to fund their racing endeavours. (similar to bugatti back in the days)
And mercedes is so old....they invented racing as they invented about everything on car aspects. Its just that they build so many types of cars and trucks and etc etc that its more considered mainstream. But also at Mercedes the racing history and dna is there. There's just an aweful lot of dna.
Mercedes withdrew from racing for a long time because of a huge accident, right about the same time that porsche only started to make cars. So timelines are a bit distorted if you look at it that way. The 60 year or so racing pedigree that porsche has now, mercedes already had when porsche started so to speak.
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Ferdinand Porsche designed Mercedes race cars in those early years.