Upscaled 60fps footage of the 1959 German Grand Prix (please watch in 720p60), which was won by Tony Brooks in a Ferrari 256F1. This video is monetized by British Pathé (Content ID claim)
It feels like people who brush with death break reality, impress the reaper, and earn some extra years. I've heard of a Gurka (forget his name) that got badly injured in fighting and lived up to his 90's.
Before WW2 there was a plan to build a second banked corner to create more speed it was the time where guys like Bernd Rosemeyer reaching over 400 km/h on parts of the Autobahn near Frankfurt in 1937
The day before, Jean Behra from france flew in his Porsche over the edge and died. The announcer is like: But yeah, we call it the wall of death! What a well chosen name for it! Awesome!
After that crash he´s got his nickname "Hans im Glück" the first and the last F1 race at the Avus as a young man i saw the last touring car races there like the DTM, ITC and later the STW. Germany had a big tradition in roadracing and also many airfield races in the late 90s today no one knows why all these great racetracks like Mainz Finthen, Zweibrücken and many others are gone
When I saw the crash footage with the car flipping over I was thinking how he survived without a roll hoop, then I wondered why I couldn't see him in the car and then I realized they didn't even have seatbelts back then. Racing really used to be absolute insanity.
@@Zagman92 That's exactly why they didn't have seatbelts: in the event of an accident, the drivers decided it was preferable to be thrown out than to be crushed or (if the car caught fire) burned to death. Granted, it didn't always work - I vaguely recall one driver who was thrown out and sent flying straight into some barbed wire. He didn't make it.
Apparently, he only received some scrapes and abrasions from skidding down the track surface after he was thrown out of the car! The car, on the other hand, is a write-off, but the remains sat in a corner of the BRM factory. Until Tom Wheatcroft bought the remains and rebuilt it again with some more bits and pieces... As a result, both the driver, and the car, still exists today!
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