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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 bars. ah, in houston, with the end of the road for a legendary german racing driver. maybe 3 years ago. and a no holds barred, a bid for land speed supremacy. unfeeling. the events of over 80 years ago remained the subject of speculation. neither o the with what exactly happened on that fateful day and what is it that

pushes people to pursue speed records at all costs? i me. ah! who was band holes on my aunt who died in january 1938 driving down the perfectly straight autobahn at over 400 kilometers per hour. thick o an eastern germany home to a museum that was once the racing car factory of our tony own. germany's 1st state run automaker and a predecessor of today's audi me. the

1930 saw an ethic duel between 2 giants of the german racing seen as the relatively young our total known thought to overtake the dominant, mercedes benz t. a high profile rivalry that intensified when band hold the maya, join the our total unity. the young hot shot was to take on mercedes works driver and european champion old old car chola. the out on your bosses had high hopes for holes in maya, who was a boon for both motor racing and not the regime eager to capitalize on the competition for propaganda. the bold, young rising star was perfect. i come my own the speak to

my buddy. you're awesome. i asked them, oh my god. oh my on my all of the i hello my son. when i say i live in no night yet. 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 weighs. another chance for glory for band owes a maya m october sorted horrible, her nose was even untie as ish frozen. my broke a series of records that had belonged to car jolla in october 1937. when earning them to also union it started 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 vic ferronte and not all the destination 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 doll as will them for the hour during auto union had to respond because of the delicate relationship between

a dime there in the public dime law and in the oven. dish tied delish to go and waterford. when to a decision was that if they drive after than we need to drive as well, the archaic, know 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 c car dubs tom

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 since i'm technical museum, to meet professor cook moves that, 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 to spanish lac what particularly before 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 as soon as a symptom, but also as a kind of remedy as an art, hips mitigating 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 into 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 at their sites. so who were these dare devil? one of them in belgium was actually nickname the red devil. after brussels and to the imposing neal 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 cami, your nazi 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. felipe dibble is an archivist who has spend years looking into the story of camille and nazi. the driver was famed for his trademark red goatee and his red hot style at the wheel as he sought fame, as the fastest driver. ah, can you just yet?

ah, and a horse you had no worries. at this off said the dog camille. nazi was a hero. because of that, a big lie, michael schumacher, a man who liked driving fast had a passion for speedy. if will he was determined to break record that a goal or connect course. i'm not going to saw the 1st rice she appears to have taken part in the shunts blue hill climb. we're reaching an impressive 25 kilometers per hour in an electric car. oh, when you call us back, when was slower than bicycles? they went to the finance committee to these records were heavily covered by the media. the cam especially the sport. i was the other girl had it on a pistol. girl, philip, i thought crispy said easy artists as booked eagerly. 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 locomotives. no radiator, no exhaust your nazi's car was electric. 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 factor. comey expertly exploited. ah. the auto world car is not original. it's a replica built by. it's not the foundation of 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. receipt of his disposal doing well on don't vote, don't get exceed on the steering wheel. lever,

which could have sliced open his stomach in an accident, and he was relatively told a rich received no break because he wanted to drive straight ahead as fast as possible to finally book desco, boosted and back. then they didn't drive on proper road, is willis, wiggily drove on horse racing tracks. no, maybe up to 2 kilometers long. see the piece to alicia vocal. their academic muscle will do killer me in age of a bull, though a huge crowd does 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 biblical 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 of 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, cabinets 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 band 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 out whole new own car veered on to 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 $11.12 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 a forecast ahead of the record attempts ow, total known didn't buy the car, make her 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 outward 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 mean 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's, he'd run off in favor of it was windy. you can see in this film footage i heard on 15 kilometers per hour from which wind blow the car off the road from the financial . i think like this can be due to 2 causes, 100 slide, or the combination of to zoom or 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 company, 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 here like 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 err valves that could be operated from the cockpit embark to indies. and also when did, and when his loft, he had this outlet for the streaming and at the front when 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. what kinds of all 3 done his or so, or my number or not? i think he did that, which disrupted the lower error dynamic,

because the air was suddenly being redirected underneath the von, when the lucian british step bill than him, the car takes off the off ever your stir mammal. my only song flow is disrupted at those days. at junk is $52.00 plain and he started took off at just $120.00 with all that weight really cuz with the accident due to aerodynamics did outdoor on your sufficiently test the vehicles behavior at these extreme speeds, the historian period accused the exam. the team were clearly out of their depths when it came to such a technical detail. you

hadn't a tourist time, it and it does it so that they never expected it to happen. it's not just they had a plan b as 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. they're still older, my s drive would be the last record attempt for our toll known, but not for mercedes. towards the end of the 1900 thirty's dime le ben's worked on a new car designed to pulverize previous milestone. the t 80 with a bombastic 8 meter long monster weighing in at over 3 tons. and with contours, more like those of a fighter bomber plain. this prototype is among the most impressive exhibits at the dime le museum. and she got ah,

the impetus for the t 80 was provided by hands took previously an outdoor only on 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 ti 80 was to be built by a 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 stuck would be denied his own by hun phone, moons, house and ask 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 the 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, where 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 and 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. a car seared across the end of the priest that track taking out to telephone poles before crashing into a salt lake. breedlove 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 machines 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. the interior in this one,

we founded in the tivoli in copenhagen. and the great thing about this game is the chance to reenact band also my as well record, attend from the press this button and we're away on dev. i'm and the no been a was you to open a closed the valve and as you can see, it takes a lot of practice and hold too much. i can't do it either. always. moments of you is ultima for kids back then a blast for the killer and the responses. 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 frederick's 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 bag has little doubt that the tasks were conducted right up to the very last minute. these are all bunched in on the, on woodland inside. they were done on the mush, if time pressure, and the protocol from january 18th, refers 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 not have been possible by time those emerged regional eyes that i'm at leon gun in a miscalculation and if so, then by who we went back to motor sports, expert martine shorda, for his opinion, fatty nand porsha, he says, had spent many years in charge of racing car development and auto known before terminating his consultant contract at the end of 1937. that development cost out own own. it's ingenious constructor at a most inopportune time. exactly how is documented in this patent which had been gathering dust and the archives for decades. of 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 sides of our uncovered view, shall be untrue. so the body is similar to an airplane we. 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 force and it's what keeps an airplane flying through. sorry. the high air moves faster than below was 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 explained the inventors insistence on remaining anonymous? a highly unusual omission when registering a patent? who says her pe, the fire minus name variation gordon?

it's something i've always wondered why someone wouldn't want their name included the still unique event or is with hindsight, perhaps that individual suspected there might be resulting risks. but didn't know what the initiative was. i was showing the aunt of me 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 19th 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. oh 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. ready 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 dabbling. 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 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 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,

ah, 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 it's, he held it, i think, for 24 years prag, breed, loves records, stood at 966 kilometers per hour. upon october 23rd 1970 gary galena 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. ah, the former engineer now over 80 years old lives in daphne, alabama. in the mid 1960 s, he tells 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. keller and his little engineering company took up the challenge. ah, basically our job was to try to do so over city the last rigor 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. when donald 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 floor on 450.

561650? yeah we did a that's exactly how to 0. this id was riding abbas. ah, 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, jerry gab, alleged never got the chance to retake the record. he died in 1984 after a motorcycle accident. ah!

ah, the neverending 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 out all noun driver who won the headlines and would feature. and most of the history books. the record sat by who doth carla 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. at the hast thou regional archives in darmstadt, we on photos previously not seen by the public one as a shot of was a maya minutes before that final journey. with the look of a man who perhaps knew the fate that awaited him. ah, ah ah, he's one of the great always on the move between man, vienna neu, star tanner jonas kaufman. a even in corona virus times is not easy to types. meet dot in the artist,

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