What is the purpose of inboard brakes?

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01-22-2004, 04:07 PM

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Here's an early application of in-board drum brakes by the Mercedes GP team of 1954 and 1955. The car is a W196 driven by Fangio, Hermann, Kling and Moss. Both open wheeled and streamliner versions (300SLR) employed these in-board drum brakes which were turbo-cooled (finned drums). just FYI

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