![]() ![]() ![]() NASCAR: LaJoie signs multi-year contract extension with Spire August 3, 2023.F1: Why Verstappen smoked everyone, including Perez in Spa August 3, 2023. ![]() Ind圜ar: Nashville Motor City GP Preview August 3, 2023.Ind圜ar: Nashville to host Ind圜ar season finale in 2024 August 3, 2023.Rumor: 2024 Ind圜ar schedule (2nd Update) August 3, 2023."It's the same as a modern day race car, just without fins," said Banner. It's fundamentally very similar to Formula 1 and Indy race cars of today. In many ways, the D-type offered a glimpse into what would become the future of racing. Its twin-supercharged 3-liter V12 engine can produce 485 horsepower, giving the car a top speed of 185 miles per hour. The D-type had a number of features that were extremely advanced for its day, including an engine mounted behind the driver and four-wheel independent suspension. That car was modified over the next few years to become the 1939 Auto Union D-Type. But Ferdinand Porsche, then an engineer working with Auto Union, which today is known as Audi, was able to secure the financing to build a revolutionary car he had designed. In 1933, after becoming Chancellor of Germany, Hitler offered 500,000 reichmark for a company to design a race car to show off the nation's technological prowess. The car, one of five remaining "Auto Union D-Types," is expected to sell for as much as $12 million, said Rupert Banner, head of Christie's motor cars department. A rare 1939 German sports car commissioned by Adolf Hitler is expected to command the highest price ever paid for any automobile at auction, according to Christie's, which will conduct the auction in Paris in February 2007. ![]()
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