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 ...

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 ...

Should any F1 driver feel life is tough, it might be an idea to make a brief stop en route to Hockenheim. Hidden in the trees, close by kilometre post 508 on the A5 south of Frankfurt, is a ...

This year’s redesigning of the pretzel-shaped Roosevelt Raceway at Westbury, L. I., scene of the 300 mi. George Vanderbilt Cup automobile race, was intended to encourage more thrilling, more dangerous ...

I’m guessing you’ve never heard of a German race driver by the name of Bernd Rosemeyer, unless you’re well on in years. Not only was he a gifted and fearless race driver in the 1930’s, but he would ...

Past Imperfect: Rosemeyer - a 1930s German legendBernd Rosemeyer was a legend in his own lifetime. Acknowledged as one of the world's greatest racing drivers and married to a great German aviator, ...