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Championship leader Jenson Button of the Brawn-Mercedes team drove a 1934 W25 Mercedes at Goodwood's Festival of Speed on to mark 75th anniversary of Mercedes's Silver Arrows grand prix cars.Button, who is keen on old cars and owns a Volkswagen microbus was thrilled to drive one of the antique's.A full 75 years ago, Manfred von Brauchitsch drove the W25 at the International Eifel race at the full Nuerburgring, as the track had recently been built. While the present Nuerburgring is just five kilometres, the track in the 1930s was 22 kilometres long with over 170 corners.The W25 has a 3.2 litre engine and a strange configuration as Button discovered.
