September 9, 2025 • 22 mins
This episode of The Logbook, our History of Motorsports series, delves into the history of Nazi Germany's efforts to dominate the realm of motorsports through the 'Record Week' events held from 1936 to 1939. Presented by motor historian and journalist Aldo Zana, the script details the strategic integration of high-speed automobile achievements into Nazi propaganda, highlighting key vehicles, records, and drivers of the era. The focus is specifically on the last edition of 'Record Week' in 1939, illustrating Germany's efforts to claim the world land speed record and analyzing the cars and technical challenges faced. Additionally, it reflects on Zana's extensive career and his contributions to automotive history.
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00:00 Nazi Germany's Speed Propaganda 01:17 Overview of Record Weeks (1936-1938) 03:04 The 1939 Record Week 04:50 Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union Rivalry 06:14 The Final Record Week 15:07 Mysteries and Technical Details 19:46 Conclusion and Q&A; Closing Remarks and Credits====================
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(00:00):
Break Fix's History of Motorsportsseries is brought to you in part
by the International Motor RacingResearch Center, as well as the
Society of Automotive Historians,the Watkins Glen Area Chamber of
Commerce, and the Argo Singer family.
The Nazi record walkin forrecord weeks 1939, the final act
(00:20):
of an automobile speed folly.
Alana Nazi Germany turned the automobile'shigh speed into a propaganda tool for
its technical and industrial supremacywith its domestic motor industry
having fallen behind the US and France.
The political establishment pushedfor dominance in Grand Prix racing,
launched an automobile for the masses anddeveloped a wide network of motorways.
(00:42):
Connecting racing cars, high speed,and the motorways was the record walk.
An annual event launched in 1936 toconquer the highest speeds on a motorway.
The last edition in 1939 was a relativelylow key event shadowed by the prior
year's sensational Mercedes-Benz speedrecord, and Bernard Rose Meyer's death.
Nevertheless, the propagandamachine aptly broadcast the speeds
(01:03):
reached on an arrow straight.
Level and wide.
10 kilometer motorway stretched north ofleap Zg purposefully built for the record
weeks and the conquest of the world.
Land speed record by a German driveron a German car, on German soil.
After a quick recap of the 1936 through1938 editions, Aldo discusses cars
shown in the 1939 Daimler, Benzs andHaag, as well as clear some mysteries
(01:27):
left unsolved through the decades.
This presentation will alsocover the records established by
Italian and British drivers threemonths before World War II began.
Alana is an Italian motor historianand journalist after a PhD in
theoretical physics at the MilanUniversity and at the cern, the European
Physics Research Center in Geneva.
He switched to a managerial careerin corporate communications while
(01:49):
continuing with motor journalism.
Zana started writing articles formotor magazines in the mid sixties as a
freelance editor of Auto Sprint and RombleWeeklys developing an inclination towards
history and historic cars and races.
Since the late eighties, he has becomea regular contributor to Italian
and foreign historic car magazines.
His recent automotive booksinclude a History of the Sports
(02:09):
Prototype, FIA World Championship.
The lives and races of Italian drivers,the motor racing scenario of the
fifties, and the story of the forgottenMilano car shows from 1901 to 1947.
Aldo is a longtime member of theSAH and the Italian Association of
Motor Historians, former member ofthe History and the Museum Commission
(02:30):
of the Italian National HistoricCar and Bike Association, and the
Italian Guild of Science Journalists.
Our next presentation is a Zoompresentation done by Aldo Zana.
Okay, good evening ladies and gentlemen.
I'm here talking hopefully in,in a understandable English.
I apologize for my heavy Italianaccent, but I will talk about something
(02:54):
relating to Germany, so it will be abit difficult understand an Italian
speaking about something German.
But anyway, I will try to do my best.
I will talk about the recordweek organized by the Nazi of
a governmental state in 1939.
In 1939, German racing car and thedrivers dominated Grand Prix racing.
(03:18):
So the dominant started withMercedes Band in 1935 by Rose Meyer.
The new auto Union star driver wonthe European Championship 1936.
In 1936, the Nazi organizationfor motor racing launched a
special event in order to concur.
(03:39):
The total superiority of the Germanracing car and promoted ban the highway.
The new, so the first record or speed ofthe record was in 1936 on a flat, and they
are they straight section on, on this,uh, ban or highway between Frankfurt.
(04:01):
Airport and there was 25 kilometers,and it was carefully, uh, arranged,
organized for having all, all therecord for the five kilometer and five
miles on this, uh, stretch of ban.
The record was held for three years.
(04:22):
You can see from this slide howdifficult it was to drive very fast on
this motorway because it was a two lanequite more than for the time, but with
some grass median and bridges crossingthe highway with a central pillar.
So that was very dangerous.
And in 38 they held a specialevent only on one day long in 1930.
(04:50):
By Mercedes Benz in order to correctthe failure they had in the record,
the record week on 1937 in that, thatmorning, the cold morning, January
28th, Mercedes, the new W 25, or,I'm not sure because there are.
Definite document about thename of the chais of the car.
(05:14):
So I think it was 1925 R, but someonewritten that it was W 1 25, number 11.
So anyway, car driving this Mercedes Benz,which the astonishing speed of 432.69 KPM.
(05:36):
That is 268 80 street MPH. In thesame morning, the auto union was
on the motorway or the highwaywith, with a special model of
from line backhand, they call it.
So the, the record car.
That was modified in 1937.
(05:59):
Rosa Mayer had a accident andthe car destroyed after having
lost ground effect, and so itwas a beautiful day for Mercedes.
Was a tragic day for theGerman, uh, motor of fault.
After that, we came to the 39 record walk.
That was the final end of the record walk.
(06:23):
And the site chosen for the record walkwas a new stretch of, uh, the auto band
under trash between lighting and Berlin.
It was a 9.4 kilometerlong tri, that's right.
And that's flat.
And they decided to pay over, inother words, to put concrete on
(06:44):
the center of the medial center.
So the, the usual truck whiteor 27 meter that is 88.6 feet.
Overpasses, very laboratorybuild in a single arch without a
central pillar in order to avoidany danger for the the driver.
(07:05):
The length of 9.4 kilometer was verystrange, but was forced by the presence
at one end of an an YVIP, uh, land,and they didn't want to destroy or two.
Disturb the poor lazy whip.
So there were two small gentle bands atthe end of, uh, the flat and the strip
(07:29):
section in order to have some more spacefor, uh, breaking and acceleration, but
with 1.5 kilometers, slightly less thanone mile for breaking was too short.
But anyhow, they went there.
So, uh, the new record walkwas scheduled for October 28th,
(07:50):
but the highway was not ready.
So they, they postponed it toFebruary 29 and that was the,
the, the record week of 29.
And the only playeravailable was Mercedes Band.
Because Alion having lost Rosa Mayor in1938 and lacking the wisdom of Professor
(08:11):
P who left the company at the end, 1937.
Alto refused to participatein such, uh, gamble of, uh,
no speeds that em to share l.
Only Mercedes were available to avoid theembarrassment of a single player, single
category event, and was called at thevery last moment with a diesel engine car,
(08:36):
which in order to try for a new record,something absolutely unknown until now.
Uh, diesel, can you imagine adiesel engine record car was not
so fast, like a normal high speedcar available on the street.
There was also a BMW MotorbikeFisher Station in order to
(09:00):
conquer the record of liter class.
Record decided by Mercedes Band was astanding start, class D like Delta record.
So was something completely differentfrom the 38 a period record.
And they used, uh, grand card W 1 5 4,number 11, with a special semi lined body.
(09:27):
Already decided forthe three Polygram pri.
So the engine was athree liter M1 54.1 14.
The driver was, Carla was holdingthe record of the previous year.
He was forced to do the samerecord for a limited speech.
(09:48):
So, uh, not car started starting start.
You can see the wide of the highway,but Carola chose to run on one
side because it thought that thecenter line was too difficult to
drive because of too many dirt.
So the record was on the kilometer, 165 0.89, and on the mile 200 0 4 2 0 4.
(10:16):
It was a kind of easy triumph, auer,very happy, welcoming, Chala coming back.
The all record was already set in 1936by, uh, an Italian driver with the
German sound in name of full manic,and he did the record on the Luca
(10:39):
motorway, uh, near Florence in Italy.
It was an, an easy improvementof one 16.6% on the kilometer,
and 23.6% on the mile.
And on, uh, February 14th, thefinal day of the record, car drove
again the three liter car W 1 54to improve by, uh, 1% your record.
(11:06):
Then on February nine, the second dayof the record walk, Mercedes used their
fully streamline car of 1938, but withthree liter engine for the Class D Delta
flying star record and car achieve.
On the return run a speed of400 or six kilometer per hour.
(11:31):
So it was an, an astonishing resultbecause first time that a three liter
car went beyond 400 kilometers per hour.
So you can see the equivalent ofkilometers for Israel in miles
in MPH doesn't mean anything.
But for European, for German especially,400 kilometer per hour mean something.
(11:56):
So the press was very keen on the record.
Uh, there are many, manyarticles about the new record
claiming that 400 KPM uh, record.
While the pr, uh, department of MercedesBank while record by Ann was nearly owned
by the people, only the, the officialsand the, the record with the 1.9 liter
(12:23):
diesel engine 35 BHP was very low.
Nothing.
The aerodynamic was very fine and thedriver was a company engineer, was
a producer of agricultural tractor.
Use the record the 96.9 MPH toclaim the quality of the engine.
(12:49):
Then there is a finalact after the record.
Okay.
On June 2nd, 1938, the final,there were two recommended.
One was Italian Count Ani, and anotherwas an Englishman Goldie Gardner.
And they choose the So Ban toestablish the record for small classes.
(13:12):
So Goldie Gardner was a very famousBritish recommend in in his career.
He had 1 52 National, international,and overall Records and noted that
Go Gardner was limping due to roundinflicted by the German force during
the grading rate war, but he didn'tcare to head again to Germany to
(13:37):
satisfy his first for the record.
Noted that in less than twomonths, UK and Germany will be
at war again one day or other.
So Gordon Gardner was there and hewent with a small engine and 1.1 liter
engine for cylinder engine supercharge.
(13:59):
Of course the MG EX 1 35, he wentto 3 29 KPH record on the mile.
So.
Was astonishing speed that wasnoted that he choose to try
to run on the central band.
They other Recomme man was called Jovani.
(14:23):
Joi would drove a small 370 CC Gmotorcycle with a special trainline
body that was like an next shell, andhe reached 1 72 KPM for the kilometer.
He also did the 10 kilometers recordand he, he told later that there was
(14:49):
difficulty keeping him awake duringthe, about 20 minutes of driving
back and forth on that highwayacross a flat and fifth refinery.
So that was it for the 1939 record andfor the south section of the highway.
But there is a small mysteryabout the Mercedes car.
(15:12):
First of all, in the South, that February8th, there were two record cards, not only
one, not only the Class D record card.
But there were two, the photos ofboth car were mixed up in, in the
Daimler Band Archive, and I foundthese photos, which clearly show
(15:34):
two record cars, not only one.
I iLIGHT the exhaust on thecar, and this is quite different
from the Class DW 1 54 car.
There are different smalldifferences, very subtle, but
you can note the difference.
And on the left you have theold, the W 1 52 slash three
(16:01):
car, so the plus B Bravo cars.
On the right you havethe Class D Delta car.
So you, you, you notice there wholedifference, but there are different,
there were two cars, but theproblem that Diamond Bank decided
to cancel W 1 25 car because with afellow, because it didn't work, the
(16:22):
engine was very out and refuse it.
So in, in Germany, erwas not a consider in.
Now if you allow me, I willtell you the real story.
So it's this car.
This car, the Mercedes.
The 80, 19 39 was the car designedfor the absolute land speed record.
(16:48):
And at that point, heldby the by, by the British.
The car was decided by Professor Porsche13, 19 37 and, uh, the, the shape of, uh,
the body with the long tail in order tohave the center of pressure behind the
(17:08):
center of gravity, the two winglets at theside, on the, on the center of gravity.
And the engine was supposed to bea IRO engine, Daim Band 6 0 0 1 or
6 0 3, and the car by full 1939 wasup completely, but it never run a
(17:30):
single centimeter, a single feet.
On its own power.
You can see on this photo that,uh, the engine is on site, but
it was only tried once on a testbed and it was, uh, a disaster.
So they did, they stoppedany progress on, on that car.
(17:51):
The original, uh, drawing byPorsche was very interesting.
That was the first one in 1937.
In order to obtain downfalls, theyused to have, uh, a wing, an inverted
profile wing under the two real wheels.
But the solution was too difficult,so they did opted for the two winglet.
(18:15):
The two winglet on the center ofgravity was absolutely useless, but
it took 30 years and the formulaone 40 years to understand the real
reason why the winglet very used it.
And the wing above the, therear wheel were effective.
So more or less the, the sostraight was billed for this car.
(18:39):
Which was absolutely impossible to runon it because it was too short and not
the, the car would've, the brakes in1.5 kilometer to stop from 600 kilometer
per hour was absolutely impossible.
But anyway, they did it.
And they obtain money from the statefor this car and which is still
(19:02):
exist while the frame is somewherein the LER factory of Mercedes.
The body displayed in the Mercedes BenzMuseum is the last item of the speed
section is on the wall after the accident.
Looked above the cafeteria.
A very sad end for a car whoseexistence was raised by heating the
(19:25):
heater himself and issued the order towin the land speed record for German.
He wanted a German car, aGerman driver on German soil.
This is the reason whythe de access was built.
It explained the IT 39 record walkwas the dress rehearsal for the
future long speed record comp.
(19:46):
That's it, sir. I thank you andwe'll we'll open to question if any.
Take a few minutes, stretch your legsand we'll see you in a few minutes.
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The Nazi record walkin forrecord weeks 1939, the final act
(00:20):
of an automobile speed folly.
Alana Nazi Germany turned the automobile'shigh speed into a propaganda tool for
its technical and industrial supremacywith its domestic motor industry
having fallen behind the US and France.
The political establishment pushedfor dominance in Grand Prix racing,
launched an automobile for the masses anddeveloped a wide network of motorways.
(00:42):
Connecting racing cars, high speed,and the motorways was the record walk.
An annual event launched in 1936 toconquer the highest speeds on a motorway.
The last edition in 1939 was a relativelylow key event shadowed by the prior
year's sensational Mercedes-Benz speedrecord, and Bernard Rose Meyer's death.
Nevertheless, the propagandamachine aptly broadcast the speeds
(01:03):
reached on an arrow straight.
Level and wide.
10 kilometer motorway stretched north ofleap Zg purposefully built for the record
weeks and the conquest of the world.
Land speed record by a German driveron a German car, on German soil.
After a quick recap of the 1936 through1938 editions, Aldo discusses cars
shown in the 1939 Daimler, Benzs andHaag, as well as clear some mysteries
(01:27):
left unsolved through the decades.
This presentation will alsocover the records established by
Italian and British drivers threemonths before World War II began.
Alana is an Italian motor historianand journalist after a PhD in
theoretical physics at the MilanUniversity and at the cern, the European
Physics Research Center in Geneva.
He switched to a managerial careerin corporate communications while
(01:49):
continuing with motor journalism.
Zana started writing articles formotor magazines in the mid sixties as a
freelance editor of Auto Sprint and RombleWeeklys developing an inclination towards
history and historic cars and races.
Since the late eighties, he has becomea regular contributor to Italian
and foreign historic car magazines.
His recent automotive booksinclude a History of the Sports
(02:09):
Prototype, FIA World Championship.
The lives and races of Italian drivers,the motor racing scenario of the
fifties, and the story of the forgottenMilano car shows from 1901 to 1947.
Aldo is a longtime member of theSAH and the Italian Association of
Motor Historians, former member ofthe History and the Museum Commission
(02:30):
of the Italian National HistoricCar and Bike Association, and the
Italian Guild of Science Journalists.
Our next presentation is a Zoompresentation done by Aldo Zana.
Okay, good evening ladies and gentlemen.
I'm here talking hopefully in,in a understandable English.
I apologize for my heavy Italianaccent, but I will talk about something
(02:54):
relating to Germany, so it will be abit difficult understand an Italian
speaking about something German.
But anyway, I will try to do my best.
I will talk about the recordweek organized by the Nazi of
a governmental state in 1939.
In 1939, German racing car and thedrivers dominated Grand Prix racing.
(03:18):
So the dominant started withMercedes Band in 1935 by Rose Meyer.
The new auto Union star driver wonthe European Championship 1936.
In 1936, the Nazi organizationfor motor racing launched a
special event in order to concur.
(03:39):
The total superiority of the Germanracing car and promoted ban the highway.
The new, so the first record or speed ofthe record was in 1936 on a flat, and they
are they straight section on, on this,uh, ban or highway between Frankfurt.
(04:01):
Airport and there was 25 kilometers,and it was carefully, uh, arranged,
organized for having all, all therecord for the five kilometer and five
miles on this, uh, stretch of ban.
The record was held for three years.
(04:22):
You can see from this slide howdifficult it was to drive very fast on
this motorway because it was a two lanequite more than for the time, but with
some grass median and bridges crossingthe highway with a central pillar.
So that was very dangerous.
And in 38 they held a specialevent only on one day long in 1930.
(04:50):
By Mercedes Benz in order to correctthe failure they had in the record,
the record week on 1937 in that, thatmorning, the cold morning, January
28th, Mercedes, the new W 25, or,I'm not sure because there are.
Definite document about thename of the chais of the car.
(05:14):
So I think it was 1925 R, but someonewritten that it was W 1 25, number 11.
So anyway, car driving this Mercedes Benz,which the astonishing speed of 432.69 KPM.
(05:36):
That is 268 80 street MPH. In thesame morning, the auto union was
on the motorway or the highwaywith, with a special model of
from line backhand, they call it.
So the, the record car.
That was modified in 1937.
(05:59):
Rosa Mayer had a accident andthe car destroyed after having
lost ground effect, and so itwas a beautiful day for Mercedes.
Was a tragic day for theGerman, uh, motor of fault.
After that, we came to the 39 record walk.
That was the final end of the record walk.
(06:23):
And the site chosen for the record walkwas a new stretch of, uh, the auto band
under trash between lighting and Berlin.
It was a 9.4 kilometerlong tri, that's right.
And that's flat.
And they decided to pay over, inother words, to put concrete on
(06:44):
the center of the medial center.
So the, the usual truck whiteor 27 meter that is 88.6 feet.
Overpasses, very laboratorybuild in a single arch without a
central pillar in order to avoidany danger for the the driver.
(07:05):
The length of 9.4 kilometer was verystrange, but was forced by the presence
at one end of an an YVIP, uh, land,and they didn't want to destroy or two.
Disturb the poor lazy whip.
So there were two small gentle bands atthe end of, uh, the flat and the strip
(07:29):
section in order to have some more spacefor, uh, breaking and acceleration, but
with 1.5 kilometers, slightly less thanone mile for breaking was too short.
But anyhow, they went there.
So, uh, the new record walkwas scheduled for October 28th,
(07:50):
but the highway was not ready.
So they, they postponed it toFebruary 29 and that was the,
the, the record week of 29.
And the only playeravailable was Mercedes Band.
Because Alion having lost Rosa Mayor in1938 and lacking the wisdom of Professor
(08:11):
P who left the company at the end, 1937.
Alto refused to participatein such, uh, gamble of, uh,
no speeds that em to share l.
Only Mercedes were available to avoid theembarrassment of a single player, single
category event, and was called at thevery last moment with a diesel engine car,
(08:36):
which in order to try for a new record,something absolutely unknown until now.
Uh, diesel, can you imagine adiesel engine record car was not
so fast, like a normal high speedcar available on the street.
There was also a BMW MotorbikeFisher Station in order to
(09:00):
conquer the record of liter class.
Record decided by Mercedes Band was astanding start, class D like Delta record.
So was something completely differentfrom the 38 a period record.
And they used, uh, grand card W 1 5 4,number 11, with a special semi lined body.
(09:27):
Already decided forthe three Polygram pri.
So the engine was athree liter M1 54.1 14.
The driver was, Carla was holdingthe record of the previous year.
He was forced to do the samerecord for a limited speech.
(09:48):
So, uh, not car started starting start.
You can see the wide of the highway,but Carola chose to run on one
side because it thought that thecenter line was too difficult to
drive because of too many dirt.
So the record was on the kilometer, 165 0.89, and on the mile 200 0 4 2 0 4.
(10:16):
It was a kind of easy triumph, auer,very happy, welcoming, Chala coming back.
The all record was already set in 1936by, uh, an Italian driver with the
German sound in name of full manic,and he did the record on the Luca
(10:39):
motorway, uh, near Florence in Italy.
It was an, an easy improvementof one 16.6% on the kilometer,
and 23.6% on the mile.
And on, uh, February 14th, thefinal day of the record, car drove
again the three liter car W 1 54to improve by, uh, 1% your record.
(11:06):
Then on February nine, the second dayof the record walk, Mercedes used their
fully streamline car of 1938, but withthree liter engine for the Class D Delta
flying star record and car achieve.
On the return run a speed of400 or six kilometer per hour.
(11:31):
So it was an, an astonishing resultbecause first time that a three liter
car went beyond 400 kilometers per hour.
So you can see the equivalent ofkilometers for Israel in miles
in MPH doesn't mean anything.
But for European, for German especially,400 kilometer per hour mean something.
(11:56):
So the press was very keen on the record.
Uh, there are many, manyarticles about the new record
claiming that 400 KPM uh, record.
While the pr, uh, department of MercedesBank while record by Ann was nearly owned
by the people, only the, the officialsand the, the record with the 1.9 liter
(12:23):
diesel engine 35 BHP was very low.
Nothing.
The aerodynamic was very fine and thedriver was a company engineer, was
a producer of agricultural tractor.
Use the record the 96.9 MPH toclaim the quality of the engine.
(12:49):
Then there is a finalact after the record.
Okay.
On June 2nd, 1938, the final,there were two recommended.
One was Italian Count Ani, and anotherwas an Englishman Goldie Gardner.
And they choose the So Ban toestablish the record for small classes.
(13:12):
So Goldie Gardner was a very famousBritish recommend in in his career.
He had 1 52 National, international,and overall Records and noted that
Go Gardner was limping due to roundinflicted by the German force during
the grading rate war, but he didn'tcare to head again to Germany to
(13:37):
satisfy his first for the record.
Noted that in less than twomonths, UK and Germany will be
at war again one day or other.
So Gordon Gardner was there and hewent with a small engine and 1.1 liter
engine for cylinder engine supercharge.
(13:59):
Of course the MG EX 1 35, he wentto 3 29 KPH record on the mile.
So.
Was astonishing speed that wasnoted that he choose to try
to run on the central band.
They other Recomme man was called Jovani.
(14:23):
Joi would drove a small 370 CC Gmotorcycle with a special trainline
body that was like an next shell, andhe reached 1 72 KPM for the kilometer.
He also did the 10 kilometers recordand he, he told later that there was
(14:49):
difficulty keeping him awake duringthe, about 20 minutes of driving
back and forth on that highwayacross a flat and fifth refinery.
So that was it for the 1939 record andfor the south section of the highway.
But there is a small mysteryabout the Mercedes car.
(15:12):
First of all, in the South, that February8th, there were two record cards, not only
one, not only the Class D record card.
But there were two, the photos ofboth car were mixed up in, in the
Daimler Band Archive, and I foundthese photos, which clearly show
(15:34):
two record cars, not only one.
I iLIGHT the exhaust on thecar, and this is quite different
from the Class DW 1 54 car.
There are different smalldifferences, very subtle, but
you can note the difference.
And on the left you have theold, the W 1 52 slash three
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car, so the plus B Bravo cars.
On the right you havethe Class D Delta car.
So you, you, you notice there wholedifference, but there are different,
there were two cars, but theproblem that Diamond Bank decided
to cancel W 1 25 car because with afellow, because it didn't work, the
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engine was very out and refuse it.
So in, in Germany, erwas not a consider in.
Now if you allow me, I willtell you the real story.
So it's this car.
This car, the Mercedes.
The 80, 19 39 was the car designedfor the absolute land speed record.
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And at that point, heldby the by, by the British.
The car was decided by Professor Porsche13, 19 37 and, uh, the, the shape of, uh,
the body with the long tail in order tohave the center of pressure behind the
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center of gravity, the two winglets at theside, on the, on the center of gravity.
And the engine was supposed to bea IRO engine, Daim Band 6 0 0 1 or
6 0 3, and the car by full 1939 wasup completely, but it never run a
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single centimeter, a single feet.
On its own power.
You can see on this photo that,uh, the engine is on site, but
it was only tried once on a testbed and it was, uh, a disaster.
So they did, they stoppedany progress on, on that car.
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The original, uh, drawing byPorsche was very interesting.
That was the first one in 1937.
In order to obtain downfalls, theyused to have, uh, a wing, an inverted
profile wing under the two real wheels.
But the solution was too difficult,so they did opted for the two winglet.
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The two winglet on the center ofgravity was absolutely useless, but
it took 30 years and the formulaone 40 years to understand the real
reason why the winglet very used it.
And the wing above the, therear wheel were effective.
So more or less the, the sostraight was billed for this car.
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Which was absolutely impossible to runon it because it was too short and not
the, the car would've, the brakes in1.5 kilometer to stop from 600 kilometer
per hour was absolutely impossible.
But anyway, they did it.
And they obtain money from the statefor this car and which is still
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exist while the frame is somewherein the LER factory of Mercedes.
The body displayed in the Mercedes BenzMuseum is the last item of the speed
section is on the wall after the accident.
Looked above the cafeteria.
A very sad end for a car whoseexistence was raised by heating the
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heater himself and issued the order towin the land speed record for German.
He wanted a German car, aGerman driver on German soil.
This is the reason whythe de access was built.
It explained the IT 39 record walkwas the dress rehearsal for the
future long speed record comp.
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That's it, sir. I thank you andwe'll we'll open to question if any.
Take a few minutes, stretch your legsand we'll see you in a few minutes.
Thank you.
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