Winning truck racers in France

  • Date
    14/15 June 1997
  • Description

    At the truck racing weekend on Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet in southern France, Markus Oestreich posts the season's first win for Mercedes-Benz in the first run of the Super Race Trucks. The 1838 S is fitted with the 884 kW / 1,200 hp OM 501 LA innovation engine since the start of the season. In the Race Trucks category Heinz-Werner Lenz in a Mercedes-Benz 1838 S wins both qualifying rounds and both legs of the race to take the lead in the general Race Truck classification.

Markus Oestreich - Truck Race 1997
A97F1551
Markus Oestreich
Markus Oestreich's Truck Race vehicle
A97F1557
Truck-Race
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