Upscaled 60fps footage of the 1937 AVUS race (please watch in 720p60), which was the fastest road race in history for nearly five decades This video is monetized by Istituto Luce Cinecittà (Content ID claim)
saw a type 1938 type D about a year ago while in berlin those things look insane in person the streamliners are some of the most insane looking cars to ever exist
There was a plan to build an other banked curve on the opposite of the the track called Südkehre for more high speed but then we all now whats coming next in 1939.... today the Avus is just an ordinary highway with a speedlimit of 100km/h nearly 100 years of motoracing and the prototype of the german Autobahn
@@TheOfficialRandomGuyMerc at start was particularly interesting with straight 8 cyl engine and howling supercharger but auto union was really ahead I would say with almost midengine car first of kind
0:04 they cut the initial presentation, the speaker actually "Il giovane pilota tedesco Herman Lang ha vinto ad una media oraria di 261 chilometri e settec-ento metri"
the type c and the w125 streamliners actually raced. but the w125 streamliners should've been running laps around these guys by now... it was a 270 + mph car.
In front of who everyone participated in the races then when there was no safety, helmets, reliability of cars, it remains only for him to take off his hat.
People acting like these cars were futuristic but not really. They’d do 240 in a straight line but would take forever to get there, take forever to brake from that speed, and had zero grip or stability so if anything went even a little bit wrong at that top speed, you’d just instantly die. And that did happen multiple times in this race
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