As a former race driver I really appreciate the high quality of driving seen in these monster cars with thin tires. I also appreciate the drivers not spraying each other's faces with champagne after the end of the race. Overall, very high class racing at it's best! Love this series of videos. Thanks for posting.
My dear old pop saw the Donnington race and spoke in awed tones about the German cars huge speed and spectacular handling, “unbeatable son” he used to say.
This series of vidéos is amazing for those interested in car racing history. This episode with the Mercedes, Auto Union and Alfa Romeo shows an epic and historic era of car racing with super pilots like Caraciola and Nuvolari among others.
Sorry, but just wanted to correct the narrator as on 15 minutes he said George Eyston in 'Thunderbird' it was actually called the 'Thunderbolt' and won the land-speed record 3 times 1937-39. I know this as my grandfather tested it and was the Chief mechanic when it was built in Tipton.
His father owned an auto & moto garage and repair shop Rosemeyer & Co sur Bahnhofstraße, where young Rosemeyer worked on motorcycles and cars. Having started by racing motorbikes, Rosemeyer became a member of the Auto Union racing team with hardly any experience in racing cars. This was later considered a benefit as he was not yet used to the handling of traditional layout race cars. The Ferdinand Porsche-designed mid-engined Silver Arrows of Auto Union were fast, but hard to drive, and only he, Tazio Nuvolari and to a lesser extent Hans Stuck truly mastered the 500 bhp (370 kW) machines. Rosemeyer was also a very skilled mechanic, so, like Hermann Lang of Mercedes, he was able to give good technical feedback to Dr. Porsche and development engineer Eberan von Eberhorst to further develop the Auto Union cars and set his cars up for races to make them quicker and easier to drive. In only his second ever Grand Prix, at the daunting Nürburgring, Rosemeyer took the lead from the great Rudolf Caracciola and was almost in sight of the finish line when he missed a gear and was overtaken. However, in subsequent years he made up for this mistake by winning three consecutive races at the Nürburgring, one famously in thick fog. Later in 1935 he won his first Grand Prix at the Brno Masaryk Circuit in Czechoslovakia. Whilst on the podium in 1935 at the Czechoslovakian Grand Prix he was introduced to the famous aviatrix Elly Beinhorn. Their celebrity relationship was too good an opportunity to miss for the Nazi Party. Rosemeyer and Beinhorn were exalted and instrumentalized by the Nazi Party to the ideal German celebrity couple of that time. Several sensational Grand Prix motor racing victories in 1936 and 1937 (also in the Vanderbilt Cup in the USA) made him popular not only in Germany. He won the European driving championship in 1936. Of the twelve Grand Prix contested in 1937 between Mercedes and Auto Union, Rosemeyer won four of Auto Union's five victories against Mercedes's formidable new W125. Rosemeyer's superlative performances that year cemented him alongside Rudolf Caracciola and Tazio Nuvolari as three of the greatest drivers of 1930s Grand Prix racing. Budapest, Hungary 1936: Rudolf Carraciola in front of Bernd Rosemeyer His marriage to Beinhorn added even more celebrity hype. It also made it possible for him to learn to fly a private plane. Before a testing session, he once used a now-defunct airfield next to the Flugplatz section of the Nürburgring as a landing strip, and rolled his plane to the pits via the race track - in the opposite direction. His son Bernd, Jr. was born in November 1937, only ten weeks before his death. Rosemeyer considered 13 to be his lucky number. He was married on 13 July 1936. 13 days later he won the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring. His last Nürburgring victory came on 13 June 1937. His last race victory came at his 13th start of the 1937 season at Donington Park.
Very few of the drivers from that era lived long enough to die from old age. Tazio Nouvolari passed from ill health, and Fangio lived into his 80s I believe. The W125 was insanely fast, with Auto Union right on it's tail. They were spectacular cars.
Drifting around the Nordschleife in a car with 700kg, 600 hp, that goes 300kph on bicycletyres ... without seatbelts... insane doesn't even begin to describe that...
Just read the book Faster by Neal Bascomb. Great read. Funny...no coverage in this video of Rene Dreyfus and his Delahaye 145 who won the opening race at the 1938 Pau Grand Prix.
500 HP and 750 kilograms of weight are no joke by any means, on top of that tires the thickness of the tire of a wheelbarrow, leaf suspensions and frame to say wobbly is an understatement, it really takes balls the size of coconuts and a bit of suicidal tendencies to drive these weapons.
I totally agree. These people make us dominant the world. If it wasn't for these phycho nut job blokes we would still be in caves bashing people with clubs and saying uuur and grre
Crazy man, just crazy! True drivers, true courses and true racing cars. Wow!! - The Germans are pretty good at the sales bull, but if actions speak louder than words, they get the prize they have earned.
Brilliant Series!! Was there another one done... After the War?? There was a lot of excitement from 1947-on, with upstarts like Jag-U-ar, Ferrari and others heating up the Track! 👍👍 I hope that the later History exists. And I can't help adding, because I'm a 54 year old kid... HOW did that Gentleman keep a straight face, saying "Dick Semen" so many times!!! 😱😂😂 "Dick Semen slips by the Leader"! Sorry and R.I.P., but LMAO 😜😂 😂
Friction/grip between tire and road is independent of tire width (grip depends on normal force and the coefficient of friction between two surface types only). What improves with wider tires however is tire consumption and strain. Thinner tires are less susceptible to aqua planing.
Obviously the difference in tires is they didn't have radial play tires then. I'm not real sure what the difference is between the bias-ply - if that's the same as nylon, but I know that they couldn't compete - so I guess I'm biased in terms of radial.
@@oldschoolracinggames5729 No, rather «Lord»; it generaly indicates that the person is an aristocrat. Sometimes it designates the place where the familly is coming from, or even both.
phr tao to be highly pedantic the germans had two working helicopters in 1936, but yes an autogyro would seem to be the better explanation. And good eye, I probably would had never noticed it on my own.
@@torpedozi1173 If we don't know what it is then it's an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO). It just looked odd - large and moving quite fast and low so hard to identify. It actually goes behind the trees but does look like it might be on a landing approach.
too bad they didnt mess around with methanol or other safer fuels, or use wider tires (yeah i know) back in those days street engines were around 7 to 1 compression or less and run on 70 octane, alky fuels can run on best at 14 to 1 or higher because the octane number is around 115 to 120 but the fuel ratio is low like 7 to 1, but it helps cool the engine, plus the free oxygen during combustion.
They mixed their own witches brew from a number of toxic chemicals, they knew how to make power with exotic fuel. I'm sure methanol was part of the formula. Methanol will burn you to death as well as any other fuel, the problem is you can't SEE methanol burning, at least gasoline puts off smoke. Another disadvantage to Meth is you have to burn twice as much, so you need to have a very large fuel tank for a given race. And lastly, following a meth burning car makes your eyes burn.
It's so pathetic how the British narrator always has to emphasize that, yes, there was a Briton in there somewhere and he was so brave. British were always irrelevant except Moss and Hamilton (Stewart is Scottish and so is Coulthard),. All others were just present and accounted for.
As a former race driver I really appreciate the high quality of driving seen in these monster cars with thin tires.
I also appreciate the drivers not spraying each other's faces with champagne after the end of the race.
Overall, very high class racing at it's best! Love this series of videos. Thanks for posting.
My dear old pop saw the Donnington race and spoke in awed tones about the German cars huge speed and spectacular handling, “unbeatable son” he used to say.
This series of vidéos is amazing for those interested in car racing history. This episode with the Mercedes, Auto Union and Alfa Romeo shows an epic and historic era of car racing with super pilots like Caraciola and Nuvolari among others.
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Loved every second from part 1 to 4 and the colour finale was just awesome.🥇🥇🥇 🏁
Sorry, but just wanted to correct the narrator as on 15 minutes he said George Eyston in 'Thunderbird' it was actually called the 'Thunderbolt' and won the land-speed record 3 times 1937-39. I know this as my grandfather tested it and was the Chief mechanic when it was built in Tipton.
That’s awesome! Your grandfather must’ve been a brave mechanical genius.
His father owned an auto & moto garage and repair shop Rosemeyer & Co sur Bahnhofstraße, where young Rosemeyer worked on motorcycles and cars. Having started by racing motorbikes, Rosemeyer became a member of the Auto Union racing team with hardly any experience in racing cars. This was later considered a benefit as he was not yet used to the handling of traditional layout race cars. The Ferdinand Porsche-designed mid-engined Silver Arrows of Auto Union were fast, but hard to drive, and only he, Tazio Nuvolari and to a lesser extent Hans Stuck truly mastered the 500 bhp (370 kW) machines. Rosemeyer was also a very skilled mechanic, so, like Hermann Lang of Mercedes, he was able to give good technical feedback to Dr. Porsche and development engineer Eberan von Eberhorst to further develop the Auto Union cars and set his cars up for races to make them quicker and easier to drive.
In only his second ever Grand Prix, at the daunting Nürburgring, Rosemeyer took the lead from the great Rudolf Caracciola and was almost in sight of the finish line when he missed a gear and was overtaken. However, in subsequent years he made up for this mistake by winning three consecutive races at the Nürburgring, one famously in thick fog. Later in 1935 he won his first Grand Prix at the Brno Masaryk Circuit in Czechoslovakia.
Whilst on the podium in 1935 at the Czechoslovakian Grand Prix he was introduced to the famous aviatrix Elly Beinhorn. Their celebrity relationship was too good an opportunity to miss for the Nazi Party. Rosemeyer and Beinhorn were exalted and instrumentalized by the Nazi Party to the ideal German celebrity couple of that time.
Several sensational Grand Prix motor racing victories in 1936 and 1937 (also in the Vanderbilt Cup in the USA) made him popular not only in Germany. He won the European driving championship in 1936. Of the twelve Grand Prix contested in 1937 between Mercedes and Auto Union, Rosemeyer won four of Auto Union's five victories against Mercedes's formidable new W125. Rosemeyer's superlative performances that year cemented him alongside Rudolf Caracciola and Tazio Nuvolari as three of the greatest drivers of 1930s Grand Prix racing.
Budapest, Hungary 1936: Rudolf Carraciola in front of Bernd Rosemeyer
His marriage to Beinhorn added even more celebrity hype. It also made it possible for him to learn to fly a private plane. Before a testing session, he once used a now-defunct airfield next to the Flugplatz section of the Nürburgring as a landing strip, and rolled his plane to the pits via the race track - in the opposite direction.
His son Bernd, Jr. was born in November 1937, only ten weeks before his death.
Rosemeyer considered 13 to be his lucky number. He was married on 13 July 1936. 13 days later he won the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring. His last Nürburgring victory came on 13 June 1937. His last race victory came at his 13th start of the 1937 season at Donington Park.
where did you learn all this ?
Very few of the drivers from that era lived long enough to die from old age. Tazio Nouvolari passed from ill health, and Fangio lived into his 80s I believe. The W125 was insanely fast, with Auto Union right on it's tail. They were spectacular cars.
Rudolph Caraciola also survived his car racing time, but died from liver failure after his retirement
Hermann Lang lived until 1987 and von Brauchitsch until 2003 .
Drifting around the Nordschleife in a car with 700kg, 600 hp, that goes 300kph on bicycletyres ... without seatbelts... insane doesn't even begin to describe that...
It’s natural for some.
Just sit in and go for it for the beauty of the sport.
Dick Trickle from NASCAR and Dick Seamen from F1. Making racing cool in junior high again
Just read the book Faster by Neal Bascomb. Great read. Funny...no coverage in this video of Rene Dreyfus and his Delahaye 145 who won the opening race at the 1938 Pau Grand Prix.
500 HP and 750 kilograms of weight are no joke by any means, on top of that tires the thickness of the tire of a wheelbarrow, leaf suspensions and frame to say wobbly is an understatement, it really takes balls the size of coconuts and a bit of suicidal tendencies to drive these weapons.
I totally agree. These people make us dominant the world. If it wasn't for these phycho nut job blokes we would still be in caves bashing people with clubs and saying uuur and grre
No suicidal tendencies for sure…
Excellent video especially the last few minutes cheers
Crazy man, just crazy! True drivers, true courses and true racing cars. Wow!! - The Germans are pretty good at the sales bull, but if actions speak louder than words, they get the prize they have earned.
Love the old style film making!
EPIC VID BRO> love it fantastic old footage.
12:34 beautiful drift!
Impressionante, são verdadeiros heróis estes pilotos.
spectacular! thank you for uploading!
The music is sublime, to say the least.
dang part 4 done no more thanks for sharing brilliant super
Thanks. Bill Mason did a great job with this and preserved auto history that would have been lost to time.
Thanks
8:22 Taking Benz? Masterful play on words.
Brilliant Series!! Was there another one done... After the War?? There was a lot of excitement from 1947-on, with upstarts like Jag-U-ar, Ferrari and others heating up the Track! 👍👍
I hope that the later History exists.
And I can't help adding, because I'm a 54 year old kid... HOW did that Gentleman keep a straight face, saying "Dick Semen" so many times!!! 😱😂😂 "Dick Semen slips by the Leader"! Sorry and R.I.P., but LMAO 😜😂 😂
It would be amazing if you could also upload the italian version of this great documentary.
Greetings from a long time fan of your channel.
I can do that. Thanks for watching and your support.
@@KingRoseArchives Any news about that?
Spoked wheels crossply tyres and very big balls
At 20:00 it's just Semen everywhere. Semen behind; Semen in the lead.
Good god. Lesrn to WRITE.
Un seul mot : Merci
12:41 side by side action!
wonder what have happened if they had wider tires, back then
Would have given them stability. Different suspension systems would have helped too.
Friction/grip between tire and road is independent of tire width (grip depends on normal force and the coefficient of friction between two surface types only). What improves with wider tires however is tire consumption and strain. Thinner tires are less susceptible to aqua planing.
Obviously the difference in tires is they didn't have radial play tires then. I'm not real sure what the difference is between the bias-ply - if that's the same as nylon, but I know that they couldn't compete - so I guess I'm biased in terms of radial.
They left out the Pau GP in 1938.
28:50 Imagine the last part with the motor's sound instead of that pompous fanfare :/
"No one is seriously injured"; lols
7:52 “The greatest of them all, Dick Semen” wow what a terrible name 😂
9:14 How much can one hate their kid!? HFS that name..
Wait hold up what was his name? 07:45 😂
Every time they Dick Seaman, i cant help laughing
👍
well... still not «von Stuck»; simply Hans Stuck...
von means something like sir?
@@oldschoolracinggames5729 No, rather «Lord»; it generaly indicates that the person is an aristocrat. Sometimes it designates the place where the familly is coming from, or even both.
@@mischadickerhof5375 oh, thank you!
being a fan of Germany 🇩🇪 it’s a shame for me to not to know such things
@@oldschoolracinggames5729 "von" is short for "Freiherr von" ... some sort of Baron.
UFO @ 10:33 ?
phr tao look carefully its a helicopter, you can see the rotors.
@@rooseveltbrentwood9654 still quite interesting since helicopters did not exist then. Auto gyros did but only a few
phr tao to be highly pedantic the germans had two working helicopters in 1936, but yes an autogyro would seem to be the better explanation. And good eye, I probably would had never noticed it on my own.
@@torpedozi1173 If we don't know what it is then it's an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO). It just looked odd - large and moving quite fast and low so hard to identify. It actually goes behind the trees but does look like it might be on a landing approach.
too bad they didnt mess around with methanol or other safer fuels, or use wider tires (yeah i know) back in those days street engines were around 7 to 1 compression or less and run on 70 octane, alky fuels can run on best at 14 to 1 or higher because the octane number is around 115 to 120 but the fuel ratio is low like 7 to 1, but it helps cool the engine, plus the free oxygen during combustion.
They mixed their own witches brew from a number of toxic chemicals, they knew how to make power with exotic fuel. I'm sure methanol was part of the formula. Methanol will burn you to death as well as any other fuel, the problem is you can't SEE methanol burning, at least gasoline puts off smoke. Another disadvantage to Meth is you have to burn twice as much, so you need to have a very large fuel tank for a given race. And lastly, following a meth burning car makes your eyes burn.
The main components of their racing fuel were methanol, nitro benzole, acetone…
Abstrato>>>
It's so pathetic how the British narrator always has to emphasize that, yes, there was a Briton in there somewhere and he was so brave. British were always irrelevant except Moss and Hamilton (Stewart is Scottish and so is Coulthard),. All others were just present and accounted for.
Button ?
Agree, my friend
british are just watchers
Jim Clark?
Your pathetic and your comment irrelavant
British were not that bad; Raymond Mays, Bira, Dick Seaman, Moss, Clark, etc…