Fastest Car Ever On The AutoBahn! 

And what was the result? Average cars today are horribly slow. You never see a car doing 400 km/h. Most people are not prepared to buy new tyres of €1000 a piece, those cars are rare. So, I do know those drivers were brave, no matter their war time situation, but really, was it that important? The 7 series does not even break the sound barrier. The SLC does not need ejection seats. Those are slow cars, compared to the records. WHY?! Nobody has had any profit of those dare devils. When you need to work a month to buy the fuel for one week of fast driving, there is something wrong. When you want to be fast, buy a business jet. Just saying!

Very cool🤙

@@voornaam3191 1000 Euros, I believe the tires for the Bugatti Veyron that can go over 400km/hr are a lot more expensive than that.

My zx9 at stage 2 could hit over 200Mph the felling is sublime, I wish I lived close to the autobahn… Take risk Take care 😊

@Forgotten Hey, sry, just noticed your question. :D I can make a Video of the Memorial, no problem, i hope i can amke it this week. Gonna ntell u when its up.

But would it have made any difference had they worn todays gear, when the Car just broke up under you?

More to hold the head together in death, than to avoid injury.

Even Hitler had a leather condom. Just kidding. But he simply loved fast cars. He has given some brand new cars to relatives he liked. Seen a documentary on his family life. He loved fast cars.

@@voornaam3191 F..CK Hitler.

@@histriamagna1014 who do you think approved the funds for all this shit.......lol

Han var aldrig medlem af partiet.

​​@@cbjmurerCorrect! He was merely a SS Hauptsturmführer. Joined in 1933. A "man" (child) of no moral integrity. Sit down adolf.

Because Bernd was member of the SS.

You need to look up what the SS means 😂

All the German factory drivers had to show allegiance to the Nazis. Rudolph Caracciola did the same thing yet he spent the war in Switzerland away from them. They were race car drivers and nothing else. They'd do anything as we all would've to keep that going.

Could not have said it better!

I like Carraciolas Career .but Rosemeyer Phenomenal .

Have you tried scarf and goggles channel

@@aarondavies8486 yes I have watched many episodes on scarf and goggles. It is a great Channel. Best wishes

'tail happy' (oversteer) isn't really relevant in a car designed to travel in a straight line.

The tail plane on a deHavilland Otter is an inverted airfoil for the same reason. Only plane I know of like this.

@@daos3300 it certainly is. I wouldn't want to drive a car prone to swapping ends at speed

I found an article written by a finnish bloke (I think) that made a forensic attempt to explain what happened and what he figured out was that there were two main issues with the car's aerodynamics: the side skirts and rear fairings indeed inadvertedly turned the Auto Union Typ C Stromlinie into a ground-effect car but the main issue was the radiator intake: although they swapped the cooling system to that new ice tank, the radiator was kept in place and the air intake at the front wasn't totally sealed; instead, they simply bolted a plate at the front while sealling off 6 of the 9 underbody air exhausts with a duralumin plate (the remaining 3 could be shut off completely by Bernd with a pedal). This caused an increased air pressure inside the body of the car had relief only through the cockpit opening. What is likely to have happened is that this pressure build inside on the first and second run that day caused the added panels to warp eventually caused the sealing plate that closed the underbody air outlets to be blown off and suddenly stripping off all the downforce the car was creating, which led it to skid into the grass on the median... and there was nothing else he could do.

Sorry if this is a silly question but what exactly is an “inverted tail fin?” I’m struggling with the concept…..

You will love the book Faster by Neal Bascomb then.

Mercedes Benz wasn't beaten. They won that day and held the record for eighty years.

Absolutely! A different breed!

Racing has gotten way too safe.

Would love to have done it then though

​@@joebone3151 yeah, just not as much fun without a few deaths here and there. or at least the odd maiming to keep it interesting.

jtoftphoto fearless is fearless, time has nothing to do with it.

Then those mentally challenged people should not be driving.

an ls swapped 944 will go 200. the top end gearing will get you there. make sure your tires are good.

Rimac Nevera over 200mph well over.

@@zeljkospoljar8237 20k for an ls1 swap 944. how much for that rimac?

I do 200 mp/h frequently

Lots of Porsche will with just a re map

Mercedes beat Auto Union, because A-U never did the 2nd run so not official

So a technicality. AU still ran a car @ 269mph. So they did beat Mercedes. It’s just not officially recognised.

Interesting points. Thanks.

Wasn't an Audi bud, it was an Auto Union

We clearly don't have the opportunity to compare Max with Fangio or Lewis with Clark (which is a great shame) but I've always believed a great racer is a great racer. Jim Clark was a master in numerous different cars and Lewis has shown he's very capable of driving completely different cars well. I'd love to see Jim Clark in a modern F1 car and Lewis in a Lotus 49. My bet is that they would both be brilliant in any car you put them in. I'm glad people don't die in F1 any more though. I grew up in the 60s and horrendous accidents were part of the game. I love F1 but I don't want to see someone die, especially someone as talented (and modestly unassuming) as Jim Clark.

@@joshuarosen6242 Joshua, I agree completely with all you say.

What? The forces .... IS pressed out ??? How can you press out some forces???? Please write Nynorsk, this text does not make any sense. Besides, who is so stupid to shut down COOLING when applying FULL POWER? That is suicide. Was it really such a dangerous car?! Why didn't those drivers simply refuse to commit that suicide? Do it yourself, I'd say. Or build a better engine, without that stupid valve. It was only 500 bhp, was it? The RR Merlin was more powerful, huh? Then buy one! Please cut those too long sentences in two or three. And please take care of grammar. Now there are words missing, or you messed up. Tuusen tak!

@@voornaam3191 sometimes it takes crazy ideas to break records. the probably knew from the beginning 100% that any sort of crash at top speed would be fatal. The people designing those cars were only focused on low drag to make the cars the fastest but not on safety or even stability, different times, but when you look at the longevity of their records, it somehow paid off. ramping up the competition, on a limited budget that didnt allow them to take time beetween runs to analyse the issues and check the cars...it was somehow bound to end like this

Thanks a million man.

Nice one. Thanks a million!

Formula Phil Please upload again!

All of Rudolf trophies are at Indy, at the race track

They were real MEN back then..

Glad you liked it Stephen. Thanks for watching man.

Thanks man, if you liked that I have something similar about Parry Thomas breaking the landspeed record on Pendine Sands beach Wales. Real men, real heros. Thanks for watching btw.

That car never ran because it was an excuse to develop that engine to go into the Messerschmitt Bf 109. What car needs a 2-speed supercharger? That’s for altitude. Germany was under all kinds of military development restrictions under the Treaty of Versailles after WW1. Argue if you like, but that was one of their many secretive moves to surreptitiously circumvent that treaty and build up their war machine. Sure, it served as a propaganda booster but why was it never run, Really? Lots of excuses and theories but it had already served its purpose. I doubt that even Ferry Porsche knew for quite some time.

That's the problem with most modern people. They judge people in the past by today's morals. They should be so lucky themselves in 100 years time when they are examined.

The car is a Wanderer project by Porsche

True about Auto Union: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aYjWGdYhAO4.html