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.

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.

Loved every second from part 1 to 4 and the colour finale was just awesome.🥇🥇🥇 🏁

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.

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.

Dick Trickle from NASCAR and Dick Seamen from F1. Making racing cool in junior high again

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...

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.

Excellent video especially the last few minutes cheers

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.

Love the old style film making!

EPIC VID BRO> love it fantastic old footage.

dang part 4 done no more thanks for sharing brilliant super

spectacular! thank you for uploading!

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.

12:34 beautiful drift!

The music is sublime, to say the least.

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.

Impressionante, são verdadeiros heróis estes pilotos.

8:22 Taking Benz? Masterful play on words.

Un seul mot : Merci

Thanks

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.

At 20:00 it's just Semen everywhere. Semen behind; Semen in the lead.

12:41 side by side action!

Spoked wheels crossply tyres and very big balls

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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 😜😂 😂

wonder what have happened if they had wider tires, back then

They left out the Pau GP in 1938.

"No one is seriously injured"; lols

28:50 Imagine the last part with the motor's sound instead of that pompous fanfare :/

7:52 “The greatest of them all, Dick Semen” wow what a terrible name 😂

Wait hold up what was his name? 07:45 😂

UFO @ 10:33 ?

Every time they Dick Seaman, i cant help laughing

well... still not «von Stuck»; simply Hans Stuck...

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.

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.