Racing Hitler: The Donington Grand Prix

[@johnpowney8422]

Fabulous piece! Well researched and put together - not to mention fascinating. Being an F1 nerd and obsessive it’s amazing to see and know more about Grand Prix racing and its history. Thanks Catherine - really enjoyed that! 😊

[@simonwilliams5427]

Like all your videos , this one is beautifully presented and researched. Thank you.

[@TheDungeonMinister]

Always fun and informative. That opening...you're such a little kid at heart!

[@cailamsil]

Is that Fleetwood Mac at the beginning? Great video! You’re doing great (:

[@Sim0nTrains]

That opening was epic, you just of had some fun filming that scene. Really informative and brilliant video and that Red Bull reference made me chuckle

[@Davlavi]

Love the opening it is so fun.

[@JohnDoe-tx8lq]

The drivers are so exposed, incredible they didn't even have roll bars. 😧 The Into alone deserves a Thumbs Up 😃👍

[@rfirth1]

I guess 1937 is a complicated year. Apart from a few rich people who could afford to spend time in Europe, there wasn't much awareness among the public of what Hitler was like then - the Anschluss, the invasion of Czechoslovakia and Munich were all 1938. In fact, we have an encyclopedia which has been passed down through the family since 1936. The entry for Hitler basically says, "nice bloke who spends time all his building roads." 1938 and 1939 are harder to defend. Nice link to sports-washing in the modern era at the end. Some fans don't seem to worry, as long as it's an arms length away.

[@ReubenAshwell]

I've really enjoyed this video, Donnington is literally up the road from me who lives in Leicester. Also I think you'd make a good race commentator lol.

[@harryspeakup8452]

the calm fact-based James Hunt to some more erratic and effusive Murray Walker

[@__-vb3ht]

Wow, this video feels like it was made with me in mind haha. Another interesting story is that of the Schneider Trophy air races. France won the first event in 1913, but failed to do it again. In the end it became a three-way battle between the US, Great Britain, and Italy. All teams were heavily sponsored by the Navy, RAF and Regia Aeronautica respectively, and all the pilots were military aviators. The Treaty of Versailles initially limited Germany in terms of aircraft development, and a later attempt to build a racing seaplane failed to get off the ground. The knowledge gained by the three competing nations helped them tremendously with building fighter aircraft engines. For perspective, the first race after WWI was won with an average speed of 170 km/h, the winner of the 1931 race clocked in at 547 km/h. The winning aircraft was a Supermarine S.6b, designed by RJ Mitchell who would go on to create the Spitfire. The Spitfire's Merlin engine was a development of the Rolls Royce R built for the racing planes. One of the notable advantages of the Spitfire over the german Bf109 was that the Rolls Royce engines needed much smaller radiators than the german Daimler engines, because RR had perfected Glycol cooling for use in it's racing aircraft. But Daimler had fuel injection, allowing planes to fly inverted. Both Great Britain and Germany, as well as Italy and the US used all forms of motorsport for propaganda but also military development. And without the Schneider trophy, the RAF wouldn't have had it's most advanced fighter going into the Battle of Britain

[@CatherineWarr]

Don't start giving me ideas...

[@__-vb3ht]

@@CatherineWarr I know that you know that you want it

[@benters3509]

Thanks for this. Those magnificent cars! We will never see or hear the like of them again. Shell made a great series on motor racing of this era called The Titans. The screaming wail of their superchargers had to be heard to be believed.

[@RoyCousins]

Excellent film series made by Bill Mason (father of Pink Floyd's Nick Mason).

[@user-rc8vd9fu9u]

I love your videos and this one is excellent, I’ve been a motor racing fan for many years and Tazio Nuvolari was a bit of a hero.

[@nicolasjouan452]

I was just introduced to you by Twitter via your break up annoucement message (sorry about that): algorithm as random as ever but I can only be thankful! Loving your stuff and vibe :D

[@jestervanhalen7743]

Awesomeness, didn't know this, Love This and Best Beginning❣

[@alun7006]

Good stuff, Catherine!

[@charlieoscar09]

Great video....Loving the Props

[@nicholaswalker2494]

Super Video,look up the Esholt sprint in Idle Bradford.Did you know the first time the swastika was on a flag in Great Britain in a film with the great George Formby no limits

[@davidcolley7714]

You're having a laugh! Any proof of that assertion?

[@TurbosTantrums]

There was one more Donington Grand Prix - circuit owner Tom Wheatcroft developed it as a testing venue and motorbike and junior formula track in the 70s and 80s. Ayrton Senna first sat in an F1 car there in 1983. And ten years later, in what turned out to be a one-off, the European Grand Prix of 1993 was held at Donington. In appalling weather, and in an inferior car, Senna drove one of the greatest single laps in Grand Prix history, going from fifth to first in what has been dubbed "the Lap of the Gods". kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppzXd2atf7CZrtEsi=kuk7AvCEJvC-eDZJ

[@thegreenphantom4304]

Cathy, I think your car could beat those old German race cars any day!

[@alansmithee8831]

A'reyt Catherine. Vorsprung durch Nasties? I had toy cars and Scalextric passed down in those shapes. They were nothing like the ones on my Top Trumps cards back in 1970s when F1 was actually a race.

[@paulparry1197]

Very informative, well researched and funny too. 😀

[@michaelgott9524]

Richard Seaman's mum, didn't want him to race, but gave into him every time, by funding him in his early days. It was more Richards Father, who didn't want him to be a race driver and wanted him to be a diplomat or politician in the British government. Under his fathers nose, Richard's mum gave him the money to compete and buy cars, to help him race in the early years, before he got taken on by the works teams like Ferrari.

[@jimbenge9649]

As ever a balanced approach,but, (you knew that was coming didn't ya) no game of chess was ever played, won or lost without pawns. In the modern world I hear all to often, "I'm just doing my job (for wages so that's alright then)", "Anyone would do the same.", or the more familiar, "I was only obeying orders". Complicity is complicity, no excuses. I'd never even considered the crowds, point well made. Another great video. 👍

[@nicholaswalker2494]

The George Forbey film no limits

[@harryspeakup8452]

The SIlver Arrows would have had ZERO chance against the Cath Blue Flame Special

[@solinvictus1234]

The only one that was capable to beat hitler and umiliating Autounion at their home, was the Italian Legend Tazio Nuvolari, when he won using an Alfa Romeo that had 300hp less than the 500hp Autounion of that time.

[@nihilistlivesmatter]

Take away from this video: 1) Mid century germans are bad. 2) Mid century germans made a groundbreaking car that dominated motor racing. 3) Mid century germans are bad.

[@warmonger8799]

Awesomeness❤🤍🖤🤘🏻