Standing tall and arching over the Goodwood house at the 2014 edition of the Goodwood Festival of Speed is a 160-tonne steel sculpture by artist Gerry Judah.
Commissioned by Mercedes-Benz to celebrate 120 years of the German marque's involvement in motorsports, as well as the 80th anniversary of the birth of the brand’s trademark silver colour which eventually led to its racing cars being coined with the "Silver Arrows" nickname.
Judah called the project a "tremendous opportunity" which "pushed the limits of what is possible with size and complexity in engineering."
The 26-metre structure features two Mercedes racing cars "soaring" through the sky.
The first car is a 1934 Mercedes-Benz W25, which won the race at its first outing at the notorious Nürburgring Nordschleife, starting the tradition for the company’s works cars to always be in silver.
The second is the AMG Petronas Formula One Team’s F1 W04, raced in 15 Grand Prix events in 2013 by Lewis Hamilton and winner at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
