This and the BRM-V16 are the best racing cars of all time! i have more of a blast watching these beautiful racing cars then watching todays f1 its so much more exiting!!
This is the best race car ever build! First time I saw that machine it was in Prague museum - so beautiful and dangerous that I couldn’t stop taking pictures of it. Cant imagine how racers made over 300 with it. Kokpit is so tini and there is no floor at all… just frame and pedals. Now I know how it sounds and its really something that only being there can describe. I can’t imagine feelings of people in 30s! Unbelievable! So talented non compromise constructors!
It is fascinating how much you can hear the technical development in the sound...race engines were already seeing the benefit of better metals, better fuels, higher compression, higher rev' speed....the advance brought to the industry in exchange with the aero industry. The 1920's racecars sound more truck like, slower reving. The sound of modernism began to creep in just before the war.
Its a V 12, not inverted as suggested, two stage Roots type super charger. Fab bit of engineering, had the job emptying all the kitty litter out of the 154 Tom went off in at the European GP. I think he may have hit the brake instead of the throttle which is centre. Hard to imagine that these cars were pulling 200 mph pre war on a tread patch of 7 Inches.
Would have sounded a lot nicer if he had changed gear more. Just shows how torquey this 1939 M163 engine is, drive round donnington without much gear changing.
SHUT UP YOU MORONS!!
YAK YAK YAK
Dumekoffs!!
375GTB 4 days ago
Blown 3 liter V-12
483 hp by 1939!!
375GTB 4 days ago
Thats a beautiful thing.
gforcepdx 1 week ago
This and the BRM-V16 are the best racing cars of all time! i have more of a blast watching these beautiful racing cars then watching todays f1 its so much more exiting!!
wethepeople0001 1 month ago
This is the best race car ever build! First time I saw that machine it was in Prague museum - so beautiful and dangerous that I couldn’t stop taking pictures of it. Cant imagine how racers made over 300 with it. Kokpit is so tini and there is no floor at all… just frame and pedals. Now I know how it sounds and its really something that only being there can describe. I can’t imagine feelings of people in 30s! Unbelievable! So talented non compromise constructors!
andrewhiteeminem 4 months ago
what a wonderful sounding Mercedes !
thenicedudejay 6 months ago
It is fascinating how much you can hear the technical development in the sound...race engines were already seeing the benefit of better metals, better fuels, higher compression, higher rev' speed....the advance brought to the industry in exchange with the aero industry. The 1920's racecars sound more truck like, slower reving. The sound of modernism began to creep in just before the war.
gurlsingerfan 9 months ago
thats almost scary
uscar17 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this, it's brilliant.
mike74em 1 year ago 2
grandpa is obviously impressed, as is the grandchild
grazyarnie 1 year ago
@wolfmotorsport. do you have a connection with the car?
38listerjag 1 year ago
@38listerjag, nope, we we there with a car in the Equipe GTS race, I wasn't racing though.
WolfmotorSport 1 year ago
I have some photos of the 154 I worked on , can you post photos on here?
38listerjag 1 year ago
@38listerjag, I don't think so but if you have a link to an album with them in I wouldn't object to you posting it.
WolfmotorSport 1 year ago
that has got some grunt!!
Chunkychucky 1 year ago
0:31 lift off *a little chill in the air* 0:36 DETONATING
Jamirofan89 1 year ago
Magnificent !!!!!
rlibos 1 year ago 5
Its a V 12, not inverted as suggested, two stage Roots type super charger. Fab bit of engineering, had the job emptying all the kitty litter out of the 154 Tom went off in at the European GP. I think he may have hit the brake instead of the throttle which is centre. Hard to imagine that these cars were pulling 200 mph pre war on a tread patch of 7 Inches.
cjwharris 2 years ago 2
@cjwharris not to mention drumbrakes
CykoNL 1 year ago
I was there at Donington that day for the Richard Seaman Trophy - it was fantastic. The smell was almost as impressive as the noise. Whew.
BurtonTommyBoy 2 years ago 13
Did sound a bit like a Rolls Royce Merlin engine at some points!
Mshine67 2 years ago
Period racing cap too
r1wantone 3 years ago
Wish he would 'frickin stop talking, not even funny, talks rubbish !.
adrenachrome05 3 years ago 3
Growl of a wild beast!
No matter what brand and if car, motorcycle, plane or boat: their engines sounded breathtaking in these (good old?)years!
Fritztoons 3 years ago 14
thanx so much 4 uploading, new zealands long way away
he seems to be buttoning off tho, dont you thnk??
shepherd1946 3 years ago 3
I agree shepherd1946, he doesnt wind that car up to it's limit. Probably thinking of his wallet !!
griffon58 3 years ago
Would have sounded a lot nicer if he had changed gear more. Just shows how torquey this 1939 M163 engine is, drive round donnington without much gear changing.
griffon58 3 years ago 3
its a 3000cc supercharged v12. the v16 was an Auto Union
zinamdets 3 years ago
I'm not shore, but I think it was 3.6 litre V 12, turned up side down! But, very nice sound, very nice
hasnfefer 3 years ago
One might mention the post war V-16 1.5 litre blown BRM.
J.C.
375GTB 2 years ago