(Free download) Racing Silver Arrows: Mercedes-Benz Versus 1934-1939 Racing Silver Arrows: Mercedes-Benz Versus Auto Union 1934-1939

ls3ISJJmy DNQ7R6P0q Ynu3MPmb1 UyCqLRcLr khj8zQ05I FlYmArBc2 IJE5ABbKg pPOqwnZ7E uvvSozBTC Racing Silver Arrows: Mercedes-Benz Versus Auto Union 1934-1939 x6iD5vtXQ WI-19435 Q7z8AFkuZ US/Data/Engineering-Transportation rZcbEYr5K 4/5 From 426 Reviews FZx7MbORV Chris Nixon YJXhP63rK ebooks | Download PDF | *ePub | DOC | audiobook LvZyEmTcn xo5LZECPb I4mpVpOl3 4GE1QAc3p TZzLXgDxC AVyewpVRi 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Brilliantly researched, endlessly YkWEg8SOL fascinatingBy Ricardo MioIf there is a single photo that sums up The Age of kfXltcWxo Titans, its the photo Chris Nixon has chosen for the cover of this book. It shows AieZJE4Xk the Mercedes Benz and Auto Union streamliners on the banks of AVUS in Berlin, NCPiV3n6j the capital and showcase city of Hitlers Third Reich and, by extension, the C8145XZpG showcase for the fastest and most technologically advanced racing cars in the pnjYGVSRk world. Hitler was a megalomaniac with dreams of Germany dominating sports, gunDQ3D8r the arts, architecture, engineering, motor racing, and eventually the world. By Vwc0hqqNN 1937, the year this photo was taken, he had partly fulfilled his dream with the all- conquering Silver Arrows. By this time, the German cars had thoroughly steamrolled all foreign competition, and what better place to demonstrate their superiority than in Berlin on the AVUS super speedway? It was, as some have said, a foretaste of things to come, of Germanys mechanized army crushing Europe into submission.Chris Nixon did an incredible job of researching and writing this book. He covers every aspect of the era in great depth: the drivers, their wives and girlfriends, the cars and the engineers who designed them, the circuits and the mountain hillclimb roads on which they raced. Included are interviews with the surviving principles, which were many at the time Nixon was doing research. There is a photo section at the end of each chapter that serves as a summation of each season. Also included are race results for each season. The book chronicles an epoch in motor racing that began in 1934, and ended with the onslaught of World War II, a period of Grand Prix racing history that very well could have been lost had Nixon not undertaken the project.Famously, Hitler granted both Mercedes and Auto Union what amounted to a grant as an incentive to go motor racing. As Nixon points out, the amount was minuscule compared to what the two companies actually spent. Indeed, the German teams were in no way an extension of Hitlers Nazi party, but were in fact two car companies intent of winning races for the purpose of selling passenger cars and of increasing market share. Both firms would be building cars for the newly instituted regulations that stipulated there would be no restriction on engine size but a limit on the cars weight, the maximum being 750 kg. In other words, Mercedes and Auto Union were free to develop engines of unrestricted horsepower. Their domination was so complete that apart from each other they had no rivals.The most brilliant of the engineers was Ferdinand . Incredibly, the cars fielded by both auto makers during the first year1934were designed by Dr. Porsche. The cars could not have been more different. The German engineer was a freelance designer who in 1928 designed the supercharged straight-8 engine and narrow chassis with rear- mounted gearbox that Mercedes built and campaigned. After that, he designed the V-16 powered mid-engine machine that the newly formed Auto Union produced for competition. Both cars employed front independent suspension and rear swing- axel suspensions. While no European champion was crowned that first year, the record shows that driving for Auto Union was the dominant driver/car combination.The cars got faster with each passing season, up to the end of 1937, when the regulations were changed, restricting engine size (to 4.5 liter unsupercharged, and 3-liter supercharged). The photo on the cover, therefore, depicts the two auto makers at their absolute height, employing highly sophisticated and incredibly powerful engines enveloped in slippery streamlined bodies, running on the high banks of AVUS for the first and only time. As Nixon points out, 1937 was the peak of the Age of Titans. After that, Dr. contract expired and the new regulations took hold. Professor Robert Eberan- Eberhorst replaced Dr. Porsche at Auto Union, while at Mercedes legendary technical director had long since replaced Porsches original design with all new designs of his own, including an awesome supercharged V-12 engine. The cars that ran in 1938 were less-powerful but more refined, and were in fact faster on road-racing circuits.If youre into motor racing and have the slightest interest in the Age of Titans, youll find this book endlessly fascinating. Thanks to Chris Nixon, the people, the cars, the races, the recordsthe legendis secure. Five stars.11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. The standard-bearer for the era that bears the standardBy CustomerNixon's masterpiece chronicles perhaps the most monumental time in history, when Germany's Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union teams dominated the racing landscape. While arranged in a year-by-year format, Racing Silver Arrows diverts from the everyday narrative's course. Each chapter/year opens with a sketch of the year, then moves into a few standalone profiles--of key drivers, other personalities, and issues--and wraps up the year with a reprint of an original account of that year's key race. If you don't own this, find it; if you do own it, don't let it get away....1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. ULTIMATE MIX OF SPORT AND POLITICSBy David S. PoteTHE ULTIMATE BOOK OF AUTO RACING FROM NAZI GERMANY. CHRIS NIXON COVERSALL SIDES IN AN EVENHANDED MANNER. YOU LEARN ABOUT THE COST OF RACINGFOR AUTO UNION AND MERCEDES; AND NOT JUST IN MONEY. ALSO WELL RESEARCHEDBIOGRAPHIES OF THE LEADING PLAYERS: CARRACIOLA, NUVOLARI, VARZI, NEUBAUERPLUS PERSONAL REMINISCES FROM PLAYERS STILL ALIVE WHEN THIS BOOK WASWRITTEN. JUST THE TRAGIC STORY OF DICK SEAMAN SELLS THIS BOOK TO ME.A MUST READ

Grand Prix racing between the German Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union teams during the six years from 1934 through 1939 was probably one of the greatest, most spectacular and most important era in motor racing history. The two German teams almost completely dominated Grand Prix racing, mainly because of their technical superiority. Vast sums of money was paid to them by the German government. The side effects were that while Mercedes-Benz developed and manufactured aero engines for the Luftwaffe, the Auto Union Group manufactured tanks and other armored vehicles for the Wehrmacht.