Comments by "Loulovesspeed" (@Loulovesspeed) on "Audi's Supercharged V16 Were Deadly Fast" video.

@ATruckCampbell - Then I'll tell you, we did not have the tech in the 30s to make wide tires like today! The reason is all tires back then were bias ply and not radial ply like we have today. Bias ply tires are limited in how wide they can be made, while radial ply tires can be made in considerably wider versions. That is why the Auto Union Type C Hill Climb car had dual rear wheels, the only way they could improve the traction for such a high HP machine.
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@CaptHollister - Rudi Caracciola was the finest driver of his time in the rain. This skill earned him the nickname Regen-Meister (Master of the Rain). If it was raining at the start of a GP, other drivers reportedly took bets, not on who would win the race, but by how far Rudi would win! He was that good. :face-orange-biting-nails:
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@henryhallam5270 - Not just Audi, but Wanderer, DKW and Horch. The 4 intertwined circles in today's Audi badge represents these 4 companies that combined to create Auto Union. In later years, that name was dropped in favor of the name Audi.
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@Where_is_Waldo - You are limited on how wide you can make a bias-ply tire and that's all that existed then. When we learned how to make radial-ply tires, then much wider single tires could be made. 😀
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Correct, the Type C did not have 2 superchargers, but it did have a 2 rotor supercharger, and that is where I think the confusion stems. :face-turquoise-covering-eyes:
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The V16 cars are not technically referred to as Audi. They are Auto Union cars, the company created from the merging of Audi, Horch, Wanderer and DKW. That is what the 4 circles intertwined stand for. :face-orange-biting-nails::text-green-game-over:
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@cookncrack5334 - He was most likely ordered to wear it!
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That comment makes absolutely no sense at all! :face-orange-raised-eyebrow: Have you been drinking again? LOL :face-turquoise-covering-eyes:
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@princesssolace4337 - Well, they were still brave to willingly accept the life and death challenge of racing at the time!
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@princesssolace4337 - Obviously they didn't know that the tire technology would allow faster, safer and wider tires years ahead. They just raced with what was available at the time. The drivers weren't blind....they could see many drivers get killed quite frequently back then so they were very aware of the danger, therefore they were certainly brave to expose themselves to the dangers. That's why I maintain that they were very brave men!
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@princesssolace4337 - You have a very distorted understanding of the words brave and trauma. Your comments here are a disgrace and an insult to all the military who have BRAVELY fought and died, or survived. Made up words......all words are made up, but they all have meaning too! :face-orange-biting-nails:
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For hill climb cars only, GP cars were single rear wheels.
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@dye46 - Actually, the Type C Auto Union had a single supercharger with twin vertical rotors, fed through two Solex carburetors. The Alfa Romeo Type B, P3 GP car had dual Roots-Type superchargers. :face-turquoise-covering-eyes:
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@katmai90210 - You must be here, because you're not all there! :face-orange-biting-nails:
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My late Father's 1968 Galaxie 500 XL with a 390 2 bbl. and C-6 automatic would easily chirp the tires between first and second gear! :face-blue-smiling::hand-orange-covering-eyes:
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It also means "Hello" in the Western United States! LOL "Audi partner"
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@TheXopony - Nope, the first hemi head engine goes back to the Belgian car maker, Pipe, in 1905. It was a 4 cylinder hemi, like the 1907 Fiat GP car.
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Dumb and reckless is a bit unfair. The track owners were finally forced to make safety improvements after much campaigning against them by Jackie Stewart.
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@henryhallam5270 - Today it is Audi after they dropped the Auto Union moniker in 1969. In the 1930s, its only name was Auto Union, formed by merging the 4 German companies to avoid bankruptcy during the Great Depression.
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@fafner1 - In 1935 German GP, a little under powered, outdated Alfa Romeo destroyed all the German racing machines in an epic grand prix win. Needless to say, the ruling party was very displeased. However, the crowd gave a huge applause for the winning driver, a little 5'2" Italian named Tazio Nuvolari. One of GPs greatest races!
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@tinolino58 Oh really? Dr. Porsche was a certified Nazi Party member, working on developing the automobile and creating military weapons as well.
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At the very least, they were both heavily influenced by The National Socialists! If the shoe fits, wear it!:face-orange-biting-nails:
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@vladpcgamer - In my opinion, this is another example of political correctness being carried to a fault! "Just ignore it and maybe it will go away." Well, no it won't. The word nazi in itself describes a way of thinking and methodology that actually existed. It was clearly unacceptable to the entire free world and undeniably so! That, however, should not mean it shouldn't be acknowledged, because they actually existed and were a part of history, albeit a tragic and horrific part. Remember the words of George Santayana....."Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." :face-turquoise-covering-eyes:
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@Big_Black_Dick - Nope, The company credited with making the first hemispherical combustion chamber engine to be utilized in production cars was the Welch Motor Co of Michigan, USA, in 1903. It was also the maker of the first overhead camshaft auto engine. Welch sold to General Motors in 1910 and GM did not continue to make the hemi head engine!
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@keithstudly6071 - They were used only in hill climbing to try and improve traction on the typically loose gravel roadways. Didn't need them on GP circuits that were essentially flat and better surfaced.
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@kennethm.pricejr.8921 - Look up another spectacular engine design - The 1954-55 Mercedes W196 R, 2.5 liter straight 8. It was fuel injected and featured 2 pairs of 4 cylinders mated together. To reduce the torsional vibration inherent in straight 8 engines, the power was taken off the midway point between the front and back 4 cylinders. Its Desmodromic valve system was mechanically actuated without the use of RPM limiting valve springs, making it possible to rev this engine beyond 9,000 rpm, a figure thought impossible at the time. This too was a very technically sophisticated engine. As a sideline, it also produced one of the most stirring sounds of any automobile engine regardless of size!
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Richard Seaman was ordered to hold up a Swastika flag after winning the 1938 German GP. A few pictures showing this clearly display an unhappy winner, but he was contracted by Mercedes and had no choice in the matter!
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@princesssolace4337 Wow! You have to have one of the most pathetic outlooks on what bravery and trauma are that I have ever heard! You insult every serviceman and woman with that ignorant and disrespectful comment. Shame on you. :yougotthis::yougotthis:
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The Russians however took a keen interest in the German racers after securing Berlin, stole them and hid them away!
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You are a late commenter on that. At least a dozen or so have made the same comment since this video first aired. Do you not read anyone else's comments? :face-orange-biting-nails:
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@markd1810 - FYI, His named is spelled Stirling.
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Horch.
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The badge reads "Horch", which is correct. The narrator says and his caption says Horst, which is incorrect. 😎
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@jcgabriel1569 - I'll go along with "some", but not many in "big" crashes! Remember, no seat harnesses then and drivers were thrown out in the vast majority of big crashes, killing the vast majority of them! :face-orange-biting-nails:
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They meant "The Mustard Race."
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@gustavmeyrink_2.0 - Nitromethane was not yet created back in the 1930s. It was created as a super high octane fuel for drag racing in the 1950s. What you smelled from that Bugatti was indeed nitro, but as a very small % of the fuel to give it a bit of octane boost.
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