“There are no serious accidents” followed by footage of a man nearly getting mowed down, a car flipping over a barrier, and a car flying 10 feet in the air.
This is an excerpt the wonderful "Shell History of Motor Racing, done in 1964. It's never been brought out on DVD but is a must for anyone interested in the history of motor racing. I've never seen anything, including the closing credits, identifying the narrator but he sounds an awful lot like Patrick MacNee.
How cool is that when I recognized Monte Carlo Circuit then after that right turn, I was expecting the Monaco tunnel but there was no tunnel back then to my surprise.
Such a glorious sight to see these races!! Big huge thunderous sounding engines behind those car shells, i was starting my day and this video just polished my day start!! Thank you very much uploader!♥️
@@Davyfb75 There is a tunnel - it was just a lot shorter than the present one so you had to travel further around the right hand bend before you entered it. The "modern" tunnel was first seen at the 1973 Monaco GP.
1:41 Those were gentleman! 👏 Just finished a really hard race, and he has a big smile to be saludated by Monaco royalty. Amazing sport, those were heroes.
What if not only the car but also the driver and his entire crew as well. I wonder how will our modern Racers stack up to their skills on the track. I’ve been trying to search up their techniques it seems quite similar in turns and passing but i will do some more research on it If japan were to make a manga/animated series on this then i would definitely love to see it
I can’t imagine what it must have been like driving on those streets in those old cars with their ridiculous top speeds and their brakes made out of old rags and bits of scrap…
1930s Pit stop: Driver has a coffee, does #2, smokes a cigar and rejoins the race still in the lead. 2022 Pit stop: Driver barely has time to prop himself up for a good fart....zooooom.
A lot of these cars were capable of 130 - 170 mph. Some cars (though not racing cars) were able to do 200 mph+. The Sunbeam 1000, driven by Henry Seagrave, reached 203 mph in 1927.
4:40mercedes comes to francd to race . They had to win Rudolf Caracciola was the greatest driver second maybe to fangio by then mercedes team principal alfred neubeur. He was hired by hitler and the key mercedes headcount to win.he had build the team bigger than 5-10x the size of competitors during the ww2times.they had 5times as many engineers and mechanics and fod the racing team itself they took to every gp. It was total dominance.there was no chance of failure.
Not a crazy question ,as Harry MIller was experimenting with front-wheel drive cars and Bugatti had introduced 4WD racers at the time. But seems they didn't win anything.
The 1934 Mercedes W25 had almost 500 bhp with a weight of 750kg. Topspeed with that could have been up to 300 kmh. The land speed record in 1934, with a streamlined chassis and a V12 was 317 kmh.
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.
I would say whoever among the modern drivers are best in the wet would be the fastest in these old cars. I think the hardest part of the modern drivers would be adapting to the track conditions. Modern tracks are like glass they are so smooth in comparison.
Not so strange. Originally, Ferrari was just a team who raced with cars from other manufacturers (for a period, it was the Alfa Romeo racing team). It was after the WWII that Ferrari began a car costructor. And if you see, on Ferrari race cars, there are three badges: -One rectangular on the front (the brand of the car manufacturer) -Two shield-shaped on the sides (the brand of the racing team, in Italian, of the "Scuderia")
No the driver was George bailey. Broke his wrist lol. Unfortunately he did die a few years later. Hit the outside wall at Indianapolis and his gas tank exploded :(
Why is always this drivel about the support both of the German producers had got? Did the other countries have been to much of a skinflint to support their producers? Then I don't understand why they all are still whining about that, after eighty years. Could it be, that even with a mighty support they wouldn't have succeeded?
+Carl Napp Could be, could not be, we'll never know. Countries leaders have different priorities, even to this day some industries will get national financial support while others will not. What i found more interesting is the early mid engine designs, which were apparently abandoned in favor of front engine designs for almost 20 years.
When I take into account the fact, that at the beginning the Auto Unions were very hard to handle and Bernd Rosemeyer was the only one to really master them, I can understand the tendency to avoid rear respectively mid engines. Later one due to new chassis suspensions and better tyres, it was different. After all, I think the conventionals in the fifties like those from Italy, UK and Germany were much better looking racing cars. To me, a real Indy car is with a front engine.
