THE NORDSCHLEIFE REPLACER? The Story of the Deutschlandring

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  • Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
  • In the 1930s, a certain leader of a certain German political party wanted a Nurburgring that was bigger, grander and faster than the Nurburgring, and they went to work on building this place using workers that weren't exactly there because they wanted to be.
    But because of the Second World War, the track was never used and is now just roads.
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  • @AidanMillward
    @AidanMillward  2 роки тому +106

    Managed to drag myself through this one... Now for fast food and alcohol abuse...
    ... And then bed...

    • @sylaswoltan7082
      @sylaswoltan7082 2 роки тому +1

      sleepppppppppppp

    • @CrunchyMotorsport
      @CrunchyMotorsport 2 роки тому +4

      I repeat;
      'Homer take of those glasses!'

    • @mikesummers-smith4091
      @mikesummers-smith4091 2 роки тому +3

      Don't overlook AVUS en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVUS , arguably the most boring circuit ever built.

    • @AidanMillward
      @AidanMillward  2 роки тому +9

      @@mikesummers-smith4091 I looked at AVUS a few months ago… I said this in the video.

    • @legoferrari14
      @legoferrari14 2 роки тому +4

      You might need to adjust the exposure settings on your camera setup; your mic and the white logo on your shirt were practically glowing.

  • @tomgopfert7380
    @tomgopfert7380 6 місяців тому +2

    I live only 40 kilometers from this place and have never heard of the track. Thank you for this interesting video. I will definitely drive around it one day.

  • @patrickracer43
    @patrickracer43 2 роки тому +44

    "When Mr. H came to power..." Rick Hendrick is that powerful

  • @bobhowse2617
    @bobhowse2617 2 роки тому +104

    Just as a point of interest the N people instigated a rally (for cars)as part of the 1936 olympics as a showcase for the german auto industries and their engineering supremacy, the rally was won by a Singer tourer driven by a woman Elisabeth "Betty" Haig daughter of General Haig, thus the Singer Motor company are the first and only car company to hold an olympic gold medal

    • @nathantuff8814
      @nathantuff8814 2 роки тому +10

      It's possible they just saw the word 'rally' and got excited.

    • @y_fam_goeglyd
      @y_fam_goeglyd 2 роки тому +13

      Singer, the British company...? Wow, what a flood of memories I got reading that! Though the car I'm thinking of absolutely wouldn't be the same model 😂
      My "aunt" (Mum's best friend - this is back in the 70s) who also taught at my high school, had a Singer car. Tiny thing which had a backup crank handle starter - not the only car I knew of then with them. Really useful things, especially in the cold weather which used to kill batteries.
      Aunty Jean would sometimes insist on driving me the 2.9 miles uphill (after the third year, you only got a school bus if you lived 3 miles + away. If I lived at the top of the street I'd have had the bus 🤷🏻‍♀️). It was quicker to walk, and less nerve-wracking, but that's more because of her than the car. It was cramped and slow, but so incredibly good on fuel mileage that every 6-8 weeks, she'd break down having run out of petrol. "Uncle" Al would have to rescue her with a can of it, and later on take it to the garage. (She was no better when he got her a newer car, only it happened more often because no car was as efficient as the Singer!)
      She was one of those wonderful, very strong and independent women, but for some reason she drew the line at refilling her car. And because the car was so economic, she'd forget to look at the fuel gauge. 🤦🏻‍♀️
      I miss that generation, they were brilliant fun and generally daft. Only got my mother-in-law left (just turned 87 and still doing batty things, like driving about 100 miles to visit her "gentleman friend" - he's too poorly to visit her now, sadly - and stopping off at my daughter's place and playing with *my* grandchildren. All 5 of them!). My parents would go treasure hunting and Dad was a rally driver (the second reason your story caught my eye), a highly rated amateur. Mum objected more to that when I turned up - number 3 - than his job at a steelworks. She said she could just about cope as a widow with two kids but not three, and she wouldn't get a payout from his hobby, only his job. Made sense!

    • @nathanberriman56
      @nathanberriman56 2 роки тому +2

      They were fond of a rally that lot. Haha.

    • @barrybritcher
      @barrybritcher 2 роки тому +1

      The N people? Didn't they sing Movin on Up?

  • @Tomatothrower
    @Tomatothrower 6 місяців тому +1

    Hi from the future, it came to ACC lol.
    Love your videos!

  • @CrunchyMotorsport
    @CrunchyMotorsport 2 роки тому +45

    'A certain political party'
    This man was 1 word away from being banned

    • @vsm1456
      @vsm1456 2 роки тому +4

      he used the n-word later in the video

  • @MCNeoX
    @MCNeoX 2 роки тому +12

    I grew up in a near village and went to elementary school in Hohnstein :D . The remaining streets are still known as "Die Rennstrecke" (the racetrack) by the locals. Very popular by bikers, so popular, that they had to install some rumble strips to discourage racing. The hillclimb section was part of my daily commute to work for a couple of years :)

  • @lassenikulainen6722
    @lassenikulainen6722 2 роки тому +8

    6:49 oh no, it really was a thing at least in East Germany. There were even some non champpionship F1 races held at early fifties. There is very little record of those left

  • @MrLukealbanese
    @MrLukealbanese 2 роки тому +5

    Aidan, actually the Communists did have a fair bit of motor and particularly motorcycle racing. The legendary Sachsenring in East Germany and Brno in the Czech Republic spring to mind. These were even on the Motorcycle world championship circuit.

  • @williamross2579
    @williamross2579 2 роки тому +4

    Common misconception about motorsport in the Easter bloc. It was MASSIVE, sometimes drawing 400k+ to tracks at weekends , I’ve met some old Osties that insist, the Schlitzer Dreirek and Sachsenring would have attendances of 750k. Heinz Melkus is their C.Shelby, and would make magic from 2stroke Wartburg engines, also creating the only sports car the Iron curtain ever made (Melkus 1000). His son Ulli, was a Ost formula 1 champion and was tragically killed in a car crash after returning from a test drive at the Nordschlife. Some Ost drivers went on to compete, successfully in DTM and Endurance racing. For a full trip around the Great German ring, hunt down The drive on the Circuits of the past channel. There’s also quite a bit of televised footage of East German tourenwagen (Lada’s, Skoda’s) racing from the late 80s. Seeing Trabants screaming through Oberbohmsdorf on the full Schlitzer… is astounding. ua-cam.com/video/hu5oA-RRJdE/v-deo.html

  • @louielouie95
    @louielouie95 2 роки тому +8

    We Need A Story About How The WTCC Merged With The TCR International Series To Become The WTCR

  • @petrhlavac9529
    @petrhlavac9529 2 роки тому +6

    There were more insanely dangerous road circuits in Germany. Thankfully, some of them have been created for GPL. Check the old Sachsenring, Schottenring, Schleizer Dreieck or Solitude. Incredible stuff

  • @Hesitatedeye
    @Hesitatedeye 2 роки тому +93

    if the Nordschleife was destroyed Jimmy would cause a flood with his tears.

    • @AidanMillward
      @AidanMillward  2 роки тому +30

      Wouldn’t even need jimmy. I know people in sim racing who ONLY drive the ring.

    • @HCR_CA15
      @HCR_CA15 2 роки тому +5

      Jimmy would, but May wouldn't

    • @andrewwinslow9315
      @andrewwinslow9315 2 роки тому +1

      @@HCR_CA15 Captain Slow is too slow for the Ring. He prefers the Indianapolis Road Course

  • @ItsJakeTheBrake
    @ItsJakeTheBrake 2 роки тому +4

    Small correction. Racing was a thing is socialist Germany. The Sachsenring hosted the MotoGP (or however it was called back then) until 1972. There were also various national car and motorcycle championships. They just didn't bother with the Deutschlandring.
    Would also love to see you do a video about the Schleizer Dreieck. Great course from 1923 that is hosting races to this day.

  • @Aesh-om2sz
    @Aesh-om2sz 2 роки тому +8

    Brilliant video!
    To add one thing though, Grossdeutschlandring more means "Greatergermanyring"
    Back then people used to call it Grossdeutschland as in literally greater germany or "big germany"

    • @RhodeysRacing
      @RhodeysRacing 2 роки тому +2

      Hey Lennart! Suppose it makes sense to see you here 🙂

    • @Aesh-om2sz
      @Aesh-om2sz 2 роки тому +1

      @@RhodeysRacing ello Rhodey!
      Yep haha

  • @icytower38
    @icytower38 2 роки тому +5

    I’d love to see GPLaps do a video driving this track

  • @mrpots31
    @mrpots31 2 роки тому

    That's one of my favorite tracks in AC.

  • @richbitch3240
    @richbitch3240 2 роки тому +61

    I've actually ridden the was to be Deutschlandring with my 125cc bike a couple of years ago. You notice the streets are wide as hell (can't be used) and you were only allowed to go 60 kph at the time. And of course there was a lot of police around, to prevent anybody from racing on the streets.
    Edit: I forgot there were speed bumps on the hillclimp section, some of them actually mid corner, pretty scary when you're not anticipating them.

    • @AidanMillward
      @AidanMillward  2 роки тому +19

      Bathurst is the same. 40mph all the way round and there’s police patrolling… in both directions.

    • @kilianortmann9979
      @kilianortmann9979 2 роки тому +4

      I just now realized what I am sometimes riding on with my roadbike.
      I knew about the track and its rough location and I really like that twisty climb on my bike, I just never put two and two together.
      Can confirm everything you said, plus the corners are banked inwards a bit more than usual.
      Another very similar track, that is still in service, is the Schleizer Dreieck.
      It is one of the oldest racetracks in germany at almost 100 years and also incorporates local roads.

  • @marcusmeurich494
    @marcusmeurich494 2 роки тому

    I am from this region and I have actually driven on the public roads that once were the racetrack. You can (almost I think) do a whole lap.
    There is a twisty uphill section with great serpentine. But they have a lot of strange grooves in them to stop motorbikes from speeding. And 50 km/h speed limit anyway.
    There is this flowing complex of fast corners (80 km/h speed limit) that had massive potholes. The road surface was so bad but the government didn't want to resurface the roads because the holes stll stopped people from speeding. But I read they have done it in the meantime.
    Also it's completely closed for bikes during winter months.

  • @pvanb291
    @pvanb291 2 роки тому +1

    Wow, never knew about that track. Cheers heaps for your research and presentation!

  • @georgestratford8029
    @georgestratford8029 2 роки тому +1

    I really like how you laid out the information clearly and to the point

  • @franklinkz2451
    @franklinkz2451 2 роки тому

    PGR 2! On the first XBOX racing on the Nordshlife was awesome! Racing cat and mouse on it was the most fun ive ever had on a racing game

  • @jakubwidlarz
    @jakubwidlarz 2 роки тому

    An analogy can be made to the proposed Deutsches Stadion in Nuremberg which was to hold 400,000 fans and whose building was abandoned when the war started.

  • @H05TYL
    @H05TYL 2 роки тому +2

    As you say, Communist East Germany wasn't interested in racing cars. They were however very interested in racing motorcycles to attempt to prove their engineering superiority.
    A former N*** rocket scientist Walter Kaaden developed the exhaust expansion chamber for 2 strokes and would have won a GP World Championship for DKW were it not for their star rider Ernst Degner defecting to the West with a suitcase full of drawings and parts which he sold to Suzuki! Leading to the Japanese 2 stroke domination of the class for decades to come.
    I know bike racing is a little off topic, but Mat Oxley's book Stealing Speed is well worth a read.

  • @ZeGreatStick
    @ZeGreatStick 2 роки тому +7

    It really is a recurring theme within the third reich...
    Mister H wants something built
    Slave labor is applied (well, most of the time)
    The project sometimes does get built but never got anywhere.

    • @oxcart4172
      @oxcart4172 2 роки тому

      Yeah, I read that more people died building the V2 rocket than were killed at its targets

  • @marcnobel3938
    @marcnobel3938 2 роки тому +2

    Oha! I learned something today. I am from Germany and I didn`t know that track.

  • @BottleRocket11
    @BottleRocket11 2 роки тому

    I've actually been hotlapping the Deutschlandring pretty often when I play Assetto as of late. It's a pretty fun track to lap but that last hillclimb section can be a real pain

  • @jonathonedwards6741
    @jonathonedwards6741 2 роки тому +22

    One thing is certain, if the Nurburgring was destroyed James May would be happy.

  • @DavelyDriven
    @DavelyDriven 2 роки тому

    Wow, I've done half a million virtual km on The Nordschleife to date......mind boggling

  • @gel_oh
    @gel_oh 2 роки тому +47

    "Am I allowed to use the N-word in this video, or am I gonna get demonetized for it?"
    -Aidan Millward, 2021

    • @AidanMillward
      @AidanMillward  2 роки тому +41

      I should clarify it's the political party N word and not the Kyle Larson one...

    • @gel_oh
      @gel_oh 2 роки тому +14

      @@AidanMillward I was thinking more along the lines of "Naughty Nordschleife", but maybe that's too risque for UA-cam

    • @LuminalSpoon
      @LuminalSpoon 2 роки тому +1

      0_o

    • @AidanMillward
      @AidanMillward  2 роки тому +18

      @@gel_oh Nordscheiße

    • @davej9228
      @davej9228 2 роки тому +4

      @@AidanMillward we knew.
      NAZI NAZI NAZI NAZI NAZI.
      SEE,YOU CAN SAY IT.

  • @cmbaileytstc
    @cmbaileytstc 2 роки тому +7

    I love FAT ALFIE’s version of this track in Asseto Corsa, everything he does is gold.

    • @legoferrari14
      @legoferrari14 2 роки тому +1

      His tracks are some of the best mods for pre-70's classic racing in AC; him and Sergio Loro have made most of the few venues where the 1920's GP cars feel *right* to drive on aesthetically.

  • @scrubsrc4084
    @scrubsrc4084 2 роки тому

    The hill climb event circuit is used for longboat racing now and jts great...
    Although that's going down hill.

  • @FORZAPOTENZA
    @FORZAPOTENZA 2 роки тому

    The thing I find interesting is they were going to do that in Dresden rather than Nuremberg. Given that the Norisring start-finish straight is where the Nuremberg political rallies used to be held

  • @AutisticHighHeeler
    @AutisticHighHeeler 2 роки тому

    That shirt logo! Oliver Dawson Saxon!

  • @GregBrownsWorldORacing
    @GregBrownsWorldORacing 2 роки тому +3

    • @ItsJakeTheBrake
      @ItsJakeTheBrake 2 роки тому +2

      They did race modified Trabants that were actually decent, winning 118 Rallys in their class (cars up to 850cc, later 1300cc) and 7 overall between 1960 and 1980

    • @GregBrownsWorldORacing
      @GregBrownsWorldORacing 2 роки тому

      @@ItsJakeTheBrake I had no idea. Pitstop refueling must have been a riot :}

  • @AlienWooshie
    @AlienWooshie 2 роки тому +2

    Love these videos

  • @JP_Stone
    @JP_Stone 2 роки тому

    Hey Aidan ever considered doing a second channel about music? Love your content man.

  • @QALibrary
    @QALibrary 2 роки тому

    Well done a very interesting video

  • @RLRSwanson
    @RLRSwanson 2 роки тому +1

    There are a couple of other pre-war Gemerman tracks that were actually raced on before the Ns decided to take a fateful trip to Warsaw and in at least the case of the (old) Sachsenring, the racing went on for decades. In the case of the Sachsenring, they raced on the old circuit until, IIRC the late 80s when it was deemed the machinery and parts made by decadent Western Imperialists that had become available had made racing on the circuit too fast and too dangerous.

  • @bduddy55555
    @bduddy55555 2 роки тому

    As a design it was way ahead of its time and would have been a classic. A pity about all the other stuff.

  • @MWPompert
    @MWPompert 2 роки тому +3

    Germany is actually rather littered with great circuits from back in the day. Solitude, Schottenring, original Sachsenring. All three similar style, longer and windong public roads. Grand Prix Legends has them all, a blast to drive :)

    • @adityairawan1843
      @adityairawan1843 2 роки тому +1

      Aww, Solitude. That one is sure a blast. I have one installed for GTR2.

  • @stanislavkostarnov2157
    @stanislavkostarnov2157 2 роки тому

    racing was very much a thing in the east sector and USSR.... more of the rally type though.
    a lot of former fighter-pilots who could not transfer to jet aircrafts went into it.... but there were also many construction championships
    Brezhnev was a supporter of truck-racing, & Lvov-Automotive of Ukraine, Kamaz-trucks of Russia, & Belorussian (Minsk-automotive), as well as Yugoslavian "Yugo", & Skoda teams were strongly encouraged to enter the Paris-Dakar
    (which was counted as the pinnacle of racing)
    -- --
    internal rally stages did also exist, most were in the far-north, but also the Crimean Coastal Race, and a few other races for the USSR, similar systems being at least present in Czechoslovakia and East-Germany, (though more Privateer-Oriented, with many cars being one-man entries rather than factory teams).
    if you can find the footage, its quite a watch
    due to having unimaginable of pressure to succeed, & no safety culture, drivers were reaching as much as 200kmph on forest dirt tracks, with lots of crashes... I would say it was a horrendous but also impressive spectacle
    Though it is said, resident former Italian communists did attempt to promote the usefulness of the F1 type sport, as a propaganda/influence tool, to the upper Party Members in the 60s & 70s... formula never did catch on however, and nor did most commoner western forms of racing.
    25ton, 10ton & 5ton rally class of truck racing though, Post-USSR independent teams still dominate in that segment of the sport.

    • @McLarenMercedes
      @McLarenMercedes 2 роки тому

      "Brezhnev was a supporter of truck-racing, & Lvov-Automotive of Ukraine, Kamaz-trucks of Russia, & Belorussian (Minsk-automotive), as well as Yugoslavian "Yugo", & Skoda teams were strongly encouraged to enter the Paris-Dakar". First of all Yugoslavia broke up with the Comintern in 1949 making it a non-aligned state. Fact it was one of the three founding members of the the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961 - i.e. states during the Cold War which didn't want to side with either military pacts. The whole idea was to stay out of any war, be on good terms with both sides and find an independent third way. This also meant that any Yugoslav citizen could travel in and out of any state pretty much at will. The idea was to allow the locals to get experience as workers and scholars in other countries and bring all that back home after a few years. Also to bring in a lot of hard-currency - mostly Deutschsmarks from West-Germany.
      Brezhnev couldn't encourage Yugoslavia do to anything they hadn't decided on their *own* so this piece of information of yours is *utterly false* . Yugoslavia's leader Tito wasn't very fond of Brezhnev either and constantly turned his suggestions about "cooperation" down.
      Here's what you can read about it in The New York Times Jan 9th 1977: "Yugoslav diplomats have disclosed to United States officials in Washington and abroad that President Tito flatly rejected three requests from Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, for closer military cooperation between the two countries. Mr. Brezhnev, according to reports circulated by Yugoslavs, had 40 proposals and requests on his agenda when he met with Marshal Tito last November." Further down you can read."Yugoslav granted overflight rights to the Russians during the Arab‐Israeli war in 1973 but the Soviets had to make specific requests for each flight." Near the end of the article. "Until recently, the Yugoslays refused to discuss in detail the Brezhnev requests and their rejections of them. Analysts, believe, however, that President Tito's statement of Nov. 26 that Yugoslavia would never join any “political, military or state community” reflected his Government's attitudes to the requests."
      So how the heck could Brezhnev encourage Zastava cars in Yugoslavia to enter Paris-Dakar when he got flatly turned down for military cooperation?? Yugoslavia was never a Soviet puppet state even though it was a one-party socialist state.
      Second of all. Zastava cars never did enter any Paris-Dakar. They did however enter the Monte Carlo rally. From what I've read there was a Kragujevac-Kilimanjaro "trek" or "expedition" to drive three Zastava 101 cars all the way to mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa. It was a marketing exercise to test the durability of the cars through tough conditions (African roads and sand).
      Czech car manufacturer Skoda never entered Paris-Dakar either. They did however enter with Tatra trucks in the late 80's (when Brezhnev had been *dead for 6 years* ) and finished 2nd on their debut and won outright in the truck category in 1988. While Czechoslovakia *was* a Soviet puppet state and a member of the Warsaw Pact we're dealing with an anachronistic problem here, namely their first entry being years after Brezhnev's death and during Gorbachev's Glasnost&Perestroika years when the former Eastern Block states were all feeling they were going to get their independence any day.
      I get the impression your information may be just bits and pieces (some of them wholly false) which you have cobbled together. Interesting read but with a wee bit too many errors which makes me question the validity of them.

  • @mihalybalint8969
    @mihalybalint8969 2 роки тому

    Will you ever revisit the Tyrrell story? That was the last one before the great purge I believe

  • @amaccama3267
    @amaccama3267 2 роки тому +1

    Interesting.

  • @fawwazrafif5160
    @fawwazrafif5160 2 роки тому +5

    What Happened if Nurburgring got destroyed?
    I think a man who lives in Hammersmith will be delighted

    • @Madrat-tw2in
      @Madrat-tw2in 2 роки тому

      BOMB IT!

    • @AidanMillward
      @AidanMillward  2 роки тому +1

      Ironic that they were going to bin it off for a track near Dresden where we’d have a nice cathedral to look at and better saucers.

  • @paveloleynikov4715
    @paveloleynikov4715 2 роки тому

    Actually, there were racing in the Eastern block, mostly amateur-level, but still.

  • @johannes7059
    @johannes7059 2 роки тому

    If you want to see how it looks today, we have a side to side comparison of the AC mod and a real live lap on the public road on our youtube "motoemotion" :)

  • @TL98
    @TL98 2 роки тому +3

    Wait until you'll see the pescara street circuit

    • @AidanMillward
      @AidanMillward  2 роки тому +2

      I HAVE seen it 🤪

    • @TL98
      @TL98 2 роки тому +1

      @@AidanMillward It probably went like this 😂😂:
      Nords: I'm the longest circuit on earth.
      Pescara: hold my arrosticini

    • @AidanMillward
      @AidanMillward  2 роки тому

      @@TL98 it looks like a Pokémon. Or the Assassins creed symbol.

  • @Biker_Gremling
    @Biker_Gremling 2 роки тому +1

    Congratulations Mr Felton on ano.... whoops, wrong channel

  • @markusjuenemann
    @markusjuenemann 2 роки тому

    In fact, racing in eastern germany was a thing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_Easter

  • @JJfromIA
    @JJfromIA 2 роки тому

    The cancel culture has seriously gotten out of hand if you have to ask yourself if can say Nazi.
    That being said, yet another amazing video. You make everything so interesting.

  • @jonnmostovoy2406
    @jonnmostovoy2406 2 роки тому

    6:50 "Racing in communist Europe wasn't a thing" is a strange claim. I don't think that Soviets were competitive with the West or participated in the same events, but they sure had a ton of motorsport events going on all across the Soviet Union at least 🤔

  • @ondraspendlik9759
    @ondraspendlik9759 2 роки тому +1

    It's not entirely truth that motorsport was non existent in communist countries, obviously. I'm from the Czech Republic and racing has always been popular here, especially rallying (Škoda has been rallying for like a 100 years, if we count their early often successful attempts at Rallye Monte Carlo, not stopping even under the communist reign), both standard and marathons (the Czech driver Karel Loprais, also known as Monsieur Dakar, won the Paris Dakar Rallye 6 times, always with Czech trucks Tatra, and once even before the communist regime fell). Other than rallying, Czechoslovakia became known for its Masaryk Circuit in Brno, hosting both motorcycle and car races (the circuit would actually be an interesting topic for a future video), and definitely not just communist brands and drivers, but the ones from the West too. Originally held on closed roads, it was a very long circuit (pre-WW2 almost 30 km, then shortened to just under 18 km and in the 60s again to just under 14 km, then 10 years later to just under 11 km), featuring a mix of twisty narrow corners and high speed sections, popular mainly during the pre-WW2 golden Grand Prix era. Even during the communist reign, it attracted teams and drivers from around the world (it was a staple for example in the European Touring Car Championship), before being moved to a permanent race track in the late 80s. It hosted the Czechoslovakian/Czech motorcycle Grand Prix from 1950 to 2020, often being part of the World Championship.

  • @nicklastname9495
    @nicklastname9495 2 роки тому +14

    Aiden: Am I actually allowed to use the "N" word, or am I gong to get demonetized?
    American me: *blinks* why on earth would you use... ooooHHHHHhhhhhhhh. Your "N" word, not our.... oh never mind.

    • @nathanberriman56
      @nathanberriman56 2 роки тому

      Yea. There are places that aren’t America remember.

    • @RACECAR
      @RACECAR 2 роки тому +1

      Sad thing is, I wouldn't put it pass them to actually do that considering the flawed and very flaky algorhythm.

  • @shorty808100
    @shorty808100 2 роки тому

    Someone might put it in AMS they have tone of weird mid track they have pikes peak hill climb etc…

  • @awbennen
    @awbennen 2 роки тому

    Better background music. Thanks.

  • @eamonahern7495
    @eamonahern7495 2 роки тому

    "It's not coming to assetto corsa
    compe☕👁🫖sione"

  • @leehearsey
    @leehearsey 2 роки тому

    great vid, 80 feet is not 12 meters though (02.45) 👍

  • @ianwynne764
    @ianwynne764 2 роки тому

    Hello Aidan: Don't worry about your appearance. At least you are still young enough to have dark hair, unlike me. Stay well and safe.

    • @AidanMillward
      @AidanMillward  2 роки тому

      It just needs cutting

    • @ianwynne764
      @ianwynne764 2 роки тому

      @@AidanMillward Hello Aidan: Not as badly as my hair needs cutting. I am in Sydney, Australia, which is emerging from 3 months of lockdown and I'm having huge problems organising a hair cut. No, I have never been to the race at Bathurst. Keep up the good work.

  • @sanfordcurtis8242
    @sanfordcurtis8242 2 роки тому +2

    “Am I allowed to use the N word in this video...” I dunno, Chainbear used it (albeit not on UA-cam) and got hardly any repercussions 🤷🏼‍♂️

    • @AidanMillward
      @AidanMillward  2 роки тому +1

      Those tweets only “resurface” because people go looking for them tbh.

  • @DankBoyy00
    @DankBoyy00 2 роки тому +2

    "Am I allowed to say the N word" - Aidan Millward circa 2021

  • @kevinprior3549
    @kevinprior3549 2 роки тому

    So it was essentially called the Germany ring

  • @cas5447
    @cas5447 2 роки тому

    It's actually unfair that the Nazis, literally one of the worst kind of people to ever walk the earth, had the idea for what could've been such a nice track.
    At least we still have Hocks, the Nordschleife, Dresden etc here

    • @jsquared1013
      @jsquared1013 2 роки тому +3

      They actually had quite a few good ideas, if you only focus on the technological and architectural stuff rather than the ethno-centric mass-murder cult part of it (kind of difficult to separate them, though, given how pervasive it was).

    • @cas5447
      @cas5447 2 роки тому

      @@jsquared1013 Yeah, I know, from a pure economic standpoint they actually brought us back up again, but all that's unimportant considering the very, very necessary (sarcasm obviously) genocide.

  • @jim874
    @jim874 2 роки тому

    Screw the copy writes. Your shows have not lost anything, including this one. I never heard of this ghost track before. Why not do a drive on the SIM some day and give us an idea of what it might have looked like. Or better go on location and do a real drive on it (when ever the world gets back to normal, what ever that is) and then do a side by side with the sim race track. Sorta a then and now thing?
    Fast food and alcohol... Oh Jeez.... we would do copious amounts of beer and White Castle sliders at 3AM back in the 1960's.
    What were we thinking?

  • @DavelyDriven
    @DavelyDriven 2 роки тому

    Ok time for the Westschleife

  • @rodrigodepierola
    @rodrigodepierola 2 роки тому +6

    80 feet = 24 metres.

  • @stevenmacdonald9619
    @stevenmacdonald9619 2 роки тому

    Did you not want to say Skoda then Aidan? 🤣 Their factory was the goal of the invasion of Sudetenland. An invasion that didn't actually take place militarily, because a surrender was negotiated before it could happen. You'll never guess who was part of that surrender negotiation. Yes, Neville Chamberlain, who was only just getting warm for appeasing Hitler at that point. Skoda did not make cars in 1938, probably why Hitler used tanks in Poland and France instead. Skoda were still a munitions manufacturer then.
    Their factory would be the Wehrmacht's Walmart. Or Advancing Asda? Since believe it or not, Asda's parent company Walmart, are the world's biggest licenced sellers of guns and ammunition today. With Porsche already working on tanks, Lamborghini's tractors don't seem so laughable really.
    There is a big break for the VW Group though. Not quite as 'people's car' as you have been led to believe. VW were finished after WWII. With only the Beetle to be produced, and Americans not about to build such a car, and with no roof on their factory, they would not be able to remain as a company. It was actually a British officer who took a look at the Beetle plans, and convinced Allied control to put some men to work on it, even whilst there was no roof to work under, and the rest they say, is history.
    From Grosse Deutschlandring to VW, via Skoda, Walmart/Asda and all whilst Porsche were not very good at powering tanks. Oh I forgot Renault. The company that provided Herman Goring the opportunity to learn how to defraud the stock market, with insider trading. (Renault were not involved, other than continuing production under occupation.) Certain factories would be intentionally not touched by the German invasion in France, to continue supplying the war effort. Of course, Goring knew when and where these places already were, so would sink large amounts of money into shares in that company, to cash back massively later, knowing that business was going to be buzzing, even under Nazi occupation. Goring's massive financial success, (would explain why he was so terrible at running the Luftwaffe, and got away with it) would ultimately provide the cornerstone of the plans to rebuild Germany, knowing as they did come 1945, that it was only a matter of time, though it wholly relied on the Nazi leadership being left to run Germany post WWII.
    They called it turning tanks into banks.
    Those surviving Nazi leaders were not permitted to continue though, and Goring topped himself in Nuremberg, though those the same plans did get resurrected years later as.... ( I shit you not) The European Union and Centralised German Bank. MI5 already had copies of these plans too. They were formed in 1945 with a single purpose. The De-Nazification of Germany. - All info available through the Mark Felton Productions channel, and the book: The Hunt for Martin Boormann.
    Sorry, I couldn't resist combining motor sport and the history of WWII. Two of my favourite things. The research does throw up some interesting names and events though. I drive a VW. Feels so much better knowing it was a British officer that rebirthed the company. Ssssshh don't mention the war. I must note for anyone who thinks this is purely conspiracy, you only need look at the current leaders of the WEF World Economic Forum - Klaus Schwab, and the President of the European Commission - Ursula Von Der Leyen, to be looking at two direct descendants of Nazi's who fled Germany before the end of WWII. Pop in the name George Soros for good measure, and then tell me that the Nazi's were wiped from this earth? Whilst the left attaches that name to everyone who does not agree with them, the actual continuance has grown in considerable power and wealth, right under the noses of an entire continent. Except for one country, now expert in swerving anything Nazi led, or falling under the power of such an ideology. Britain in 1936, knew what was coming. Britain in 2016, knew what was coming.
    I give you..... The Great Reset.
    Yes, I'll take questions. This is 5yrs work. Needed to wait until the pandemic though, when they all suddenly bolted from the skirting boards into the open. You could say Open Society. Soros' Foundation that boasts 260 'friends' at the E.U. It was pretty handy that Von Der Leyen spent quite a while as Germany's Defence Minister too. If you are planning a new army. Don't you think it's very strange, given that she was born in Belgium, that a) she became a German politician and b) that she could rise as far as Defence Minister, and then President of the whole European Commission? Yet, it's conveniently passed over, that her parents were Nazis, that only ended up in Belgium to avoid arrest by the allies. Now that's what I call hating Nazis! The left of politics actively support an entire continent and 27 nations under one.... AGAIN. Colour in the maps of 1940 and 2020 with Britain in a different colour, and you will find a scary comparison, give or take the odd now included old Soviet Bloc country.
    Please follow the trail. How can some random bloke tell you all this here? Because others have spent 80+ years keeping their eyes on such people, as was right to do so. From MI5 through historians, and authors. Whilst all along the MSM skips the origins of the likes of Soros/Schwab and Von Der Leyen.
    Given their pull together, and the ever present 'neutral' (but we'll happily launder your cash country of Switzerland) who also house the likes of UEFA and FIFA, I'm surprised Davos hasn't already been renamed Davros. Exterminate..... In 2030 you will have nothing and be happy. All that's missing now, are direct ties to Gates and Big Pharma. Gates, who's father allegedly already had ties to the massively awful study of Eugenics, and a billion syringes, full and ready to go. Disclaimer: Though all material is available from public sources, I have contained any and all speculation within this final paragraph, where no confirmed and published proof exists. This speculation belongs therefore to only my own opinion, though I remain able to write it, as all named are certainly 'suspects' for further investigative journalists to come. Especially William Gates Jr, who openly brags in public and media about his next targets anyway. It's quite a stretch mathematically, to imagine no connection between all these people. These words are here should I disappear though 🤣 Carry that torch.

  • @carsonbiggerstaff5860
    @carsonbiggerstaff5860 2 роки тому

    1:00 Poor choice of words.

  • @wibblewabblewoo6249
    @wibblewabblewoo6249 2 роки тому

    Fat Alfie is god.

  • @drivingduck2234
    @drivingduck2234 2 роки тому

    the N word... Not that N word the other N word

  • @ShitHappensRLY
    @ShitHappensRLY 2 роки тому

    I hope some day you'll cover Cup of Peace and Friendship and Formula Easter things, but I don't know is there enough translated material about it