A whole system which believes his time has come with chinas president. She ging paying stuarts july 30th on d. W. Ah, ah, an inconspicuous forest trail, south of frankfort, next to one of germanys famous auto bonds in houston with the end of the road for a legendary german racing driver. Lee in a no holds barred, a bid for land speed supremacy. Unfeeling the events of over 80 years ago remain the subject of speculation. With what exactly happened on that fateful day, and what is it that pushes people to pursue speed records at all costs . I me. Ah ah, who was band holes on my aunt who died in january 1938 driving down the perfectly straight autobahn at over 400 Kilometers Per Hour. Thick o an eastern germany home to a museum that was once the racing car factory of our tony own. Germanys 1st state run automaker and a predecessor of todays audi me. The 1930 saw an epic duel between 2 giants of the german racing seen as the relatively young out old well known thought to overtake the dominant Mercedes Benz team. A high profile rivalry that intensified when band told them i joined the our total unity. The young hot shot was to take on mercedes works driver and european champion old old car chola. The out on your bosses had high hopes for holes in maya, who was a boon for both motor racing and a nazi regime, eager to capitalize on the competition for propaganda. The bold, young rising star was perfect. I was in my own home to speak to all of them. I have to find out about it. I always ask them, i got them on my l. He got a bottle and i thought you will nicely with night. Yet were in dresden to meet a man whos written the number of books on the early german motor racing europe, including the 19 thirtys when the countrys big carmakers fought out their rivalry on germanys new out o bonds, a network of modern highways that brought prestige to the nazis header casberg as an automotive historian, the regime he explains, was eager to show that germany could build not only the fastest cars, but also the best roads. To maximize publicity authorities held special record speed weeks on the new high speed motor ways. Another chance for glory, for band or the maya m october. Its already caught while her nose was even on t. Is ish frozen my i broke a series of records that had belonged to car jolla in october 1937. When earning them to also union, it started doing time law child, i am a failed because of a design out of sync with the laws of natures an icon causally, and vig long deep and not all the destination. And par wouldnt. Im ended by the end of the week or the National Racing commission of promise that im led soon be allowed to make for the record attempts merchant. Next and sad, pulled idle was over fallen dog as will them for the outgoing auto union have to respond because its a delicate relationship between a dime there in the public, a dime law or, and indoor from dish tied to alicia until tiffany, when a decision was that if they drive off, then we need to drive as well. Be okay, no, youre missing out. As seen from the teams 10, the wind had picked up when it was, was a my as turn to start on january 28th, 1938. On his 1st run, he clocked 429 Kilometers Per Hour, a personal best, but still not fast enough to wrestle the record back from mercedes adjustments are made while the wind grew stronger. Hosemeier was impatient, reportedly telling his team to just let him get back on the road for a 2nd run. It was 1147 ah, and then disaster at the 9. 2 kilometer mark holes m i as type see car dubbed tom linen wagon or stream liner careened off the road, flipping several times over a distance of 900 meters. The destroyed car came to a stop on an embankment, was a maya was killed instantly. Conspiracy theories spread, blaming reckless annu executives for disregarding the strong winds and sending holes a maya to a premature death. Out o o noon did not appear interested in a formal and thorough investigation. The remains of the car were destroyed before they could be properly examined. Mm. The only viable explanation available under the circumstances was that a gust of wind had blown holes a mile off the road. But is that the true explanation . Ah, why do people put their lives on the line and hair raising duals over a couple of kilometers . And the name of progress on some dubious patriotic quest, or is it personal ambition and ego i, weve come to the since im technical museum, to meet professor could move that. Another historian who has studied the early days of automotive development. Ah, he tells us about the origin of the pursuit of pace, which goes all the way back to the late 19th century, the spanish lac what, particularly slow nickel to sleep and stick. There was a common phrase at the time of the acceleration of the speed of life. I have no food at sight. The lay german monarchy was also called the hero of nervousness. Past particulars for industry and speed is part of that. And as soon as a symptom, but also as a kind of remedy as an op hip smith attacking the 1st month or 250. 00. Some people try to adapt to the era and the racing driver, or someone who could cope with high speed with well conditions into the era content. While there was this new image in which a lot of people saw as the pinnacle of the modern human being, i feel able to adapt to this accelerated pace down the noise mentioned to me. So who were these dare devil . One of them in belgium was actually nickname the red devil. Asked brussels and to the imposing neal Gothic Church of our lady here lies a man who was only known outside belgium to racing, efficient auto, a man who in his time enjoyed a colossal reputation. Tammy, youre not the son of a major hire manufacturer and record breaker. The 1st person to break the 100 Kilometers Per Hour mark at the wheel over 120 years ago. I me, i believe biblical is an architect who has spent years looking into the story of camille and nazi. The driver was famed for his trademark red goatee and his red hot style at the wheel as he thought, fame as the fastest driver. Mm. Can you just get a horse . You know, we said this to me and he was a hero. A big lie. Michael schumacher a man who like driving fast and had a passion for speed and he was determined to break record this connect course im going to saw the 1st race he appears to have taken part in the shunt blue hill climb, reaching an impressive 25 Kilometers Per Hour in an electric car. When you call us back then was slower than bicycles. It was to be home, couldnt do that. These records were heavily covered by the media and especially the sport papers, the other girl. How do you on a look for that . I had saw a trespasser, easy process book on the record breaking car is on display at the Auto World Museum near the cities famous song company f arc. The larger make on dont is a popular exhibit. Among the fastest motorized vehicles of its time surpassed only by steam locomotive. No radiator, no exhaust your nazis car was electric. Ah, in the late 19th century it was still unclear what kind of propulsion would set the pace on land. Steam powered vehicles required, laborious, pre heating, and gasoline engines had a reputation for breaking down. If they started at all, not ideal for record centers. Publicity was always key factor, comey expertly exploited. Ah, the auto world car is not original. Its a replica built by. Its not the foundation of a modern day mobility pioneer. The lack of blueprints for the 899 car left him with a serious challenge. Not least with the numerous features unique to the nazi car. Receipt of his disposal, doing valon dont volunteer. Dont get actually the Steering Wheel lever, which could have sliced open his stomach in an accident. And he was relatively told originally received with no break because he wanted to drive straight ahead as fast as possible. Just finally, book desco, boosted and back. Then they didnt drive on proper road, is willis, wiggily drove on horse racing tracks. No, maybe up to 2 kilometers long. See to piece to alicia vocal. Their academic muscle will do kill me in age of a bull, though a huge crowd does it because they were International Events in multiples. I booked all us to prescribe them. It was like the 1st man on the moon. There was great interest in the technology. You see a biblical data report at the conversion 105. 8 Kilometers Per Hour. A new best mark. But not for long. 3 years later you, nancy was displaced by of all things, a Steam Powered vehicle by this point. Yeah. Nazi had already started competing in races for mercedes Parent Company dime. Lar, even took out a Life Insurance policy on your nazi that corporate commitment brought dividends in 19 o. 3, you nazi one, the gordon bennett. Come in ireland, the worlds most important car, race of that era. Ah, this is the only film footage of your nazi moon. It was a curious quirk of fate that saw the fearless belgian die, not on the track, but during another more harmless type of outdoor pursuit. Another of you, nazis talents, would be his downfall. A knack for imitating animal sounds. Lou during a walk in the woods in 1913, a hunter mistook him for a deer and open fire blue a couple of decades forward. We returned to band holes of maya and his tragic end in 1938. An event that left the motor, racing world in shock. One of its top drivers was dead. Nazi authorities turned his funeral in berlin into a political rally. Friends, family fans and rivals paid their last respect, while the notorious ss held a vigil to the fallen hero. Ah, but what was the actual cause of the accident . A question that was eclipsed amid the pomp of the funeral procession. Nazi ideology could not allow a hero of the german nation to have died due to technical deficiencies, let alone a mortal driver error. The cause was never pursued. Ah, tim nits, home to the original out oh known h q and a branch of the official saxony state archives. We want to look at Historical Documents of specific interest to us is the file concerning the death of band hosemeier containing a range of original documents, formal testimony, affidavits and eye witness accounts. Including this letter from a certain auto gaia to the head of the auto known motor racing team. His eye witness report recalls how the auto renew own car veered onto the grass bank and turned sideways details similar to those observed by time keeper, ca, hello, vis mother who also referred to an exclusion when question. Then theres this hugely important document, a Weather Report from the nearby zepplin airport between 11 and 1230 on the day of the crash. It registered strong winds and gusts of up to 11 meters per 2nd. Interestingly, only the Mercedes Team had asked for a forecast ahead of the record attempts ow total known didnt buy. The car maker later sent a letter to its dealerships, however, insisting it had not recklessly put the driver under unreasonable pressure. And that the wind speed had in no way appeared dangerous. An attempt to shun responsibility. There are no photos or film footage of hose. Am i as final and fatal run itself . Its rumored some material was destroyed. If so, then not everything. However, there is a private film captured by outward emsella who worked in a frankfurt photo processing lab. Ah, on the day of the race, he was on a foot bridge crossing over the autobahn, where he was filming, and air show taking place at the same time. At one point, emsella happened to briefly train his camera on the road below. Pulls a maya can be seen in the runoff zone after his 1st run. He just clocked 429 Kilometers Per Hour, and now set off towards darmstadt on the 2nd and fatal leg of the 2 way record attempt. At 1st glance, with all eyes on the road, the film seems inconspicuous, but a closer look reveals other movement on the right of the picture. Trees visibly swaying to and fro under the strain of evidently strong if not storm like winds. Was this record attempt doomed from the outset . Ah, we next mean motorsports expert martine shorda, the hose, m, i, a crash has become a labor of love for the former bookseller. Over the years, hes collected a wealth of documentation, much of it from private archives. Ah, and theres the one question that never goes away who is to blame for the drivers death. 6 i. 6 1 thing shrewder is certain of is that it cannot have been the wind alone. Its robin lish, chicago, even on the face of it was windy. You can see in this film footage i have on 15 Kilometers Per Hour from which wind blow the car off the road. I think like this can be due to 2 causes, 100 slide or the combination of to zoom of one flight. By analyzing the photos from that in from his day, should i came across some curious inconsistencies among them out own yawns. Motor Sports Division had made changes between the 1st and 2nd runs the air intake duct at the front of the car, for example, was reduced. Busy the completed the nozzle is given on the entire nose was replaced, and behind this little inlet, there was one tube supplying the engine with oxygen with torn on there more tor middle washed off to one and another. You connected to the cocked iron against cockpit prevail. Here like nose in the cockpit mit last. So far as all was, am i and likes driving with the cockpit open. The tube was necessary to prevent him from suffocating at speed. And another photo was of interest. A section of the body on the road. The picture had been taken by a reporter from italy and show as part of the underbody which has on looking triangular openings. They were evidently err valves that could be operated from the cockpit involved in these and also when did and when his loft, he had this outlet for the streaming and at the front where they told him that if it got too intense and at the speed it was like a storm then he could step on this lever. But kinds of off to, you know, dennis or phil or my number or not. I think he did that, which disrupted the lower error dynamic. Because the air was suddenly being redirected underneath the von, when you look for it presses step bill than him. The car takes off the off ever your stir mammal. My only song flow is disrupted at those at junk is 52. 00 plain stock. Took off at just 120 with all that weight really would the accident due to aerodynamics did outdoor on your sufficiently tasked the vehicles behavior at these extreme speeds . Historian, pitch acute says the team were clearly out of their depths when it came to such a technical detail. You hadnt actually time it and it does it so that they never expected it to happen. Its not just they had a plan b, its got a whole issue, was forgotten. There was no way the image of rosy meyer as a National Hero was going to be compromised later by these trivial questions. Theyre still older my as drive would be the last record attempt for our own your own, but not for mercedes. Towards the end of the 1900 thirtys dime le bens worked on a new car designed to pulverize previous milestone. The t 80 with a bombastic 8 meter long monster, weighing in at over 3 tons and with contours, more like those of a finer bomber plain. This prototype is among the most impressive exhibits at the dime le museum and stuttgart. Ah, the impetus for the t 80 was provided by hands stuck previously an outdoor on your star whose success has a hill climbing champion, had been overshadowed by the flat ground feats of all my zone star was starting to fade, but he enjoyed good connections with the nazi leadership who were increasingly eager to see demonstrations of superior german engineering. At stokes request, the t 80 was to be built by a fatty non portia legendary car designer and creator of our toll knowns, type c target top speed, 600 Kilometers Per Hour. This would require an output of 3000 horsepower. The job was entrusted to 2 dimer airplane engines, provided by the high, shabby asian ministry. Each boasting displacement in excess of 44 leaders. Thought as fate had it, the ti 80 project would fall victim to the 2nd world war and 1939. As a result, hans stuck would be denied his own baton von moons house and asked cannonball run and perhaps spared a premature death. After the war, it was clear that speeds of over 600 Kilometers Per Hour on land were not possible with combustion engines. Records of that kind would require Rocket Propulsion and the kind of Space Available on this lunar like landscape bonneville and the state of utah usa. The remnants of a prime evil lake turned into seemingly infinite salt flats by a combination of wind and water. And for almost a century now, the ultimate test track and an el dorado for speed freaks. Oh yes, this would be the stage for a new generation of record seekers. Chief among them art our farms and crag breedlove. The 2 americans were obsessed with being the fastest man in history and were prepared to use all means available to set a new record, which had now been held by a succession of british drivers. The dawn of the 1960 saw our fawns and breathe love open a new chapter in the competition for the ultimate automotive glory. Blue sam holly lives in ontario, canada. He spent years studying the history of the salt flats, erupt, speed records, and the fearless men famed as junkyard. Geniuses. Folly has written the number of books dedicated to that era that time around 96061 that the United States air force was getting rid of a whole bunch of fighter jets from the korean war. And all this stuff was going into the junk market. And so anchor in los angeles were craig b love lived, lived like literally hundreds of j 47. 00 jet engines were being sold as scrap. So he was able to buy one for almost nothing, 500. 00. He got that his 1st jet engine, if he got like an allison engine, it would have cost several 1000. 00. So he was trying to save money by getting a jet o hacking up to 17000 horsepower. Those engines were fitted in 19 fifties air force jets, such as the famous star fighter that reached speeds of over 2200 Kilometers Per Hour. Exactly what kind of power that could translate into with Land Vehicles was difficult to decipher. Given the lack of testing, our funds knew absolutely nothing about jet engines. But somehow he, he found one from a junk dealer and he found a manual about how to, how these things worked. And he actually took this thing apart wi