Feats of great endurance in cars #148

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Cars, The Intercooler, Car, Motorsport, Supercar, Leisure, Automotive, Intercooler, Driving

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel share tales of unfathomable endurance against the odds, in terrible conditions or in the face of great pain at the wheel of a motor car. From Tazio Nuvolari on the Mille Miglia to Sir Jackie Stewart at the Nürburgring, these are the greatest feats of driving endurance of all time.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast.
0:06.0	Hi everyone, welcome to episode one four eight of the Intercooler Podcast with Dan Prosser and Andrew
0:12.1	Frankel. A bit of a fun one this week we're talking about
0:15.5	feet of great endurance in cars. You know those heroic efforts typically in motorsports against the odds or
0:26.4	over enormous distances or great periods of time and often coming through to win. There are some remarkable
0:36.8	tales in this podcast I think. It's the kind of stuff that just doesn't seem to go on
0:42.0	these days but you know back in the 30s up to the all the way up until
0:46.3	so the 70s we were there were examples of genuinely astonishing feats of endurance at the wheel of a motor car.
0:56.2	So enjoy the episode.
0:58.2	Andrew, you know when you have to drive maybe after work in busy traffic for three hours.
1:04.0	You know, a reasonable motorway journey.
1:06.0	You get home eight or nine o'clock and realize that you're exhausted.
1:09.0	Yes.
1:10.0	I think some of these tales are going to make that kind of experience seem a little bit
1:14.9	pathetic aren't they?
1:16.9	After they.
1:17.9	Because we're talking great feats of great endurance in cars and actually history is littered with some extraordinary examples isn't it?
1:26.8	But just to kind of give some context what's your what do you think what is your sort of
1:31.6	longest one-hit journey?
1:34.0	Well, I mean I don't know.
1:37.0	I've done some, I've done some silly stunts.
1:39.0	So about three years ago,
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