---
title: "Please, Look at This Mercedes Tearing Through Australia’s National Racing Series"
description: "Springtime for Mercedes, and Germany."
date: "2015-11-06"
modified: "2015-11-06"
authors:
  - name: "Ben Keeshin"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/ben-keeshin"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/810/please-look-at-this-mercedes-tearing-through-australias-national-racing-series"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "E-Class"
  - "luxury"
  - "Mercedes-Benz"
  - "sedan"
---

# Please, Look at This Mercedes Tearing Through Australia’s National Racing Series

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This is it. The flying German striking fear in the hearts of otherwise wide-eyed and ruddy-cheeked Australians. It is not a Messerschmidt; it is a Mercedes E-Class, the lozengey saloon for junior executives. V8 Supercars used to be a two-marque—nay, two-*model*—racing series, a hodge-podge of Ford Falcons and Holden Commodores. Now, it’s an international affair: the roster including Nissans, Volvos and, yes, Mercedes. It’s an invasion on Australia’s turf, land of desert and beach, in which only domestic-market muscle once thrived.

This photo catches interloper Ash Walsh in the No. 4 Erebus Motorsports V8 car during practice before the Gold Coast 600. (“We talkin’bout [practice](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGDBR2L5kzI>) here!”) He’d go on to finish 19th, meaning that, for one more season at least, Australia’s burly V8 home teams fly highest.

## Author
Ben Keeshin is a former staff writer for Maxim, and before that, contributed writing to the digital sides of Road & Track and Vanity Fair.

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