Nürburgring - Hermann Lang

In 1962 Hermann Lang came back to the Nürburgring to drive his Mercedes W125 Grand Prix car again. The 1937 Mercedes W125 Data: 8-Cylinder In-line 5,660 CC 646 bhp at 5,800 rpm (The most powerfull gp car ever built up until the late seventies)

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• nürburgring
• 1937
• w125
• mercedes
• 1962
• hermann
• lang
• graham
• hill
• alfred
• neubauer
• grand
• prix
• nurburgring
• nordschleife

[erolorhun]

God himself is speaking through that exhaust

[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

[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.