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The story behind Mercedes' half-white livery

Mercedes revealed a one-off livery for this weekend's German Grand Prix to celebrate 125 years of Motorsport and its 200th Grand Prix entry. The livery starts off white at the front – with retro logos – before revealing the traditional modern silver livery we all know, with the trasition between the two as though the white has been scraped off. The reason behind this is because Mercedes-Benz traditionally wore a white livery when competing in motorsports – German racing white to be exact – but that all changed with the W25, which competed in the 1934 Eifelrennen. Luigi Fagioli racing the silver Mercedes-Benz W25 on the...
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