Le Mans 1955 Disaster

[tok-tokkie]

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That vid has been removed = error 404. The screenshot is from the 'The Deadliest Crash ..' video which is not the one I am looking for. The video shows the same stuff as marcush's German tv program showed = the same as Wiki shows. Hawthorne was the real cause.

[Sombrero]

This is a new Blog about the Le Mans Crash 1955. Mainly french with interesting pictures (Revue : L'Automobile de Juillet 1955).



http://www.trajectoires.net/search/labe ... ans%201955

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkaJ7OI7 ... r_embedded[/youtube]

[tok-tokkie]

@Sombrero,
Thanks for the History Channel vid. It is not the one I saw which has recently discovered film of the crash. History has an excellent graphic of the chain of events which is even clearer than the one I was looking for.

[strad]

Hawthorne was the real cause.

No he wasn't...I'll repost the vid. I didn't realize I'd pulled it.
The sequence you are talking about is where they took photos and reconstructed them into a moving picture.
Watch..you'll see...It wasn't Mikes fault.

[strad]

Back online now.

[MadMatt]

That was really a tragic accident which Switzerland still pays those days, because it is forbidden to have races on closed circuits. Nearly 60 years after...