A Mercedes car raced by Sir Stirling Moss and Juan Manuel Fangio set a record for a grand prix car, selling at auction for £42.75million (€51.155million) on Saturday. The sleek, silver W196 R Stromlinienwagen,

Mercedes raced by Formula One greats Juan Manuel Fangio and Sir Stirling Moss has sold at auction for €51.15 million (£42.7 million), setting a new record for a grand prix car.

A one-car auction took place at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart over the weekend, and the car in question—a W196 R Stromlinienwagen from 1954—sold for €51,155,000 ($53,017,370). That makes it the most expensive Grand Prix car ever sold at auction,