NAZI GRAND PRIX Richard Seaman and the Silver Arrows (on TV 12th Jan 2004)

[@mariewebb6806]

RIP Richard Seaman, what a driver, thank you for posting this story. I

[@Oblio1942]

what a great name, Dick Seaman

[@stanthology]

+Oblio1942 Peter O'Toole

[@SanamDHILLON4]

Lol 😂😂😂 Dick always knew he's gonna be a dick when he grows up

[@koox8108]

Well at least there's no guys named Hugh Koch

[@davidviner4932]

Haha I was thinking that too

[@quagmiredavis4117]

@@SanamDHILLON4 what a sticky name lmao 🤣

[@phil36310]

Some exceptional man live and perform above 'nationalism' and other forms of slavery to whatever 'system' . Sadly, overestimating oneself is more dangerous. But this man truly was a great racing driver. Thanks for sharing and showing the 'man as he was: a racing driver !'

[@Battle-Fiercely]

One should study original source documentation concerning National Socialism, otherwise deciding the matter as a 'form of slavery' without considering the facts makes one a fool, as it is a fool that decides a matter without considering it. Besides that, once a person understands the rulers of this world and the fact that everything, they tell us is a lie, their history, their monetary system, their religions, etc. all lies.

[@turbo1438]

Some of the onboard footage in the w125 is actually Herman Lang long after WWII

[@crnkspinnr5863]

The Auto Unions!! Those amazing engines and overall design. The streamliners, beautiful.

[@alimantado373]

Auto Union is Now Audi

[@TinyBearTim]

@@alimantado373it was Audi before and was part Audi during

[@ropi4524]

One major fault of the movie: Dr. PORSCHE did not found Auto Union. He was a engineering advisor for Auto Union.

[@Moe23pd]

This would make a great film

[@civic9404]

Mercedes made it a film

[@Gus375]

@@civic9404what’s the name of the film?

[@infant-artist]

I will forever be proud of my relative for everything he did :)

[@lachlan5376]

Wow, I really am bespoke after watching this and learning of Dick Seaman and his incredible motorsport career with Mercedes-Benz. What a true legend in every aspect. His story must be given the recognition and awareness by either a Netflix series or a film, portraying his autobiography and proof that there is no such thing as racism when we all treat each other as a fellow human and how we want to be treated. No matter where you're from!!

[@autodidact537]

Lachlan, please consult a dictionary if you don't know what a word means. The word "bespoke" means "made to order." Why would racism be involved when all the people in the Dick Seaman story were White?

[@Evanderj]

@@autodidact537 I was really confused there too 😂

[@rene-pierresamary4874]

The usual anachronism : to judge the past with what you know later. Seaman was a great racing driver. To insist on the nazi salute is completely irrelevant.

[@alexeimscruz2893]

it may look like a Nazi salute from the camera's point of view but actually that kind of salute is reserved for adolf hitler... it was Hitler's style of salute that no Nazi would do... Seaman's salute was more of acknowledgement for the applause that you see from any person from any event in any era... if you can see it from the crowds below

[@jenniferholden9397]

They didn’t cut Jessie Owens out of history or the other competitors in the nazi Olympics.

[@rene-pierresamary4874]

So, why ?@@jenniferholden9397

[@carlosruiz-ob7le]

totalmente, y demuestra que somos tan intolerantes como los que criticamos, justamente por ello

[@gregoryemmanuel9168]

@@jenniferholden9397 No they didn’t because he and others competed against the Nazis. And beat the crap out of them.

[@gordondobie7930]

I don' know if it has escaped anyone's notice, but most of the major advances in race car design were first used in the development of fighter planes. On both sides!

[@DANTHETUBEMAN]

Like disk brakes

[@johnmarshall4442]

Best car I have ever driven was in 2017 and it was a 1998 , S600 Mercedes Benz ( V12 engine) two door coupe. Unbelievable power and handling. Quality built .

[@Evanderj]

Agreed. I have an AMG GTS, and I marvel at the quality and performance that Mercedes racing has innovated, as well as the philosophy behind their products.

[@dickieb2233]

Well, I worked for BMW, then Mercedes and finally Audi. Sadly my time at MB was early naughties when MB were not so great. I drive a Mercedes today. Nuff said..

[@mamavswild]

His wife Erica spent the war in the UK to be close to Richard’s grave. She moved to the US after the war and died in Florida in 1990 :-(

[@Evanderj]

Thank you. I’m so glad to hear that.

[@DANTHETUBEMAN]

Dick was smart to go after the best technology he could get.

[@jeremyheintz1479]

My two favorite drivers have always been Dick Trickle and Dick Seaman

[@BadBrother22]

Great to use to contrast the Mercedes produced/financed piece that can be found on here. Only using one story but it fills in some of the blanks.

[@rokguitarstar]

Such a sad ending to a great English racer

[@sweetwater7667]

they still make the best cars

[@lionnelmurimi651]

this guys nose can produce down force. great info tho

[@maxximal8958]

it is...

[@johnmarshall4442]

He won , by a nose length, would have been a tie !!!!!

[@rakiurawhanauka2163]

@@maxximal8958 q

[@a34rwl]

love the in-car sound from 'Le Mans' accompanying images of a modest MG tootling along a country lane.

[@angelsone-five7912]

A very interesting story about a young man of whom I have never heard before. Damn that bloody war.

[@jonathanday6692]

It would be interesting to think what might have happened if other nations had put more effort into their cars. ERA certainly had technological know-how, Britain had no shortage of inventors and obviously Richard found highly competent mechanics when he raced independently. Likewise, the French were able to achieve astonishing reliability when they wanted and half the secret of winning is finishing. To some extent, this is about national character, but only to an extent. The success of the airship R100 compared to the disastrous R101 showed engineering philosophy to be far more critical. The later success of Cosworth showed that considered designs could be achieved cheaply, so money can't be used as an excuse either. Having just read the BBC story on the German "flying wing", a design DeHavilland or any number of other companies in Britain or America could have produced a decade earlier, I have to say that careful observation seems to have been one factor, along with a near-total disregard for risks in R&D, a proper testing regimen and a longer-term view of what development actually means. None of these are outside British character, indeed they came in quite handy during the war and they're the hallmark of the subsequent highly successful designers and inventors that arose afterwards. Post-war racing simply didn't have that edge and even post-war, mainstream industry largely collapsed from the lack of it. In consequence, I have some measure of compassion for poor Richard. If he wanted to drive a car that worked, he wasn't being given many options. He was probably rebelling a bit against his father, the dynamics there were probably uglier than presented, but given the choice of voluntary incompetence by everyone else or a pact with the devil, it's clear enough that, like von Braun, he wasn't going to be picky about what happened in the other department. There, however, my sympathy ends. Precisely because he could put his hands on large sums of money and good engineers, and knew plenty about how to put a machine through its paces, what didn't work and why, and in the 30s would have had no shortage of factories and factory workers to choose from, he was capable of winning entirely on his own terms as manager-racer. Something that became familiar after the war. The tunnel vision was likely a result of his familial disputes. He could have been a lot greater, he had the talent but lacked the patience. It's hard to say if that lack killed him in the end, but he was far too good a driver to have screwed up without a discipline issue - something he's reputed to have admitted to after the crash.

[@trappenweisseguy27]

I used to know a fine old gent in Toronto named Harry Boneham who had worked as a machinist for ERA. He was a masterful machinist even with a lathe well over 100 years old.

[@hmdwgf]

Government funding is always important.

[@curtislowe4577]

Bravo! Very, very few comments display much in the way of demonstrable intelligence much less anything that ever remotely resembles actual knowledge of a subject. I am led to wonder what all was going through his mind at Spa. Methinks therein lies the explanation: as single minded and consumed with a pathological drive as Dick was on this wet day when nothing but the track conditions and his car's reduced capability should have been the only thing in his mind my hypothesis is that he was driving on autopilot because there were so many aspects of drama and conflict in his life that his full concentration was not on the physics of the situation. 1. Continuously deteriorating world condition. (Perhaps the Spanish Civil War should have been mentioned?) 2. Being English and employed to display the engineering prowess of the primary source of the deteriorating world condition. 3. Superhot young German wife. 4. Your mother can only see a Nazi wife and has cut you out of her life on account of it. 5. In the lead only because the pit crew set the #1 driver's car on fire. (I wonder how many of the members of that pit crew subsequently died on the Eastern Front.)

[@ericacarradus9152]

A racing driver, you want to drive the best car!

[@davido1953]

Very much enjoyed the video until I read all of the asinine comments below. Must remember not to do that.

[@grateberk6435]

£30 000 in 1936 is about £ 1.8 million now? {thats what his mum gave him}

[@MrYoungHegelian]

Now a BLACK "British" driver named Lewis Hamilton also races for the Germans and also for the Silver Arrows (Mercedes).

[@iliovecaRS]

And he's doing an awesome job

[@TheAllenFamily92]

And now they are painting them black and taking away the term silver arrow to show lewis hamilton that politically correct nonsense...

[@alimantado373]

Duh! do you know who Sterling Moss is? a Brit who drove for the silver arrows before Lewis Hamiltons family even touched British soil. And who does George Russel drive for ...What a fuckwits you are!

[@Will_14_years_ago]

​@TheAllenFamily92 yep in the meantime I'll keep my mercedes as silver as I can. Germany will fall again because of the nonsense along with all the other politically correct countries. It will be looked back in history as ridiculous and after years pass they will forget once again. And so on and so on. We should all study marcus aurelius starting early in school, as well as nietzsche, and old Russian literature(many others).Common sense helps very much as well.

[@ImInLoveWithBulla]

How could anyone forget a driver named Dick Seaman?

[@gat1240]

Interesting facts, the paint removed to meet weight limits resulted in bare medal (silver became Germany's color), the sliver arrows refer to 2 different manufacturers, Mercedes and Auto Union. The German team of the 30's is still the model for todays teams, the obsessive focus on engineering details like making the bolts with thin waists and hollowed out tops along with drilled holes in structural frame and components.

[@alimantado373]

Yeah I just watched it!

[@stephenfisanick8704]

Mercedes was the best back then and still is the best today 😎

[@testversucher]

Seaman was the favourite driver of the mechanics. If Seaman won we also won. He gives a party. Not so the other driver. Seamans car was always ok. First Seaman then the others. I know this from an mechanic of this time who lived in my village.

[@gotham61]

This stuff about Seaman being "written out of history" is nonsense. When I was a kid I would read all I could about racing history, and had several books with entire chapters about RJBS.

[@colinmcgregor123]

Straight away 'in England' #YesScots

[@kdpwt]

I'm far out my comfort zone so please be nice lol. Anyone know what the car at 7:15 is? sounds great and looks crazy

[@Evanderj]

That is the modified Mercedes W154 GP that Hitler commissioned to break the land speed record around 1938. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2aklGiPi62mmM0

[@kdpwt]

@@Evanderj thanks!

[@Evanderj]

@@kdpwt no prob. You’ve got good taste. It’s a beauty.

[@dr.wilfriedhitzler1885]

"Nazi-Grand Prix" what a stupid, stupid title! Since 1945 "American Emperor-Gran-Prix" or what?

[@alimantado373]

Considering the modern F1 cars are like the Auto Unions its quite apt really, what America has to do with it I dont get? Your motorsport heritage is a bunch of moonshiners going in circles? and considering Americas greatest achievement is from Nazi's , NASA I cant understand your fragility.

[@celsobigliazzi2564]

Bom vídeo. A maquina nasdap era fantástica para a época .

[@AK47Stalin]

Does anyone know the name of the opening music in the background?

[@MohammedFawziRagheb]

+AK47Stalin Hello are you still alive ? you fucked up things too when you won the war !

[@MohammedFawziRagheb]

Ok so you stalin came from death to tell me that I am a terrorist ? RIP man you were a true dectator and an oppresive leader :D

[@chancevonfreund9145]

I think Richard was misunderstood! He didn't care about politics he just loved racing! This was a little before everyone knew what kinda of monster Hitler could be. 🏁

[@mickkennedy1344]

"Knock!, knock!" "Who's there?" "-Adolf." "Adolf who?" "A'dolf ball hit me on de' nose an' I talk like dis'. "

[@saymyname218]

lol

[@JohnMcPhersonStrutt]

Is that Tazio at 39:23 smoking a cigarette?

[@itsthething]

It was

[@robertblink4836]

This story will make an amazing movie Spielberg if your reading this do it Oscar worthy

[@heliumtrophy]

I think we all must recognise that he was a determined racer which has its advantages and disadvantages. I cannot look at it without thinking of there being some reckless apolitical aristocrat that just wanted to race cars for a living. Do I begrudge him that? No, I do not but I would be one of those that would wish he were a bit clued in. He might've been more dangerous if he was an MP!

[@pflanzgarten]

“MEN, WOMEN AND MOTORS”. A lot of people knows who are Dick Seaman, Ruddy Caraciola & Bernard Rosemeyer

[@aberamagold7509]

5:40 The only thing those cars really wanted was to grow up and become Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. 🎶 Oh you pretty Chitty Bang Bang, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang We love you.🎵 Good luck getting the song out of your head 😂😂

[@rudyvanautreve3222]

Thank you, now i know who he was..... never read about him .... RIP....

[@rogerhudson2814]

Was Aldington the man behind importing Porsche cars ,AFN, after the war ??

[@vwgurkan]

Great driver,,

[@a.s.h.2363]

good grief . . I did not see the salute claimed -ash-

[@david-joeklotz9558]

Nobody asked him why he even gave any NAZI salute. That is really what is remembered about him. If he had refrained, it might have been different

[@adrianotero7963]

He had just won the German Grand Prix.....in a German racing car driving for German team......did you expect him to give the British salute ? Come on man......

[@wor53lg50]

Yeah right refrained?? What like some football players did in the world cup you mean?, look at the grief they got for it! Your damned if you do, damned if you dont, what a sinicle, perfectic world its starting to become....

[@david-joeklotz9558]

@@wor53lg50 Moral courage is relatively rare. Therefore having the courage to support rational moral convictions is just as rare. People make their choices and so have to face the consequences. Sports men and women are not known for their moral courage and, they cannot be excused based upon their voluntary decisions

[@alimantado373]

The KIng of England was also giving Nazi salutes, and was a Nazi sympathizer.

[@david-joeklotz9558]

@@alimantado373 And the royal family strongly disapproved. He was no longer king as he abdicated in Dec 1936. The salute was in 1937

[@VladSuperKat]

The Silver Arrows were winning because they had airplane engines because Germany was forbidden to research fighter aircraft. So Germany's team had army budget that is why it dominated.

[@193322009]

Very good racing history video. However, can someone explain to me why, when talking, the Brits hardly open their mouths? The result is mumbling.

[@tonypate9174]

[phone] Sorry old chap can,t help on that one but think a new level been set by Mr Guy Martin a gifted bike rider whom takes local dialect to the max !!! But what a guy

[@193322009]

+Tony Pate Yeh, you're right. He's a hell of a rider. I use to race, but never like him.

[@tonypate9174]

[phone] If not in the uk may not have seen this tv shorts try on you tube GUY MARTIN,S PASSION FOR LIFE should find 4 short films by Alfa Romeo uk think well worth a watch what racing did you do ? Another good you tube film about the tt,s less glam sister event but the starting point for many is GRAND PRIX RACER

[@193322009]

+Tony Pate I raced a Yamaha TD1C 250 gp bike mostly in California back in the dark ages.

[@tonypate9174]

[phone] The old air cooled days just a bit before my time how ever as live near the "ISLAND" get to see and hear the old air cooled yams and the odd suzuki super six at full "chat" at the classic tt try on you tube TEAM COLLINS AND RUSSELL CLASSIC TT 2014 plus try CLASSIC TT LAP OF HONOUR START UP GATE 2013 may bring it all back to you even the seizures !!

[@saymyname218]

Isn't it amazing how a guy from a fabulously wealthy family who dropped out of school and had never won any high level races in his life-- gets a drive for .....(Even to this day)..... The most dominant racing car "In history!" And "Crushes" all the Race car Drivers who had worked their way up through the ranks to "Voiturette Racing "- ( by at least 20 secs a lap!) But not the "serious" pro drivers in the same car as himself! (Don't you just love Politics and nepotism?)

[@iamrichrocker]

would make a heck of a movie...what a sad story...

[@carlnapp4412]

German GP not Nazi GP. Yes it's true that Geman companies built better car on purpose.

[@johneastman1905]

Had he in fact lived and completed that last race.... he would been miserable rest of life.

[@jemma_19988]

Our neighbour was called Reg Sole His letterbox had R Sole written ot

[@mrrolandlawrence]

No he was written out because he died after just a few short seasons of racing. He is often lorded as one of Britain's great pre war drivers. Also why call him Richard here? Lol

[@ericbarnes7066]

didn't like the over powering music

[@tankbuster84]

Very interesting

[@domenicozagari2443]

Brittan empire controlling half a world was complaining about Germany annexing its own people.

[@lohithreddy6629]

And now Hamilton a Brit racing for Mercedes (the silver arrows) Coincidence I think not!!

[@poplaurentiu4148]

It must be God's will..

[@alimantado373]

Sterling Moss driving for Mercedes A Brit ... So whats your fucking point!?

[@rommel8159]

+++rommel+++ c'est eux qui ont les plus belles voitures et aussi les plus beaux uniformes

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

His name was Dick Seamen?! that must have caused some giggles, even in the 30's

[@jemma_19988]

Just like fanny scmeller

[@adrianlarkins7259]

Interesting to see the Nazi flag flying at the British racing track. I think that shows our true attitude at that time towards Germany. We were trying to be diplomatic (Chamberlain) but at the same time a bit wary of Hitler's territorial ambitions

[@hcrun]

The "Nazi" flag was the German *national* flag at that time. Hard for any sporting event - which displayed national flags representing the nationalities of the competitors - to NOT fly the German flag.

[@adrianlarkins7259]

OK but in terms of appearance, it was Nazi first and national second.

[@hcrun]

No, in terms of it being flown at any international event or occasion it was the German national flag. The fact that the Nazi Party adopted it as the national symbol was immaterial in this context.

[@adrianlarkins7259]

Disagree. The black cross has always been the German symbol. The Nazis pushed it aside to a corner of the flag. All German military vehicles showed the cross and on aircraft the swastika was relegated to the tail fin.

[@mikelkiparski638]

interesting hitlers territorial ambitions AGAINST BRITISH imperial POSSESSIONS where the sun never set.

[@geniusmcwhatnot9869]

poor fella...he just wanted to be THE top race car driver... never mind his background... he done it...but at what price...

[@WAVETUBE84]

Germans kick ass!

[@MrOlgrumpy]

They have great engineers but not so good as politicians

[@adamberndt4190]

He was paid $3,000 a year but wasn't allowed to take money out of the country so he moved to Germany. Now why couldn't he just take the 3k and buy gold then take the gold home? Where there's a will there's a way...

[@joseantoniomarinjimenez-ri4927]

He took to UK his best gold: Erika Popp

[@wor53lg50]

Even if he'd done that it Probably would have been confiscated, thinking it was someones teeth...

[@LarsAgerbk]

I'm confused. Subtitles tells me this mans name is Dick Semen.

[@vwgurkan]

hard times..usch...

[@deathcogunit106]

seen kyle

[@adamberndt4190]

This guy's name was really Richard Semen! So Dick Semen!?!? Man either his dad had a great sense of humor or hated him!

[@stevejohnson2108]

ok I get it, some raw feelings in here after what was such a terrible war at so many levels. But why does every documentary about Auto Union and Mercedes points out to propaganda? Yes they received money from the Nazis but their engineers that fielded these masterpieces of cars wanted to produce the best cars in the world and they did. What is wrong with that. BTW Tazio Nuvolari also raced for Auto Union, yes he was Italian but these guys wanted to go racing with the best chance of winning because they were the best in the world. They could give a shit about Hitler or his propaganda.

[@janeducle7354]

Janet

[@georgegoros5916]

And to think they lost to an asmatic Italian driving an out of date Alfa Romeo rip nuvolari

[@johndanher7392]

So history isn't history, it's "written" by someone, who?

[@MrChristopherHaas]

I always wondered why they didn’t switch SEAMAN with the top nazi driver once he fell out for the REICH. Guess I’m smarter than they were😉

[@Jackc8201]

Sounds like he loved racing, and you guys are trying to inject politics into it. Talk about propagandists.

[@kiwitrainguy]

Welcome to Main Stream Media.

[@TS-1267]

...Daddy was a Bootlegger & wouldna pay his Tax, WOTTO ?????

[@vwgurkan]

men . ännu mer tok fr, förr,, hmm. intresserad av historia , what so ever..

[@Kidraver555]

Fascinating, putin like's F1.

[@fortniteharrykane9210]

Richard semen!?!

[@endomobo359]

Dick

[@adamberndt4190]

Well... It wasn't the last time a Mercedes had semen all over the driver's seat.

[@diogenesthehomeless9721]

Heh, seamen

[@ERTChimpanzee]

@Antimatter31 Rich, rick, dick. Rhymes pretty well.

[@darkazer451]

seamen lol

[@endomobo359]

Dick Seamen

[@leoa4c]

Dick Seaman... a driver who barely achieved anything despite being showered with money... Was he just an excuse to make a documentary about pre-war German GP cars? It does look like so.

[@DANTHETUBEMAN]

He had to be competitive in his day, money alone cannot just buy what Dick achieved.

[@farmerkevin]

Dick Seaman . Ha ha ha ha.

[@ERTChimpanzee]

Where do u see Dick? His name was Richard Seaman u dickhead.

[@user-jh2ts2eb4q]

Wtf

[@adamberndt4190]

This guy's name was really Richard Semen! So Dick Semen!?!? Man either his dad had a great sense of humor or hated him!

[@joseantoniomarinjimenez-ri4927]

John Richard Beatty Seaman, please.