Car Racing 1920-1930 (Bentley, Mercedes-Benz) 

A British car manufacturer thought that it is absurd that a car can last 24 hours without breaking... That spirit is still alive with British cars.

39:50 And the best phrase award goes to Manfred Von Brauchitsch..." Letting go of the steering wheel, shifting the gear stick, using the clutch, IT MADE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU HAD BOILING WATER IN YOUR PANTS"....i'm sure he would call it something else nowdays.

My grandfather raced in the 1920'ties & 1930'ties in Denmark (cars & motorcycles) - thanks for this kind of video, a great way for me to remember him :- ) (I've done 11years of professional sports in another sport, but had I lived back then I'd have chosen motor-racing :- ) Thanks from Copenhagen

Absolutely fabulous !!! Proper racing, not a computer or silicon chip in sight ,!

Thoroughly enjoyed watching this doco.

Wow, great stuff - thank you. The other cars look tiny compared to the Bentleys, their drivers must have been terrified as the huge monsters roared past!

Excellent. I didn't realize Ferdinand Porsche had worked for Benz

'scuse me. The Sopwith Camel had a Clerget 9B engine built by Ruston Proctor Ltd in Lincolnshire and Gwynnes Engineering in London. W.O. Bentley had absolutely nothing to do with that. Yes there was the Bentley BR1 and BR2 that were knock offs of the Clerget, but again the main design was French. The RB1 and RB2 powered some late Camels from the Navy, after 1918.

My mate has Woolfe Banartos supercharged gp sunbeam engine out of his hydroplane,it's going in Henry seagraves 1922 gp sunbeam.

Racing is the birthplace of better cars.

26:05 "Fill it up please..."

26:06 - 14 shows a Bentley pit-stop. Petrol is pouring over the rear of the car, and the mechanic uses his hand to lover the fuel level so that the filler cap can close. Insanely dangerous..... amazing there was no fire

9:38 classic drifting...

Für jedes Fechte Unterricht.....Vielen Dank

Otto Merz was never mentioned. He won the Nurburgring race, sorry, I know it was a misspell, but he won that race.

Tim Birkin, one of the original 'Bentley boys' was born into a very wealthy Nottingham family that had factories around the world, he was hier to a fortune - Certainly the Bentley boys were of the 'elite'. It must have been a crazy time for those Bentley boys, living a life of extreme indulgence, whilst at times living on the very edge. A great video indeed, as for the sound of those Bentley's......!

Wow. True heros and classics.

Absolutely incredible documentary!! So awesome!!

Berkin went on to win Le Mans in an Alfa Romeo in 1931. Also, Lagonda may not have had the success of Bentley but they did win Le Mans in 1935.

Absolute Klassiker....Wünsche ich es Euch an der Hochzeit für das Lebenslange Bemühungen gegeben haben......

We now have the fun police to put a end to that road racing was fun

One really big flaw: The GERMANS are largely unmentioned in the early part of this video, yet Karl Benz is responsible for bringing us the car.

A trifle deceptive at the end. Bentley was a sports car manufacturer. Mercedes and Auto Union were building race cars.

I hope Mr Boddy is comfortable, I get a neck pain just from looking at him.

So don't bentley race in any motorsport then? I thought I'd seen a pic of a continental racing somewhere with all the sponsors and that on the car. Anyway this was a cool video and I love old school race cars from the 20's and the 30's!

What a second-rate actor Hitler was. The big, self-satisfied smirk on his face after his public gesticulation... 39:35

Excellent, thanks for the posting!

Wow that's huge

I was born long after all this but the Bentley legend was still talked about but it was always the Blower Bentley that was the legendary car so it always strikes me as odd when I watch documentaries of the Bentley racing years to find it wasn't that successful so why was it the car people seem to admire the most?

I would like to have been a Rich Lay about and lived for the car is a good sensation

Man sagten Races....Wünsche ich es Euch allen Händwerker & Beruflicher haben.....Vielen Dank für die Bemühungen

amazing. thank you

The good old days before roll cages.

I would love to a Bentley from that eara in my street stock circle track car!

great doc

Rudolf Caraccicola. Hello Again

British propaganda ? Bently adnauseum . Its not to late to be the greatest !!

7:34 is Rest and Be Thankful?

"You wonder how they ever found time to drive cars and race them?" The truth is you didn't need to be that good a driver, simply rich enough to take part. Whenever there's a sniff of any move toward a meritocratic society here in the UK it's quickly crushed. I can remember a friend, an ex Royal Navy man and mature student, definitely not a 'woke' as all the deferential right wingers like to call people. He wrote his thesis on social mobility within the navy of Nelson and discovered that there was more social mobility in that period than modern Britain. Sad really. So much talent never gets a chance here. Just look at our current government objectively, a bunch of talentless kleptocrats led by an utter clown.

At 10:33 what type of car is that? French? I'm not sure what it is but it is shown a few times throughout this show. It is an unusual bullet nose style car almost like a rocket on wheels. Would love to get more information on what type it is and it's history. I absolutely adore old French cars from the 20's and 30's. The french (and English) really were light years ahead of others when it came to car manufacturing and design.

Hitler was more interest in an aircraft engine than a car engine but, development in car engines could be used by the aircraft industry.

12:30 - So ... you're saying he was a speed freak ?

Who is the narrator in this film? He often sounds like James May

Wait up! At what point was anyone afraid to be patriotic and wave the flag? This is from a Canadian. Canada is the freaking best, and you'd better get on board with that! 🇨🇦

Nice!!

18:47 Proper stiff upper lip to talk about Bentleys.

This was a great video. Fascinating to hear Bentley's racing history. A pity the company went under and was taken over by RR.

Mercedes Benz..

Aqui en chile no guardan ni las escobas todo acido botado en el tiempo

A geat time to be wealthy or should I say the greatest time to be wealthy

The global recession organized by the giuda did not effect the Cristian led country's.

Douglas.....

the 1914 grand prix 1-2-3 was due to the fact only the 3 cars entered

1934 Races.....

Lemains a long Days.....

Bentley . . . . . oh well the Romans once were great too, but if you fuck things up . . . . . . .

Start 1930 Lemains.....

I have a poster of Brooklin

Militärische Farbe.....

He speed, he turn, but most importantly he race. -me

Copilot in a racing car '' i think the heater core is leaking '' there is no heater core ?......never mind......

Daimler Benz....

should be called 1920-1939 as Bentley was finished before the Mercedes and Auto Union got started racing in 1933

Die Huber Töne Kommisch....

Yeah, i get it. As a Canadian, I'd be f'd if a Frenchman, Spaniard, or Italian can do anything better than me, except wear women's clothes. That's a comment on military uniforms.

DAIMLER DIDNT EXIST, It was Austro-Daimler

Können Sie mich als ein Rot Teufel....Wo ist das Auto.......?

What a bunch of bollocks. Plays like a Bentley advert. Cool footage, but the history presented is QUITE slanted here.

26:00 i hope this is Water for cooling…….

British=allways good German=allways bad Lol

Wonderful footage. Thank goodness they have been preserved. Thanks for posting it.

"Violently opposed to the use of superchargers", really? Vehemently opposed perhaps.

At the 26 minute mark.... the race pit stop refueling.... excess gas pouring all over. !

Excellent doco and old footage. How about giving some credit to the people that made it?

At 0:35 an Auto Union. At 39:39 (Over Hitler's right shoulder) Klaus Barbie, before he became known as the 'Butcher of Lyon'.

15.000 a week in the 20s that was an awful lot of money then, it's still a lot money today, unbelievable.

As your watching this, its well to keep clear overall perspective. The British motor racing, like all things under the Crown, were rigidly part of the maintence of the class system. The now lionized racing of that era was very strictly the provence of the very wealthy. Try to enter a self constructed/designed car and see how far you would get. Even if you initially had a backer, the "rules " games would start. Much like the rules in English prep schools, they were written to "discourage" "outsiders". Yes, other teams from other nations were partially government supported. But in other countries a small group could show up with a modest effort. It wasn't the populist post war American Hot Rod scene, but it wasn't a carefully class controlled atmosphere of Britain which is now so celebrated.....

Thank you for this outstanding documentary!

Well now !? How many cups of Brandy did you give that old mellow chap?

Was Bill Boddy ever officially declared the last of the Dinosaurs !!! .

Man kriegt die Farbe je nach Beruflicher....Weiterausbildung....Wo ist mein Rough Benz.......?

Ого , уже тогда были съёмки с самолёта - круто !!!

this is already full video since (4 Jan,2011 / 47:48)

Awesome...............................

this is perfect history about Their Industries Cooperation, Production,factory,Designer,Manufacturing ,Auto Motor Sport,Racing people and this is belonging to them too..

Looking at these cars , I remember the mafia of 2002 and .. 5 mission in it)))

so in the 20s the British accent sounds like American?

Etwas Tiefer Federung....An der Klassiker Cars.....

even back then the brits were stealing information to use against their rivals. amazing. oh, interesting. mclaren wants to know my location... 🤔

An der Seite Rückspiegel Montage.....

Speckulanten.....Ser. 4.14.24.34.44.88.........Ferrari........?

What are the barrel shaped cars at around 9:00?

Mogan Cars....

Saccaramento Casino.....

I can remember that time

When English cars were great, hahaha....

17:00 Maybe it's not wokeness, it's probably the fact that ferrari has been racing in f1 forever and Bentley is only a toy for the 1%.

What a great movie. Thanks for uploading and cut toghether. I was in Brooklin at a meeting with the FIVA Events Commission: fiva.org/en/commissions/events-commission/#59561616990. Our last meeting, February 1 2020, before the Coronavirus hit us. It was my second visit there, he first one was with the 1000 Miles Trial as a FIVA Steward 2017. I have marked the important points for me: • 08:08 Brooklin Racing Track Club House • 08:37 The Bridge for the Rich • 09:17 Stefan Röhrig (met him many times at the FIVA General SAssembklids; talkes several times) • 09:50 Bentley Boys 1 (I have smoked a cgar at the balcony at the Club House where the Bentley Boys enjoyed their ciagars as well :-)) • 11:30 W.O. Bentley’s first Contact with a Bentley Driver, John ? wanting to race his 3 Litre Benley and the Story of W.O. Bentley • 17:40 Tim Birkin: 17:40 • 19:30 Bentley Boys 2 • 22:25 Rudolf Garacciola / Mercedes • 23:30 Daimler-Benz • 27:35 Woolf Barnao Blue Train Challenge • 29:10 Bentley Supercharger • 34:01 Brooklands 500 Miles Race • 39:14 Benito Mussolini Mille Miglia und Adolph Hitler • 41:15 Auto-Union • 42:05 Silber Arrow and why it came to this • 43:28 Auto-Union • 44:10 Hitler’s new Germany promots speed, and for Bentley, the Bentley Boys the Party was over, Roslls-Royce acquiered Bentley • 45:15 Alfa-Romeo, Benito Mussolini and Le Mans

Yea, but what about the gallons that spilt out as well, Whew!

who do I root for here, the posh Bently boys or the Nazis?