round the road. next on d w. these places in europe are smashing all the records. step into a bold adventure. it's the treasure map for modern globetrotters. discover some of you up to record breaking sites on google maps, youtube and now also in book form. ah an inconspicuous forest trail south, the frankfurt next to one of germany's famous outer bonds. it was the end of the

road for a legendary german racing driver, atlanta. and a crazy bid to break the land speed record. i hear the the events of over 80 years ago remain shrouded in mystery. i've been big. ah, it was like, i have been doing. oh, what exactly happened on that fateful day? ah my bill i had been and what is it that drives people to risk their lives to break speed records?

ah, who was band hosemeier who was killed in january 1938. when he crashed, while racing down the perfectly straight out of on it over 400 kilometers per hour . civic out in eastern germany home to museum. that was once the racing car factory of outgo. when you own germany's 1st state own car maker and a predecessor of today's audi, the 1930 saw an epic dual between 2 genes of the german racing seen as the relatively young out when you own saw to overtake the dominant mercedes benz team. a high profile rivalry that intensified when band hose m i had joined the out on your team. the young hot shot was to take on mercedes driver and european champion,

rudolph cut out jolla the auto renew, and bosses had high hopes for was a maya who was a boon for both motor racing and the nazi regime, eager to capitalize in the rivalry for propaganda purposes the dashing young dare devil fitted the bill perfectly vaguely have become vision ortho, my own parents, yolanda spittoon . was my buddy. i forgot your last mileage. oh my of them. oh my god, god with my with m o m i l. no, no, on the guy that come out to have with us on the one with,

with orange raised in to meet a man who's written a number of books on the early german motor racing era, including the 19 thirty's when the country's b carmakers fought out their rivalry on germany's new outer bonds, a network of modern highways, a pet project of the nazi regime, paid a cash bag is an automotive historian. the regime he explains, was eager to show that germany could build not only the fastest cars, but also the best roads. to maximize publicity, the authorities held race is called record weeks on the new high speed motor ways. it was banned or was a my as big moment. m october. it's already caught while her nose was even untie as ish for rosa. my broke a series of records that had belonged to car jolla in october 1937. when earning them to also union this style doing time, la shy, i'm a failed because of

a design outs of sync with the laws of nature's on i can causally, and vig lowndes, and not old, as at least as far when i'm ended by the end of the week of the national racing commission and promised that i'm not soon be allowed to make for the record attempts. merging next inside book either was over fallen doll as well. the info, the are doing also union have to respond because it the delicate relationship between a dime there in the public your dime lot aren't in. bo evidently tied. the alleged to god. what if it was a decision, was that if they drive off that, then we need to drive as well. the r k m is now there was an ominous wind blowing when it was jose. my eyes turned to start on january 28th. 1938. on his 1st run, he clocked 429 kilometers per hour. a personal best, but still not fast enough to rest. the record back from mercedes adjustments were

made. the wind grew stronger. despite warnings was m, i allegedly insisted on a 2nd run. it was 1147. mm. and then disaster at the 9.2 kilometer mark. those m i lost control of his type c car, dubbed storm lenient vog in or stream liner. flipping several times over the distance of 900 meters, the wreck came to a stop on an embankment. hosemeier was killed instantly. conspiracy theories quickly spread. auto executives were alleged to have disregarded the strong winds and st. hose. am i to premature death now to noon did not appear interested in a thorough investigation. the wreckage of the car was disposed of before it could be properly examined. without evidence, the only viable explanation was that

a gust of wind had blown rosy, meyer off the road. but is that the true explanation? why do people put their lives on the line in high speed jewels over a couple of kilometers in the name of progress on some dubious petrov quest? or is it personal ambition and ego band hosemeier and his tragic death in 1938. an event that left the motor, racing world in shock. one of its top drivers was dead. the nazi authority stage, his burial in berlin like a state funeral. it turned into a political rally. family, friends, fans, and rivals paid their last respects. while the notorious s. s. held a guard of honor for the fallen hero. but what was the actual cause of the accident? the question that was eclipsed amid the pomp of the funeral procession. nazi etiology could not allow a hero of the germination to have died due to technical deficiencies, let alone

a mortal driver's error. the cause was never investigated. cabinets home to the original ow to noon headquarters and a branch of the official sacks and he stayed. archives. we want to look at historical documents with this is where the file on band hosemeier death is captain by range of original documents, formal testimony, affidavits and eye witness accounts. including this letter from a certain auto guire to the head of the out who known motor racing team. his eye witness report recalls how the out on your own car veered onto the grass bank and turn sideways details similar to those observed by time keeper carlo lead man, who also referred to an explosion when questioned one

document is of special interest, a weather report from the nearby zeppelin airport between $11.12 on the day of the crash it registered strong winds and gusts of up to 11 meters per 2nd. interestingly, only the mercedes team had asked for forecast ahead of the record attempts out who noon didn't win. the car maker later sent a letter to its dealerships, however, insisting it had not recklessly put the driver under unreasonable pressure. man that the wind speed had in no way appeared dangerous. an attempt to shun responsibility. there are no photos or film. footage of owes myers final and fatal run itself. it's rumored, some material was destroyed,

but one private recording survived captured by auto insula, who worked in frankfort photo processing lab. on the day of the race, he was on a foot bridge crossing over the autobahn where he was filming, and air show taking place. at the same time, at one point m, sheila happened to briefly train his camera on the road below o z m i a can be seen after his 1st run. he just clocked 429 kilometers per hour and was about to set off and the other direction on the 2nd and fatal record attempt at 1st glance with all eyes on the road, the film seems inconspicuous. but a closer look, reveals other movement on the right of the picture. trees, visibly swaying, and evidently strong. almost storm like winds was the 2nd run

a suicide mission. we next meet motor sports expert martine, shrewder. investigating was a miles crash, has become a labor of love for the former bookseller. over the years, he's collected a wealth of documentation, much of it from private archives. and there's one question that never goes away. who is to blame for the driver's death? # one thing schluter is convinced of is that it cannot have been the wind alone as robin leash is, i caught us even over there. he moved in was windy. you can see in the film footage i heard on air 15 kilometers per hour from st. which wind blow the car off the road for me? financial i thing like this can be due to 2 causes and yachts, y, or the combination of 2 zoom of ones. why will by analyzing the photos from

that infamous day schluter came across some curious inconsistencies among them. out who knew owns motor sports division had made changes between the 1st and 2nd runs. the air intake duct at the front of the car, for example, was made smaller. the company, the nozzle is convicted one, the entire noise was replaced. and behind this little inlet, there was one tube supplying the engine with oxygen and with torn on the more tor mitzo washed off to her face. and another she had connected to the cockpit or iron gate. and scorpion 3 were here, lionel's in rel, oem thus cockpit mit loft. so for long the tube was necessary to prevent hose m. i from suffocating its speed. and another photo is of interest. a section of the body on the road. the picture was taken by a reporter from italy and chose part of the under body and some odd looking

triangular openings. they were evidently air vows. they could be operated from the cockpit embark to empties and also when didn't. when his loft, he had this outlet for the streaming and at the front where they told him that if it got too intense and at the speed it was like a storm. then he could step on this lever kinds of off. there's no dennis or so, or my number or not. i think he did that, which disrupted the lower aerodynamic because the air was suddenly being redirected underneath. the von, when the last storm, british go step bill than him, the car takes off of, but no air breath, you're stir of mammal. my understood all li airflow is disrupted at those speeds. at junk is 52 plain see talk about it took off at just 120 with all that weight

that's really kissing. after the war, it became clear that speeds of over 600 kilometers per hour on land were not possible with combustion engines. records of that kind would require rocket propulsion and the kind of expanses available on this lunar like landscape why bonnie bill in the state of utah in the united states with the remnants of a primeval lake, turned into seemingly infinite salt flats by a combination of wind and water for almost a century now, the ultimate test track and an el dorado for speed freaks.

this would be the stage for a new generation of record seekers, chief among them, art our fonts and craig breedlove. the 2 americans were obsessed with being the fastest men in history and would stop at nothing to set a new record, which i've now been held by a succession of british drivers. the dawn of the 1960. so our funds and breedlove opened a new chapter in the competition for the ultimate automotive glory. sam, holy lives in ontario, canada. he spent years studying the history of the salt flats era of speed records, and the fearless men famed as junkyard geniuses. holy. his written a number of books on the era ah, around 96061 that the united states air force was getting rid of

a whole bunch of fighter jets from the korean war. and all this stuff was going into the junk market. and so inca in los angeles were craig b love lived, lived like literally hundreds of j. 47 jet engines were being sold as scrap. so he was able to buy one for almost nothing, $500.00. he got that his 1st jet engine, if he got like an allison engine, it would have cost several $1000.00. so he was trying to save money by getting a chat ah, packing up to 70000 horsepower. those engines were fitted in 19 fifties air force jones, such as the famous star fighter that reached speeds of over 2200 kilometers per hour. exactly what kind of power that could translate into with when vehicles was difficult to decipher, given the lack of testing, ah, our phones knew absolutely nothing about jet engines, but somehow he, he found one from a junk dealer. and he found a manual about how to,

how these things worked. and he actually took this thing apart with no education, no background whatsoever, just kind of an innate intelligence that he had. and he put it back together and he figured out how it worked. so i mean, that is a stunning story. been literally these guys were doing it in their back yards. they had a, a steel post that was buried in the ground. and they were just literally chain the car to that post. and they would run that engine, and i mean they, they totally blank, round dead. i mean, all the grass that everything was, was blasted off of and i know in october 1964, craig re live broke his own record not once but twice. the 2nd attempt almost costing him his life. mm. are

me. i just under 850 kilometers per hour. they came out on the car. the brake parachute snapped off walker. step on the brakes. at that speed they would just burn them up. the car, sir, crossed the end of the preset track, taking out to telephone poles before crashing into a salt lake. breedlove could have drowned in the desert lake, but managed to escape through the roof top hatch miracle mm ah, over the decades. one thing that remains the same was that while the heroes of the road were put on a pedestal, they were at the same time pons of both political and economic imperatives. by the $900.00 sixty's record attempts shifted up another gear, as commercial competition took the front seat,

sensing an opportunity to boost their image. the tire and fuel industries pumped up, the hype and huge sums of sponsorship money into the inventive constructor, teams. for over 3 decades, the museum of technology and in time has been home to a vehicle that is perhaps the ultimate embodiment of this unbridled competition and its excesses. the blue flame, the product of an error. when record setting vehicles no longer really resemble cars, it's more of a rocket on wheels, 3 tons, propelled by 50000 horsepower. the driver was more of a pilot sitting on a mixture of liquid natural gas and hydrogen peroxide. it was rumored to be powerful enough to go to the moon. ah, re gab lake runs her own little museum here in long beach california. dedicated to the legacy of that landmark runner. sitting in the blue flame that day in october

1970 was her husband gary. the 1st person to crack the 1000 clock. it is pour our mark in a land vehicle. ah, it was a record that would stand for 13 years. ah, before coming to fame, gary gab alec was a little known drag racer who lived life in the fast lane of photogenic hell raiser, who looked good at the wheel of a bullet car and also cut a fine figure for nasa's marketing men. he'd been a test subject for the apollo program space suit and life support systems. in 1969, they gave gary the choice of either staying with the apollo program or continuing on with his adventures in racing. and at that time, he'd already been signed to drive the blue flame. and so he gave up apollo

for racing on the ground mm. or hocks about what it was like. and he goes through the count down from, you know, 19, you know, all the way down and how it felt when he's pushed back in the seed and experiencing the g force. pray, greed loves record student 966 kilometers per hour. on october 23rd, 1970 gary gabbled, prepared to set off across the salt flax of bonneville, utah. to break that 5 year old mock, but also to hit the 1000 kilometers per hour figure. he and his team had invested 6 years in the development of the 11 meter long cigar sheet vehicle for a spectacle that would last just 22 seconds before the fuel would run out. the man

in the head is the killer. one of the rocky cars creators, the former engineer now over 80 years old lives in daphne, alabama. and in the mid 19 sixty's, he tells us the u. s. natural gas industry was also keen to enter the arena. the big selling point was to get the american public, a sensational showcase of gas as more than just a fuel for old fashioned heaters. it was a cleaner and more efficient alternative to gasoline and kerosene. a record for the ages would win over new customers and push a profits. keller and his little engineering company took up the challenge. basically, our job was to try to do so of this city glanced director and was up to them to take advantage of that. and try to promote it to the general of the new record

attempt was a massive risk. wind tunnel tests had the blue flame topping 1200 kilometers per hour in the process breaking the sound barrier. but nobody could say if the running real conditions would go as planned. for the worst case scenario, the organizers had taken out life insurance for goblet worth over $100000.00. 3210. a year one ready? $300.00. 350. 400. 455561650?

yeah, we did a. that's exactly how it was. rather you boss. blue flame was timed at 622 miles or just over a 1000 kilometers per hour. a speed eventually bettered by a british team in 1983 and again in 1997. the 2nd time with the 1st ever supersonic land vehicle and a mark that stands to this day. but despite having only held the record for 13 years, blue flames moment of fame will for some always be the most memorable ah garry goblin never got the chance to regain the record. he was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1984. ah,

the never ending quest for speed has its euros and its victims. among them battles a maya. the exact reasons for the fatal outcome of that run will likely remain a matter of speculation. was it just the wind that sweat him off the road in january, 1938? probably not. there were a range of other potential factors involved, insufficient development work and technical expertise and time pressure. all things that were kept quiet for quite a while dimer might have won the race for the record, but it was the out oh known driver who grabbed the headlines and would feature in most of the history books. the record set by dimer was ultimately reduced to a footnote as for band whose m idea. was he really the fearless driver and dare devil who threw caution to the wind on that fateful day?

impervious to any fear. many observers have blame driver for his own death. at the has the regional archives and dom shot. we found photos previously not seen by the public. one is a shot of hose. am i a minutes before that final journey? with the look of a man who has a sense of foreboding, ah ah, [000:00:00;00]

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