With over 700 horse power under the hood and a legacy of Le Mans victories, Mercedes C-Series is ready to take home the checkered flag yet again. After decades of wins at Formula One and 24 Hours of LeMans, Swiss racing manager Peter Sauber introduced a new line up of vehicles, for Jaguar and Mercedes, The C-Series, including C5 and C6. Now, when 41-year-old icon Michael Schumacher gets into a Mercedes C11 next year he’ll be setting a new standard for motor sport, and will probably put on one hell of a show.

It’s a homecoming for both Mercedes & Schumacher, as Jalopnik states: “For 1991, Mercedes was back at Le Mans, but in a very un-Mercedes-like move, their successor to the C11 was a lemon, so they decided to race the old C11’s. Which, in another very un-Mercedes-like way, suffered mechanical failure in the form of broken alternator brackets. Michael Schumacher was driving one of the cars and came home fifth behind the winning Mazda and three Jaguars. Then, finally in a more Mercedes-like move, they abandoned their factory racing effort at the end of the year, becoming engine suppliers for Peter Sauber’s F1 team and later for McLaren, powering Mika Häkkinen to two F1 world titles and Lewis Hamilton to another.”