This lead to Mercedes withdrawing from motorsport, including Formula One, after the 1955 season. The French, German, Swiss and Spanish Grands Prix were all cancelled after the 1955 Le Mans disaster that killed Pierre Levegh and over 80 spectators. Fangio won his third championship, as Moss finished second. It was once again won by Mercedes, with Fangio taking four victories, as well as his new teammate Stirling Moss taking victory in Britain. Success from that year went into 1955, along with the car being developed by Mercedes throughout the season. Fangio won three more races in the 1954 season, and received the Championship in the same year. Immediate success came to the team, and they received a 1–2 finish with Fangio and Karl Kling, along with the fastest lap set by Hans Herrmann. Juan Manuel Fangio, the champion of 1951, switched mid-season from Maserati to Mercedes-Benz at the 1954 French Grand Prix. The conventional open-wheeled configuration ran the car, along with a streamlined form that had covered wheels and bodywork that was wider. Mercedes-Benz came back into racing for what was now referred to as Formula One (which was a World Championship that formed in 1950), with the W196, which was advanced in technology. However, this was never made official, and the outbreak of World War II ended the season early. Hermann Lang, the season runner-up who was racing for Mercedes, was pronounced the winner of the championship by the Nazi regime. In 1939, it was once again a battle to be fought out by Auto Union and Mercedes, although Auto Union driver Hermann Paul Müller finished the season with the fewest points (the championship at the time was awarded to the driver with the fewest points). It was Cariacciola in the end who took victory. However, the title was fought out this year by the three Merc drivers Caracciola, Richard Seaman and Manfred von Brauchitsch. In 1937, Caracciola took a dominant victory for Mercedes in the European Championship, and continued this form into the 1938 championship. Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator, made Mercedes-Benz the emblem of German racing, and the government heavily funded the team from 1937 onwards, giving them a clear advantage over the rest of their opponents. However, it was the other German team, Auto Union, that beat Mercedes to the title. The following season was a tight battle between Cariaccola's Mercedes and the Auto Union driver Bernd Rosemeyer. Although starting motor racing in 1923, the team did not hit the jackpot until 1935, where Rudolf Caracciola won the European Championship for Mercedes in a dominant year for the team.
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