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part of a whole system which believes his time has come with china's president, she ging paying starts july 30th on d. w. ah, ah, an inconspicuous forest trail, south of frankfort, next to one of germany's famous auto bonds. in houston, with the end of the road for a legendary german racing driver, made it to me in a no holds barred a bid for land speed supremacy with the events of over 80 years ago remained the subject of speculation. with what exactly happened on

that fateful day and what is it that pushes people to pursue speed records at all costs? oh my, let me bill with oh, oh oh oh oh oh, who was band was a maya who died in january 1938 driving down the perfectly straight autobahn at over 400 kilometers per hour. stick out an eastern germany home to a museum that was once the racing car factory of our total known. germany's 1st

state run automaker and a predecessor of today's audi than 1930 saw an epic dual between 2 giants of the german racing seen as the relatively young ow total known sought to overtake the dominant mercedes benz team, a high profile rivalry that intensified when band holes, am i a joined the out own unity? the young hot shot was to take on mercedes works driver and european champion old old car chola. the auto own own bosses had high hopes for jose maya, who was a boon for both motor racing and a nazi regime, eager to capitalize on the competition for propaganda. the bold, young rising star was perfect. mm hm. thing we have become proficient all my own plants, yolande. speed soon.

awesome. i have good luck and fun. i'm to really divide from caiaccio and i'm stuck without it. oh them i asked them. oh my god, one that bid them owe them. i alluded and gave me linen. this is rosamille yor t gotten a call back about my son isley steel with we're in dresden to meet a man who's written a number of books on the early german motor racing iraq, including the 19 thirty's when the country's big carmakers fought out their rivalry on germany's new out o bonds, a network of modern highways that brought prestige to the nazis

hater casberg. as 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 authorities held special record speed weeks on the new high speed motor ways. another chance for glory for band also maya m october. it's already caught while her nose was even on ties ish. frozen my broke a series of records that had belonged to kara jolla in october 1937. when earning them to also union this dollar doing time lock. shad i'm a failed because of a design out of sync with the laws of nature's an icon causally. and vig lowndes, and not all this, at least as far went, i'm ended by the end of the week or the national racing commission. i promised that i'm lead soon. be allowed to make for the record attempts merging next inside. pulled idle was over fallen dawn as will them for the hour during auto union have

to respond because of the delicate relationship between a dime there in the public, a dime law and in the air from dish tired delish to grant waterford. when to a decision was that if they drive up that, then we need to drive as well. the arcade, you're missing out. as seen from the teams 10, the wind had picked up when it was, was a my as turn 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 wrestle the record back from mercedes adjustments are made while the wind grew stronger. hosemeier was impatient, reportedly telling his team to just let him get back on the road for a 2nd run. it was 1147. ah,

and then disaster at the 9.2 kilometer mark holes are my as type see car dubs torn linen, varden or stream liner careened off the road, flipping several times over a distance of 900 meters. the destroyed car came to a stop on an embankment, was a maya was killed instantly. conspiracy theories spread, blaming reckless auto executives for disregarding the strong winds and sending holes a maya to a premature death. mm. auto own own did not appear interested in a formal and thorough investigation. the remains of the car were destroyed before they could be properly examined. mm. the only viable explanation available under the circumstances was that a gust of wind had blown holes a mile off the road. but is that the true explanation?

ah, why do people put their lives on the line and hair raising duals over a couple of kilometers? and the name of progress on some dubious, patriotic quest, or is it personal ambition and ego i, we've come to the send time technical museum to meet professor cook melissa, another historian who has studied the early days of automotive development. ah, he tells us about the origin of the pursuit of pace, which goes all the way back to the late 19th century. the spanish lack what particularly when you go to sleep and stick. there was a common phrase at the time of the acceleration of the speed of life. i don't know

who to fight. the late german monarchy was also called the hero of nervousness passed through industry and speed is part of that. and i said as soon as a symptom is drawing but also as a kind of remedy as an op, have smith attacking the 1st month or so 50. some people try to adapt to the era and the racing driver, or someone who could cope with high speed. it was well conditioned to the era content. while there was this new image in which a lot of people saw as the pinnacle of the modern human being, feeling able to adapt to this accelerated pace down the noise mentioned them, showing the so who were these dare devil? one of them in belgium was actually nickname the red devil after brussels and to the imposing neil gothic church of our lady

here lies a man who was only known outside belgium to racing, efficient auto, a man who in his time enjoyed a colossal reputation. tammy, you're not the son of a major tire manufacturer and record breaker. the 1st person to break the 100 kilometers per hour mark at the wheel over 120 years ago. i me, i believe the ball is an architect who has spent years looking into the story of camelia nazi. the driver was famed for his trademark red goatee and his red hot style at the wheel as he thought, fame as the fastest driver. mm. can you just

get a horse, you know, we said this to the comedian that he was a hero, a bigger michael schumacher a man who liked driving fast and had a passion for speed and he was determined to break record this connect course. i'm not going to saw the 1st race he appears to have taken part in the shant blue hill climb. we're reaching an impressive 25 kilometers per hour in an electric car. when you call us back, when was slower than bicycles? how could you do that? these records were heavily covered by the media, especially the sport papers, the other girl. how do you going to press local pets or trespass it easy? easy. ah, the record breaking car is on display at the auto world museum near the city's famous song compton f arc. the larger make on don't is a popular exhibit. among the fastest motorized vehicles of its time surpassed only

by steam locomotive. no radiator, no exhaust your nazi's car was electric. ah, in the late 19th century, it was still unclear what kind of propulsion would set the pace on land. steam powered vehicles required, laborious, pre heating, and gasoline engines had a reputation for breaking down. if they started at all, not ideal for record centers, publicity was always key. a factor, comey expertly exploited. ah, the auto world car is not original. it's a replica built by. it's not on desktop. a modern day mobility pioneer. the lack of blueprints for the 899 car left him with a serious challenge. not least with the numerous features unique to the nazi car

received at his disposal. you don't follow, don't vancho get x. you don't the steering wheel lever, which could have sliced open his stomach in an accident and he was relatively told with a risk received no break because he wanted to drive straight ahead as fast as possible to finally book desco alyssa, them back then. they didn't drive on proper road, is willis, wiggily drove on horse racing tracks. oh, maybe up to 2 kilometers long. see the piece to alicia vocal. their academic muscle will do kill me in age of a bull, though a huge crowd is because of it because they were international events in multiples. i booked all us to prescribe them. it was like the 1st man on the moon. there was great interest in the technology. it was see a typical data report at the conversion 105.8 kilometers per hour. a new best mark. but not for long. 3 years later you nazi was displaced by of all things

a steam powered vehicle by this point. yeah. nazi had already started competing in races for mercedes parent company dime. lar, even took out a life insurance policy on your nazi that corporate commitment brought dividends in 19 o. 3, you nazi one, the gordon bennett. come in ireland, the world's most important car race of that era. ah, this is the only film footage of your nazi moon. it was a curious quirk of fate that saw the fearless belgian die, not on the track,

but during another more harmless type of outdoor pursuit. another of you, nazi's talents would be his downfall. a knack for imitating animal sounds. lou during a walk in the woods in 1913, a hunter mistook him for a deer and opened fire blue a couple of decades forward. we returned to band holes a maya and his tragic end in 1938. an event that left the motor, racing world in shock, one of its top drivers was dead. nazi authorities turned his funeral in berlin into a political rally. friends, family fans and rivals paid their last respects while the notorious ss held a vigil to the fallen hero. ah, but what was the actual cause of the accident? a question that was eclipsed amid the pomp of the funeral procession. nazi ideology

could not allow a hero of the german nation to have died due to technical deficiencies, let alone a mortal driver error. the cause was never pursued. ah, tim nits, home to the original out oh known h q and a branch of the official saxony state archives. we want to look at historical documents of specific interest to us is the file concerning the death of bound hosemeier containing a range of original documents, formal testimony, affidavits and eye witness accounts. including this letter from a certain auto gaia to the head of the auto known motor racing team.

his eye witness report recalls how the auto renew own car veered onto the grass bank and turned sideways details similar to those observed by time keeper, ca, hello, vi's mother who also referred to an explosion when question then there's this hugely important document a weather report from the nearby zepplin airport between 11 and 1230 on the day of the crash, it registered strong winds and gusts of up to 11 meters per 2nd. but interestingly, only the mercedes team had asked for a forecast ahead of the record attempts ow, total known didn't buy. the car maker later sent a letter to its dealerships, however, insisting it had not recklessly put the driver under unreasonable pressure. and

that the wind speed had in no way appeared dangerous. an attempt to shun responsibility. there are no photos or film footage of hose m i as final and fatal run itself. it's rumored, some material was destroyed. if so, then not everything. however, there is a private film captured by outdoor emsella who worked in a frankfurt photo processing lab. ah, 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, emsella happened to briefly train his camera on the road below. pulls a maya can be seen in the runoff zone after his 1st run. he just clocked 429 kilometers per hour, and now set off towards darmstadt on the 2nd and fatal leg of the 2 way 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 to and fro under the strain of evidently strong if not storm like winds. was this record attempt doomed from the outset? ah, we next meet motorsports expert martine shorda, the hose, m, i a 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. ah, and there is the one question that never goes away who is to blame for the driver's death. 6 6

1 thing shrewder is certain of is that it cannot have been the wind alone. it's robin lish. chicago, she'd run off in favor of it was windy. you can see in this film footage i have on 15 kilometers per hour from st. which wind blow the car off the road from the financial? i think like this can be due to 2 causes, hundreds. why or the combination of to zoom of one flight by analyzing the photos from that in from his day. should i came across some curious inconsistencies among them out own yawns? 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 reduced. busy the incomplete, the nozzle is given on the entire nose was replaced, and behind this little inlet, there was one tube supplying the engine with oxygen with torn on the more tor

middle washed off tomorrow, and, and other tube connected to the cockpit. i think it's cockpit very, very large nose in the cockpit mit last 2 was all was, am i and likes driving with the cockpit open. the tube was necessary to prevent him from suffocating at speed. and another photo was of interest. a section of the body on the road. the picture had been taken by a reporter from italy and show as part of the underbody which has on looking triangular openings. they were evidently, aaron, val, that could be operated from the cockpit embark to indies. and also when did, and when his loft 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 that kind of played and done his 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 board. when these are low press ish, district bill than the car takes off of ever your stir memo. my only sit on the flow is disrupted at those at junk is $52.00 plain started. took off at just $120.00 with all that weight really, cuz that was the accident due to aerodynamics did outdoor, on your insufficiently test the vehicles behavior at these extreme speeds, the historian peer to kish, the says the team were clearly out of their depth when it came to such technical

details you hadn't notorious time and it does so that they never expected it to happen. it's not as if they had a plan b. that's got a whole issue, was forgotten. there was no way the image of rosy meyer as a national hero was going to be compromised later by these trivial questions. all my s drive would be the last record attempt for our tony own, but not for mercedes. towards the end of the 1900 thirty's dime le ben's worked on a new car designed to pulverized previous milestone. the t 80 with a bomb plastic 8 meter long monster weighing in at over 3 tons. and with contours, more like those of a fighter bomber plane. this prototype is among the most impressive exhibits at the dime, let museum in stuttgart. ah,

the impetus for the t 80 was provided by han, stuck previously an outdoor on your star whose success as a hill climbing champion, had been overshadowed by the flat ground feats of all the maya zone star was starting to fade, but he enjoyed good connections with the nazi leadership who were increasingly eager to see demonstrations of superior german engineering. at stokes request, the t 80 was to be built by fatty non portia legendary car designer and creator of autoland jones type c target top speed, 600 kilometers per hour. this would require an output of 3000 horsepower. the job was entrusted to 2 dimer airplane engines, provided by the high, shabby asian ministry. each boasting displacement in excess of 44 leaders. thought

as fate had it, the ti 80 project would fall victim to the 2nd world war and 1939. as a result, hans shook would be denied his own bout on phone moons housing esc, cannonball run, and perhaps spared a premature death. after the war, it was 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 space available on this lunar like landscape bonneville and the state of utah usa. the remnants of a primeval lake turned into seemingly infinite salt flats by a combination of wind and water. and for almost a century now, the ultimate test track and an el dorado for speed freaks. oh

yes, this would be the stage for a new generation of record seekers. chief among them art our farms and crag breedlove. the 2 americans were obsessed with being the fastest man in history and were prepared to use all means available to set a new record, which had now been held by a succession of british drivers. the dawn of the 960 saw our fawns and breathe love open a new chapter in the competition for the ultimate automotive glory. blue sam holly lives in ontario, canada. he spent years studying the history of the salt flats ear of speed records and the fearless men famed as junkyard. geniuses. folly has written

a number of books dedicated to that era that time 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 anchor in los angeles were craig b love lived, lived like literally hundreds of j $47.00 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 jet ah, hacking up to 17000 horsepower. those engines were fitted in 19 fifties air force. jeff, 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 land vehicles was difficult to decipher. given the lack of testing, our phones knew absolutely nothing about jet engines. but somehow he, he found one from a junk dealer. and he found a like 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. that 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 blasted the ground dead. i mean,

all the grass that everything was was blasted off of it. hang on in october 1964, craig breedlove broke his own record not once, but twice. the 2nd attempt, almost costing him his life at just under 850 kilometers per hour. the brake parachute snapped off on the break . at that speed, they would just burn them up with a car seared across the end of the priest that track taking out to telephone poles before crashing into a salt lake. i read love almost drowned in the desert, but managed to escape through the rooftop hatch miracle. there had been no such miracle for band holes in maya. we went to hamburg to

investigate the reasons why this record breaking racing driver was destined to die in january 1938. we thought further inside here at the city's port or 2 museum, one of the most exclusive collections of historic motor sports memorabilia in the world. a fair share of the cars on display here are prototype from a time when the racing world and the speed those heroes reached, enjoyed a different kind of fascination than today. ah, but another exhibit here is highlighted by museum curator simone. but aka a reaction arcade machine from the late 1930, a prized possessions discovered by chance by the museum and the archives of one of the oldest amusement parks in the world din hungry and t. really in this one

we founded in the tivoli in copenhagen. and the great thing about this game is the chance to reenact band over my world record, attend from the press this button. and we're away on dev. i'm and the know been a, was you to open a closed the valve and as you can see, it takes a lot of practice and ultimately to move. i can't do it either always. well, once you move it picked up, but for kids back then a blast for the kinda mtv process. but we didn't come here to see some automotive themed pinball machine. the museum archive is home to some rather special protocols from the old zeppelin factory. and fleet of ex hoffen southern germany out, oh, who knows? conducted wind tunnel tests here on a model of holes. am i as 1938 car?

the key problem was that the rival mercedes car had around 200 more horse power and out whole new own lack the time and money for a new engine. the only way to compensate for the deficit was via aerodynamics. from these records, it's clear that out all knowns, tinkering and experimentation with the car was often more guesswork than innovative engineering. the tests could not come close to simulating speeds of over 400 kilometers per hour. let alone any cross winds. the document dates from january, 18th, 1938, just 10 days prior to the fatal accident. historian paid a cash burg has little doubt that the tasks were conducted right up to the very last minute. these are our burden stand on the on woodland inside. they were done on the massive time pressure and the protocol from january, 18th, her 1st to tests 3 days before christmas is wednesday,

since white are formed between the 20th and 22nd of december. and friedrich often will come of him with a $1.00 to $2.00 and a half scale models. and the assumption that a $1.00 to $1.00 scale model would be the same, wouldn't dock. and from that i had, and they calculated a higher output to know to be impossible by dime those emerged regional eyes that i'm look at, leon conan, a miscalculation and if so, then by who we went back to motor sports expert martini florida for his opinion, fatty non porsha, he says, had spent many years in charge of racing car development and out own your own before terminating his consultant contract at the end of 1937, that development cost out own your own. it's ingenious constructor at a most inopportune time. exactly. how is documented in this patent which had been gathering dust in the archives for decades. all the

notes show how attempts were made to reduce the air resistance while at the same time pushing the car down on to the ground. this involved adjustments to the body such as adding bulged sections along the side. of our troops on the body is similar to an airplane when the distance across the top is longer than underneath this. and that leads to low pressure on top and ground pressure without the presence of additional mass. this is how was boiler work and it's what keeps an airplane flying through. so high air moves faster than below is no longer a feature that in theory makes the vehicle quicker but at the same time puts it at the mercy of the whims of the wind. does this explain the inventors insistence on remaining anonymous? a highly unusual omission when registering the patent with her

pay the fire minus name variation corner, it's something i've always wondered why someone wouldn't want their name included the still you near the event. with hindsight, perhaps that individual suspected there might be resulting risks, but didn't know what initiative was followed shona on tub mm. over the decades. one thing that remained 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 1960s 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

o for over 3 decades. the museum of technology ins and 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 arrow in record setting vehicles no longer really resembled cars . it's more of a rocket on wheels, 3 tons, propelled by 58000 horsepower. the driver was more of a pilot sitting on a mixture of liquid natural gas and hydrogen peroxide. this was the kind of explosive power, otherwise, usually associated with space travel. ooh . re gab allege runs her own little museum here in long beach, california. dedicated to the legacy of them. landmark run. sitting in the blue flame that day in october,

1970 was her husband gary. the 1st person to crack the 1000 kilometers per hour mark in a land vehicle. it was a record that would stand for 13 years. ah, before coming to fame, gary gambling had been a little known. drag racer who lived life in the fast lane. a photo genic hell raiser, who looked good at the wheel of a would 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 live 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 oh, talks 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 been in the g horse and gary held the record longer than any other american. and the actually, the only other person that held it longer was john cobb, who held it until craig broke and he held it. i think for 24 years. prag, breed loves record, stood at 966 kilometers per hour. upon october 23rd 1970 gary gal is prepared to set off across the salt flats of bonneville, utah, to break that 5 year old mark, but also to hit the 1000 kilometers per hour figure he and his team and invested 6

years in the development of the 11 meter long cigar shaped vehicle for a spectacle that would last just 22 seconds before the fuel would run out. the man in the hat is dick keller, one of the rocket cars creators, moon, the former engineer, now over 80 years old lives in daphne, alabama. and in the mid 1960 s, he of us, the u. s. natural gas industry was also keen to enter the arena. the big selling point was to give 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 up profits taylor and his little engineering company took up the challenge. ah, basically our job was to try to do so over city the land speed record and was up to

them to take advantage of that. didn't read promoted 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 of breaking the sound barrier. for the worst case scenario, the organizers had taken out life insurance for gab allege worth over $100000.00. 3210. 01. ready? 300. 350. 4 on 4. 50.

5 to 6. 1. 6. 50? yeah, we did a that's exactly how this idea was right. you boss ah, like 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, well for some always be the most memorable. ah, dairy gab, alleged never got the chance to retake the record. he died in 1984 after a motorcycle accident. ah, the never ending quest for speed has its heroes and its victims among them band

holes 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 swept him off the road in january? 1938? probably not. there were a range of other potential factors involved. insufficient development work and technical acumen, and time pressure. all things that were kept quiet for quite a while. daimler might have won the race for the record, but it was the auto noon driver who won the headlines and would feature and most of the history books. the record sat by who doth corolla was ultimately reduced to a footnote. oh, as for band hosemeier, was he really the indomitable driver and dare devil who threw caution to the wind on that fateful day? impervious to any fear? many observers have blamed the driver for his own death. ah, at the hast thou regional archives in darmstadt,

we found photos previously not seen by the public. one is a shot of woes. am i am minutes before that final journey? with the look of a man who perhaps knew the fate that awaited him, ah, ah! a pulse ah, the beginning of a story that moves us and takes us along for the ride. it's only about to perspective culture information. this is neither you news and water. d w wave.

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