What's that, you may well ask - well, we read about it on line and had to investigate. A trip to Mercedes Benz World, Weybridge was planned to visit this exhibit by Dutch artist Paul Veroude. A Mercedes GP Formula 1 car was stripped down to individual components which have been suspended in space; that's getting on for three and a half thousand pieces hung from a special metal grid to show the car milliseconds after it has exploded. A sort of big bang theory applied to it. Made from carbon fibre, titanium, aluminium and magnesium and wieghing around 600kg, it's an amazing installation and well worth going to see. MBW do say in the information about the installation that it is an artwork and not intended to be an exact replica of a current Mercedes GP Petronas Formula 1 car, so the newspapers that claim this is, or rather was, Michael Schumacher's car from the 2010 season are spinning things a bit.
MBW also have some of the previous few years' Formula 1 cars powered by Mercedes, as well as their usual collection of Mercedes road cars, ancient and modern.
Paul Veroude's first View Suspended was of a Honda Formula 1 car which made its debut in Shangai in 2005. There's an interesting blog about it on the Honda Car Forum
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