The Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße ('Automobile traffic and training road'), better known as AVUS, is a public road in Berlin, Germany. Opened in 1921, it is the oldest controlled-access highway in Europe, which until 1998 was also used as a motor racing circuit. Today the AVUS forms the northern part of the Bundesautobahn 115.
As the speeds of the powerful German race cars from Daimler-Benz and Auto Union (the Silver Arrows) increased the hairpins turns at either end of the track became too dangerous.
The last time the Silver Arrows raced was in 1937 after a banked turn had been built. As the AVUS race did not count towards the championship, non-GP cars were allowed, which permitted the use of streamlined cars, similar to the cars used for high speed record attempts. Merecedes pilot Hermann Lang's average race speed of about 276 km/h (171 mph) was not beaten at Indianapolis Indy 500 for three decades. Mercedes Silver Arrows and Auto Union battle it out.
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