Numerous victories and respectable placings in road and hill-climb races followed in the years before the outbreak of World War II. A particular triumph was winning the French Grand Prix once again in 1914. On a race track near Lyons, Christian Lautenschlager, Louis Wagner and Otto Salzer scored an uncontested one-two-three victory in a car designated "Mercedes 115 hp 4.5-litre Grand Prix". It took the victorious Mercedes drivers a little over seven hours to complete the 752.6 kilometre race – at an average speed of no less than 105 km/h.