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Rosemeyer crossing the finishing line at the 1937 vanderbilt cup View high resolution

Rosemeyer crossing the finishing line at the 1937 vanderbilt cup

scanzen: Bernd Rosemeyer in Auto Union record-breaking car, 1937. Rosemeyer set a number of world speed records for cars with engines of less than 8000cc capacity driving Auto Union cars in the late 1930s, when the team was engaged in a duel with Mercedes both in motor racing and record breaking. He was killed in 1938 when his car crashed on the Frankfurt-Darmstadt Autobahn while in the process of trying to regain the record from Mercedes. View high resolution

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Bernd Rosemeyer in Auto Union record-breaking car, 1937.

Rosemeyer set a number of world speed records for cars with engines of less than 8000cc capacity driving Auto Union cars in the late 1930s, when the team was engaged in a duel with Mercedes both in motor racing and record breaking. He was killed in 1938 when his car crashed on the Frankfurt-Darmstadt Autobahn while in the process of trying to regain the record from Mercedes.

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1937 AVUS, Rosemeyer View high resolution

1937 AVUS, Rosemeyer

ivegotmytowel: fuckyeahlotus, look what I found yesterday whilst clearing out my loft. Greatest book ever. View high resolution

ivegotmytowel:

fuckyeahlotus, look what I found yesterday whilst clearing out my loft.

Greatest book ever.
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The podium after the 1936 Eifelrennen, and a fragment of the race by Elli Beinhorn, Bernd Rosemeyer wife. “…the circuit was covered in fog and drizzle. When the cars left the start the fog had lifted, but it was raining steadily. Rudolf Caracciola(known as the Rainmaster) led for the first two laps in his Mercedes, but was then passed by Tazio Nuvolari on his Alfa Romeo, with Bernd in hot persuit. Caracciola retired and Bernd closed relentlesly on Nuvolari, passing him behind the pits, to the indescribable rejoicing of the thousands in the packed grandstands. Then the fog returned and everyone slowed dramatically - except Rosemeyer, who slowed hardly at all, lapping over thirty secongds faster than Nuvolari and finally completing the ten laps 2 minutos and 11 seconds ahead of him. I listened in to those laps on the radio with tears in my eyes. I could hardly believe that it was my Bernd, whom radio announcer at the circuit was congratulating, his words tumbling over each other in excitement. It was really at this race that the Rosemeyer legend began, with that extraordinary victory in the fog and he was thence-forth known as Der Nebelmeister - The Fog Master. Rosemeyer! by Elly Beinhorn Rosemeyer and Chris Nixon RIP Rosemeyer 28/01/1938 View high resolution

The podium after the 1936 Eifelrennen, and a fragment of the race by Elli Beinhorn, Bernd Rosemeyer wife.

“…the circuit was covered in fog and drizzle. When the cars left the start the fog had lifted, but it was raining steadily. Rudolf Caracciola(known as the Rainmaster) led for the first two laps in his Mercedes, but was then passed by Tazio Nuvolari on his Alfa Romeo, with Bernd in hot persuit. Caracciola retired and Bernd closed relentlesly on Nuvolari, passing him behind the pits, to the indescribable rejoicing of the thousands in the packed grandstands. Then the fog returned and everyone slowed dramatically - except Rosemeyer, who slowed hardly at all, lapping over thirty secongds faster than Nuvolari and finally completing the ten laps 2 minutos and 11 seconds ahead of him.

I listened in to those laps on the radio with tears in my eyes. I could hardly believe that it was my Bernd, whom radio announcer at the circuit was congratulating, his words tumbling over each other in excitement.

It was really at this race that the Rosemeyer legend began, with that extraordinary victory in the fog and he was thence-forth known as Der Nebelmeister - The Fog Master.

Rosemeyer! by Elly Beinhorn Rosemeyer and Chris Nixon


RIP Rosemeyer 28/01/1938

scanzen: Bernd Rosemeyer driving an Auto Union (designed by Ferdinand Porsche), c1937. View high resolution

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Bernd Rosemeyer driving an Auto Union (designed by Ferdinand Porsche), c1937.

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1937 Nurburgring, Rosemeyer in the c-type View high resolution

1937 Nurburgring, Rosemeyer in the c-type

Bernd Rosemeyer, 1937 at the Nring. View high resolution

Bernd Rosemeyer, 1937 at the Nring.