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2011
Nurburgring Nordschleife Crashes 1970 at Adenauer Forst. NEW ! More crashes
Nurburgring Nordschleife 70 Adenauer Forst Crashes. 8 minutes crashes compilation. Lots of cars of the seventies, crashing and spinning at a time when safety was just a word. Edited from film „Rhapsodie in Blech“ that is no more available.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
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 5660 CC 646 bhp at 5800 rpm (The most powerfull gp car ever built up until the late seventies)
Video Rating: 4 / 5
@DarthRiggle I disagree. It looks more like driver skill than some divine intervention from this imaginary friend you call „god“
LOL at 1:36
@Qez0 At this time, there was no seatbelts. Just a few expensive cars had it
Cars had questionable safety back then to say the least.
0:25 holy crap!
@scoot24925 Fiat 850 Sport …
every car but not the porsches did flip
Wait, was this all in the same turn?
If so, the video showcasing crashes in all corners of the tracks would take hours.
@mikerjuk lol yeah i guess so we go three times that speen now days and the car dont even act like there going to flip when they go off road
Ha..morons.
@DarthRiggle Yeah, luckily the one beetle that didn’t flip…
whats the first car in the video?
Cinto de segurança não existia nessa epoca né e tentar faser curvas acelerando um fusca pneu banana e suicidio!
Most of us are blessed that the times of crappy cars are over….
@makoshark40 It seems the ability to induce a roll from 3mph must have been part of the VW Beetles design brief…
The Porsche’s did the best.
WEAR SEATBELTS GOD DAMNIT.
EVERYBODY was thiiiiiiiis close to fall out of the window everytime they rolled.. and why the hell did one guy jump out of the door while rolling? such a badass
.33.. see the girl hanging out the window! omg!
Aw, come on dear. Look, we’ll just take a little drive aroung the Nurburgring. It’s like a big park. It’ll be fun.
Best crash compilation I have seen for a long time. Beetles just don’t go round bends without flipping over obviously. Can’t believe the cars were sometimes two or three up. Fucking lunatics! But loved it.
@DummkopfRadar
auf jeden fall! der wäre die karre voll auf den kopf geknallt
dass sich der bmw bei 0.30 wieder auf die räder stellte , hat dem mädchen vermutlich das leben gerettet!
cars really liked to flip in the 70 didnt they?
haha. so bad handling compared to now.. =)
BECAUSE RACE CAR
simply GREAT!!
10 people are Auto Union fans.
Nurburgring is only a lot of county roads, nothing else, it is very difficult because it is very long and difficult to remember.
7:20 – LOLWUT?!
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.
How many liters was the engine?
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.
@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.
i need to find a way to own one
Why did it have such skinny wheels? It has to slow right down for every corner…
Shame they didn’t show the full lap. A few fairly big sections were edited out.
@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..
People who drove theese cars didnt have balls.. They would be too scared of loosing them like us normal humans
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!
funny how those cars had POSITIVE camber instead of negative camber…
If this car flips upside down, your head is gone…
@McLarenMercedes That makes a lot of sense Thanks for explaining. =)
@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
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 How come those cars were faster, even though they were so much down on power? Was it purely because of aerodynamic development?
@erolorhun
I would said – THE DEVIL !!!
@Bobobidodo . looked like someone on a bike.
The 10 people who dislike this, should probably watch sesame street
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.
@Bobobidodo looks more like a motorcycle to me.