This a Type A, I believe. Type C had rear torsion bar suspension, stack exhausts, and a one piece removable engine cover. The offset fuel filler neck was only in Type A's as far as I know, also.
Typ A has a different more upright radiator grille than the C-Type and the only Typ A is a Replica owned by the Belgian importer of Audi, D'Ieteren Freres and the Mechanics didnt speak German at all sounds french that the elgians also speak ;-) And it i SPA ;-)
Look, during May 2024 I drove my Bugatti Type 59 for the first time. Below 2000rpm it stalled, it has a crash gearbox which is perfectly alright to gear up but much trickier to gear down as it needs a fast heel & toe and double declutch. Now, having the car is one thing but how would you conceive building the skills ? These skills can’t get acquired through one’s sleep. I drove my car, I enjoyed it immensely but I was obliged to be reasonable on speed as I was conscious I had to slow it down for chicanes and corners. Of course I was assertive to start with but I stalled on several occasions whilst trying to gear down… switched to 2nd and it restarted it. Not very pretty but I did not need towing back to the stands.
She is really beautiful. Warm congratulations for having restored it and especially for making it run! Well done! Well done! Well done! Encouragement and Thanks!
There are some replicas and some original ones. Restored / Made in the UK at Crothwaithe & Gardiner. In any case these won’t break like crystal is well warmed up and taken care of.
There are more people who at least know how to slip a clutch better for a long first gear. The fat millionaire in the car is probably a fan but doesn't contribute in any way to it.
Agree, it's a race car not a family runabout, needs to be taken by the scruff of the neck and really driven hard, trouble is this guy hasn't got the bollocks to do it, probably few people alive do.
To all you "keyboard racers" out there, try, for once, to put yourself in the place of the person who is attempting to drive this beast! He's trying to get this marvelous racing car up to speed, without roasting the clutch, over-revving the engine (blowing it up) or screwing up in any number of other ways. "Replica" or not, this vehicle must represent a massive investment! A huge responsibility on the driver's part, one which I doubt many of the "keyboard racers" out there would be willing to accept! I enjoyed just hearing this wonderful engine singing a song of power!
David your spot on the keyboard idiots who imagine they can do better would probably ruin the clutch and wreck the engine.These type of idiots you see regularly on our roads thinking they can speed along oblivious to other road users.Fangio and Stirling moss used to gently coax their cars not thrash them unnecessarily, and look what they achieved. Well said in your comments nothing annoys me more than abuse of a mechanical peice of engineering, be it even a hoover washing machine 🙂 or anything made with care. Fantastic sound I think the D version was probably even nicer sounding. Good German engineering. From our side of the hill England 🇬🇧 its got to be the 16 cylinder BRM or a Vanwall .
They're not scared of the car, they're scared of breaking it because it's one of a kind. Load up your sim and drive a "decent approximation" of this car in it, and go balls out at Spa and see if you'd crash it or not. And keep in mind, you can reset and go back if you do, so your first touch of the wall while practicing means you failed. While this guy is going to crash something that is priceless. If you're into people racing very expensive old cars without caring if they crash, Goodwood is for you.
One of the greatest cars of all times, the absolute kings in the 1930’s. Unequalled in performance until the 80’s. An amazing achievement in only one year starting from scratch.
But let’s not forget, it happened with the full backing of and blank check govt purse to pursue this venture. But yes, the devoured everything else in sight.
No one has achieved what the national socialist did in that short period of time, they brought the world into the 20nth century. The inventor of the modern programmable computer is Konrad Zuse a National Socialist.
The great Tazio Nuvolari drove for Auto Union (C and D versions) for 3 years, winning the Grand Prix each year from '37 to '39 after decades of driving for Alfa Romeo, Maserati, and Bugatti. The 'C' version was a 16 cylinder, the 'D' a 12 cylinder.
The 30’s had three GP cars that dominated . . Alfa Romeo, Auto Unionen and Mercedes Benz . . As for the best drivers, they were all Giants and Fearless the way they drove those cars.
I wonder why they made the tires so narrow in those days when this was designed? With that amount of power, you would think the tires would be the limiting factor in performance.
they were all crossply tyres back then, they were pretty much like like big pushbike tyres so couldnt be that wide, it wasnt till radial tyres came along that gp/f1 tyres could get wider
V16 sounds awesome .. .must have been terrifying to the competition way back in 1936!! It's so crazy to think that Auto Union developed this mid engine layout almost 80 years ago... which is used in ALL modern road course race cars today.
the strongest German racing car in the world - of its time. He had 382 KW ( 520 PS ) and reached a maximum speed of 220 Mph ( 350 Km/h) . Today Formula 1 racing cars are also not much faster ;)
Only a handful of men ever mastered the Auto Union. Presumably the guy trying to drive it here is a pretty experienced driver, or he wouldn’t be in the thing.
@@1946nimrod - Could be correct. Seems with Indy cars, the procedure for leaving the pits is to brings the revs up near red line and side step the clutch. Slip the tires and not the clutch!
Holly crap. Such negative comments. This is a pricelsss car which doesn’t have any extra driving aids of modern day. Brake clutch gas peddle and steering wheel. Bout covers it. Except for the seat cover - just kidding there wasn’t one when I sat I. It. A low gear which goes to 70+ and did I mention is priceless. Don’t break it. Don’t hurt it. Just drive it and enjoy it while not hurting it or ur self. Try going 120 when ur backside is 3 inches for the ground, your hands r knumb after 3 minutes and the tires pull left or right depending on the speed. Thank u bias ply. Wish the vid had more motor and suspension but u gets what u gets. If the negatives knew the history of the car maybe there would be - never mind they r idiots.....thanx for the vid. Where is she now?
I wonder if you have any idea how difficult this car was to tame, much less master. Further to that, I doubt anyone here has any better idea of how to do it.
Este video me regreso a mi infancia cuando mi padre me mandaba pintar mi carro de pedales,de metal el olor De la pintura era un olor característico no el de hoy... tengo 57años te dire que es de ase 47años..hoy será difícil describir ese olor ....el olor del humo de su coche en la cochera...eso era vida
It’s a racing car so one has to be assertive and get in the rev band prior to release the clutch then keep it going and get up the gears without necessarily getting into top gear and high speed as slowing down is the tricky bit. The crash gearbox requires a double declutch and heel and toe whilst blipping the engine throttle. Not so easy to start with but manageable with some difficulties at the beginning. I tried it in May with my Bugatti Type 59, I have a lot to learn but it’s great 🤩
Schönes Auto, sehr alter Fahrer... wie in den großen modernen Audis auch, nur dass die Fahrzeuge nicht annähernd die alte Eleganz vergangener Zeiten aufweisen. HIER passt der große Grill, aber, um Gottes Willen, heut ists ein klaffendes Scheunentor!
It would be sad to put disc brakes and wide tyres. The drum brakes are perfectly fine to slow down it’s 750kg+ fluids + driver. And for the fat tyres, in period they doubled the rear tyres for hill climbs.
I too was disappointed in the operation but, to give the driver the benefit of doubt, some tracks will have noise restrictions except on certain days. Possibly they weren't able to really 'let 'er howl'. No doubt that thing makes quite a din at full song...
No there was only one driver that performed best in this car, Bernd Rosemeyer he earned the 1936 the European Grand Prix Championship with this monster of 6005 cc volume or so and over 500 hp. Nuvolari was successor after Rosemeyer's death in February 1938, from this year on Motorsports regulation limited the engines to 3 litre volume. This was the type D V12 rear motor car and it took Nuvolari more then half a year until he became accustomed to the back motor concept, so he won 1938 in Donington and 1939 in the last GP before WW2 in Belgrad. th-cam.com/video/_Fv6FuTBYDI/w-d-xo.html Auto Union Type D can be seen in this old video from 1909 when Zwickau celebrated 100 years of Audi!
@@bennyhannover9361 Nuvolari had driven Auto Unions as far back as 1934! Tested one of these at Masaryk GP in 1934, and it is said that his times were pretty fast considering how new the car was for him. He was also great friend with Bernd Rosemeyer, and as a bit of a trivia, he managed to get Bernd to test an Alfa Romeo 12C-36 at Monza in 1936...
Pas évident à conduire mais ça le fait. Le départ est ce qu’il y a de plus facile, il suffit de conserver les tours moteur et ça part tout seul. Après les vitesses se passent bien à la montée mais attention à ne pas aller trop vite et se faire surprendre par la manœuvre de retrogradage / freinage pour aborder virages et chicanes. Les boîtes crash nécessitent un bon talon-pointe à la descente des vitesses. J’étais à Monthléry en Mai 2024 avec ma Bugatti Type 59 et en vrac à chaque retrogradage mais je me suis un peu amélioré à chaque session. Il faut de la pratique mais également ne pas être excessivement timide comme la personne aux commandes de l’auto dans la vidéo. Tout s’apprend.
How amazing to hear it run again. The stuff of legends. What were they pulling in the 1920's out of these? 240 mph, 250 mph? Remember it was shocking. Well over 220 mph. Sounds like an old WWII aircraft in the woods...
Not in this body trim they didn't. They maxed out at 180mph The ones that went faster had a streamlined body tailored for land speed records and different gearing
@@stijnvandamme76 You are correct. It's been a few decades since I read on the mighty Auto Unions and their unreal top speed records and I had forgotten they made some 'slow' ones.... Some were V-12's (slower) and some were the supercharged V-16's or were they all supercharged? I always thought how cool it'd be to build a mid engine single seater with a old V-12 just to capture the unusual look and non V8 sound of these unassuming monsters.
I thought for a second, because of the helmet colouring it was Piquet we were looking at. I quickly realised it was his poorer cousin, gis.a.quid. Winner of 3 embarrassing moments champion. Another highlight for this poor guy.
There comes a point of time in you life you can afford a racing car like this, pity is by then you are well and truly past being able to drive it in any capacity. Fine example of this above!
It’s tricky to drive but not to start rolling although it needs assertiveness. The most tricky thing is to slow down gear down whilst not stalling. With the crash gearbox one must heel & toe + a blip on the throttle to gear down and it must be done fast. Other than that it’s fine although it’s a totally different ball game in the wet.
Nick Jason's Auto Union type c car ..the drummer of Pink Floyd fame ..a very talented driver and a petrolheads with great taste in vehicles..I imagine a type c in any ones hands would be a nightmare as they did not come alive until around nearly 3k rpm and steering was questionable ..but lucky bastard getting to drive that
@@gregmenego2200 The supercharged Auto Union engines that I've seen have a carburetor located to the rear of the Roots type blower. I don't think it is visible in the video.
This a Type A, I believe. Type C had rear torsion bar suspension, stack exhausts, and a one piece removable engine cover. The offset fuel filler neck was only in Type A's as far as I know, also.
Also dual rear wheels
@@deborahchesser7375 they only used dual rear tires for hill climb events as far as I'm aware, they used singles for Grand Prix events
@@SedatedandRestrained oh ok gotcha ✌️
Plus the type A has much different body detailing as well. Very obvious.
Typ A has a different more upright radiator grille than the C-Type and the only Typ A is a Replica owned by the Belgian importer of Audi, D'Ieteren Freres and the Mechanics didnt speak German at all sounds french that the elgians also speak ;-)
And it i SPA ;-)
Money can not buy skills. Cheers
Id be terrified of driving it because the implications of crashing it. Its a museum piece.
Look, during May 2024 I drove my Bugatti Type 59 for the first time. Below 2000rpm it stalled, it has a crash gearbox which is perfectly alright to gear up but much trickier to gear down as it needs a fast heel & toe and double declutch. Now, having the car is one thing but how would you conceive building the skills ? These skills can’t get acquired through one’s sleep.
I drove my car, I enjoyed it immensely but I was obliged to be reasonable on speed as I was conscious I had to slow it down for chicanes and corners. Of course I was assertive to start with but I stalled on several occasions whilst trying to gear down… switched to 2nd and it restarted it. Not very pretty but I did not need towing back to the stands.
She is really beautiful. Warm congratulations for having restored it and especially for making it run! Well done! Well done! Well done! Encouragement and Thanks!
Its replica most likely
There are some replicas and some original ones. Restored / Made in the UK at Crothwaithe & Gardiner.
In any case these won’t break like crystal is well warmed up and taken care of.
That car is crying out for Bernd Rosemeyer to open up the taps and show us what this monster can really do.
It's 80 years old!!
@@1946nimrod - Probably the only man on the planet to master this beast! Call him the Jimmy Doolittle of Formula 1! Also see the Gee Bee racer... 7 11
There are more people who at least know how to slip a clutch better for a long first gear. The fat millionaire in the car is probably a fan but doesn't contribute in any way to it.
@bullsballs You have evidence for that? It looks pretty original to me!
Agree, it's a race car not a family runabout, needs to be taken by the scruff of the neck and really driven hard, trouble is this guy hasn't got the bollocks to do it, probably few people alive do.
Some of the most wickedly awesome race cars ever built were from this era.
To all you "keyboard racers" out there, try, for once, to put yourself in the place of the person who is attempting to drive this beast! He's trying to get this marvelous racing car up to speed, without roasting the clutch, over-revving the engine (blowing it up) or screwing up in any number of other ways. "Replica" or not, this vehicle must represent a massive investment! A huge responsibility on the driver's part, one which I doubt many of the "keyboard racers" out there would be willing to accept! I enjoyed just hearing this wonderful engine singing a song of power!
So you think constantly stalling, starting, and labouring an engine is good for it? The guy is driving it like a knob.
David your spot on the keyboard idiots who imagine they can do better would probably ruin the clutch and wreck the engine.These type of idiots you see regularly on our roads thinking they can speed along oblivious to other road users.Fangio and Stirling moss used to gently coax their cars not thrash them unnecessarily, and look what they achieved. Well said in your comments nothing annoys me more than abuse of a mechanical peice of engineering, be it even a hoover washing machine 🙂 or anything made with care. Fantastic sound I think the D version was probably even nicer sounding. Good German engineering. From our side of the hill England 🇬🇧 its got to be the 16 cylinder BRM or a Vanwall .
to hell with you keyboard racers, go slot car racing, and play the soundtracks in the background you will think you're there!
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the drivers weren’t scared of it and drove it like it was meant to be driven
I mean this car is probably to effing expensive to do that but yeah
They're not scared of the car, they're scared of breaking it because it's one of a kind. Load up your sim and drive a "decent approximation" of this car in it, and go balls out at Spa and see if you'd crash it or not. And keep in mind, you can reset and go back if you do, so your first touch of the wall while practicing means you failed. While this guy is going to crash something that is priceless. If you're into people racing very expensive old cars without caring if they crash, Goodwood is for you.
Because no one wants to crash a $10 Million dollar car.
U try driving that thing
Yes, and wouldn't it be great if that guy knew how to drive a stick shift!
One of the greatest cars of all times, the absolute kings in the 1930’s. Unequalled in performance until the 80’s. An amazing achievement in only one year starting from scratch.
But let’s not forget, it happened with the full backing of and blank check govt purse to pursue this venture. But yes, the devoured everything else in sight.
No one has achieved what the national socialist did in that short period of time, they brought the world into the 20nth century. The inventor of the modern programmable computer is Konrad Zuse a National Socialist.
Unequalled in performance until the 80s? Fangio was about 30 seconds faster than the fastest of the pre-war German cars in 1957.
@@Shawn-fy2hrWe get it, you love Nazis.
The great Tazio Nuvolari drove for Auto Union (C and D versions) for 3 years, winning the Grand Prix each year from '37 to '39 after decades of driving for Alfa Romeo, Maserati, and Bugatti. The 'C' version was a 16 cylinder, the 'D' a 12 cylinder.
Really pro on the wheel.....
Love this auto union have yet too see one close up amazing engineering for 1930s
Makes me want to hit the gas listening to that thing warm up . What happened to popping clutch to start it after it died?
Race drivers in those days had to have guts and courage. A rollover often meant certain death.
My favorite Grand Prix car of all time! Wow!
I like the 20 year old Auto Union expert. You can tell, he knows that car inside out.
Al Gentry seasoned vintage racers all around! 😂
German engineering at its best...sobering to think that in only just over a decade this car will be 100 years old !
One mistake and you're history...But an amazing car, indeed
The 30’s had three GP cars that dominated . . Alfa Romeo, Auto Unionen and Mercedes Benz . . As for the best drivers, they were all Giants and Fearless the way they drove those cars.
Should start off with a massive wheel spin with smoke pouring off the tyres
Gearing is too high for demo purposes. Drivers scared of ruining the clutch.
@@subrogation747it happens on the grid so..
Just two questions: Where can I find this driving school? And what did the car do to deserve this?
What are they priming it with in the rear?
I think the experts today have all no idea how to manage a race car like this
These cars are being raced in the UK without any specific issues.
Just think. They raced those monsters flat out in leather helmets!!! Like the guy @2.54
I do love that they convinced Audi to commission a complete and correct replica.
I wonder why they made the tires so narrow in those days when this was designed? With that amount of power, you would think the tires would be the limiting factor in performance.
If you watch some of the original footage you'll see that AU sometimes doubled up the rear wheels (two per side)
They didnt knew much about grip I think. And the idea was that speed was more important than grip in the corners.
they were all crossply tyres back then, they were pretty much like like big pushbike tyres so couldnt be that wide, it wasnt till radial tyres came along that gp/f1 tyres could get wider
That's a very TALL first gear. Apparently the engine looks like it was built by a watchmaker when you do a teardown.
Great gold piece of history!!!
That's an amazing sound.
So much mechanical action.
V16 sounds awesome .. .must have been terrifying to the competition way back in 1936!! It's so crazy to think that Auto Union developed this mid engine layout almost 80 years ago... which is used in ALL modern road course race cars today.
Constructors: We have built the most amazing machine to destroy the track.
Management: We shall fill it with people who know nothing about to driving.
Reading the comments is more fun than watching the video.
the strongest German racing car in the world - of its time. He had 382 KW ( 520 PS ) and reached a maximum speed of 220 Mph ( 350 Km/h) . Today Formula 1 racing cars are also not much faster ;)
Auto Union streamliner did 267 mph 😁
That car sounds fucking amazing. Germans sure were great with their cars.
Did they have the camber compensator idea yet?
Or did the leaf springs give somewhat the same effect?
Side to side...
J.C.
Época de gloria, máquinas y grandes pilotos.😕♥️
Only a handful of men ever mastered the Auto Union. Presumably the guy trying to drive it here is a pretty experienced driver, or he wouldn’t be in the thing.
original porsche boxster where is the front?
Sounds like a Focke Wulf over the Ardenne
The FW190 had a radial engine - different 'beat' altogether!
@@1946nimrod
I know that.....was said with tongue in cheek dompkopf!
@@gregmenego2200 Always hard to tell with YT comments!
@@1946nimrod
:-)
Why. Toto s a nice man.rog. pacific sunset.
that's a really badass car!
A thing of beauty 👌
😯😲💪👏👌¡¡ fantastic !!
Que pifiada de cambios 😂😂
V16.. What a MONSTER Classic
why does it have positive camber on front
cuz u touch yrself at night
Because then it goes faster
Starting in second or third gear?
Nope - First!!
@@1946nimrod - Could be correct. Seems with Indy cars, the procedure for leaving the pits is to brings the revs up near red line and side step the clutch. Slip the tires and not the clutch!
Beautiful car! Wow!
Is that Auto Union Starter a real unit?? Or is it just a sticker on a modern unit? Would be cool if it was restored for this car!!!
Great machine, great sound, just needs a good driver ;)
The sound an the emotions from the Alfas is so much better !!! The Engine runs better and the red colors looks greater!
Yeah but they just break down all the time 😂😂😂
The Alfa are only different beasts. There are as many tastes and preferences as people.
Did he lift at Eau Rouge?!?
Unreal technology for the time
@@noidontthinksolol
Yes it was.
Engine in the back for a better weight ratio 1960
Revving way way higher,for that time.
This guy should have started going forward in First Gear not 4th!
DaVinci or Michangelo would approve of this beauty...
Did he use 1st gear to pull away?
Holly crap. Such negative comments. This is a pricelsss car which doesn’t have any extra driving aids of modern day. Brake clutch gas peddle and steering wheel. Bout covers it. Except for the seat cover - just kidding there wasn’t one when I sat I. It. A low gear which goes to 70+ and did I mention is priceless. Don’t break it. Don’t hurt it. Just drive it and enjoy it while not hurting it or ur self. Try going 120 when ur backside is 3 inches for the ground, your hands r knumb after 3 minutes and the tires pull left or right depending on the speed. Thank u bias ply. Wish the vid had more motor and suspension but u gets what u gets. If the negatives knew the history of the car maybe there would be - never mind they r idiots.....thanx for the vid. Where is she now?
Millionaires with no concept of how to drive!
Hold my BEER!
Regards from Germany.
I wonder if you have any idea how difficult this car was to tame, much less master. Further to that, I doubt anyone here has any better idea of how to do it.
Hammer geile Klänge 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤👍👍👍👍👍👍
Who's the clutch killer driving it???
Dropping clutch is last thing You want to do with this amount of torque.
Make 20 idenitical Type C and let the current F1 drivers drive these instead of their usual mounts at Spa later this year :-)
Who would win?
they would all be dead :)
Kirk Douglas. So him win in an early movie. Too early for Steve McQueen.
Este video me regreso a mi infancia cuando mi padre me mandaba pintar mi carro de pedales,de metal el olor De la pintura era un olor característico no el de hoy... tengo 57años te dire que es de ase 47años..hoy será difícil describir ese olor ....el olor del humo de su coche en la cochera...eso era vida
Does it have less gears than other race cars, or is it hard to get into gear..seems to stall wen clutch is released. But it sounds amazing i must say
It’s a racing car so one has to be assertive and get in the rev band prior to release the clutch then keep it going and get up the gears without necessarily getting into top gear and high speed as slowing down is the tricky bit. The crash gearbox requires a double declutch and heel and toe whilst blipping the engine throttle. Not so easy to start with but manageable with some difficulties at the beginning. I tried it in May with my Bugatti Type 59, I have a lot to learn but it’s great 🤩
Schönes Auto, sehr alter Fahrer... wie in den großen modernen Audis auch, nur dass die Fahrzeuge nicht annähernd die alte Eleganz vergangener Zeiten aufweisen.
HIER passt der große Grill, aber, um Gottes Willen, heut ists ein klaffendes Scheunentor!
driver has NO CONCEPT of a racing engine.----he drives like a hyundai going to aldi.
bucks NOT brains I drive that thing to aldi's WITH THE POLICE IN TOW!
Air port great comment.
And pray tell how many 1936 Auto Unions worth three million dollars have you driven Mr expert ?
Oops you've upset some of the biffers. Never question, never observe. Just enjoy watching the privileged pratts.
Air Port - Yeah, but in the end he was stylin' in that leather helmet.
Air Port lol
Who drives this car??
The most beautiful race car ever produced. If i were very wealthy i would buy one and have engineers retro fit disc brakes and wide modern tires.
It would be sad to put disc brakes and wide tyres. The drum brakes are perfectly fine to slow down it’s 750kg+ fluids + driver. And for the fat tyres, in period they doubled the rear tyres for hill climbs.
The late 20's to the late 30's best race cars ever in design and sounds, not to mention best drivers of all, real men not keyboard drivers.
Era un mostro ma il suono della Bimotore era un'altra storia per non parlare della linea...
Nelson Piquet helmet?
This is a recreation Auto Union, but still excellent!
hi, i try to find good onboard sample for simracing of auto union type c someone can help?
Una lástima que no hayan puesto un piloto profesional en la prueba
Why can’t it stay running???
Built from Croswaithe and Gardiner for Audi
LEGENDARY Audi Reliability right there.....
Stunning sound. Engine is begging to get from under the reigns and be set free.....🍻
It might have been nice to have seen some of the footage from the three (or more) GoPro cameras onboard...
Is he starting in third gear?
I too was disappointed in the operation but, to give the driver the benefit of doubt, some tracks will have noise restrictions except on certain days. Possibly they weren't able to really 'let 'er howl'. No doubt that thing makes quite a din at full song...
Niet normaal dit, waanzinnig! Staat in mijn favorieten lijst, thanks!
Waow very nice car sir 👍😎🌈
3:45 Man! That first gear is TALL!
Thats because its not 1st gear,its 2nd,in 1st this cars just lays down rubber
There was only one man that could tame this beast, Tazio Nuvolari the best driver ever lived.
No there was only one driver that performed best in this car, Bernd Rosemeyer he earned the 1936 the European Grand Prix Championship with this monster of 6005 cc volume or so and over 500 hp. Nuvolari was successor after Rosemeyer's death in February 1938, from this year on Motorsports regulation limited the engines to 3 litre volume. This was the type D V12 rear motor car and it took Nuvolari more then half a year until he became accustomed to the back motor concept, so he won 1938 in Donington and 1939 in the last GP before WW2 in Belgrad.
th-cam.com/video/_Fv6FuTBYDI/w-d-xo.html
Auto Union Type D can be seen in this old video from 1909 when Zwickau celebrated 100 years of Audi!
Rosermayer's last words "I'm not a child, I know what has to be done."
@@bennyhannover9361 Nuvolari had driven Auto Unions as far back as 1934! Tested one of these at Masaryk GP in 1934, and it is said that his times were pretty fast considering how new the car was for him.
He was also great friend with Bernd Rosemeyer, and as a bit of a trivia, he managed to get Bernd to test an Alfa Romeo 12C-36 at Monza in 1936...
Oh to see and hear someone who knows what they are doing take this up to say 80 percent of its limit👍👍
What a machine, I'd love to drive that!
You'd probably drive it better than the tosser they had.
Pas évident à conduire mais ça le fait. Le départ est ce qu’il y a de plus facile, il suffit de conserver les tours moteur et ça part tout seul. Après les vitesses se passent bien à la montée mais attention à ne pas aller trop vite et se faire surprendre par la manœuvre de retrogradage / freinage pour aborder virages et chicanes. Les boîtes crash nécessitent un bon talon-pointe à la descente des vitesses. J’étais à Monthléry en Mai 2024 avec ma Bugatti Type 59 et en vrac à chaque retrogradage mais je me suis un peu amélioré à chaque session. Il faut de la pratique mais également ne pas être excessivement timide comme la personne aux commandes de l’auto dans la vidéo. Tout s’apprend.
Driver, no idea. Car, probably the most beautiful machine ever built!
How amazing to hear it run again. The stuff of legends. What were they pulling in the 1920's out of these? 240 mph, 250 mph?
Remember it was shocking. Well over 220 mph.
Sounds like an old WWII aircraft in the woods...
Not in this body trim they didn't. They maxed out at 180mph
The ones that went faster had a streamlined body tailored for land speed records and different gearing
@@stijnvandamme76 You are correct. It's been a few decades since I read on the mighty Auto Unions and their unreal top speed records and I had forgotten they made some 'slow' ones....
Some were V-12's (slower) and some were the supercharged V-16's or were they all supercharged?
I always thought how cool it'd be to build a mid engine single seater with a old V-12 just to capture the unusual look and non V8 sound of these unassuming monsters.
mid to later 1930s
J.C.
This is a type A.
this is why i love TH-cam
I stood next to one as it was started at the 97 Goodwood FoS 😯😯
They had it right in 1936 with rear engine design. Wonder why it took another 30 years for it to catch on.
German Top Fuel Dragster🔥🔥🔥
Unsere Auto- Union: Das wars dann wohl für die Konkurrenz!
I thought for a second, because of the helmet colouring it was Piquet we were looking at. I quickly realised it was his poorer cousin, gis.a.quid. Winner of 3 embarrassing moments champion. Another highlight for this poor guy.
There comes a point of time in you life you can afford a racing car like this, pity is by then you are well and truly past being able to drive it in any capacity. Fine example of this above!
David it’s his problem! I guess you have vast experience in racing that monster for judging so severely of the problems he had!!! 😂
It’s tricky to drive but not to start rolling although it needs assertiveness. The most tricky thing is to slow down gear down whilst not stalling. With the crash gearbox one must heel & toe + a blip on the throttle to gear down and it must be done fast. Other than that it’s fine although it’s a totally different ball game in the wet.
Where are the silberpfeil from Mercedes - Benz 👍😁
Behind
No smoke out of the left bank. Anyone else notice?
Seems like they can't get the feel of the clutch.
1st is prolly higher than 4th in a car
Nick Jason's Auto Union type c car ..the drummer of Pink Floyd fame ..a very talented driver and a petrolheads with great taste in vehicles..I imagine a type c in any ones hands would be a nightmare as they did not come alive until around nearly 3k rpm and steering was questionable ..but lucky bastard getting to drive that
You mean Nick Mason??
yes sorry Nick Mason..auto correct crap stuffs the comment again
Keeping the rev up to avoid stalking is rather tricky especially when learning to gear down with the heel & toe, double declutch, etc… Not easy.
It’s not Nick Mason on the video but he has one I think.
:-/ This car is definitely in need of someone who knows how to set the carburetors correctly !
Graham Palmer Do you know who owns this car ?
Fuel injection surely?
@@gregmenego2200 The supercharged Auto Union engines that I've seen have a carburetor located to the rear of the Roots type blower. I don't think it is visible in the video.
Where's the Stig when you need him?
1:55 try first gear, first. Has he ever driven this before?
MagnetOnlyMotors the gears are super long in this vehicle
Spa....not far away from my hometown.....