A lesson in what's gone wrong with broadcasting. A real documentary, with experts in their fields talking TO the viewer as an equal and not talking DOWN to him. The knowledge expressed here is breathtaking. An absolute gem of an upload.
@MichaelKingsfordGray which is why the viewers of old have retreated from the TV scene and watch videos on youtube. I couldn't imagine a reason to turn on the TV set for other reasons than streaming a video onto it
Couldn't agree more. I still have my VHS recording of this when it was first broadcast in 84, when the BBC made quality documentaries instead of pandering to every woke lefty agenda
@@ViN-kr3ri Well said. I have this on a commercially distributed VHS as well. Wish I had it on a DVD, but am glad that it's up here on gulagtube for now.
I watched this the first time round and recorded it on a VHS tape that, I'm afraid, was lost in a house move. Wonderful to see it again - an outstanding achievement by Horizon from the days when the BBC made beautiful documentaries, without silly re-enactments and snide comments about the moralities of past eras.
at 09:58 the address of Delage is shown on the engine plate. That address of 140 Ave des Champs Elysees, Paris. It is now a McDonalds Restaurant. Oh the humanity. BTW I had a burger there last year.
after winning LeMans in 1967, Dan Gurney sprayed champagne on some of the journalists and critics that said he and AJ Foyt had no chance to win, and a new tradition was born
You've got to admire those guys back then driving at over a hundred mph with no helmet, not roll cage in an open cockpit race car, that took real guts.
mrblowhard2u Indeed. Add to that brakes that, by present day standards, didn't work, narrow "bisyckle" tyres that didn't grip, non-fireproof clothing and non-existent track safety... Oh, and some of those Mercs and Auto Unions could max out at allmost 200 mph... Properly crazy stuff!
Innerspace100 in the mid 30's enzo ferrari wanted to be able to compete with the cars, but didn't have the cash to start from scratch and alfa romeo refused to give him the cash, so he takes two of kano's straight 8's and puts them into one car. this was an attempt to lure nuvolari back to scoured ferrari in the 30's, nuvolari was clocked going well over 200 mphs in the mid 30's
+mrblowhard2u Best of all, *it made you feel alive.* The bravery the drivers had to be Grand Prix racers in those days were uncanny. And when they drove with so little protection like that, they felt so alive.
Amazing to see that power and speed was not far off that of today's F1. At least on the straights. The tracks however, were a total desaster, in every aspect.
One thing I do find extremely impressive with the 750kg formula of 1934-1937 is that the development was so rapid that the 1937 Mercedes W125 developed 646hp (reportedly) on the dyno. Just a few years before in 1931-1932 the most powerful racecars had little over 200hp. Tripling the horsepower output in just a few years of Grand Prix racing must have been insane! Porsche was planning something special for the 1974 Can-Am season but turbos were banned and Porsche pulled out. (1973 oil crisis..)
I actually drove a 1928 Bugatti Type 35 race car in a road rally about a decade ago and it's tiny, harsh, nimble, loud, and like riding in a frog blender at speed that will kill you and take off your knee caps if you f- up. About as fast as an 70's Porsche road car on tires the width of a pizza pie -135+ mph.
Just for research purposes, can you quantify the speed of an average frog blender for the average viewer. I never learned to control my frog blender, so I wasn't able to clock the speed properly. Kept taking my kneecaps off.
@@LarryisControversial3000 Literally a frog blender RPM? 37,000 -Hamilton Beech Bar Blender and others -yummy frog legs blended not kneecapped. That's mafia and you guys aren't. Richard Ridell would run the front tires with less PSI I remember at Laguna Seca Monterrey Historic races. The one I was in was owned by a David D. From Galveston or Houston. I gotta think about it -over a decade ago. You talking about the adjustable advance, the priming pumping, the extra oil can manual pump and stuff and priming with the left hand near the fire wall? I know there is some parkay flooring in them too. There's a clock too on the pretty engine turned fire wall and from what I remember it was quite a production just to make it go much less drive it. You constantly adjust the advance. Worse than a High Maintenance woman who is French and Italian and very pretty so it's worth it. I think I was in the finger lakes. Been a while. Oh and the emergency brake right hand with a chain sprocket is an interesting way to do it. Also hiding the drums inside the wheels is rather impractical but would really work well thinking about that now -much easier to use a larger sprocket to get leverage for the brakes just like big rotors. No wonder why these were so fast in the 1920's. They are today! I'm sure i would get lost in a rental car chasing as I did, even with my 911 3.2 it would be about the same performance. Lots of trivia I haven't thought about in 10+ years. Cool experience.
Those Blockley Tires are the bomb! Makes steering of those cars much lighter and faster if everything in the front axle is up to snuff. Positive camber built into the axle. So I would assume that Dick runs the front tires lower in PSI to give better corning so you get a combination of good steering feel without the front end pushing really bad and you understeer the corner. Is that what you are asking? Compensating for understeer in these cars with tire pressure variations on modern race tracks. As far as I remember there are only a few left right hand turns on Laguna Seca and they are off camber (up and down hill corkscrew) so you may be able to only run the right front tire with lower pressure for that track and get away with it.
I first became aware of these cars over 60 years ago reading graphic comic books. Who would have thought there was a market for that? I remember reading about the Auto Unions and Mercedes like it was yesterday. Then I read a book called "4 Wheel Drift" . Thank you for this presentation which is the best I have seen, and brought those old memories to life once again. Thank you.
Such an incredible documentary !!! Well done and well narrated. The collection of photos , videos and audio from all those people involved such a long time ago is absolutely wonderful!!
I have a motoring book from around 1910 which offers advice on how to diagnose an engine that is misfiring: by putting your hand on each exhaust manifold in turn - the one that doesn't burn your hand is the faulty one!
Horizon... ahh... one of my favorite programs growing up a kid... loved the graphics and theme music... this is a brilliant pre-war car racing documentary.
Peter Lee, stop showing you know nothing ! The time Harry Miller started struggling to get his 4cyl cars running, Etore Bugatti was well know for making VERY good cars ! The one v16 that engineer, remember, ENGINEER !!!!!....Miller did, could not complete one race ! So sorry for you !.....bragging with nothing between the ears !
37:33 Those Mercedes-Benz W125 and Auto Union Typ C lift-offs at Donnington old circuit's Starkey's Straight to Melbourne Hairpin just made my day. Greets from Denmark.
What a lovely Film! I very much appreciate the effort of uploading this. There´s way too little of these films from the early days! Word has it that the Soviets captured Auto Union cars and had one driver killed by a high speed crash. Very likely cause: the car still had German race gas in the tanks. The other car never ran well because the Soviet gas was bad... This reminds me of the Group B Rallye cars...
Blimey, i remember buying this magnificent series on video,when it was first released decades ago. One of the best presented and researched videos ive ever seen on the subject. Wish it was on DVD.
Lap record at Brooklands 143.44 MPH (17:00) - 99% of drivers today (2018) have ever exceeded that speed even on Autobahn on a flat straight road ! Remember this was Lap Speed not Maximum - Total Respect for those hughley brave Heroes of Yesteryear. Just Incredible, I have in my Mercedes 420SE done just over 152 MPH but that was on a downhill stretch of Autobahn and with a slight tail wind.
Imagine doing that kind of speed on a track as bumpy as that with a car the driver describes as driving it like “leaning too far out an upstairs window”. Totally bonkers
Great documentary. I love especially to see the footage of these great race tracks of the past, as you can see on my name, like Pescara, Montlhéry, Bremgarten and the Original layout of Reims-Gueux :)
+Circuits of the past I agree. It's nice to see those circuits. Oh, and thank you for providing the footage of those circuits for my Grand Prix 80th Anniversary Episodes, I can tell you've watched them because I was notified that you added me to my circles a little while ago.
I remember watching this when it was broadcast. I remember being incredibly sad that the Brooklands track had not been restored, at that time, as there were industrial museums by the dozen in Manchester for all the marvelous work in the industries there, mostly at the key sites, and Brooklands would have been the obvious choice for a Grand Prix industrial museum for the south.
What a great video!! The sound of the Mercs and Auto Unions made all others sound like Dinky toys😀 Glad to see the proper perspective put forward too in that no matter how much money you throw at grand prix cars, if you don't have the engineering nouse, you won't make a winner, a point Mercedes-Benz made back then, again in the 50s (when they were cash strapped) and are still making to this day in the current cars. They have proved time and again when they get serious, nobody beats them. "That will do won't do, only the best will do!" Thank you for posting this gem.
Dont forget that the Miller engines where in the first way based on the Franse Peugeot engines (the first engine in te world with dubbel overhead camshaft) from 1914 ... the Peugeot L45 is the best example
The Auto Union V16 C was awesome just can't imagine trusting those tires at 150-199 mph and no cockpit protection from a crash plus no fuel cell for the methanol fuel. You just hoped you saw the finish line alive in one piece, I think it took a lot of guts to race back then even more than now.
+Robert Smith Imagine Bernd Rosemeyer at AVUS in 1935. It's the first automobile race he's ever participated in, and he's racing for Auto Union, one of the biggest teams in the world, and he's starting on front row, right in the middle of Autobahn 115, AKA, AVUS, The Temple of Speed.
They still race cars like those at Goodwood Festival Of Speed. And they really do race them. The oldest car still racing last year was built in about 1904. Plenty of videos on their YT channel.
2 rev counters? one for each line of pistons? thats awesome. they always said a v12 was two inline 6's put together, but i never realized it was that close to reality.
Yeah no, there’s no way for one cylinder bank to spin any faster or slower than the other, you know, being tied together by one solid steel crank shaft...
@@kevintucker3354 Absolutely! I`m wondering if there was, maybe a built in reliability factor - in case one counter failed - weren`t they cable driven rather than measuring the contact breaker pulses? Or did they have two distributers? I`m talking too much - what do you reckon?
No, it's just an oddity of the P3 Alfa. It had an inline-8 engine, not V8. Most plausible theory for the two rev counters was Alfa Romeo reusing some unused bits from their Tipo A racer, which do have two engines mounted side-by-side. They probably plan to keep the Tipo A racing for quite a bit and kept several spares, but it proved to be complicated (tricky to maintain 2 completely separate engines supposed to be running one car), tricky to drive, and since the Tipo A was designed only for faster tracks, ultimately their smaller, single-engined cars were proving to be more effective all around.
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A lesson in what's gone wrong with broadcasting. A real documentary, with experts in their fields talking TO the viewer as an equal and not talking DOWN to him. The knowledge expressed here is breathtaking. An absolute gem of an upload.
@MichaelKingsfordGray which is why the viewers of old have retreated from the TV scene and watch videos on youtube. I couldn't imagine a reason to turn on the TV set for other reasons than streaming a video onto it
Hear, Here ! @@daszieher. I haven't had TVeeee feed in over 22 years now,..and counting LoL!
Couldn't agree more. I still have my VHS recording of this when it was first broadcast in 84, when the BBC made quality documentaries instead of pandering to every woke lefty agenda
@@ViN-kr3ri Well said. I have this on a commercially distributed VHS as well. Wish I had it on a DVD, but am glad that it's up here on gulagtube for now.
Exactly mate. Well said
That exhaust temperature measuring procedure at 35:13 is pure gold.
LMFAO!! Indeed... XD
Lol. I use that procedure on my lsx swapped nova....lol
What about the SS guard in the pits at 35:54
@@trentdawg2832 Yo the racer that just finished 5th in that his name is dick seaman fuckin lol
Its the same method Madam Curie measured radiation ;-)
I watched this the first time round and recorded it on a VHS tape that, I'm afraid, was lost in a house move. Wonderful to see it again - an outstanding achievement by Horizon from the days when the BBC made beautiful documentaries, without silly re-enactments and snide comments about the moralities of past eras.
I love old BBC documentaries.
at 09:58 the address of Delage is shown on the engine plate. That address of 140 Ave des Champs Elysees, Paris. It is now a McDonalds Restaurant. Oh the humanity.
BTW I had a burger there last year.
:-O
wonderfull info. thanx
That's hilarious if they only knew they would eventually be replaced with a McDonald's😂
You know how they call a Royale with Cheese over there ?
Arno Nijssen
Best comment!
"In those days they drank the champagne" Love it!
this only sentence pretty much sums it all up, doesn't it?
@Waxel Punkt. As we should live life
after winning LeMans in 1967, Dan Gurney sprayed champagne on some of the journalists and critics that said he and AJ Foyt had no chance to win, and a new tradition was born
One of the 1930's great jazz guitarists during the time Be-Bop was coming in opined, "Boppers flat their fifths, we drink ours."
Sadly no mention of the gigantic sausage Campari was presented with on winning the Grand Prix at Lyon
Back in the 90s Speedvision aired these type of documentaries and the original races all the time. I really miss Speedvision.
Me Too, even Motor Trend TV doesn't come close to this quality.
Legends of Motorsport!
Yes sir!
Is anyone else amazed at the cornering speed of these cars? With how thin the tires are thats amazing
I am absolutely amazed!!!
There was a lot of sliding involved. Also, with the right technique, normal cars can actually go faster around corners than most people think.
You've got to admire those guys back then driving at over a hundred mph with no helmet, not roll cage in an open cockpit race car, that took real guts.
mrblowhard2u Indeed. Add to that brakes that, by present day standards, didn't work, narrow "bisyckle" tyres that didn't grip, non-fireproof clothing and non-existent track safety... Oh, and some of those Mercs and Auto Unions could max out at allmost 200 mph... Properly crazy stuff!
Innerspace100 in the mid 30's enzo ferrari wanted to be able to compete with the cars, but didn't have the cash to start from scratch and alfa romeo refused to give him the cash, so he takes two of kano's straight 8's and puts them into one car. this was an attempt to lure nuvolari back to scoured ferrari in the 30's, nuvolari was clocked going well over 200 mphs in the mid 30's
+mrblowhard2u Best of all, *it made you feel alive.* The bravery the drivers had to be Grand Prix racers in those days were uncanny. And when they drove with so little protection like that, they felt so alive.
...until they crashed.
Real guts that were often splashed over the spectators.
18:25 love the big Bentley passing the voiturette like car ...the size difference is hard for the brain to believe!
Ettore Bugatti said that Bentley is the fastest truck on the track.
That's one of the Works Austin Sevens, known as Dutch Clogs.
The sound of that Alfa Romeo starting up at 22:30 is just glorious.
Just by listening to the sound, you know that _it can really pull..._
Amazing to see that power and speed was not far off that of today's F1. At least on the straights. The tracks however, were a total desaster, in every aspect.
A programme from the golden age of documentaries!
What a fantastic era for motorsport and engine development. A really good historical archive, and images to match.
One thing I do find extremely impressive with the 750kg formula of 1934-1937 is that the development was so rapid that the 1937 Mercedes W125 developed 646hp (reportedly) on the dyno. Just a few years before in 1931-1932 the most powerful racecars had little over 200hp. Tripling the horsepower output in just a few years of Grand Prix racing must have been insane!
Porsche was planning something special for the 1974 Can-Am season but turbos were banned and Porsche pulled out. (1973 oil crisis..)
What exactly did Porsche plan for the Can-Am in 74?
Kinda how the Le Mans circuit was not fit for how fast cars had become which led to the disaster of '55
The car lit on fire and the dude got back in to keep racing, what an absolute legend.
the sound of the engines these times, is absolutely incredible
john jay
Love the sound of a straight 6 engine! Especially now that they can be tuned to as much as 2,300 horsepower! (Hrsprs) love you James!
What a super documentary about these incredibly exciting and dangerous days. God bless Dick Seaman; a true English gentleman. Thank you for posting!
What a beautiful documentary, congratulations and thanks for posting it here in youtube.
Thanks for uploading great documentary
What a fantastic documentary, absolutely loved it! Thank you very much for posting!
Thank you for allowing us a glimpse of these astonishing mechanical creations of yesterday.A most entertaining film!
This is terrific! Thank you for posting!
That alfa exhaust at around 23...Majestic
I actually drove a 1928 Bugatti Type 35 race car in a road rally about a decade ago and it's tiny, harsh, nimble, loud, and like riding in a frog blender at speed that will kill you and take off your knee caps if you f- up. About as fast as an 70's Porsche road car on tires the width of a pizza pie -135+ mph.
Just for research purposes, can you quantify the speed of an average frog blender for the average viewer. I never learned to control my frog blender, so I wasn't able to clock the speed properly. Kept taking my kneecaps off.
@@LarryisControversial3000 Literally a frog blender RPM? 37,000 -Hamilton Beech Bar Blender and others -yummy frog legs blended not kneecapped. That's mafia and you guys aren't. Richard Ridell would run the front tires with less PSI I remember at Laguna Seca Monterrey Historic races. The one I was in was owned by a David D. From Galveston or Houston. I gotta think about it -over a decade ago. You talking about the adjustable advance, the priming pumping, the extra oil can manual pump and stuff and priming with the left hand near the fire wall? I know there is some parkay flooring in them too. There's a clock too on the pretty engine turned fire wall and from what I remember it was quite a production just to make it go much less drive it. You constantly adjust the advance. Worse than a High Maintenance woman who is French and Italian and very pretty so it's worth it. I think I was in the finger lakes. Been a while. Oh and the emergency brake right hand with a chain sprocket is an interesting way to do it. Also hiding the drums inside the wheels is rather impractical but would really work well thinking about that now -much easier to use a larger sprocket to get leverage for the brakes just like big rotors. No wonder why these were so fast in the 1920's. They are today! I'm sure i would get lost in a rental car chasing as I did, even with my 911 3.2 it would be about the same performance. Lots of trivia I haven't thought about in 10+ years. Cool experience.
Tinkering on Porsches now. MG midgets.
Those Blockley Tires are the bomb! Makes steering of those cars much lighter and faster if everything in the front axle is up to snuff. Positive camber built into the axle. So I would assume that Dick runs the front tires lower in PSI to give better corning so you get a combination of good steering feel without the front end pushing really bad and you understeer the corner. Is that what you are asking? Compensating for understeer in these cars with tire pressure variations on modern race tracks. As far as I remember there are only a few left right hand turns on Laguna Seca and they are off camber (up and down hill corkscrew) so you may be able to only run the right front tire with lower pressure for that track and get away with it.
Or spin lol!
Many thanks for the upload, one of the best documentaries I've ever seen.
Thanks for posting these bits of Grand Prix history that I previously knew very little about.
I first became aware of these cars over 60 years ago reading graphic comic books. Who would have thought there was a market for that? I remember reading about the Auto Unions and Mercedes like it was yesterday. Then I read a book called "4 Wheel Drift" . Thank you for this presentation which is the best I have seen, and brought those old memories to life once again. Thank you.
This is simply amazing!! Thanks so much for sharing this documentary!
Such an incredible documentary !!! Well done and well narrated. The collection of photos , videos and audio from all those people involved such a long time ago is absolutely wonderful!!
0:52 glad to see this guy holds the hand crank properly!
Yes, I was watching that too. There were a lot of broken thumbs back then!
Thank you; Paul Vaughan's narrations are always comforting...
35:15-35:20 ish, the mechanic checks the exhaust manifold for a cool cylinder ... with his hand!!! Mad respect
I have a motoring book from around 1910 which offers advice on how to diagnose an engine that is misfiring: by putting your hand on each exhaust manifold in turn - the one that doesn't burn your hand is the faulty one!
Fantastic doc!!!! Love the pics. Never seen most of this footage.
Horizon... ahh... one of my favorite programs growing up a kid... loved the graphics and theme music... this is a brilliant pre-war car racing documentary.
Wonderful! The bit with the roaring Bugattis was thrilling. Thank you for posting
Wonderful feature! Thanks for helping keep this stuff alive
Was all about the engine then. Fantastic stuff, I still have a VHS copy of this that I recorded when it was shown one Christmas.
Peter Lee, stop showing you know nothing ! The time Harry Miller started struggling to get his 4cyl cars running, Etore Bugatti was well know for making VERY good cars ! The one v16 that engineer, remember, ENGINEER !!!!!....Miller did, could not complete one race ! So sorry for you !.....bragging with nothing between the ears !
incredible sights and sounds from the glory days of Grand Prix racing. Wonderful film.
I watched this last night and enjoyed it very much. Thanks!
37:33 Those Mercedes-Benz W125 and Auto Union Typ C lift-offs at Donnington old circuit's Starkey's Straight to Melbourne Hairpin just made my day. Greets from Denmark.
Super upload... had this taped on VHS years ago when it first was shown on TV. Lovely to see it again. Thanks.
This is quite wonderful to watch. Thank-you very much.
One of the best Grand Prix films I've seen. thanks "Tinkerin' Thinkers" for the upload!
That close-up of the driver's hat; the shot of the hand crank--gosh, how poetic.
Thank you for sharing this gem with us
Gem documentary.Thanks for posting.
Great prog..full of splendid info..Boffins abound..Nuvalari was a great driver.. I am now happy.. Thanx for posting..
Thanks for uploading this - very interesting!
37:21
That Mercedes going into the grass and not giving a damn sure put a smile to my face
Wow. Horizon from a time when it was a relevant science programme.
I still have the VCR of this brilliant programme I copied it on to DVD but the quality is not up to this so glad to be able to watch it again.
What a lovely Film! I very much appreciate the effort of uploading this. There´s way too little of these films from the early days!
Word has it that the Soviets captured Auto Union cars and had one driver killed by a high speed crash. Very likely cause: the car still had German race gas in the tanks. The other car never ran well because the Soviet gas was bad...
This reminds me of the Group B Rallye cars...
These old, classic documentaries are enjoyable.
a fantastic watch … many thanks
Blimey, i remember buying this magnificent series on video,when it was first released decades ago.
One of the best presented and researched videos ive ever seen on the subject.
Wish it was on DVD.
Actually it is. And you bought it. Don`t you remember?
My spirits rose when I heard that theme tune cos I knew that some wonderful material was about to get aired! What a treat.
Robin Wells 👍🙂
I just watched the whole thing ...❤ thank you
Wonderful documentary this watched it so many times 👍
Lap record at Brooklands 143.44 MPH (17:00) - 99% of drivers today (2018) have ever exceeded that speed even on Autobahn on a flat straight road ! Remember this was Lap Speed not Maximum - Total Respect for those hughley brave Heroes of Yesteryear. Just Incredible, I have in my Mercedes 420SE done just over 152 MPH but that was on a downhill stretch of Autobahn and with a slight tail wind.
I’ve done 143mph in a Volvo c70
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@@GrrMeister amongst other things….
But really is Al crazy when u think about it
Imagine doing that kind of speed on a track as bumpy as that with a car the driver describes as driving it like “leaning too far out an upstairs window”. Totally bonkers
Some of the best archive footage this history lesson and storytelling in my opinion was superb
Wonderful, Thank you so much
Excellent work James
Great documentary. I love especially to see the footage of these great race tracks of the past, as you can see on my name, like Pescara, Montlhéry, Bremgarten and the Original layout of Reims-Gueux :)
+Circuits of the past I agree. It's nice to see those circuits. Oh, and thank you for providing the footage of those circuits for my Grand Prix 80th Anniversary Episodes, I can tell you've watched them because I was notified that you added me to my circles a little while ago.
Excellent documentary. Thank you.
I remember watching this when it was broadcast. I remember being incredibly sad that the Brooklands track had not been restored, at that time, as there were industrial museums by the dozen in Manchester for all the marvelous work in the industries there, mostly at the key sites, and Brooklands would have been the obvious choice for a Grand Prix industrial museum for the south.
Thanks for sharing
Just an absolutely excellent video.
Thank you, an informative documentary.
A fabulous program I saw it when it came out. Great history.
Great Scott! That’s the same narrator that did Threads! Outstanding
This is super-cool! I have always had a particular interest in pre-war, supercharged racing cars. They rock!
Nice tro see this on youtube. I remember watching it back in the 1980s.
Great old footage and racing history. !!!!
Fantastic work keep up the good work ❤️
Very helpful ...great video
Thanks for sharing this vid
and drum brakes
WOW! That is something else! Thanks for posting it! Really special footage! ;)
I enjoyed watching this show. I'm pretty sure I've seen it once before on cable TV back in the 80's.
Thanks. I remember watching the "Horizon" as a youngster.
No intrusive music.
Wonderful pictures 👍
Great documentary. Just wish they'd shown more of the beautiful Alfa Romeos.
What a great video!!
The sound of the Mercs and Auto Unions made all others sound like Dinky toys😀
Glad to see the proper perspective put forward too in that no matter how much money you throw at grand prix cars, if you don't have the engineering nouse, you won't make a winner, a point Mercedes-Benz made back then, again in the 50s (when they were cash strapped) and are still making to this day in the current cars.
They have proved time and again when they get serious, nobody beats them.
"That will do won't do, only the best will do!"
Thank you for posting this gem.
That was really good. It's amazing how fast they drove those car with the skinny tire back then..
"Surviving bugattis worth around 125 thousand pounds a piece"
My how prices have gone up
That would be 381 thousand pounds in today's money but still they sure have
Yeah it would go in the millions
Less than 8000 Bugattis were built before the company went bankrupt.
Yep you'd snap up everyone you could at those prices today lol
Dont forget that the Miller engines where in the first way based on the Franse Peugeot engines (the first engine in te world with dubbel overhead camshaft) from 1914 ... the Peugeot L45 is the best example
The Auto Union V16 C was awesome just can't imagine trusting those tires at 150-199 mph and no cockpit protection from a crash plus no fuel cell for the methanol fuel. You just hoped you saw the finish line alive in one piece, I think it took a lot of guts to race back then even more than now.
+Robert Smith Imagine Bernd Rosemeyer at AVUS in 1935. It's the first automobile race he's ever participated in, and he's racing for Auto Union, one of the biggest teams in the world, and he's starting on front row, right in the middle of Autobahn 115, AKA, AVUS, The Temple of Speed.
+Robert Smith Those tyres tire very quickly trying to get that power on to the road.
Robert Smith allways wondered how well those cars would perform with modern rubber on each corner.
They still race cars like those at Goodwood Festival Of Speed. And they really do race them. The oldest car still racing last year was built in about 1904. Plenty of videos on their YT channel.
Titans all of them to drive such cars at 200MPH makes the current F1 as exciting as watching Noddy in his little car!
Fantastic historical video. 1937 to the Second World War. Very technically advanced. Here we are in 2022 and using 1.5 liter turbo engines. So cool. 👍
Fantastic video.
Amazing! I need to take a nap now.
This is far more exciting than modern day F1
The Auto Union type D, driven by Nuvolari, fantastic!
Those aluminum rims look good even today. The "tank" race car was way ahead of it's time it just had to be wider and longer for better handling.
22:56 and on, fantastic engine sound ... and log gear
That size difference at 16:12 is crazy haha the car on the inside looks like a pedal-powered toy
2 rev counters? one for each line of pistons? thats awesome. they always said a v12 was two inline 6's put together, but i never realized it was that close to reality.
Noo lol, cars used to have machanics righting shotgun to keep an eye on things. One is for the driver and the other is for the machanic.
Yeah no, there’s no way for one cylinder bank to spin any faster or slower than the other, you know, being tied together by one solid steel crank shaft...
@@kevintucker3354 Absolutely! I`m wondering if there was, maybe a built in reliability factor - in case one counter failed - weren`t they cable driven rather than measuring the contact breaker pulses? Or did they have two distributers? I`m talking too much - what do you reckon?
No, it's just an oddity of the P3 Alfa. It had an inline-8 engine, not V8.
Most plausible theory for the two rev counters was Alfa Romeo reusing some unused bits from their Tipo A racer, which do have two engines mounted side-by-side. They probably plan to keep the Tipo A racing for quite a bit and kept several spares, but it proved to be complicated (tricky to maintain 2 completely separate engines supposed to be running one car), tricky to drive, and since the Tipo A was designed only for faster tracks, ultimately their smaller, single-engined cars were proving to be more effective all around.
31:59 Yeah, uh, I'm pretty sure he went by Richard.
If you thought he had it 'hard' you didn't hear about his brothers Harry and Willy.
What an unfortunate name xD
Horizon documentaries, my favourite. Whatever happened to these? I learned so much from them!!! And the theme tune!😄😄😄
I love the way the camera is really close to the car so that you can't see the car. That makes a lot of sense.
Amazing historical footage. It is 100 years now..