A $13 million Mercedes CLK GTR, seized by the FBI, keeps Mr JWW moving
The thirteen-day-old story of a road-going Le Mans homologation special has passed 885,000 views, with a Monterey auction countdown and a stolen Koenigsegg behind it.
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THE $13,000,000 MERCEDES CLK GTR SEIZED BY THE FBI
Mr JWW, the channel that sums itself up as "a fascination with speed," posted nothing new this week, and the car doing most of the driving is one that was taken away from its owner.
"THE $13,000,000 MERCEDES CLK GTR SEIZED BY THE FBI" went up thirteen days ago and is now closing in on 900,000 views, still drawing about twice as many viewers a day as anything else on the channel. The CLK GTR is a strange and wonderful object: Mercedes built it to race in the FIA GT Championship in the late 1990s, and the rules meant a small run of road cars had to exist too. That makes every surviving one a collector's prize, which goes some way to explaining the price in the title.
Behind it sits a Monterey trip. The top-ten countdown from RM Sotheby's sale during Monterey Car Week is billed in its description as a look at why hypercars and classic Ferraris keep setting records, and it is nearing 600,000 views at four weeks old. Further back, a July video tracks down the Koenigsegg One:1 once owned by former Formula 1 driver Adrian Sutil that went missing in Monaco. Seized, auctioned, stolen: the channel's best-watched stories right now are all about where very expensive cars end up.
With no new upload, the channel is running at roughly half its usual daily pace, and subscribers held at a little over a million. Among the car channels nearest its size it sits mid-table for the week, while Real Mechanic Stuff and South Main Auto drew the biggest crowds.
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Which racing team ran Adrian Sutil's Formula 1 debut season in 2007?
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