There an old story in allot of the text books about these cars showing up in Italy for a big race against the Italian Auto Union team, their care was 10 years old, but they cud't make a faster car, these benzes lost to that car in 1933, Hitler was there to see that.
The car in the video is from 1934. Are you saying that it lost in 1933, a year before it was even made? Are you also saying that in 1933, it was already 10 years old, even though it hadn't been made yet? Please clarify.
@@echassin The 1934 Grand Prix was won by Alfa Romeo, and this Benz car had supercharger trouble, the other Benz had brake failure, so this is a race that is on youtube.
The wining of the compressor is the ice on the cake!
The drama, the intrigue, what a story line. Best video I have seen in years. 😢
Twice
In their time those cars were the pinnacle of what humans could create. Pretty damned impressive today.
É fantástico ver estas máquinas . Obrigado
What a hell of an engine! Sounds like a WW2 aircraft engine
janis joplin is smiling on it from heaven I'm sure
You put some wider modern racing slicks on that beast and it would win today
Jochen Maas in the background is getting nervus😎👍
This was when the real men raced, not the primadonas of today
Der grimmige Blick ist Pflicht bei sowas :D
10+ minutes getting it started.
Still quicker to start than a modern Grand Prix car… I hope Mercedes-Benz Classic keeps these wonderful machines running long into the future.
12 minutes of a car not moving. Do better.
Working longer in this job your ears will be out of order. 😢😢😢
There an old story in allot of the text books about these cars showing up in Italy for a big
race against the Italian Auto Union team, their care was 10 years old, but they cud't
make a faster car, these benzes lost to that car in 1933, Hitler was there to see that.
The car in the video is from 1934. Are you saying that it lost in 1933, a year before it was even made? Are you also saying that in 1933, it was already 10 years old, even though it hadn't been made yet? Please clarify.
They did not return to racing until 1934 as already stated
Auto Union was a German company, not Italian.
AU was an ancestor of Audi.
@@echassin The 1934 Grand Prix was won by Alfa Romeo, and this Benz car had
supercharger trouble, the other Benz had brake failure, so this is a race that is on youtube.
spinner.
Whut.
The drama, the intrigue, what a story line. The best video I have seen in years. 😢
Just gaze in wonder. No voiceover necessary.