Waldegård back in Merc for Ypres

July 7, 2014

Swedish rally ace Bjorn Waldegård will renew his old association with Mercedes when he drives a classic 500SLC from Silver Arrows Racing in the Ypres Historic Rally at the end of June.

The preparation company run by Bart Vanhaverbeke has invited the 66-year-old to the Belgian event. He will be co-driven by Denis Giraudet.

“It will remind me of the 1970s when I drove for the Mercedes factory team in the World Rally Championship,” said Waldegård (pictured left in our events diary). “The car got a lot of interest then and I’m sure it will on Ypres, too.”

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Paul Lawrence

Here is a man who goes racing every weekend from March to October. Paul’s passion for the sport goes back to when he was a child of the 1960s. He has organised, competed in and marshalled on scores of events, and has written about the subject for 20 years. He is as at home in the paddock at Brands Hatch as in a Welsh forest or at Shelsley Walsh.

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