30/06/2008 20:22. McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen got a chance to drive one of the most successful Formula One cars of the 1950s this weekend when they got behind the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz W196 at the UKs historic Brooklands circuit.

Hamilton and Kovalainen were participating in the Brooklands Double Twelve Motoring Festival, jointly organised by the Brooklands Museum and Mercedes-Benz World, the huge Mercedes-Benz facility that adjoins the Weybridge venue.

The W196 won nine races during the 1954 and 1955 Formula One seasons in the hands of Stirling Moss and Juan Manuel Fangio. Moss, who won the 55 British Grand Prix in the car, was on hand to give a few pointers to the McLaren drivers, who also... // Formula 1