Mercedes: racing successes in southern France

The Nice - La Turbie hillclimb ends in a one-two finish for the 60 hp Mercedes-Simplex models of Otto Hieronimus and Wilhelm Werner. However, victory is overshadowed by the death of the British driver Count Zborowski, who comes to grief in his 60 hp car at the same spot as Wilhelm Bauer three years earlier. On 7 April Mercedes tastes success once again, this time in the mile race and record-breaking attempts on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice.