Are you kidding?! 😵😵😵 640hp in 1937 with those tyres? That’s absolutely insane!

@@lucasmancini2 Considering the low RPM torque have to massive and torque is was really matters. Power gives you just speed ;)

@@sztorm94 true, torque gets ya off the corner!

and under 2000 lbs @@lucasmancini2

The acceleration, deceleration and change of direction of a modern F1 car is spectacular, when you see it irl

I think it's Hatzenbach that they show. The Welle is still there. The esses after the tight right at Kallenhardt had a large dip at this time.

+Ben Winters With a bang.

+Ben Winters "How ALL Grand Prix should be started" :-) feel the same :-)

iHeart GT86 {KatyCat} more like a Canon

Maybe we can expect that during the Saudi GP

@@happyface96 Actually not really funny anymore after what happened during the E-Prix for Formula E this year...

Did you know that Auto Union is now Audi? That means that the greatest racing teams of the pre-Formula 1 era are still to this day the kings. Audi are the unstoppable rulers of Endurance Racing, namely the World Endurance Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Mercedes-Benz do what both Audi and they used to do, vanquish all foreign contenders on the Grand Prix circuit.

Johannes LaCroix The official name of Audi is still Auto Union. It just happens that they use the Auto Union logo (the four rings) with the Audi name. The registration papers of my Audi A3 says: Make: Auto Union, Type: Audi-A3. Thought you might wanted to know. For example (look in the middle column beneath 'Voertuig Informatie'): opel-kentekens.nl/kenteken-check/FZND19

Drank Bak Oh cool! THEY'RE STILL ALIVE! YAY! But they're losing their dominance to one of their current sisters, Porsche. But, at least they are German at heart. Mercedes-Benz isn't German at heart anymore because their headquarters are in Britain, just like any other F1 team that exists, they don't use their full name (Mercedes-Benz, you've always gotta include the BENZ, because it was Karl Benz who invented "the car") like they did in the '30s, they supply engines that are made by a company that disgraces Mercedes-Benz (AMG), and they don't have Neubauer. But Audi/Auto Union still has everything required to be a German team. Oh, by the way, Auto Union in the day was made up of DKW, Horch, and Wanderer along with Audi. Do any of those companies exist today?

Great history/racing heritage lesson! I don't know if DKW and the other Union brands still actively make cars/bikes. I haven't seen such thing on the roads. I know that there are several classic DKW/Horch owner clubs here in The Netherlands, but I guess they dropped the brands to become one with the Audi brand. Which in their turn became a part of the Volkswagen Group.

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For real. Truly exciting 😅

+Philip Raiswell I think the cameraman was further away that it looks.

Jon Lenin The streamlined cars, used on the oval tracks, went over 250 mph on the autobahn. Unfortunately one crashed trying to beat the speed record, resulting in the death of the driver.

Those were way wider and more advanced than bicycle tires. In 1910 cars with actual bike tires hit 110 mph which was scary enough.

@@carfreakjim Yes, Bernd Rosemeyer, the great AutoUnion driver. Driving on Avus, the fastest banked track.

The Mercedes-Benz and AutoUnion race cars of '37 could reach over 200mph, if streamlined, on long banks, like on Avus, in Germany.

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+Borsófőzelék Piskótakockával there was only a rule dictating the engine displacement.

MK3424 And what was the exact rule?

Correction: the only rule was how much the car was allowed to weigh: not more than 730

MK3424 Thank you.

Small anekdote: the origins of the Mercedes silver arrows can be traced back to this rule: during development they found out that the car was a few kgs over the weight limit, they got around it by stripping it from it white paintjob and only left the silver skin of the aluminium body exposed, thus starting the 'silver arrows' era.

0.75 speed is more accurate

People didn't know how to make footage real-time back in the 1930s. Video was a brand-new thing, and they were playing with it at this stage. It isn't fast forward, that's as slow as the footage can get. You know, pit--stops back then took as long as a minute, and that was considered quick.

Johannes LaCroix Wow! This cars cornering almost faster than an F1s in the hairpins. :O

sg FEOPCAD Fun fact: Bernd Rosemeyer's wedding gift for his wife was to win to German Grand Prix in 1936, and he actually won it! Rudolf Caracciola, the Nurburg master who remembered every square foot of the Nordschleife, was out early in the race.

it was edited to look faster, so the 0.75 speed is accurate to watch

Wasn't this before the war? That symbol was a symbol of peace right?

Not peace, but fortune (Hinduism) or wealth, abundance, prosperity and long life in Buddhism. So actually some Asian visitors to Germany get trouble at the airport if they have a usual swastika lucky charm around their neck.

"I bet Mercedes doesn't use that clip in their racing heritage commercials" Yes, Mercedes is very happy to be sucessfull in F1 today. So they dont need to show their old Nazi-stuff anymore. I remember a documentary about the Mercedes-Benz company from the late 1990s. The Nazi-era and the war was described as "Mercedes-Benz was always sceptical to the regime". Yes, very sceptical when you build not only cars but also all stuff of war-technology for them...and used forced labor-workers during the war.

@@payneinthebutt3098 before the war the Nazi regime was already starting to be seen as totalitarian.

@@payneinthebutt3098 This has been a a symbol of fortune for hundreds of years.... in hindusism. It was also used in the flag of the nazi's. And they may not have done a world war but nazi germany wasn't doing nice back then.

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Not exactly. Its the european championship, the predecessor to Formula 1.

650 bhp engines on sub-tonne cars could easily have done it, especially at a time when mile-long straights were commonplace

they reached 200 mph on the Avus racetrack in Berlin

180 on wide bends 100 on corners, 200 on straights they were doing 100 by 1908 so thirty years later...no surprise.Many Auto Union Mercedes lap records stood till 1954-1955.