STEALING SPEED: The biggest spy scandal in motorsport history

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Kaaden developed MZ two-strokes that combined disc-valve induction with expansion-chamber exhausts. The modern expansion chamber was Kaaden’s invention. (There were some pre-Kaaden exhausts that took the general bulbous shape, but only he understood the principles of resonance, pressure waves and all the stuff that made them work.)

I love the way Papazoglakis hid the sound of the two-stroke motor in the cloud of oil smoke trailing from the bike. Photo provided by Mat Oxley. Degner brought with him drawings and plans of the MZ's design, the work that Kaaden had spent all those years perfecting. This was the knowledge Degner had sold to Suzuki, the price he had paid for freedom. It was not a price that Degner paid himself, instead, it was Walter Kaaden who suffered the consequences. Kaaden was held and interrogated by the Stasi, the feared East German secret police, and never got over the betrayal.One reason Mat Oxley is good about writing about racing is he knows what he's talking about. Here he is launching a Honda 250 off Ballaugh Bridge in the 1985 Production TT. He went on to win that race. Photo provided by Mat Oxley. Godspeed can steal the speed of other speedsters, create, construct and even be at two places at a time. All of these are what zoom doesn’t know. Here in the United States, we sometimes assign the term "graphic novel" to any high-concept comic book. Oxley and Papazoglakis’ new "Stealing Speed" is much more than a comic book with a hard cover. Oxley neatly summarizes all the key points of the factual, historical account as the excellent journalist he is. He impressed me even more with the imaginative writing needed to put the "novel" in "graphic novel."

Although they both have agility, superior force, and swift healing time, Godspeed can create clones of himself. In a frantic attempt to use the cosmic treadmill himself, Zoom broke into the Flash Museum. Unfortunately, it was a complete failure. The event resulted in an explosion that destroyed the museum.Zoom is significantly more robust than any human, sustaining tremendous kinetic impact pressures that would easily crush or kill a human without suffering any external or internal injuries. Zoom’s Weakness It is impossible to overstate the engineering impact of Kaaden’s work. In 1954, MZ engines produced about 100 bhp per liter. By 1961, they produced 200 bhp per liter.

Godspeed has a massive capacity to deceive people. He proved this when he deceived everyone at STAR labs, including Barry Allen, by acting as Flash’s partner. Speed force knowledge: Long after he hung up his leathers, Degner ran a rental car business in Tenerife, on the Canary Islands. That’s where he died, probably of an accidental prescription drug overdose, though it could just as easily have been a suicide. Inevitably, there were also rumors that he was murdered by the Stasi. The how’s and especially the why’s of Degner’s scandalous behaviour, just as he and MZ (the factory he raced for) were on the verge of Grand Prix glory, makes for a truly fascinating tale. While both characters have their unique sets of abilities and superpowers, fans often argue about the faster of the two speedsters. Communists, he suffered horrific injuries in a fiery racing accident and died in mysterious circumstances.He also possesses specific abilities like deception, investigation, hand-to-hand combat, and interrogation.

Oxley's book is a thrilling history of one of the most important moments in motorcycle racing. Lucidly written, the book recounts the events that shaped Kaaden, the two-stroke engine, and Degner, and went on to change the world. Oxley explains both the function and the developments which Kaaden brought to bear on the two-stroke engine in a clear and easy to understand way, and explains just why this was such a big deal. Godspeed can become intangible and pass through objects by vibrating molecules on an atomic level. He has to do this at the right frequency. Godspeed’s Other Qualities Walter Kaaden was 21 years old in 1940 when he graduated technical school. Soon after the young engineer would work in the area of missile development to aid the German war effort. Kaaden would be repatriated to East Germany after the war where he would start a timber business, but his childhood fascination with racing spurred by a childhood trip to the opening of the Nürburgring never left. Degner did not live to see the fall of the Berlin Wall, which would have allowed him to return freely to his home in the former East Bloc. Kaaden, however, was a good communist all his life, even after German reunification. He died in 1996. Suzuki, then Yamaha and Kawasaki, used Kaaden’s know-how to build world-dominating race bikes and create legendary street machines that made Japan the global force in motorcycling.Godspeed, with real names August Heart, was a member of the Central City Police department and a friend of Barry Allen. His superpower abilities include his exceptional speed, superhuman stamina, superhuman agility, superhuman reflexes, amongst others. For other speedsters, traveling at the speed of sound could make them miss actual events as they run. Suzuki and Degner won the world title the following year and Japan was on its way to ruling the world of motorcycling. You know what that’s like,” he told me. “It bumbles along; you don’t hear anything for a year, then there’s two weeks of frantic activity. Then it goes silent for another year. And every time you meet the producers and directors, it’s all about money.” About a decade ago, Oxley published "Stealing Speed." That book was a minutely researched account of Grand Prix racing’s own Cold War spy story: the defection of East German racing star Ernst Degner, and Degner’s theft of the industrial secrets that allowed Suzuki to finally field a really competitive two-stroke racing motorcycle.