Motor racing - Going for the record | DW Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2022
- Motor racing celebrates many a hero, but it also mourns its many victims. The 1930s saw their share of both records and danger, drivers and their mechanics risking anything to make their cars faster. High Velocity - a film about speed.
Thrills and spills have been part of racing since the car was invented. But in German racing history one day stands out above all - 28 January 1938. Carmakers Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union met early that day to break the world speed record on a stretch of the Frankfurt-Darmstadt Autobahn. The drivers were Rudolf Caracciola for Mercedes-Benz and Bernd Rosemeyer for Auto Union, intense rivals and both at the peak of their sport.
First out in his aerodynamic Mercedes-Benz W125, Caracciola clocked 432 km/h setting a new world record for public roads. Just hours later Bernd Rosemeyer took to his Auto Union Streamliner in an attempt to top that. But just around the 9 kilometer mark disaster struck. Rosemeyer lost control of his vehicle which careered off the road. Thrown clear when his car somersaulted into an embankment, Rosemeyer was killed on the spot.
For the Nazis and the German media of the day Rosemeyer had died a hero’s death for the fatherland. But why had the accident actually happened? A technical problem? Was it the weather? Consensus was hard to find. Caracciola’s record was to remain unbroken until 2017.
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Auto racing has so many different stories of special cars, races, challenges, and amazing men involved. Truly a unique and special saga of history!
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Unwavering determination leaves room for pause and possibly sublime, profound contemplation.
Well done yet again DW! Thank you for your continued dedication to quality personnel, stories and our history.
The aerodynamic potential of that AutoUnion speed challenger was never completely grasped by the engineers who built it. Had they taken more time to study the car they would have realized that venting air beneath a relatively flat pan at such high speeds can radically change a vehicle's at the worst possible moment.
yes looked like they were running ground effect
@@jasoneade7978 the auto Union Typ C Stromlinie like is rode in 1937 was, in fact, one of the first ground-effect cars in history. I also believe what caused the crash was an aeroynamic inbalance caused either by those air vents the video showed os simply due to a plate of the flat bottom having been blown off because of the increasing pressure building inside the car's body (with no outlets, only one inlet). The moment the ground effect is disrupted, the car went airborne.
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Great story.....There were things revealed that I never knew about Gary Gabelich that I never knew....Amazing he gave up a Space career to pursue the quest of terrestrial speed.
The T80 is one of the most spectacular cars I have seen . it is one of the last displays in the amazing Mercedes Museum fixed to a wall with other speed cars and prototypes . but we will never know if it would have worked . yes the Auto Union speed car had sort of stumbled into Ground effects but still lacked the one key part to make it work , the under body profile was to flat , the Crash is still a mystery but you could see from the few pictures taken the one tire was shredded .I mean if Auto Union added these side skirts to try and reduce drag but then unknown to them they gained some extra down force thanks to the ground effect , I very much doubt the tires would be able that extra load over two runs .
it would be very intresting to run a 3D modeled cars created from the original plans and run it through a modern aero program, and see what the data tells us.
Oh I really like the idea of running a simulation on 3D! Brilliant! I'm going to chat up my Instagram 3D creators and see what we can see😁✌️
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Excellent documentary !
I worked on the Blue Flame parachute systems at Deist Drag Chutes, Burbank, California (now Deist Safety). Too bad they didn't have the high-speed chute deployment bag on display to show how it and the 100ft of dragline were deployed. I recall repairing the ballistic nylon deployment bags and getting them shipped back to the salt flats for those record runs.
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Your automotive documentaries are great!
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23:20 the T80 also used a transmission from a U-boat because it was the only thing they had that would handle the torque.
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Very interesting history of motor sports i never knew of.
Superb 👌
Thank you for beeing the an english documentary that puts effort in pronouncing german correctly.
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When I worked at Koenigsegg- this was the record we broke when I worked there in 2017. Crazy it stood for so long
Please tell us what it was like working for Koeniggggsseeeeegggggggggggggg
I’m surprised that the role the tires may have played wasn’t examined. It’s hard to understand how 1930s tire technology could have been up to handling 400 Kmh
It couldn’t, the slightest sidewind threw you off the roads
I do have a passion for seed the feeling of going above 300+mph in an aircraft was amazing.
Mind blowing, they were able to achieve these speeds without computer aided aerodynamic simulation modelling!
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Pure madness has it's own pleasure
Could anybody tell the name of that beautiful trumpet (flugelhorn ?) piece at 25:51 and 40:28?
I'm from bamburg 👍 pretty soon there will be no more quarter mile races lol..
Its almost comical expecting that pushing the frontiers of aerodynamics could ever be "safe". If it was perfectly predictable, nobody would have been interested. We still don't fully understand it. No need for conspiracies. Pushing the frontier is always risky. Even in Recent times, Mercedes had 2 blow overs even with all the computing power of the modern era, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software and advanced wind tunnels. Not sure that interviewing journalists instead of engineers told the story very well. Those vents on the bottom of the car are called "NACA Ducts". Simple matter to model the design in modern software. I suspect it created too much lift in combination with gusting crosswinds. End of the day, its the driver that made the decision to run, and the risk was his to take or not - and he took it. The world needs heroes.
I wondered if your pronunciations were correct but when you mispronounced Karra-cola, I realized you might have been wrong on the others. The pr girl of our school system is married to a Caracciola and pronounces it the same way as the announcer of the German Grand Prix of 1938, Karra-cola. This can be seen on RUclips.
Nitpick much? 😒
JK JK! 🤣🤣😅😅😅
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The problem wasn't that it was unsafe, it was that the manufacturers didn't care what happened to their drivers, thankfully that has all changed now, but it took a lot of effort.
They only care now as much as their lawyers tell them they have to care to prevent getting sued by the family if something happens
@@54raceman Racing is not the same as the road, it's governed by private sanctioning bodies who make the rules. Those rules evolve and are enforced privately through agreements with teams, drivers, officials and stakeholders, the governing body insurance usually covers death while injury is normally down to personal insurance. Motor racing has become more organised, drivers have for the most part been listened to and manufacturers know it's not a good look to have failures that result in serious incidents, this is what I was referring to.
nice to see something not about covid, politics, or war
Humans are amazing and crazy at the same time. No cats or dogs would put themselves in a situation like racing on a dangerous machine lol
Probably because the can't physically, or I'm sure they absolutely would.
Yet this very dog that you speak of will risk his life to save yours??
What a very odd comment.
Toxic masculinity
@@yellowgreen5229 Not toxic. Just the "need for speed" and the same motive as mountain climbers, round the world yachties, explorers, astronauts etc who have the need to push boundaries and go where nobody has gone before.
This documentary seems to gloss over the fact that British cars and drivers have held the record for most of the period. Did it even mention the name of a single British Land Speed Record holder?
John Cobb
Sadly the research was not advanced enough to understand and take advantage of the ground effect
15:46 how did people in the old days write so STRAIGHT on plain paper with no lines?! I try that and it's WONKY af 🤣
Practice practice practice. I remember rushing with a girl friend if mine in elementary to see who could copy homework from the board the fastest. Let's just say that's how I got into Cursive.
An odd comment, was that your main observation on this superb film about a brave pioneering man.
I remember letter writing pads were sold with a guide sheet of bold black lines visible through one sheet of letter paper. Does that help?
DW make one on the world rally championship.
27:40 supposedly he actually accidentally burnt his chicken coop to the ground on one of those tests
spyros panopoulos will aim for the Ring record, in July
14:00 that wasn’t a random hunter that was a pissed off husband
could someone spell the historian's full name? I don't know German to be able to pick it up just from hearing. I'm interested in his books.
Add subtitles. They are available.
The blue flame reminds me of Ace and Gary's car from the Ambiguously Gay Duo ! That's what popped up in my head as soon as I saw it .
When they say Union, it sounds like someone is struggling to say onion correctly
My bad. Got my channels mixed up
Why you guys deleted the fungi documentary.
Yes
I bet their license to show it on RUclips ended.
If you really like a RUclips video is probably best to download it for yourself lest it disappears for whatever reason. I have suffered that way too.
Hotline Miami soundtrack?
I feel the need... The need for speed....
How do the drivers get so much more credit versus the engineers making the automobiles that go this fast🤦🤷♂️
because they died.
Interesting how you gloss over all the British held records.😉
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5:30 Look Apple an AUDI with a Lightning Port an a Headphone Jack.
Like no.614 👍🙂
I think that man died and doing absolutely what he wanted to be doing and wouldn't have went no other way and I don't think they could have stopped him from running that day
Going 650 mph didn’t kill what kill Him was a slow motorcycle lmaooooooooo 🤣
Lucky we have peole like this i the world or we would still be in a cave
What a unique, strange & foolish policy of Nazism authority during 30th years of last century..proceedings .during 2WW operational by Nazism militaries they imposed ( obligates)using horses 🐎 instead of vehicles🚚🛻🚛🚑....so they suffered to much for not sufficient numbers of vehicles they had especially in Eastern front ...always Germany is homelands for best quality of cars even today
WoW
Such numbers… now no evolution 🤷🏻♂️
It’s auto union
Building my normally aspirated street legal high speed racer. Fun. 335kph, 0-100 in under 2 secs. Lots of time went into the suspension and a bulletproof SBC reving to 8000 rpm
. It handled better and was theoretically capable to go faster than a Bugatti at 450kph if I could only get safe tires. Open body and a tiny screen. Speed never felt better.
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God for you
It’s testosterone and that troublesome Y chromosome.
Irritating music why must you add it
What about the 800lb gorilla in the room. His last name would have been an issue. A issue that would have had too be dealt with.
Good one DW. Stick to topics like this instead of anti China geopolitics. Your viewers are tired of your immature bias and racist views. Stop your smear China propaganda on behalf of the US. We know Germany is grateful to the US for the reconstruction after WW2. It does not mean Germany has to lick their boots forever or be a sycophant.
Why do the presenters of 'English' language DW programs all have US accents? Is DW owned and controlled by Americans? Is that why you are biased towards US trends? Just asking
Makes me puke seeing pedophiles claiming our achievements
What?
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and Only Son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)✝️
Your fairy story doesn't belong here Suzanna. Please keep it in your own home and church.
We might have other beliefs and you are intruding.
@@philiptownsend4026 There shouldn’t be a specific video to preach about the gospel 🤗 It can be preached whenever it wants. Also, I’m not forcing people to become Christians. Everyone has their own free will to accept or reject Jesus in their heart. Jesus loves you😊 Have a great day !
Jesus sexually abused my hamster
@@yellowgreen5229Jesus lives in heaven not on earth anymore. So how could he abused your hamster 🤔. The only explanation for this absurd situation is simple : You’re delusional! Do you need some help ? 🥰The only advice that I can give you is that Dr. Phil can’t help your broken personality but Jesus can heal your brokenness ! ☺️ If you pray to him, you’ll see great changes in your life. Talking to Jesus will not harm you + it doesn’t coast anything. Have a great Day 🤗
Ban motor racing
I once knew someone who used to say that it was just a waste of petrol.
It’s To advance the transportation industry
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