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The third 300 SLR was built for Juan Manuel Fangio and first tested at Hockenheim at the end of April. A few weeks later the Argentinean singlehandedly drove chassis 0003/55 to second in the Mille Miglia behind Moss and Jenkinson. Fangio went on the win a non-championship race at the Nurburgring and the Swedish Grand Prix. He was also leading the 24 Hours of Le Mans in this car with Moss, when the Mercedes-Benz team retired from the race. Following its contemporary career, it has since been on permanent loan to the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
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