The Carrera Panamericana was a border-to-border sedan and sports car racing event on open roads in Mexico . Running for five consecutive years from 1950 to 1954, it was widely held by contemporaries to be the most dangerous race of any type in the world
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Driving a Porsche 550 Spyder, Hans Herrmann brilliantly won the Small-Sports Class in the fifth and final Carrera Panamericana in 1954. He achieved an incredible third place overall taking the massive power of the two five litre Ferraris to beat him. The Porsche expedition to Mexico was master minded by Huschke von Hanstein who was both Racing Director and Press Officer for Porsche.