Auto Union was not before 1932 get in the race events.. Better known were the Silver Arrows of Mercedes at that time. The year 1936 should be the most successful for Auto Union. Famous is the victory of Bernd Rosemeyer at the Nurburgring, where in spite of dense fog with undiminished speed went on.

A race engine does not need to be economical, what you can not expect from this V-16 really. He consumed up to 100 liters of a special methanol mixture for especially high octane number at 100 km, however had an incredible engine performance impulse, linked with a particularly quaint sound. 100 liters are very much, when the tank holds "only" 210 liters.

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