Auto Union vs Mercedes - Rosemeyer vs Caracciola. Germany's land speed rivalry of the 1930s was one of the most charged in ...

The Auto Union Lucca looks like a spaceship from Star Wars — yet in the Tuscany of 1935, Hans Stuck drove this Silver Arrow to the title of the world's fastest road racing car, leaving Mercedes-Benz ...

Many of you might not remember Bernd Rosemeyer, one of Germany's top drivers for "Silver Arrow" Auto Union and Mercedes-Benz cars before World War 2. Though he lost his life 75 years ago, while trying ...

Bernd Rosemeyer was fearless, but yesterday in 1938 his attempt to eclipse 268 MPH on a public road and set the speed record in an Auto Union prototype would prove fatal. Rosemeyer, known as the ...

__1938: __German race car driver Bernd Rosemeyer drives his Auto Union streamliner to the unheard-of speed of 268.432 mph on a stretch of autobahn between Frankfurt and Darmstadt. Never before has ...

Kurt Ernst September 11, 2012 Comment Now! Bernd Rosemeyer wasn’t like other racing drivers of the pre-World War II era. After getting his start racing motorcycles, Rosemeyer was hired on by the Auto ...