Racing The Silver Arrows tells - for the first time on video - the full, remarkable story of how the new company of Auto Union challenged the old established firm of Mercedes-Benz on the race tracks of the world from 1934 to 1939 with this original film from the Auto Union archive. Here, in Part 1, the story begins in 1934 and includes the following highlights: the birth of Auto Union and Prof. Porsche’s mid-engined masterpiece; Hans Stuck’s year. 1935 - Rudolf Caracciola is first European Champion with Mercedes-Benz; 1936 - German, Swiss and Italian GPs won by sensational new Champion, Bernd Rosemeyer, whose wife, Elly, is interviewed about their flight to South Africa. 1937 - New Mercedes W125 wins at Tripoli, Rosemeyer tests the new banking at Avus but Hermann Land wins the GP; Bernd wins Eifel GP then breaks records on the autobahn; both teams go to New York for the Vanderbilt Cup and Bernd wins again; Auto Union are 1st and 2nd at Spa; Caracciola wins German GP but Ernst von Delius is killed; Hans Stuck wins the Mountain Championship at Freburg.