Nürburgring - Hermann Lang

[partyman6666]

Thank God the driver remembered to wear his cloth helmet... imagine what would happen if he crashed without that crucial piece of protective gear on?

[FLMKane]

Is it just me or is he blipping the throttle around the Carousell?

[thenicedudejay]

nice growl of that Mercedes straight 8!

[123yyz123]

Neubauer hamming it up for sport, here. Lang magically loses 30 years of age (see the shot at 6:08 and later as well) and I'd give a kidney to have been there. In period, these guys drove killing machines, flat out, on tyres you'd never put on your street car. Did I mention that the fuel tank, immediately behind their backs, was full of methanol+benzene+acetone blend? True heroes.

[NEEDforRING]

Nice video!!

[MPZRACEVIDEO]

simply GREAT!!

[TanghusDK]

10 people are Auto Union fans.

[metacosmos]

Nurburgring is only a lot of county roads, nothing else, it is very difficult because it is very long and difficult to remember.

[FurryChaos1]

7:20 - LOLWUT?!

[2007Colonial]

Uhlenhaut's first great design at the age of 31! The tires were racing Continentals and you have to remember that the first doughnut tires did not appear until Dunlop's 1964 low profile design, new technology allowed them to reduce the height of the sidewall and widen the tread with no loss of durability, heat / tread separation was the great danger of racing tires in the 30s to the 50s.

[QueWaNe]

How many liters was the engine?

[1990matt1990matt]

Great video, amazing seeing how different the track looked 50 years ago. Shame it skips in places really. What with the completely different look of the circuit it can be hard enough trying to work out which section you're looking at.

[191601916]

i need to find a way to own one :)

[Bloodgod40]

Why did it have such skinny wheels? It has to slow right down for every corner...

[Sealy57]

@Bloodgod40 I guess if they had the technology, they would have made wider tires. Thin tires were the rule at that time. It may not have occurred to designers that wider tires were an option. There might have been a general opinion that wide tires would generate too much friction and drag at speed. Thinner tires were definitely an advantage at high speeds, but not when cornering. Note that most high speed cars at Bonneville have thin tires, especially on the front wheels.

[SimRacingUkraine]

Shame they didn't show the full lap. A few fairly big sections were edited out.

[skvakagud]

@1212surface it must have given a comforting feeling of gettin dragged around the corner / falling thrue it :p Specially on a track like Nordschleife with mixed positive/negative banking.. Lovely feeling probably ^^ rofl..

[skvakagud]

People who drove theese cars didnt have balls.. They would be too scared of loosing them like us normal humans :P

[asshatnowhere159]

apparently i have heard that the reason for the large steering wheel is to let the drivers actually turn the wheel under their own strength. no power steering here!

[tradedeficit]

The 10 people who dislike this, should probably watch sesame street

[McLarenMercedes]

It's fun to note how the 1962 pole time on Nurburgring was 8:47.2 for Dan Gurney's Porsche, compared to the 1937 pole time, 9:46,2 for Rosemeyer's Auto Union.

Especially since the Porsche had a 1,5 litre engine compared to the 6,0 litre supercharged Auto Union V16. The Porsche 904 had 190hp compared to the 520hp of the Auto Union.

That is 25 years of rapid development people. The "quarter of the displacement" Grand Prix cars of 1962 would have made easy work of the 1937 monsters.

[YukiNekoPrincess]

@McLarenMercedes How come those cars were faster, even though they were so much down on power? Was it purely because of aerodynamic development?

[McLarenMercedes]

@YukiNekoPrincess

Part that, but mostly the totally superior cornering speeds of the 1962 cars, and way better brakes and suspension. The 1937 cars couldn't really put much of their power down and slided around a lot, since their "leaf thin" tires didn'r provide much lateral grip. The modern mid-engined F1 cars were incredibly nimble and since they had better grip they could apply more power accelerating out of a long corner. With better brakes they could brake far later going into a bend.

[McLarenMercedes]

@YukiNekoPrincess

Also the 1937 cars were the last using the 750kg formula, which didn't include the 200 liters of fuel, water and oil (which added another 200kg) and the driver himself adding at least 70kg. That was a 1 ton car on skinny tires and bad brakes(compared to the 1962 standard).The 1962 F1 cars only weighed 450kg, which meant they accelerated very fast even with 190hp.Power to weight ratio accounts for a lot too. Light cars are faster than heavy cars in tight corners.Simple physics

[YukiNekoPrincess]

@McLarenMercedes That makes a lot of sense Thanks for explaining. =)

[Bobobidodo]

I swear there was a horse on the track near the end

[MVdesign]

@Bobobidodo looks more like a motorcycle to me.

[tradedeficit]

@Bobobidodo . looked like someone on a bike.

[fuckutube21]

AMAZING!!

[flaperke]

How can you not like this?

[panzerrat]

600+ horsepower, drum brakes all around, zero power assist on anything... Betcha that thing's a bit of a handful.

[theamazinbagman]

wheres the go pro

[DJGTFO]

best circuit ever made

[HANGAR26GT]

No helmet, no gloves. safety First

[louraceprep]

@HANGAR26GT if you don't wreck you don't need safety equipmet and thats what made these guys hero's and the nascar fags zero's live it learn it love it

[gurlsingerfan]

If Lang had been able to know what that car would be worth 45 years later, he would have been terrified of running the risk of piling it up!

[ckg242]

9 people can only turn left.

[66606cl66]

@ckg242 ahah! nascar joke ;)

[congealedmeat]

Thanks for posting, that was awesome!

I couldn't believe how close Lang was brushing some of the hedges in that, what a cool video. Good to see the old drivers that are still good drivers.

The camera equipment for onboard must have been quite unwieldly and who knows if they could even review the film on the spot. Otherwise I'll bet there would have been more in car footage. Looked like the camera got shaken up pretty bad at first, but by the end of the lap was pretty decent.

[FicaGTI]

Power and Glory

[herbienbrian2]

lol, now Iw ant to play Forza 2

[coach777777]

Positive camber at the front? What were these guys thinking? Good Lord! Suprised everybody didn't die...

[darkoneforce2]

@coach777777 That was to preserve tires from wear.

Tire wear was decisive in deciding victories due to car engines having more power and torque then the tires (and chassis) could take.

[louraceprep]

@coach777777 with the suspension under load the tire levels and the whole contact patch of the tire is put to the pavement increasing grip

[thash1127]

i wish they had this in its entirety. as well as the stirling moss and '67 onboards, i would love to see all of these showing the complete lap, i know they're in an archive somewhere, this was just edited because the full lap at the demonstration speed probably took about 15 min

[fauxsham]

No downforce, no driver aids, drum brakes, skinny hard tyres, 645bhp and nothing between the driver and death but skill, panache and courage. THATS worth £25m a year. Parading around a sanitised bland circuit in carbon fibre box whilst being scared to overtake and ruin a sponsors weekend just isn't

[Erik2Ammo]

@fauxsham

Totally agree

[Stratocaster05]

This is amazing footage. The ring looks so much different now with all the overgrowth and the development, along with the Armco's and rumble strips. Although they did skip some of my favorite sections of the ring (Kesselchen, Hohe Acht) I found Graham Hill's commentary outstandingly descriptive and eloquent. Thank you so much for uploading!

[remuaja84]

6:59 O_o is that a guy walking on the side of the track?

[urmo345]

@remuaja84 ye and it is not racing event, and car does not go full speed

[BravoCharlieTV]

Cheers :)

[CostasPilot]

This is a marvelous clip! Thank you!

Listening to Graham Hill describe the corners...

[EmersonMeyer33]

Very nice video!! Thanks for sharing!

[wordreet]

WoW!

Thank you so much for sharing this.

Respect to Hermam Lang and the Silver Arrows, but Graham Hill is my personal hero. A true racer and a gentleman. It is wonderful to hear his voice describing how he would drive some of a lap of the greatest race circuit. I still miss him.

[IExposeMormonism]

The bicycle at 8:44 was a nice touch. You don't often see them on the track with a W125. At least not a N'ring...

[skibbawho]

Too bad footage was lost between Adenau and the Caroussell. My local library had a pictue book of european racing that I read when I was 12... about 30 years ago... the pictures of the green hell left a huge impression on me. ..like a fairy tail of racing

[norvegiaostfaan]

look at the safety :S

[IsaacBickerstaffEsq]

Especially for the cyclists. I think that might be taking "mixed class" a bit too far.

[JoeDuveen]

Remarkable footage.

[RexKarrs]

The narrator's voice sounds suspiciously like Patrick Macnee.

[maladsyko]

alfred neubauer wasn't a good actor ;)

[Holden308]

To race these (and later) grand prix cars at this place you had to be crazy. Its no wonder Jackie Stewart waved goodbye to his house every time he left to go racing at the Ring. He never knew if he was coming back.

The length of Hill's accident in 62 was astonishing. Consider that he's out of control only feet from tree's at around 130mph.

Race drivers definitely had balls way back when.....

[Pribinag]

this is just dead brualliant!! thanks for posting!!

[Soprano313]

Awesome vid and amazing footage!

[Scotracer1987]

Wow, look at the back straight lined with hedges - a far cry from the "sedated" barrier of today. We may call it the Green Hell but that far greener and far scarier.

[Huskymotard88]

The Ferrary didn't existed at that time!

It's astonishing the power of this mechanical jewel: 645 cv at the 30'!!!

Great engineers and crazy pilots, driving with those cars and roads!

[ThomasD1962]

@erolorhun, I couldn't have said it better!

[erolorhun]

God himself is speaking through that exhaust

[kasztan2008]

@erolorhun

I would said - THE DEVIL !!!

[voyagerlast]

manyaksiniz siz ya ,

ruspect to the old drivers ,

nowadays drivers are a piece of millky mothers sons

[12valvepower1]

jostle is a great word

[12valvepower1]

im a auto union man through and through.

[robuk1981]

645bhp in the 1930s you need to be a real man or crazy to drive that at the limit

[doktorlindblood]

they hat fear, really..... and bloody hands

[WindmillStalker]

@robuk1981

both, I guess.

[thash1127]

@robuk1981 no seat belt, no helmet, and 4 inch tires, yea well said. with that said why can't i have a time machine, i would take back my modern camcorder and get the best shots ever of those cars haha

[btypirate]

Wonderful to see that narrow straight! It's so wide now.

[macmacma]

this is graham hill commenting?

[maladsyko]

Neubaeur wasn't that happy lol

[skalababoeboe]

nice video, i love those older racing cars, they have such better sounds then the new formula 1

[jscharpf]

wonderful video thanks!

[AFVABMDES]

Formidável!!

[etienneLividum]

What a sound!!!

[llandudnoboy]

Worth my Broadband subscription ten times over to beable to watch gorgeous videos like this one.

Just look at the width of that Mercs tyres,its hard to believe they touched speeds of well over 200 in certain pre war Grand Prix.

Crumbs my Citroen C1 diesel has wider rubber GREAT RESPECT IS DUE TO FANGIO AND HIS FELLOW DRIVERS FOR DRIVING 600+HP GRAND PRIX CARS ON SUCH NARROW TYRES.

THIS IS WHEN GRAND PRIX RACING WAS DANGEROUS AND RACES WERE NEVER CANCELLED DUE TO EXTREAM WEATHER.

[FreyLoon]

nice video even if there´s missing a part of the track. its awsome to see how the track looked in the past.

[bcguy61]

great video. I went there last year. Fantastic experience. So much history.

[alexridesbmx]

what a beautiful piece of machinery

[fecolo]

thanks to rise this excellent documental.

[lordieuan777]

that car must have been terifying to drive... 646 bhp with those narrow profile grooved tyres, drum brakes and archaic suspension. Sounds terifying too!

[wolfmother4eva]

i can't imagine the exceding bravery of the guys back then... it was all they knew...

[JeefCakes]

Maybe our children will be saying the same things of our cars.

[ikwisthet]

Words can not describe how beautiful this is!

[mackoyv]

hermann lang first gained fame in, would you believe, the mountain sidecar motorcycle circuit... he went on to work as mechanic for mercedes' grand prix motor racing team, eventually becoming its chief mechanic... in 1937 he was given the chance to drive for team mercedes... his first win was at the 1937tripoli grand prix, at the mehalla lake course, considered the fastest course in the world... his last race was driving for maseratti in the 1954 formula 1 german grand prix at the nurburgring...

[limitlessracer]

gota love his helmet. its a wonder how any of those guys lived through there racing careers

[Troylito]

actually, not too many of these old timers who drove in the 30' and 40's were killed in their cars. But when the 50's and 60's came along, the drivers were being killed pretty regularly.

[dextersno1fan]

:0 I love Graham Hill...true gentleman.

[Troylito]

Just imagine that this fabulous car, and others like it, were racing in the PRE-war days, before WWII. All those years ago.

Compared to the Twinkie cares they race today, this cars are simply classic beauties.

[Troylito]

Twinkie 'cars'.

[moparman2nd]

So nice to see these old classic videos, and so nice to see these great tracks and cars.

[lepivert]

What a nice engine sound !

[nutty1957]

Oh WOW!! :-)

[Context91]

lol i would be so scared of that and he is just wearing a cap for protection.

[SmAEsch0R]

a cap is quite sufficient for a crash :P

[anvilsring]

I remember seeing this film as part of the Shell Historic racing film series shown at Brooks Hall in San Francisco in the 60s. The background to film was a stiring, almost martial musical score, not Graham Hill. Those films, in B+W are absolutely amazing.

[atreewithnolife]

thank god for utube, what an amazing video ,what did we ever do before utube?

[erolorhun]

Incredible. What a beautiful enginenote. God is speaking through that exhaust.

[nowhereluke]

Incredible. Does someone know in what year this video was filmed??

[thalamay]

They say that it's 25 years after this car raced there. Since it's a 1937 model that would make it 1962.

[Porsche917LH]

Very cute. I prefer Porsche's auto union.

[IKurtC]

oh man this videos is just awesome look that onboard camera, and the cicuit nurburgring :) is one of the best, one day i will be there

[DJChimpski]

Done it - it's awesome. go, seriously.

[chasm3]

What!? They cut out a quarter of the track - from Carousel to the hedge straight, missing what is arguably the climax of the track. I feel gypped.

[pakkinen]

excellent!!!!!!

thanks for posting this piece of history

[panzr]

Incredible race car! Mercedes Benz and Auto Union Silver Arrows were amazing

[StingrayZO6427]

My favorite track in the world.

[nogzamjules]

Just the best thing I've ever seen on YouTube or anywhere else. Amazing - many thanks. Got any more like this? Jim Clark talking us round Spa while Fangio does a lap in a 250F?

[enziof]

A classic treasure.

[35hotford]

has anyone ever seen a better video anywhere?

Please let me know!!

[wineraugusto]

Very, very, good.

The excepcional track.

Juntamente com Interlagos (Brasil) e Monza (Italy) foram excelentes circuitos nesta época, pena que hoje em dia não à pilotos que segurem a bronca em dirigir nestas condições que o vídeo mostra, e por isso hoje, existe mais áreas de escape do que pista para correr.

[madhatter786]

the car sounds amazing!

ps whats this throttle modulation technique senna used? can someone explain the benefits to me?

[sangandongo]

I loved watching this. Its one of my favorite tracks in the world.

[Fritztoons]

Hermann just celebrated his 80ies this weekend!

Very nice man!

[hiergehts]

Hermann Lang passed away in 1987. A great driver, may he R.I.P.

[Juihi]

This video is gold!

[F1Zone93]

BTW I think it's HERMANN, not HERMAN ;)

[wippermann]

Tou're right.... (title updated) Thx :)

[SgtH3nry3]

Yes, we miss the Nordschleife-strecke, Zandvoort, Montjuïc, etc.

[thementor2]

Excellent visuals and also Hills description. Thanks!

[Pete236]

Its a pity Lang wasn't able to really open the car properly, most of that he seemed to be cruising! Also a lot of the lap was missed out. There's a long fast section before the karussel that was missed and many corners after as well. An even greater shame is how much its changed now! The south curve is under the pits of the GP circuit. Thanks for posting this up!

[CadavreAroues]

As part of History, I hope this video will forever stay available :) Thx to wippermann ;)

[CabalaCicero]

very interesting and exciting video! Otherwise, the classic F1 was a lot better than now, I think..

[Ziltoid667]

Wow. I never realized how much the Nurburgring changed when they added the barriers. I love Graham Hills comment "those holes in the hedges are where a car has gone off". I noticed an awful lot of holes, lol!

It's also interesting to see Hermann Lang go around karussel. His throttle control is not unlike that of Ayrton Senna.

[ian7796]

You're referring to the throttle-blipping during corners, I assume?

[Ziltoid667]

Yeah. Especially on Karussel, it's sounds like he's rapidly stabbing the throttle, like Senna used to do.

[ian7796]

It's a common thing, like Herbert once said that most drivers do something similar, it's just Senna did it all the time and much faster than anyone.

[ThrottleStuckOpen]

Yeah Senna's throttle style was really "staccato". (Plus he usually had the turbo overboost steering wheel button held on full time).

[spitfireJEJ]

The front wheels are set at a positive camber to put the tyre contact patch directly under a line which leads through the steering kingpin of the suspension. This allows the steering to be easier to operate so less strength needed over the very long races they had then. Same reason for the large steering wheel - no power steering then alas.

[argh1989]

excellent footage, can anybody explain to me, why are the front wheels set to a positive camber?

bad, they did not film onboard for an entire lap :(

[mauownage]

Jesus, that track is scary.

Much respect to the men who raced, won, and died there.

[syddws]

The angle of the front wheel looks wrong. And I like the bus style steering wheel.

[shkessler]

gotta love that positive camber.

[foxyzach]

nah its a guy on a motorcycle i watced it 3 times

[iestyn16]

that's just... wow :-O

[MarketLeader1]

Whataaa Footage!!!

[bornelaspt]

Superb...It's interesting to see the differences when compared to the 'ring nowadays.

[Nike155]

this is from a set of DVD's called 'Motorfilms' Quarterly', check them out--fantastic stuff!

[dimonkfish]

Obviously its condensed but even for todays ring it gives some very good pointers!

[badroo]

I love the way he goes into the Karusell directly after Ex-Muhle and then skips to the mini-Karusell.

[holeocross]

Great footage. What's on the right of the track at 8:44? People?

[wippermann]

I have watched it frame by frame in my videoeditor, and I belive it might be someone on a motorcycle ....

[wh33z3r]

its a man on a bike

[bugyg2000]

i think it was someone on a bike

[Fritztoons]

@holeocross

Yes, a motorcycle!

[skvakagud]

@Fritztoons ROFL !