Mercedes Gears Up For A WEC Comeback After 26 Years
Mercedes is staging a historic comeback at the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) after a 26-year hiatus. The iconic luxury and high-performance automaker will debut at the LMGT3 category of the event in 2025. After Mercedes’ last stint in the organization in 1999 with the disastrous Mercedes-Benz CLR, it’s confident that the battle-hardened Mercedes-AMG GT3 under a new partnership with Iron Lynx will allow it to emulate the success of the Sauber-Mercedes C9. From Huge Success to a Premature Exit Mercedes enjoyed immense success with the C9, earning it second place in the WEC constructors rankings in 1988 and first in the next two years. However, the team failed to… Continue Reading »