The Dark Origins of Mercedes Racing - Past Gas #67
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Just a year before WWII, a 28 year old German driver named Bernd Rosemeyer crashed while driving over 260 miles per hour on a public road, killing him instantly. Just a few years earlier, Rosemeyer had been a humble mechanic, working at his dad’s garage. But now, he was part of a Hitler-funded racing program-- a violent effort to make Nazis the fastest drivers in the world. Today on Past Gas, the dark origins of Mercedes’ and Audi’s racing programs. How did these teams get started? What was their link to the Nazis? And why were some of the drivers not even Germans?
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It’s so nice to see ya’ll sitting together in the podcast!
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"semen. Dick semen." LOL
I tried my best not to laugh
"hitler arrived in his Grand Prix"
*I imagine Adolf Hitler rolling up in a pontiac*
I imagine Hitler rolling up in a really small pineapple on wheels, soaked in hot sauce.. he falls out and somehow his pineapplemobile (soaked in hot sauce) runs straight up into his butthole.
@@keeders08 nice little Nicky reference
@@Wolf813921 glad someone finally appreciated it. 🤘🏼😂🤘🏼 Niiice duuude!!
Past gas and donut media itself always makes my day brighter. James, keep being funny as you always have been. Nolan, keep being greatest Nolan I know and Joe, keep firing it up. Love you guys, I hope all of you @DonutMedia had great Christmas, and as we get closer to 2021, I wish you all Happy New Year!
Y’all should look into Mussolini’s relationship with auto racing that was going on at the same time, especially with Alfa Romeo. It would be a great follow-up.
I know that alfa was state owned by his fascist government
@@Disco2004 you’re absolutely right. In fact, Mussolini used Alfa Romeo to produce gifts in the form of cars to give to his political allies and his mistresses.
Just for the story: Jean Marie Balestre, president of the FIA in the 80's and 90's, was a member of the french SS at the end of WW2...
@@robertobrien1069 Max’s dad was THE Leader of the British Fascists in pre WW2 Britain, I’m almost certain he was jailed during the war
Hamilton watching this be like : *N-N-NANI* ?
The fuhrer seeing a black British guy winning for him: NEIN NEIN NEIN
Lewis: I just won my 7th title you want nine?
German supremacy
@@derpinated LMAO
I just realized something, THE MERCEDES YT CHANNEL JUST POSTED. Like 5 minutes ago.
Last Past Gas of the year and I'm thankful these 3 have been keeping me entertained every Sunday/Monday through this hell that is 2020. Thanks guys.
First rule of race club, never go 260mph with Dick Seaman
260 mph doesn't sound right at all. Maybe 260 kmph. Or 160 mph possibly. But no car back then could go 260 mph especially a road car
@@CodeineAbdulJabbar
They did achieve speeds in excess of 260 mph in 1938. Both Mercedes and Auto-Union.
The main problem was that they were perilously close to becoming airborne which cost Bernd Rosemeyer his life.
@@enematwatson1357 no chance in hell. Unless it was a one off top speed type of build
@@enematwatson1357 ok well i was half right. One of kind type of deal. Still extremely impressive and hard to believe.
@@enematwatson1357 that'll tend to happen when you're going 260 in a 750kg car with no semblance of down force 😂
My favorite automotive podcasts: Donut and Car Throttle.
smith and sniff is better
"yeah. dude. tight." I lost it lmfao.
If I had a dollar everytime Mercedes dominates in racing due to rule changes to engines, I'd have 2 dollars which is not a lot but it's weird how it happened twice.
You'd get more money from every time American companies got shafted by nascar rules on things being too European lol.
Going from the somber music to the Past Gas intro was a hard right turn I wasn’t expecting
Oh this is about the OTHER kind of Race-ism
Seeing you guys in the same room again makes me happy.
Laughed out loud at work during the horse bit. Hilarious.
I think the home videos were more entertaining, cuz of all the random things they would pull out sometimes and all, the backgrounds were really interesting!
Great increase in the production value, guys. The video quality is cinematic, looks awesome!
Oh yeah! Been waiting for this one! Thanks guys!
About to hop on the bike for my Sunday ride and guess what's at the top of youtube? Can't wait boys. God bless
Omw up to WA from OR and y’all are just what I need to pass the time
The only risk thats James is mo powah babeh
So in 1938, in the span of 90 seconds, a guy drove 268.8 miles per hour?!?!?!?! And why is it we haven't SOLIDLY broken through 300mph mark almost 100 years later?
I love motor sports history and you guys do it honestly the best on the tube
Excellent episode, guys! Happy to see you in the same room again, even if it makes me a little uncomfortable, too.
Glad y’all are back together. Dial in that lighting. 🤙🏼
Love the Fred Perry that joe is wearing, joe is definitely always impressing me with how cool he is
If you bemoan the fact that America doesn’t have an autobahn you should check out the turnpikes on the east coast, especially the Pennsylvania turnpike... there’s a speed limit I think, but cops don’t enforce it really
Do a episode on racing in the soviet union sometime
What is there to talk about? Just a bunch of poor people racing with other peasants.
@@littlesoldier1985 pretty much but more complicated
Please do a podcast on the Argentinian IKA Torino and the 84 hour Nürburgring endurance race. Also another podcast on Fangio. A lot of history there. Thanks
Stay close i miss these type podcasts
The comparison for Drake and Hitler was so spot on I spat out my water
I'm 68% german, but I like to round up to 69%. Lol were all equals. Get it through your heads people. Love past gas 👍
This podcast is dopee.. i quit watching most others, you dudez make some magic together..
Me: did you know ice cream was first invented in China
Doughnut: I thought it was invented in my DAD”s basement
Wait so was the on fire joke in Talladega Nights referencing alcohol and methanol burning invisibly?
James doesn't laugh, he giggles
Do the history on koth king of the hammers or baja 1000
2:43 James killed the mic
A gallon of water is 8lbs and paints generally thicker so if they took the paint off I'm sure it was more then enough to make the weight restrictions.
Thought you guys were mistaking mph with km/h but I'm the one who was mistaking! 268 mph (423 km/h) in 1938. YEEESSSHHH
I think they should do one or a few on Craig Breedlove and his land speed racing
We can engineer anything but a hinge.
Lmao
Day 65 of asking for the team to design a Dirty Dirk's Blinker Drink T-shirt from the Wheelhouse: Car Terms Every Car Nerd Needs To Know
WOOOO ALL TOGETHER
The Story of Horch and audi is quite interesting, because they are founded by the same Person, a man called August Horch, and so his first Company was called that. But when he startet to disagree with the Rest of the Management, he founded another Company called Audi, which is Latin for Horch.
Audi was cled NSU. It was renamed audi when it was acquired be the Volkswagen group and merged with Auto Union.
Can we get the Past Gas hosts to eat a whole box of Magic Spoon one hour before they tape? It would be laughs, giggles, snorts and snickers every few minutes.
Dick Semen was literally flying around some of those race tracks.
Drake and the Toronto Raptors 😂 great analogy
When he said the Volkswagen hitler I thought of a VW bug yelling in German lmao
Those driver’s names sound like villains from Die Hard movies lol.
Racist
@@CodeineAbdulJabbar not really. Have you seen the first Die Hard?
@@concernedcitizen2766 joke
@@CodeineAbdulJabbar gotcha, just making sure given how jumpy people are towards anything.
broken on 5 November 2017 by Koenigsegg in an Agera RS driven by Niklas Lilja, achieving 445.6 km/h (276.9 mph) on a closed highway in Nevada.
I love it when you guys do british accents, I'm a brit and it makes me giggle every time! We have great names for things, you should google what "Trump" means over here, quite fitting...
Wearing my mo POWA shirt now
Nolan, could you, would you want to, do a biographical on Lewis Hamilton. I'm stoked about George Russell's performance in the w11. I know you are a fan of Mercedes Petronas unless I'm mistaken, so how about a past gas about contemporary Mercedes works F1 teams.
I remeber having a hand with Elly and Rosemeyer what a crazy time for a crazy couple. You wouldn't believe how competitive they were in the bedroom with their swinger friends lol
you should do an episode on Ferdinand Porsche
I’m not kidding there’s a option on a beam ng car called MO POWEH BABY
Awesome episode. Funny that nolan could say the name of the king of brunei but not a german last name. Hahaha
Kinda disappointed you guys didn't touch upon the 1935 German Grand Prix and master class driving by Nuvolari
Joey Dunlop is the "King of Mountain"
Fire dup
Are there any movies about this?
Lmao, I can see the little smirks when you guys say certain stuff like "dick siemens came in first" lol an joe looks up and just smiles lmao comedy
Joe be Fire Dup
Soichiro Honda episode soon?
Hi Nolan
Pottenschtoak or however you spell it is technically a German Takami
Volkswagen did rebrand after the war. The Hitler Era VWs were called the KDF Wagen after the German workers union Kraft Durch Freud or Strength Through Joy. Yes the beetle was the Strength Through Joy Car.
The also used to have a swastika sorrounding the logo.
This comment will likely get buried, but I highly recommend the book "Faster" by Neal Bascomb for further reading on this era. I'm almost done with it so this podcast episode was near perfect timing.
P.S. Rudolf Caracciola was a total jerk after he started racing for Mercedes IMO.
I am a few chapters deep in this book and it has been fantastic reading so far. I emailed them in November to do this topic and the story of Lucy, Rene, and the "Million Franc Delahaye". Hopefully they follow up with an episode on that.
give a review video on TATA motors who own JLR .............
the cup holder to ash try ratio is too high for the Americans to earn an autobaun style highway. Also pulling over during an emergency doesn't happen in north America.
do the "show teams" compete via views or likes or total revenue?
Damn i really feel like joe had more to say at the end there
Just another reason to hate Mercedes in F1.
Please do an episode on AJ Foyt!!!
horch was founded by august horch. august horch had to leave his company after disputes with the company leadership. he founded another horch autocompany then lost a lawsuit over rights to the name horch and renamed his company audi. i guess the fact that audi was the company that "won" in the end is just karma
260 miles per hour??
Kinda goofy to say VW should have rebranded but not to say the same about Porsche. Named for one of Hitler's best friends 😂
Oy, why are we celebrating Thanksgiving ... in Britain? 🤣🤣🤣
You should have called him Richard. Stuttgart is pronounced "stew gart"
Was it maybe in km/h?
Crazy how it sounds but no, mph.
Almost another month with no up to speed
Hate all the covid fear coming from these young guys who should be healthy, yeah I know Jameses health stuff.
Bruh my heart drops into my ass when I go 125 In my bmw and these absolute animals go faster in open cockpits with tires that have the grip of a baby stroller
I like the new guy
Yinz need Rosetta Stone
My buddy is Manfred von Brauchitsch's great nephew (or some such). It's pronounced "brow-hitch". Follow me for more German pronounciations.
MO PAWA BABY
You know you can even drive the silver arrow in Mario Kart now right? Along with some stupid power wheels looking suv bs. Weirdest brand collab ever
The only thing that needs work is showing pictures/ correct pictures when the guys are talking about a specific vehicle.
James knowing your dad it was a different LSD
"After they died,, they were used as tools for propagation??" Oh my!! No wonder that isn't on the Mercedes website. I think you meant propaganda.
Alright everyone put on the big boy hats for this part
Me: oh no its gonna get even more sad
*DICK SEMEN*
Almost crashed I was laughing so hard
Otto Racing
Yeah Hass fired there driver's.
Isnt that a bmw in the picture?
It's important to remember that if Germany would have won the war, we'd be watching this podcast about how Ford was serving the same purpose for the US.
No, we would be dead or speaking german but youtube wouldntve existed
@@pandamoto you are absolutely a fool to miss the point this blatantly.
@@deltacharlieecho4732 no I still got the point, it was you who missed the joke
@@pandamoto see the thing about something being a joke is that for it to be a joke it has to actually be a joke. It can't be a factual statement so blatant that to call it a truism is an insult to the concept that the word represents. The other part of a joke, you know, being a joke is that it has to be funny, or clever, or at least generally uncomfortable if nothing else. Your statement is none of these things.
Maybe when you said 'joke' you meant reference, and even that is a stretch to the power of itself. I don't know, but I do know that what you said wasn't a joke.
@@deltacharlieecho4732 I can see that I literally can't say anything to change your mind so I'm gonna stop here. Have a nice day and try to make/understand jokes more. :)
Did you mean 260kph??
No, mph or over 420 km/h. I know its crazy. Thats one reason why i love old experimental/racecars so mutch because most people dont expect things like that.
Google "Rudolf Caracciola land speed record".