Auto Union and Mercedes W165 engine starts, LOUD!

Goodwood Festival of Speed FOS 2011, Auto Union Type C & D and Mercedes W165 engine starts. Awesome sounds, very loud!

Auto Union drivers: Nick Mason and Hans-Joachim Stuck.

Mercedes Silver Arrow W165
Chassis 449547 was the second of the two W165s completed for the 1939 Tripoli Grand Prix. It was considered the slower of the two cars and Lang was sent out in it with an unfavourable strategy. He nevertheless dominated the race and if he had wanted, he could have lapped his 'team leader' in the closing stages. As mentioned the car was only tested and demonstrated after its debut victory. It remained dormant for over fifty years and is still only very rarely seen outside of Stuttgart. Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the 'Silver Arrows,' it is seen here at one of those rare outings, during the 2009 Retromobile in Paris.

Auto Union Type C
Mercedes-Benz domination in Grand Prix ended with the Auto Union Typ C. It took a few years to get it right, but Ferdinand Porsche's daring design with a mid-mounted V16 finally won. It claimed many victories from 1936 to 1938 until the three-liter formula was laid out for 1939.

Horch, Audi, DKW and Wanderer created Auto Union with the help of Ferdinand Porsche and Adolf Rosenberger. Along with building passenger cars, a goal of the new company was to enter Grand Prix. They did so in 1934 with a daring mid-engined race car called the Typ A. This evolved into the slightly larger Typ B the following year and the Typ C was fitted with a much larger engine for 1936.

The Type-C was a third evolution of Auto Union's racecar. It primarily competed with Mercedes-Benz but also raced against Alfa Romeo's 12C-36, the Maserati V8RI and Bugatti 59/50. Type-Cs won six victories in 1936 and made Bernt Rosermeyer world champion

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[rvind92g]

These are cars from hell.

[thegoldenduck456]

Back when racing was racing.

[Permobil2004]

Beautiful a true racecar!

[Permobil2004]

People think Nascar is tough imagine how hard these cars were to drive you could die in the blink of an eye. 

[panzr]

@rvind92g They got kicked outta hell for being to scary and were banished to earth and now they roam the land as demons from hell

[W124Channel]

@rvind92g No ! From Germany ;-)

[alexnordh]

One of the orignal drivers (Berndt Rosmeyer?) Said "Top speed? It´s only a matter of guts and forgetting the non existing brakes"