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Jellinek again won the Nice races, easily beating his opponents in all the capacity classes and reaching 60 km/h (37 mph). The director of the French Automobile Club , Paul Meyan , stated: "We have entered the Mercedes era", a sentiment echoed by newspapers worldwide.
May 15, 2017 · Nice Week, 25 to 29 March 1901. The Mercedes 35 HP, which won almost all the competitions during the racing week, on the Promenade des Anglais with Wilhelm Werner at the wheel. Emil Jellinek (with sideburns) is standing on the right behind the vehicle inside the barriers.
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Apr 23, 2021 · Jellinek is absolutely convinced by the Mercedes 35 PS’ potential. And “Nice Week” proved him right: on 25 March 1901, Wilhelm Werner won the Nice–Salon–Nice long-distance race over 392 kilometres with an average speed of 58.1 km/h. This went down in history as the first ever racing victory of a Mercedes.
Dec 18, 2014 · DMG supplied Jellinek with 10 vehicles as early as 1899. Emil Jellinek asked DMG for increasingly powerful and fast vehicles and also entered races with them – most notably the Nice Race Week – where he appeared under a pseudonym: he used his daughter's first name.
Jellinek, Emil. Loraine Barrow, Claude. Event. Nice week, hillclimb race La Turbie 1902. 7 May 1902. Nice Race Week, April 4 - 11, 1902. Emil Jellinek at the wheel of a Porsche-Mixte with a 40 hp Mercedes engine with Claude Loraine Barrow and Hermann Braun. On Jellinek's left: Mr Degrais.
Emil Jellinek, whose family spent the winter periods in Nice, entered a Daimler 12 hp racing car with a “Phoenix” engine in 1899. The car, driven by racing driver Wilhelm Bauer, won the Nice–Colomars–Tourettes–Magagnosc–Nice race over a distance of 85 kilometres at an average speed of 34.7 km/h.
As part of his promotional activities, Jellinek set up a racing team in 1899 to take part in the many automotive competitions held during Semaine de Nice – Nice Race Week – a week-long automobile festival held on the Cote d’Azur at the end of March.
