Gotta love that pit stop at 2:00. Apparently a flammable fountain pouring over you is commonplace in this era. Dude shielded his eyes BEFORE he got it! Oh, boy.
How i wish someone would take all the camera negatives that are left and scan them with current modern technology and make them available to the public. On Blu- ray or UHD Blu-ray. Great piece of history this is. 👍
Did anyone else notice that V12 beauty alongside the "normal" typ D? That thing is just awesome, like jamming a Typ D into a Typ C! Truly the most unknown Silberpfeil of the lot (besides the 1939 Typ D Streamliner)
I really love these old archive films of early heyday racing. This is where it all began and I stopped watching F1 a long time ago.Todays F1 cars look like they're from Venus!
Quite a few thousands of barrels of beer in 1938 in fact. Back then, the italian lira was doing almost twice better than the French franc and definitily better than some of the other european currencies, except the british pound which was even higher than the US dollar at the time.
I know! Plus the usual anti-safety measures - helmet, roll bar, skinny hard tires, oil everywhere, etc, etc. What a bitch to manhandle these beasts around a track lined with posts, poles and whatnot. Holy shit!
