2008 is the 70th anniversary of the death of the illustrious Auto Union racing driver Bernd Rosemeyer. He was killed when his Auto Union streamliner racing car crashed during an attempt to break the world record on the autobahn between Frankfurt and Darmstadt. Audi Tradition will be laying a wreath at the memorial on what is now the A5 autobahn. Audi Tradition and the August Horch Museum, Zwickau, will also be organising a congress in memory of Bernd Rosemeyer on January 28, 2008.
There's a book I picked up called "Driving Forces". It's an interesting history of the silver arrows (both Merc and Auto Union), a theory on how these death-defying drivers were national heroes and hard to bend to the government's will given they didn't fear death. At the end, the part about Bernd's high-speed runs down the Autobahn is really well written. It gives you a scope for how nuts it was, not seatbelt, a canvas helmet, and ear-shattering noise going under Autobahn underpasses. It's definitely worth picking up.
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