The Dark Origins of Mercedes Racing - Past Gas #67

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  • @LEUMAS01111
    @LEUMAS01111 4 роки тому +74

    It’s so nice to see ya’ll sitting together in the podcast!

  • @aeroboozt9455
    @aeroboozt9455 4 роки тому +76

    "hitler arrived in his Grand Prix"
    *I imagine Adolf Hitler rolling up in a pontiac*

    • @keeders08
      @keeders08 3 роки тому +3

      I imagine Hitler rolling up in a really small pineapple on wheels, soaked in hot sauce.. he falls out and somehow his pineapplemobile (soaked in hot sauce) runs straight up into his butthole.

    • @Wolf813921
      @Wolf813921 3 роки тому +2

      @@keeders08 nice little Nicky reference

    • @keeders08
      @keeders08 3 роки тому +2

      @@Wolf813921 glad someone finally appreciated it. 🤘🏼😂🤘🏼 Niiice duuude!!

  • @danielsernsons6428
    @danielsernsons6428 4 роки тому +63

    Past gas and donut media itself always makes my day brighter. James, keep being funny as you always have been. Nolan, keep being greatest Nolan I know and Joe, keep firing it up. Love you guys, I hope all of you @DonutMedia had great Christmas, and as we get closer to 2021, I wish you all Happy New Year!

  • @concernedcitizen2766
    @concernedcitizen2766 4 роки тому +48

    Y’all should look into Mussolini’s relationship with auto racing that was going on at the same time, especially with Alfa Romeo. It would be a great follow-up.

    • @Disco2004
      @Disco2004 3 роки тому

      I know that alfa was state owned by his fascist government

    • @concernedcitizen2766
      @concernedcitizen2766 3 роки тому +1

      @@Disco2004 you’re absolutely right. In fact, Mussolini used Alfa Romeo to produce gifts in the form of cars to give to his political allies and his mistresses.

  • @nikketse
    @nikketse 4 роки тому +36

    "semen. Dick semen." LOL
    I tried my best not to laugh

  • @car-enthusiast3141
    @car-enthusiast3141 4 роки тому +55

    Hamilton watching this be like : *N-N-NANI* ?

    • @derpinated
      @derpinated 4 роки тому +11

      The fuhrer seeing a black British guy winning for him: NEIN NEIN NEIN
      Lewis: I just won my 7th title you want nine?

    • @kyummm
      @kyummm 4 роки тому +1

      German supremacy

    • @alexj.5207
      @alexj.5207 4 роки тому +1

      @@derpinated LMAO

  • @bofflet7063
    @bofflet7063 4 роки тому +8

    Last Past Gas of the year and I'm thankful these 3 have been keeping me entertained every Sunday/Monday through this hell that is 2020. Thanks guys.

  • @eurosonly
    @eurosonly 4 роки тому +8

    My favorite automotive podcasts: Donut and Car Throttle.

  • @concernedcitizen2766
    @concernedcitizen2766 4 роки тому +4

    Great increase in the production value, guys. The video quality is cinematic, looks awesome!

  • @lioneldm5130
    @lioneldm5130 4 роки тому +15

    Just for the story: Jean Marie Balestre, president of the FIA in the 80's and 90's, was a member of the french SS at the end of WW2...

    • @zachhoward9099
      @zachhoward9099 3 роки тому

      @@robertobrien1069 Max’s dad was THE Leader of the British Fascists in pre WW2 Britain, I’m almost certain he was jailed during the war

  • @thomasredden4263
    @thomasredden4263 4 роки тому +2

    Going from the somber music to the Past Gas intro was a hard right turn I wasn’t expecting

  • @andrewthomason3108
    @andrewthomason3108 4 роки тому +4

    Laughed out loud at work during the horse bit. Hilarious.

  • @stevec2068
    @stevec2068 4 роки тому +3

    "yeah. dude. tight." I lost it lmfao.

  • @thomasream7532
    @thomasream7532 4 роки тому +2

    About to hop on the bike for my Sunday ride and guess what's at the top of youtube? Can't wait boys. God bless

  • @JimmyProductions
    @JimmyProductions 4 роки тому +16

    I just realized something, THE MERCEDES YT CHANNEL JUST POSTED. Like 5 minutes ago.

  • @DreamWrench
    @DreamWrench 4 роки тому +6

    Seeing you guys in the same room again makes me happy.

  • @Don-bp6ch
    @Don-bp6ch 4 роки тому +8

    First rule of race club, never go 260mph with Dick Seaman

    • @CodeineAbdulJabbar
      @CodeineAbdulJabbar 4 роки тому +3

      260 mph doesn't sound right at all. Maybe 260 kmph. Or 160 mph possibly. But no car back then could go 260 mph especially a road car

    • @enematwatson1357
      @enematwatson1357 3 роки тому

      @@CodeineAbdulJabbar
      They did achieve speeds in excess of 260 mph in 1938. Both Mercedes and Auto-Union.
      The main problem was that they were perilously close to becoming airborne which cost Bernd Rosemeyer his life.

    • @CodeineAbdulJabbar
      @CodeineAbdulJabbar 3 роки тому +1

      @@enematwatson1357 no chance in hell. Unless it was a one off top speed type of build

    • @CodeineAbdulJabbar
      @CodeineAbdulJabbar 3 роки тому +1

      @@enematwatson1357 ok well i was half right. One of kind type of deal. Still extremely impressive and hard to believe.

    • @CodeineAbdulJabbar
      @CodeineAbdulJabbar 3 роки тому +1

      @@enematwatson1357 that'll tend to happen when you're going 260 in a 750kg car with no semblance of down force 😂

  • @zhnkbr
    @zhnkbr 4 роки тому +4

    I think the home videos were more entertaining, cuz of all the random things they would pull out sometimes and all, the backgrounds were really interesting!

  • @csours
    @csours 4 роки тому +27

    Oh this is about the OTHER kind of Race-ism

  • @jamessizemore7103
    @jamessizemore7103 4 роки тому +2

    Omw up to WA from OR and y’all are just what I need to pass the time

  • @shanavlakaram4919
    @shanavlakaram4919 4 роки тому +2

    Oh yeah! Been waiting for this one! Thanks guys!

  • @wotwott2319
    @wotwott2319 3 роки тому +4

    If I had a dollar everytime Mercedes dominates in racing due to rule changes to engines, I'd have 2 dollars which is not a lot but it's weird how it happened twice.

    • @bmxriderforlife1234
      @bmxriderforlife1234 2 роки тому

      You'd get more money from every time American companies got shafted by nascar rules on things being too European lol.

  • @billywampler2852
    @billywampler2852 2 роки тому +1

    So in 1938, in the span of 90 seconds, a guy drove 268.8 miles per hour?!?!?!?! And why is it we haven't SOLIDLY broken through 300mph mark almost 100 years later?

  • @WillHughesTV
    @WillHughesTV 3 роки тому

    Love the Fred Perry that joe is wearing, joe is definitely always impressing me with how cool he is

  • @davidaddley4932
    @davidaddley4932 4 роки тому

    I love motor sports history and you guys do it honestly the best on the tube

  • @fernandoraimundo0339
    @fernandoraimundo0339 4 роки тому +1

    Please do a podcast on the Argentinian IKA Torino and the 84 hour Nürburgring endurance race. Also another podcast on Fangio. A lot of history there. Thanks

  • @FoxMacLeod2501
    @FoxMacLeod2501 4 роки тому

    Excellent episode, guys! Happy to see you in the same room again, even if it makes me a little uncomfortable, too.

  • @DylanDiMiG
    @DylanDiMiG 2 роки тому

    This podcast is dopee.. i quit watching most others, you dudez make some magic together..

  • @benjaminsuddeth6448
    @benjaminsuddeth6448 2 роки тому

    Stay close i miss these type podcasts

  • @ferrofilos
    @ferrofilos 4 роки тому +2

    The only risk thats James is mo powah babeh

  • @wornouttrends
    @wornouttrends Рік тому

    The comparison for Drake and Hitler was so spot on I spat out my water

  • @miketech2
    @miketech2 4 роки тому

    Glad y’all are back together. Dial in that lighting. 🤙🏼

  • @jaanuspapp1333
    @jaanuspapp1333 4 роки тому +7

    Do a episode on racing in the soviet union sometime

    • @littlesoldier1985
      @littlesoldier1985 3 роки тому

      What is there to talk about? Just a bunch of poor people racing with other peasants.

    • @jaanuspapp1333
      @jaanuspapp1333 3 роки тому +1

      @@littlesoldier1985 pretty much but more complicated

  • @bionicshtcnt3421
    @bionicshtcnt3421 4 роки тому +1

    Wait so was the on fire joke in Talladega Nights referencing alcohol and methanol burning invisibly?

  • @WinstonDaGreat
    @WinstonDaGreat 3 роки тому +1

    If you bemoan the fact that America doesn’t have an autobahn you should check out the turnpikes on the east coast, especially the Pennsylvania turnpike... there’s a speed limit I think, but cops don’t enforce it really

  • @adamberndt4190
    @adamberndt4190 3 роки тому

    A gallon of water is 8lbs and paints generally thicker so if they took the paint off I'm sure it was more then enough to make the weight restrictions.

  • @mr.cracklepop4354
    @mr.cracklepop4354 4 роки тому +2

    James doesn't laugh, he giggles

  • @keoni3814
    @keoni3814 3 роки тому

    Me: did you know ice cream was first invented in China
    Doughnut: I thought it was invented in my DAD”s basement

  • @hmu958
    @hmu958 4 роки тому

    Can we get the Past Gas hosts to eat a whole box of Magic Spoon one hour before they tape? It would be laughs, giggles, snorts and snickers every few minutes.

  • @Tony-rh2lp
    @Tony-rh2lp 4 роки тому +1

    2:43 James killed the mic

  • @localredbird621
    @localredbird621 4 роки тому

    When he said the Volkswagen hitler I thought of a VW bug yelling in German lmao

  • @seabassgt7998
    @seabassgt7998 4 роки тому +1

    Do the history on koth king of the hammers or baja 1000

  • @COYOTE_N8
    @COYOTE_N8 4 роки тому +9

    I'm 68% german, but I like to round up to 69%. Lol were all equals. Get it through your heads people. Love past gas 👍

  • @Darkl3y
    @Darkl3y 4 роки тому +7

    Soichiro Honda episode soon?

  • @smackmag
    @smackmag 4 роки тому +1

    We can engineer anything but a hinge.
    Lmao

  • @charlesbissey9901
    @charlesbissey9901 4 роки тому

    I think they should do one or a few on Craig Breedlove and his land speed racing

  • @concernedcitizen2766
    @concernedcitizen2766 4 роки тому +2

    Those driver’s names sound like villains from Die Hard movies lol.

  • @jhessieboy
    @jhessieboy 4 роки тому +1

    Awesome episode. Funny that nolan could say the name of the king of brunei but not a german last name. Hahaha

  • @ewdew1386
    @ewdew1386 3 роки тому

    The Story of Horch and audi is quite interesting, because they are founded by the same Person, a man called August Horch, and so his first Company was called that. But when he startet to disagree with the Rest of the Management, he founded another Company called Audi, which is Latin for Horch.

    • @ineednochannelyoutube5384
      @ineednochannelyoutube5384 3 роки тому

      Audi was cled NSU. It was renamed audi when it was acquired be the Volkswagen group and merged with Auto Union.

  • @Paul8v
    @Paul8v 3 роки тому +2

    I love it when you guys do british accents, I'm a brit and it makes me giggle every time! We have great names for things, you should google what "Trump" means over here, quite fitting...

  • @DadsWoodworking
    @DadsWoodworking 4 роки тому

    broken on 5 November 2017 by Koenigsegg in an Agera RS driven by Niklas Lilja, achieving 445.6 km/h (276.9 mph) on a closed highway in Nevada.

  • @onthemarkphotography_
    @onthemarkphotography_ 4 роки тому

    Drake and the Toronto Raptors 😂 great analogy

  • @dustintaber
    @dustintaber 3 роки тому

    Thought you guys were mistaking mph with km/h but I'm the one who was mistaking! 268 mph (423 km/h) in 1938. YEEESSSHHH

  • @jeramiebradford1
    @jeramiebradford1 4 роки тому

    Nolan, could you, would you want to, do a biographical on Lewis Hamilton. I'm stoked about George Russell's performance in the w11. I know you are a fan of Mercedes Petronas unless I'm mistaken, so how about a past gas about contemporary Mercedes works F1 teams.

  • @bughuulss
    @bughuulss 4 роки тому +6

    Day 65 of asking for the team to design a Dirty Dirk's Blinker Drink T-shirt from the Wheelhouse: Car Terms Every Car Nerd Needs To Know

  • @fateunleashed9680
    @fateunleashed9680 4 роки тому

    I remeber having a hand with Elly and Rosemeyer what a crazy time for a crazy couple. You wouldn't believe how competitive they were in the bedroom with their swinger friends lol

  • @volkoff6357
    @volkoff6357 3 роки тому +1

    Just another reason to hate Mercedes in F1.

  • @mitchel5767
    @mitchel5767 4 роки тому

    you should do an episode on Ferdinand Porsche

  • @Shogunslossy
    @Shogunslossy 4 роки тому

    Are there any movies about this?

  • @COYOTE_N8
    @COYOTE_N8 4 роки тому +1

    Lmao, I can see the little smirks when you guys say certain stuff like "dick siemens came in first" lol an joe looks up and just smiles lmao comedy

  • @mattsnow8386
    @mattsnow8386 3 роки тому

    Dick Semen was literally flying around some of those race tracks.

  • @irfandupovac8628
    @irfandupovac8628 4 роки тому

    Kinda disappointed you guys didn't touch upon the 1935 German Grand Prix and master class driving by Nuvolari

  • @armbristersgarage
    @armbristersgarage 4 роки тому +3

    Wearing my mo POWA shirt now

  • @papapain84
    @papapain84 4 роки тому

    Joey Dunlop is the "King of Mountain"

  • @MrSketchyCharacter
    @MrSketchyCharacter 4 роки тому

    Oy, why are we celebrating Thanksgiving ... in Britain? 🤣🤣🤣

  • @digital1518
    @digital1518 4 роки тому

    I’m not kidding there’s a option on a beam ng car called MO POWEH BABY

  • @teslahodson3387
    @teslahodson3387 4 роки тому

    Volkswagen did rebrand after the war. The Hitler Era VWs were called the KDF Wagen after the German workers union Kraft Durch Freud or Strength Through Joy. Yes the beetle was the Strength Through Joy Car.

  • @Tchnfrq
    @Tchnfrq 3 роки тому

    horch was founded by august horch. august horch had to leave his company after disputes with the company leadership. he founded another horch autocompany then lost a lawsuit over rights to the name horch and renamed his company audi. i guess the fact that audi was the company that "won" in the end is just karma

  • @turbo1438
    @turbo1438 4 роки тому +2

    Fire dup

  • @FredoNavajas92
    @FredoNavajas92 3 роки тому

    Pottenschtoak or however you spell it is technically a German Takami

  • @BradLancaster86
    @BradLancaster86 4 роки тому

    the cup holder to ash try ratio is too high for the Americans to earn an autobaun style highway. Also pulling over during an emergency doesn't happen in north America.

  • @crazyvehicles1588
    @crazyvehicles1588 4 роки тому

    give a review video on TATA motors who own JLR .............

  • @miketech2
    @miketech2 4 роки тому

    do the "show teams" compete via views or likes or total revenue?

  • @pmassey2
    @pmassey2 4 роки тому +1

    260 miles per hour??

  • @deltacharlieecho4732
    @deltacharlieecho4732 4 роки тому +2

    It's important to remember that if Germany would have won the war, we'd be watching this podcast about how Ford was serving the same purpose for the US.

    • @pandamoto
      @pandamoto 4 роки тому

      No, we would be dead or speaking german but youtube wouldntve existed

    • @deltacharlieecho4732
      @deltacharlieecho4732 4 роки тому

      @@pandamoto you are absolutely a fool to miss the point this blatantly.

    • @pandamoto
      @pandamoto 4 роки тому

      @@deltacharlieecho4732 no I still got the point, it was you who missed the joke

    • @deltacharlieecho4732
      @deltacharlieecho4732 4 роки тому +1

      @@pandamoto see the thing about something being a joke is that for it to be a joke it has to actually be a joke. It can't be a factual statement so blatant that to call it a truism is an insult to the concept that the word represents. The other part of a joke, you know, being a joke is that it has to be funny, or clever, or at least generally uncomfortable if nothing else. Your statement is none of these things.
      Maybe when you said 'joke' you meant reference, and even that is a stretch to the power of itself. I don't know, but I do know that what you said wasn't a joke.

    • @pandamoto
      @pandamoto 4 роки тому

      @@deltacharlieecho4732 I can see that I literally can't say anything to change your mind so I'm gonna stop here. Have a nice day and try to make/understand jokes more. :)

  • @Sackonickels
    @Sackonickels 4 роки тому

    Damn i really feel like joe had more to say at the end there

  • @taterfraterabo
    @taterfraterabo 4 роки тому +1

    Was it maybe in km/h?

    • @vintageman91
      @vintageman91 4 роки тому +1

      Crazy how it sounds but no, mph.

  • @zayzay0823
    @zayzay0823 4 роки тому

    WOOOO ALL TOGETHER

  • @brentlucke8713
    @brentlucke8713 4 роки тому +1

    This comment will likely get buried, but I highly recommend the book "Faster" by Neal Bascomb for further reading on this era. I'm almost done with it so this podcast episode was near perfect timing.
    P.S. Rudolf Caracciola was a total jerk after he started racing for Mercedes IMO.

    • @ericschwab1197
      @ericschwab1197 4 роки тому +1

      I am a few chapters deep in this book and it has been fantastic reading so far. I emailed them in November to do this topic and the story of Lucy, Rene, and the "Million Franc Delahaye". Hopefully they follow up with an episode on that.

  • @andrewdinger5891
    @andrewdinger5891 4 роки тому

    Hi Nolan

  • @rachelborg8762
    @rachelborg8762 4 роки тому

    Please do an episode on AJ Foyt!!!

  • @jeage123
    @jeage123 4 роки тому

    Joe be Fire Dup

  • @Linan066
    @Linan066 4 роки тому

    Almost another month with no up to speed

  • @RECTALBURRITO
    @RECTALBURRITO 3 роки тому

    You should have called him Richard. Stuttgart is pronounced "stew gart"

  • @duckydammet2646
    @duckydammet2646 3 роки тому

    Alright everyone put on the big boy hats for this part
    Me: oh no its gonna get even more sad
    *DICK SEMEN*
    Almost crashed I was laughing so hard

  • @davidbaertsch8839
    @davidbaertsch8839 4 роки тому

    its called 20/20 hindsight boys...

  • @cantevendecide
    @cantevendecide 4 роки тому

    The only thing that needs work is showing pictures/ correct pictures when the guys are talking about a specific vehicle.

  • @ProjectRaijin
    @ProjectRaijin 3 роки тому

    James knowing your dad it was a different LSD

  • @beanmarine1173
    @beanmarine1173 3 роки тому

    Bruh my heart drops into my ass when I go 125 In my bmw and these absolute animals go faster in open cockpits with tires that have the grip of a baby stroller

  • @t.y.4198
    @t.y.4198 4 роки тому

    Yinz need Rosetta Stone

  • @lafayettehighball106
    @lafayettehighball106 4 роки тому +1

    Did you mean 260kph??

    • @vintageman91
      @vintageman91 4 роки тому +2

      No, mph or over 420 km/h. I know its crazy. Thats one reason why i love old experimental/racecars so mutch because most people dont expect things like that.

    • @enematwatson1357
      @enematwatson1357 3 роки тому

      Google "Rudolf Caracciola land speed record".

  • @moldyskittle
    @moldyskittle 4 роки тому

    You know you can even drive the silver arrow in Mario Kart now right? Along with some stupid power wheels looking suv bs. Weirdest brand collab ever

  • @maxamick9962
    @maxamick9962 Рік тому

    Hate all the covid fear coming from these young guys who should be healthy, yeah I know Jameses health stuff.

  • @mattl1811
    @mattl1811 4 роки тому

    "After they died,, they were used as tools for propagation??" Oh my!! No wonder that isn't on the Mercedes website. I think you meant propaganda.

  • @scottcolpitts8521
    @scottcolpitts8521 4 роки тому

    Isnt that a bmw in the picture?

  • @joseaguirre4362
    @joseaguirre4362 4 роки тому

    MO PAWA BABY

  • @clockworktoastboy
    @clockworktoastboy 4 роки тому

    My buddy is Manfred von Brauchitsch's great nephew (or some such). It's pronounced "brow-hitch". Follow me for more German pronounciations.

  • @drewross3029
    @drewross3029 4 роки тому +1

    This is just a cheap ploy for James to do a German accent..

  • @TBakerBots
    @TBakerBots 4 роки тому +1

    3 minute gang

  • @schoeni3140
    @schoeni3140 4 роки тому

    "olimpics but more naziisch" you know that the olimpics where reinstaded by the nazis so they are in fact the same in this regard