Top speeds reaching 170 mph, open cockpits and no roll bars nor seatbelts. It’s a miracle any of these drivers survived. That’s absolutely insane.

@andy86i

Жыл бұрын

Beats modern day F1.. overpaid drivers driving bumper cars

@DollarGeneral_Is_a_Plague

Жыл бұрын

@@andy86i 😂 I wouldn't go that far with the "bumper cars"

@zvenafnazbalji7539

Жыл бұрын

These races took place at night too. with barely any visibility other than their car's headlights. So they reached 273KP/H or more with limited vision. in a track, with insane bends and turns.

@natashabrooks4188

Жыл бұрын

Wow! Literal Jesus take the wheel racing

@christopherweise438

Жыл бұрын

A good number of them didn't.

Refusing to call off the race in order to keep the surrounding roads clear for emergency vehicles actually seems like a smart call. Callous, but smart.

@HellmuthsHotRods

Жыл бұрын

I agree 100%. I obviously was not there, but it seems to me like that was the best option to give the injured the best chance, even though they probably knew they would get flak for it.

@gohawks3571

Жыл бұрын

That wouldn't have occured to me until recently with the Hamlin situation (American football player who had heart attack; they didn't cancel the game until they had the opportunity to send him out to the hospital). I kept wondering why they weren't cancelling the game when it was happening, but once I understood that, I realized it was a more respectable decision than it seemed to be. I don't understand why people who saw what happened continued to drive though. Maybe those who were moving literally didn't see what happened, but Hawthorne? He was right there! Maybe it was the shock of it. But he managed to swallow champagne? How?

@Ten80pete

Жыл бұрын

Still, it feels like a hindsight excuse for not calling the race. "Why didn't we stop things so that fewer cars piled up? We had a good reason... which I will tell you after these messages from our sponsor. Please hold."

@ThatSoddingGamer

Жыл бұрын

@@gohawks3571 Many did ultimately bow out, it seemed. Considering how long the course was, they had plenty of time to internalize their feelings on the matter, and some probably didn't know how bad it was until they made pit stops and (presumably) heard more details from the pit crew.

@sfroio

Жыл бұрын

I think keeping the race going to keep from flooding the streets with leaving spectators was wise. I think letting the race finish and awarding a winner was insensitive.

This is one of the best summaries of the '55 LeMans disaster I've seen; Well done. As a former volunteer track worker who has researched this a lot, there are a few things I'd like to add: 1. There was no separate pit lane, unlike today. Pit lane was just the far side of the track surface with nothing to separate it from the racing cars. That's why Hawthorn pitting trigger such mayhem--he was going full racing speed, with Macklin close behind him, and then stomped on the brakes at the last minute & pulled over. 2. The Jaguars were the *only* cars with disc brakes; all others, including the Mercedes 300SLRs of Levegh & Fangio, had only drum brakes. Jaguar was the first to develop them, based on similar systems used on aircraft, and this was the first time cars with disc brakes were raced. So the Jags could stop in a much shorter distance than any other car on the track, which is why Macklin had to swerve out of the way when Hawthorn braked; his only other option was to plow his Austin-Healy into the back of the Hawthorn's Jag. 3. At this time, there was no such thing as a safety culture in racing. At all. Be it drivers or spectators or track workers, the attitude was that if you were stupid enough to go to a race (an inherently dangerous activity), if something went wrong, you got what you deserved. After the disaster, safety for the spectators was improved, but not for the drivers. That wouldn't start until the late '60s/early '70s, when drivers like Sir Jackie Stewart and Emerson Fittipaldi started making a fuss about it. And it took until the early/mid 1980s for actual medical treatment of racing injuries because a thing, again thanks to people like Sid Watson in F1 and Drs. Steve Olvey and Terry Trammell in Indycar(CART). LeMans '55 was and still is a major impetus for drastic change in racing, to the point that racing is still illegal in Switzerland to this day. A curious footnote to the whole situation was Mike Hawthorn's death a few years later in 1959. He was supposedly racing a friend, team manager Rob Walker, and lost control of his Jaguar 3.4 Mk 1. Walker was driving a Mercedes 300 SL (gullwing), the street counterpart to the 300 SLR racecar Levegh & Fangio were driving at LeMans in '55.

@MikeSmith-bn1qr

Жыл бұрын

In regards to number 3; I'd have to agree with that line of thinking. Am I the only one these days?

@HeronCoyote1234

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for these details. Fascinating (no pun intended).

@nickklavdianos5136

Жыл бұрын

@@MikeSmith-bn1qr I bet you are not in the majority, that's for sure. Even today with all the safety implementations there are still hundreds of possibilities that a freak accident can happen and all the safety in the world can't help matters, like what happened to Antoine Hubert. But if something is preventable then there is no reason why we should not prevent it. And there are still events today that are really dangerous, like the Isle of Man TT, Pikes Peak hillclimb, Rally Dakar and many more.

@Pokemon9876543210

Жыл бұрын

@@MikeSmith-bn1qr No, you have a fairly common, popular opinion. When taken to the extreme, a surprising number of folx will actually try to prevent their community from spending any time/money preventing the death & suffering if they think the “most likely” victims “deserved it”. To be frank, I think it’s a bit narrow-minded & cynical; taking personal feelings out of the matter entirely, though, it’s still shortsighted. No, racing isn’t super safe, & yes, drivers should be aware they’re risking their lives every time they get on a track (even w/ today’s safety advancements) - but those advancements aren’t just for the driver, is it? It’s for the driver’s team (& anyone in the immediate vacimity), the stadium around them (though crashes are less likely to cause major issues for spectators nowadays, it’s still a possibility), &, Hell, the well-being of their children & partners (considering how crushing of a mental toll a loved one’s injuries/death inherently are), etc. Not only that, but major leaps in racing safety can potentially translate to improved safety for all other vehicles, incl. any of the ones you might use.

@Pokemon9876543210

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the deeper insight here msnovtue, this was very informative! I’m glad things have started improving - that it took til the ~70s for such a major shift is just downright nuts.

I remember learning about this tragedy years ago. The detail of the bonnet "decapitating 14 spectators" etched this one into my memory. Such a visceral image.

@mortified776

Жыл бұрын

The bonnet guillotining its way through the crowd is the defining image of this nightmare to me too!

@gnome1882

Жыл бұрын

I read the spectators were all stood on a platform/table to get a better view of the race and the bonnet flew through them decapitating them all who stood on it.

@carlcushmanhybels8159

Жыл бұрын

The heavy and burning engine flinging itself through the crowd killed so many. From the film (not shown here) of the actual crash you can see the engine cannonball tearing through. And I think the scything bonnet.

@TheGiantKillers

Жыл бұрын

There was a documentary on the 50th anniversary [I think] A cameraman in the stands had taken a panoramic photo of the scene in front of him just minutes before the crash. He instinctively took the same shot just minutes after the crash. In the documentary they ran a slow mo overlay of the two pictures and it gives a drastic realisation of the devastation. The platform where the people you mention is seen in the first image. Needless to say it's empty in the second.

@racer501_sb

Жыл бұрын

​@@TheGiantKillers any idea where i could watch the documentary?

I'm still in awe how deadly this accident was. Just the thought of an engine decapitating spectators is such a haunting visual

@Pluggit1953

Жыл бұрын

I’ve seen a documentary which shows before and after photos of the spectator stand, highlighting the absence of those killed. Many were standing on ladders for a better view and they’d all disappeared.

@Commrade-DOGE

Жыл бұрын

Guess you could say they were a engine head. (I’ll see myself out)

@tyleroutingdyke849

Жыл бұрын

The footage is extremely unsettling.. the engine was going the same speed the car hit the wall at, and hit the spectators and just tumbled thru at 150+mph along with hood, chunks of frame and suspension... 😶

@KebabMusicLtd

Жыл бұрын

@@tyleroutingdyke849 The bonnet (hood) acted like a razor blade decapitating many as it swirled through the crowd swiftly followed by the entire front wheel axle. Some of those in attendance still don't know they are dead.

@monteceitomoocher

Жыл бұрын

I was four years old when this happened, i can just vaguely remember it, it cast a pall over the whole ethos of motorsport for ages, my father was a big fan of course and i think that brought it a little closer into my consciousness, Mercedes pulled out of racing for many years although i don't think any blame attached to them, took this tragedy and the deaths of many more good drivers and a lot of campaigning by Jackie Stewart etc for the sport to clean up its act.

As an F1 fan this is one of the few events I'm already familiar with. Up until VERY recently racing was just about the most dangerous profession there was. You could easily do an entire series on F1 incidents alone.

@Vaginaninja

Жыл бұрын

Dude, most Western adults knows about Le Mans. Also, who gives a sh*t how dangerous the sport is? There is hardly a more selfish way to live your life. They die happy, content, good-for-nothing losers... They literally lose their race. Selfish losers. You know, the smallest amount of money can save a life, F1 is a f*cking disgrace. It's a beacon of all those humans who don't give a f*ck about those less fortunate

@Ob1sdarkside

Жыл бұрын

Some of the crashes on camera are horrific, massive fireballs, cars disintegrating.

@evolutionaryadvantage

Жыл бұрын

A video on Senna’s accident would be good too. Many changes were also made to F1 Safety because of his death. “To come second is the first to lose”

@nickpang

Жыл бұрын

The 1977 Kyalami Grand Prix would be a good disaster to cover

@princesssolace4337

Жыл бұрын

U shud look into the old Shah Alam Batu 3 track history . In the 70s a car ran out of track at the back straight and into the stands , killing many spectators

The hood from the Mercedes came off and went through the crowd like a scythe. There were a number of people that were decapitated. One survivor talked about a young girl's head coming to rest near his feet. 😣

@msnovtue

Жыл бұрын

Hood, front axle and motor all broke loose and went hurtling through the crowd and caused the majority of the injuries/fatalities.

@melissaok9713

Жыл бұрын

Wow. I would hav nightmares if I saw that. 🫣

@gr8flyerfan

Жыл бұрын

Holy Jesus Christ. What a nightmare. And lest anyone think I'm taking the Lord's name in vain, that was a prayer.

@Honest-abe76

Жыл бұрын

Dammitman.. folks paid extra for front row seats... They got a show that day...😫

@Hartley_Hare

Жыл бұрын

A strange digression, this, but a close friend served in Iraq a few years ago when his armoured vehicle was struck by a bus. The bus disintegrated and killed a number of passengers, one of whose heads came to rest on the front of his carrier. He has PTSD, so heaven knows how the people in the crowd who survived must have felt.

If you are ever looking for another racing disaster to cover, the 1986 World Rally Group B race in Portugal is an intense subject. The crowd was so close to the road that a car drove over several spectators when it lost control trying to avoid hitting ANOTHER spectator in the road.

@aj6954

Жыл бұрын

That sounds a bit like the 1903 Paris to Madrid road race which only got as far as Bordeaux as they had so many accidents, the race was terminated there. The lessons must not have been learned as it was very early days, there was a long ban and the whole thing was probably forgotten about over the years which included WW1.

@cliffsaxon5493

9 ай бұрын

Or The Death Of Dale Earnhardt At The End Of The 2001 Daytona 500.

You did miss an interesting safety-related tidbit that would have been a nice addition to the end of the video. Levegh's co-driver John Fitch, looking for racing safety improvements, filled liquor barrels with sand, inventing some of the first impact attenuators. The term Fitch Barrel is still used in the civil engineering world and are still used on roads today, but they are the yellow, sand-filled plastic barrels you see on highways, generally at the end of guard rails and barriers.

@marhawkman303

Жыл бұрын

for quicker easier substitutes some places do something similar with water filled barrels.

@SkibopDaSequel

Жыл бұрын

what's an impact attenuator? are crs meant to hit them?

@marhawkman303

Жыл бұрын

@@SkibopDaSequel They are methods to lessen the impact IF there is a crash. You don't WANT a car to hit it, but if the car DOES hit it it's a less severe impact than, say, hitting a brick wall.

@Lynn-rv4ty

Жыл бұрын

@@SkibopDaSequel if you’re interested in a more thorough explanation, andrew lam did a great video explaining how road barriers work something like “how road barriers stopped drivers from being killed” kzread.info/dash/bejne/qWp3rc6tism6n7w.html

@Lynn-rv4ty

Жыл бұрын

i had no idea that was how those barrels were created, it is genius on his part as those barrels are highly effective and cheaper than many other road safety options (part of why they are so commonly used and why they are placed in front of other ones)

The deadliest motor racing event overall is also the world's oldest - the Isle of Man TT. The 1955 Le Mans accident remains the deadliest _single_ incident in motor sport, however the Isle of Man circuit has claimed the most lives of any motor sport during the course of its 116-year history. There have been over 260 fatalities over that time span, including some spectators. There were 5 fatalities in 2022 alone.

@noraleestone2859

Жыл бұрын

I wondered if anyone was going to mention Isle of Man. I was briefly involved as pit crew in Grand Prix motorcycle racing in the early 80's. Bike riders are just insane, period. 😝😬🙄

@philipjamesparsons

Жыл бұрын

In my opinion, the TT, is deeply immoral. The Le Man's disaster was a terrible accident. The TT, runs every year (COVID aside), despite the near inevitability that there will be multiple fatal accidents.

@Markus_Andrew

Жыл бұрын

@@philipjamesparsons I agree in part, Philip. I guess there's two ways to look at it. On the one hand, it is a ridiculously dangerous event, and there's hardly a year goes by when there isn't a fatality, or at least serious injury, involved. On the other hand, nobody is forcing the contestants to participate. There is however the question of spectator safety - as I mentioned (and I'm sure you're aware) some of them have been killed, and that is definitely a concern. But as far as the riders go, I suppose if they're prepared to take the risk, they shouldn't be prevented from participating. As a long-time rider myself, I would say "no thank you". I love motorcycling, but kissing a stone wall at a couple of hundred kays per hour is not a thrill I crave. Frankly, in this sometimes nursemaidy era, I'm surprised that it's still allowed to be held at all.

Early racing was terrifying in general really, it's sad incidents like this happened. Thankfully stuff is a lot safer now.

@zvenafnazbalji7539

Жыл бұрын

The Isle of Man TT: *"Lmao what's safety?"*

@rep100Luxio

Жыл бұрын

@@zvenafnazbalji7539 ohh god the bike racers....i seen a few fall off and died

@AEMoreira81

Жыл бұрын

Most of the regulations if not all that you have today have been indeed written in blood.

@amuroray9115

Жыл бұрын

Racers over the years who survived these terrible events also petitioned for safer conditions

I had come across this story before on another channel, but while they had mentioned people continued racing (primarily Mr Hawthorn), they didn't include the detail that this was partially to the organiser's plan to hopefully avoiding a panic, and making the situation worse. While the fact the one who caused the accident continued to win and celebrate still leaves a bad taste in my mouth, this added context helps understand why both he and the other drivers continued to race.

@arianebolt1575

Жыл бұрын

This- it was the correct call, even if it feels callous.

@nickklavdianos5136

Жыл бұрын

Accidents are normal in racing, and it's almost never just one driver's fault. The issue was that the track was relatively narrow and the pitlane wasn't separated from the racetrack something that didn't happen until 1970. As you said, drivers didn't really know what had happened. Also, deadly accidents were common back then and people didn't really care. In the F1 Italian GP in 1961 at Monza driver Wolfgang Von Trips crashed with two competitors and veered off the track killing about 11 spectators if I remember correctly. The race continued normally. Three time F1 champion Jackie Stewart, who drove F1 and other racing series between the early 60s until his retirement in 1974 said that he and his wife sat down and counted all the funerals of racing drivers they had gone to. They counted about 50 dead racing drivers. Racing was really dangerous back then and people simply accepted that. Jackie was one of the first drivers who demanded that safety measures should be taken. Luckily people followed him and so today racing while still dangerous is a lot safer than during those days.

@Heike--

Жыл бұрын

It's just an excuse they came up with afterwards. They really were that callous.

@SparkieGoth

Жыл бұрын

Mike Hawthorne actually did want to pull out of the race as a mark of respect, but Jaguar said no - it was out of his hands. He himself died in a racing accident just a few years later.

@mattbowden4996

Жыл бұрын

@@SparkieGoth I'm pretty sure that's not true. Hawthorne said how very sad he was to the press afterwards but the mechanics and drivers who watched him compete that day said otherwise. They said he couldn't have cared less about the accident he caused and was only interested in winning the race - same as the entire Jaguar team.

I have a story about this one race, my grandmother who was 13 at the time, remembers the radio being on and she was in a cafe at the time in Germany and the radio was on and when the crash happened everyone went deathly silent.....and she remembers just how shocked everyone was at the time realising that one of their cars had crashed and killed over 80 people....there was another thing I remember "We are racing drivers, we are not monsters" that was a line from a video posted years ago on this very incident Mercedes took the lead 10 hours into the race and then promptly withdrew all the cars from that race and by morning, they had returned to Germany..... Also the fact that Mike Hawthorn had gone sobbing to the Merc team boss Alfred Neubauer was also telling and that Mercedes discussed with Jaguar about pulling out of the race as a mark of respect and Jaguar refused and we had that infamous picture of Mike smiling at the end of the race and he was hung out to dry for it by the French Media....

@stargazer5784

Жыл бұрын

Hawthorne should have retired from the race whether team jaguar did or not, as a show of respect and out of grief over the deaths he was partially responsible for. His apparent jubilation and celebration in the winner's circle was both callous and reprehensible.

@msnovtue

Жыл бұрын

Mercedes pulled out at the urging of John Fitch, Levegh's American co-driver. (Who was quite an interesting fellow himself, and became a safety advocate & inventor after LeMans '55.)

@richardhobbs7360

Жыл бұрын

@@stargazer5784 to say he was partially responsible is to pretend that he didn't do the exact same as every other racer had since the start of racing, the only people at fault are the people who didn't think a pitlane is needed

@jpbaley2016

Жыл бұрын

@@richardhobbs7360The only difference being the disc brakes, which allowed Harwthorne to brake sharply a lot closer to the pit lane then what other drivers were accustomed to. No one was ready for that and probably assumed Hawthorne would not be pulling over. So no, Hawthorn’s actions were not what every other racer had ever done before.

@richardhobbs7360

Жыл бұрын

@@jpbaley2016 brake sharply- pull over is how it had always been done, it’s not like there’s a 100 meter difference between disc and drum It’s no one’s fault that it happened, but if you want to blame someone, blame the track designers

In one country the racing ban remained permanently: Switzerland never again hosted a race. (Rallies, yes, but not races; there were two "Swiss Grand Prix" F1 events, but they were held at Dijon in France!)

@Lpayer

Жыл бұрын

Actually, Switzerland very partially lifted the ban in 2015 (60 years later) and allowed eletric motor racing. Since then, there were only 2 Formula E races (Zuerich ePrix in 2018 and Bern ePrix in 2019) on Swiss soil.

I recall reading a detailed report about this on the internet years ago, and there were many photographs accompanying the article - some of them were absolutely gruesome showing headless bodies, random limbs strewn about, and many burned bodies. Bizarrely, people were in the photographs just standing there staring at the dead. Maybe they were in total shock and couldn't take in what had happened? It was truly appalling.

@delorbb2298

Жыл бұрын

Well, a photograph is a moment in time. Perhaps that was the second before they moved?

@marhawkman303

Жыл бұрын

@@delorbb2298 Also... a person who is injured and needs help... that's a cause for immediate action... say a woman who lost her arm at the elbow and needs help to stop the bleeding... but someone who's obviously completely dead and beyond help? That's different. In that case it's more like "I wonder who that was.... maybe I can notify the next of kin?"

@delorbb2298

Жыл бұрын

@@marhawkman303 So true. I have a photo where you’d swear I was blind drunk. But the truth was that I was caught mid-blink. A photo is a split second. A split second before someone moved in either direction. A split second between looking and acting. You can’t always judge things from a picture.

@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking

Жыл бұрын

For some reason, this 9/11 video was suggested right before this one...In it, you can see firefighters wide-eyed and staring...after the first tower falls, they walk around outside, covered in dust, looking around as if they're at the zoo looking at tropical birds. When the mind sees things too gruesome to comprehend - it fails to comprehend. kzread.info/dash/bejne/iJ9orsuke7HapKw.html

@olivierb9716

Жыл бұрын

don't forget the war some years before; people at this time have seen a lot of tragedies.

I remember this and the Farnborough Airshow DH110 crash of 1952 when the show also continued despite considerable numbers of deaths and injuries in the crowd. Attitudes to risk were different then. People were used to seeing death and injury around them after WW2.

@AEMoreira81

Жыл бұрын

Plainly Difficult (also from the UK) has covered that airshow disaster.

@Deepthought-42

Жыл бұрын

@@AEMoreira81 👍

I’ve been following you for a long time now, you might be one the most consistent youtubers out there, I look foward to every tuesday and usually eat my lunch while watching the new video, your videos are always well researched, respectful and you are an excellent narrator. thank you for everything!

@rockinchimp

Жыл бұрын

I eat my work lunch every Tuesday to these great videos

@frankfirst6863

Жыл бұрын

I absolutely agree. Accurate and interesting always. Thank you Sir. Love your content ❤️

@aj6954

Жыл бұрын

Definitely one of the best narrators on here, so clear and concise. Ironically has a text commentary which isn`t really needed, whereas with other narrators whose diction is lazy and unclear, they often don`t have one.

@juliebraden6911

Жыл бұрын

*forward

@MaryDoyle-xl2ri

7 ай бұрын

👍👍❤️

That the driver who ultimately started the accident also won the race is an interesting if not sad coincidence.

@pmberry

Жыл бұрын

I don't think anyone really won that day.

@zvenafnazbalji7539

Жыл бұрын

@@pmberry They continued the race like normal as if the accident didn't even happen. Mike Hawthorn ended up winning.

@StuRap

Жыл бұрын

@@zvenafnazbalji7539 It's an expression, in other words, everyone was a loser on that day, there were no real winners

@zvenafnazbalji7539

Жыл бұрын

@@StuRap I don't know if the other drivers even noticed something was wrong until the event ended. like Williamson's death in the 1973 F1.

@arianebolt1575

Жыл бұрын

Mike Hawthorne later went on to die trying to pass a Mercedes on a wet road.

"WW2 had ended just a decade ago and this was one of the first times that nations which had previously been at war would compete in a more civilized competition." I love that final part of the sentence, hahah. ^^

@Dmooreslotreviews

Жыл бұрын

I liked the WW2 on the tracks

This generation's idea of safety was a bullet missing you, not the lack of being shot at, so to speak- they were used to sitting in bombers getting hit by flak, or trenches with artillery coming down around them. Anything in comparison would seem safe. Combine that with PTSD and survivor's guilt, it's a perfect storm for risky behavior/passive self destruction

@nancyrobinson3567

Жыл бұрын

This exactly.

@floatingnecc4842

Жыл бұрын

Group B rally is a good example with people literally standing in the middle of the track as cars went by

@JezaLoki

Жыл бұрын

Modern generations idea of safety is the criminalisation of icky words.

@jemmabean

Жыл бұрын

@JezaLoki for the love of God shut up with this tired ass take lmao

@fritzfxx

Жыл бұрын

@@JezaLoki who's softer- the people offended by bad words, or the person who spends years being upset about people being offended by bad words? Just a thought on self-awareness If you think you're different from those people, you know, maybe don't be so sensitive?

One thing I find interesting is in that a lot of accidents that happen, humans tend to be more reactive to make changes instead of proactive. Everything's fine until lives are lost, it seems.

@MrNelmo2

Жыл бұрын

That's because no-one can predict where the dangers are - sadly, experience is the best teacher.

@triforceofcourage100

Жыл бұрын

Basic foresight is rare amongst humans

@CamAlert2

Жыл бұрын

Because proactivity takes more effort to execute.

@msnovtue

Жыл бұрын

Racing is unfortunately one of those things that runs on 'tombstone technology'. Until enough people are injured or killed to the point it becomes a financial drain on those running it, nothing changes (although to a much lesser degree today, thankfully.)

@ninetalis

Жыл бұрын

@@MrNelmo2 Not really. Quite often dangers are identified long before the incidents occur. It's just that they tend to be dismissed as too expensive to rectify, because/or the odds of the incident 'too low to realistically occur' to justify the remedy. There are literally hundreds, if not tens of thousands of stories where the dangers or weak points had been identified and/or warned about , yet no changes were made.

When I first stumbled into this channel, I had a feeling this disaster would be covered at some point down the line. It can't be stressed enough how close motor racing as a whole came to being permanently shut down due to this incident. Fortunately, we learned and made things so much safer and still do make things safer with every passing serious incident but we were this close to having never had the chance to learn from this and losing motor racing all together.

@AEMoreira81

Жыл бұрын

In the USA, that’s part of why Daytona Speedway was built.

@neilmartin3220

Жыл бұрын

Its still banned in Switzerland to this very day.

@victorvance2573

Жыл бұрын

@@neilmartin3220 There is no motorsport in Switzerland?

@kami_narisama

Жыл бұрын

@@neilmartin3220 I've read that the ban has, or will he lifted soon, however.

@kami_narisama

Жыл бұрын

@@victorvance2573 no gas car motorsport is what can be easily described. The still have motorbike racing, and they have a Formula E race but, up until now, they're not allowing any motorsport involving gasoline powered cars

I can see where that motor speedway disaster on that one Final Destination movie got its inspiration from.

A hand signal to slow down from Levegh to his teammate running behind, just before the crash, was later credited by that driver with saving his life. That driver was 5-time F1 world champion Juan Manuel Fangio. Also worth mentioning is driver John Fitch, who began designing safety improvements for road and track after the disaster. His inventions are credited with saving tens of thousands of lives.

My dad,a racing enthusiast, has talked about this for years. He is fascinated by LeMans and I believe has passed some of that down to me. As a kid, he had us watch LeMans with Steve McQueen. I didn’t understand the movie at 11, and thought it was boring. Over time, I’ve come to realize what it’s about. Thank you for this video!

I've never seen a more detailed and un-biased description of how the crash happened. Exceptionally well done.

@peterf.229

Жыл бұрын

most try to assign blame esp to the guy who won, but it was just a racing thing that happened .

This came up in my recommendations and I literally said, "Oh God." This event defines the word "horrific."

I watched an extended documentary on this event including interviews with survivors and the co-driver of the driver who died. (Each team had 2 drivers that swapped back and forth so one could rest.) There is a panoramic photo of the area the engine swept through just before and just after and it's horrifying. Several people were decapitated by flying debris. This event is truly both fascinating, and horrifying.

@emilionavarrete5169

Жыл бұрын

Do you happen to know where I could see this documentary?

@mickcollins1921

Жыл бұрын

@@emilionavarrete5169 kzread.info/dash/bejne/g6eY15SbqK6Xmag.html

@emilionavarrete5169

Жыл бұрын

@@mickcollins1921 Thanks!

To add to Hawthorn winning the race, the next year Hawthorn had a camera on his car in practice. He did a lap around the track and did commentary while driving and mentions safety improvements made to the track after "the terrible accident last year". The one that he caused. That videos on KZread

@peterf.229

Жыл бұрын

he didn’t cause the accident …

@TSNAnnotator

Жыл бұрын

@@peterf.229 slowing down and pulling suddenly (and without warning) to the right side of the track, into the path of Lance Macklin causing him to swerve and make contact with a much faster Pierre Levegh is not causing the accident?

@user-qb1sm3rk9r

Ай бұрын

Hawthorne seems to have been a pompous twit but how is anyone in that situation supposed to foresee the outcome of merely slowing down on the pit straight when all you can see is a few blurry cars behind you in a shaking mirror? Hindsight is 20/20 as they say. There are so many "what if"s that Hawthorne can't be blamed totally. For example what if Macklins car didn't have a sloped rear? Then Le Veigh's car wouldn't have been launched and there would have likely been far less carnage, possibly none. You can say Hawthorne was guilty of reckless driving, but not directly responsible for 84 people dead.

@TSNAnnotator

Ай бұрын

@@user-qb1sm3rk9r I said he caused the accident, not the he's directly responsible for 84 people dead

Some of the black and white footage shows how sketchy it could be. Great vid

@callmeshaggy5166

Жыл бұрын

Don't read up on the details. Let's just say that along with the engine, the hood (bonnet) of the car hurdled through the crowd at around neck and other levels.

Keep up the quality videos you make. You highlight events that are both well known and aren’t as well known.

As a motorsports fan, watching this footage today with the shear lack of safety and ‘she’ll be right’ attitude is absolutely absounding to comprehend.

The ban on motorsports is still in effect in Switzerland. It was only recently modified to allow races with electric vehicles.

@ripvanwinkle2002

Жыл бұрын

which is kinda funny because ECars burn SO MUCH hotter and worse than ICE powered cars.. it was virtue signalling then by the swiss and its the same now..

Great vid as always. This reminds me of another fascinating horror type thing you might like. I recall at a monster truck show a few years back a bit of debris was flung up into the stands and killed a kid. It's just fascinating how we go through life blissfully unaware that we are in constant danger from things we would never expect.

@melissaok9713

Жыл бұрын

Oh man! That makes me wonder about how many other fatalities and injuries hav happened at monster truck shows. What about motocross shows too?

@peterf.229

Жыл бұрын

one in Mexico had the safety engine shutoff fail and it crashed through the stands , i forget how many died

My dad told me about this one as a kid and we had some VHS motorsports documentary tapes that covered it. Very good summary here!

Something similar almost happened in Talladega during a nascar race in 1987. Bobby Allison's car flew into the air after being turned on it's side, and almost flew into the stands. he barely missed by hitting a barrier before the fence, which slowed him down enough to be deflected off the fence & not blow through it

@cliffsaxon5493

9 ай бұрын

Same Thing Happened To Call Edwards At Talladega In 2009 And Also To Kyle Larson, Austin Dillon, And Ryan Newman At Daytona. However In These Instances The Catch Fence Held.

Congratulations on the 1 million subscribers! That was fast but more than deserved!

@MaryDoyle-xl2ri

7 ай бұрын

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It is understandable that massive changes happen after spectators are killed, moreso than the drivers. I happened to attend another such event, the 1998 US 500 at Michigan, where three spectators lost their lives (this race also continued to completion). Big changes were made after that to make sure wheel assemblies couldn't fly off the main body of the car.

As a Formula One fan of many decades, this episode interested me in particular. Auto racing has always been a dangerous sport. Thankfully, as you said, technology has made numerous life saving improvements even as it has also increased speeds. You might consider an episode on Roman Grosjean's horrific crash in November of 2020.

Good job depicting the nuance of the crash and how difficult it can be to place blame on anyone in racing crashes. It all can go wrong so quickly, as seen in the crash here. I love motor racing and feel proud of everyone who contributed to making it as (relatively) safe as it is today, never forgetting those who have paid the price on the way

I’ve been to Le Mans, learning a few years ago that there was one of the deadliest racing disasters in history there (and knowing exactly where on the track it happened) has left me with a somewhat Erie memory of it all. In contemporary footage you can see the layout and exactly where it would be today. Just incredibly sad, but as with many videos on this channel - something like this was, unfortunately, required for change.

@neilmartin3220

Жыл бұрын

There is a very small memorial plaque somewhere in that area. I think the wooden fence its nailed is the same one from 1955. At least thats what I heard.

@philipjamesparsons

Жыл бұрын

Many have died there since. Allan Simonsen , died in 2013. He hit a guardrail. The guardrail was so close to a tree it had to give. It is still a dangerous circuit.

@ninetailedfox579121

Жыл бұрын

What does Lake Erie have to do with the Le Mans disaster?

Imagine going to a race with your loved ones because you both like motorsport, and then by the end of the day, one or both of you aren’t going home because you ended up in something that could come strait out of a Final Destination movie. Absolutely horrifying to just think about.

@peterf.229

Жыл бұрын

or you could be asleep and never wake up due to a house fire, gas leak , co poisoning or a heart attack , people love to talk about terror and are afraid to live.

The fact this story stands out among all others is a testament to the carnage witnessed by survivors. These events are tragic but witnessing them leave people scarred for generations.

My friend's uncle was killed by a flying tire at a Nascar race. I was shocked because i had never considered something like that. And that was just a single fatality accident 😳

@DanArnets1492

Жыл бұрын

It wasn't on a NASCAR race for sure - Tyres have killed people in CART/Indycar though

This has become one of my favorite channels. I eagerly await each new video, and I am practically guaranteed to learn something I did not know, either from the video itself, or some of interesting comments people leave. Keep up the good work!

I haven't started the video yet, but the intro music and your voice instantly calm me down....after a day straight from hell.

In the 60s it was more dangerous to be a racing driver than to be an astronaut. 50s were not much better. Fragile cars, no seat belts, no pitlanes, no helmets, no fireproof overalls, no safety on the racetrack, no designated hospitals and doctors, cars that were deathtraps and could spontaneously combust after a crash, no marshals and no trackside safety. It's truly a miracle there were not more accidents like LeMans 1955 or Monza 1961.

Back in the 70s my Dad bought a book about disasters,natural ones and ones caused by humans. This one was in the book and it was truly horrific and completely preventable. Interestingly enough,I think,there was no condemnation of Hawthorne. Used to wonder(the book was still around my folks' place for decades) if this may have been due to the fact that it was a British publication. Just speculating.

I've been expecting you to do this one, and you delivered as always!

This is one of those disasters that I've been fascinated by since reading about in in a book many years ago when in junior high school. Thank you, FH, for covering it here.

It's insane that not only do we have an video of the car/engine block flying across the grandstands, but also a video of the car jumping over the hay barrier at a camera for it to suddenly freeze. That's basically unheard of at that time.

Fantastic report, I remember this clearly. Thank you for this accurate and thoughtful report. Your informative videos never disappoint!

Quite unbelievable in today's racing environment, thankfully

@zvenafnazbalji7539

Жыл бұрын

The Isle of Man TT continues to be deadly to this day though. there's only one year in the sport's history where no one died.

@jtp2007

Жыл бұрын

@@zvenafnazbalji7539 1982

Thank you for making these videos and making sure these disasters and the victims are never forgotten ❤

Been following this channel for a long time. Keep up the great work!

I was hoping to find a video explaining the events - and was delighted to find that my favourite channel had made one. Thanks so much for your continued effort in bringing us knowledge about disasters that I would otherwise, in many cases, never had known about!

Just made my morning! Thx 4 all u do!! 👑

@A_Ducky

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Even though I know I'm in for a sad story...the intro music and his voice calm me down and make my world a lil more upright.. not so crazy. I've had a day from hell & thought there's nothing.... nothing that could produce this feeling. I hope he never changes the format he's using. Now to actually watch the story. Le sigh...

You've covered this in a calm and sincere way as you always do . Congratulations on your landmark subscriber numbers . I was number 100 😁

The graphs showing the progress of the accident are helpful. Thank you for another good one!

What some people don't fully appreciate is that there's always been an element of "motor racing is dangerous, if you don't accept the risk then don't participate or spectate" but over the years we've seen just how much risk is acceptable to the general public. More recently, safety has also been mandated because of the risk of litigation. For example the court case after the death of Ayrton Senna dragged on for many years. We still hear of occasional spectator deaths in motor racing, notably rallying. Le Mans was on a different scale though. I doubt anyone in 1955 imagined there could possibly be such a massive death toll from a single accident until that day.

Motor racing used to be so insanely dangerous! This wouldn't be the last time the long straights at Le Mans would cause a Mercedes to take flight (1999) but the drivers would survive the flight into the trees.

This story is horrific! Just when you think it can't get any worse... it does, big time... 😔

We enjoy your channel. We've never heard of some of the historical events that you talk about. We're never to old to learn. Thank you.

In my town, there's a memorial plaque to Mike Hawthorn outside the local library. Just thought I'd mention it as its on a similar subject.

Speaking of motorsport incidents that had far reaching implications, I would suggest the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix at Imola, Italy. So many incidents occurred that weekend that it would fill a book by itself. It was more than just the death of Ayrton Senna, the various incidents left not just the motorsport community, but people around the world in shock and anger at what had been allowed to happen. After the major incidents that either left drivers, mechanics or spectators injured or killed, the governing body of the Formula One World Championship, the Federation International de l'Automobiles (FIA), made a series of dramatic changes in the wake of what happened that weekend, including modifying the track layout at Imola, improving the overall safety of the cars, and most lasting, the implementation of a pit lane speed limit. The reason for the latter was graphically shown in the closing stages of the race as Michele Alboreto accelerated down the pit lane after his last tyre change and topping up of fuel. As his car approached 90MPH, his right rear wheel came off and ploughed through mechanics from other teams, knocking down two mechanics each from Ferrari and Lotus, leaving them requiring hospital treatment. Another change resulting from Imola 1994, mechanics from every team had to wait in the comparative safety of their team garage until called upon. A lot of people overly simplify that weekend as being the weekend where Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna were killed (the former was the first driver fatality at a race weekend since 1982 and the first at the wheel of then contemporary F1 machinery since 1986)

👏Thanks FH! I love your vids, always brief, yet interesting enough that a lot of the time makes me further look into the story, or subject. Sometimes you shine a light on things that I never knew happened. *Fun fact: We have a game show here in the US called Jeopardy, more than once I knew answers because it was something I had learned from Fascinating Horror!😄👍

This is the best event coverage yet! I'm impressed.

"Magnesium is flammable." This has got to be one of the most straight-faced yet absolutely massive understatements I've heard on this channel. I vividly remember science teachers demonstrating magnesium's interesting qualities when I was a teenager!

this is so weird, I was just watching a documentary about the le mans disaster but I was looking for a fascinating horror ep on it (I figured it had already been done) and then not two days later this comes out. Spooky. Great work as always.

@bestnameeverf

Жыл бұрын

Yah I could’ve sworn he already covered this. Maybe not.

@prettyshinyspaghetti8332

Жыл бұрын

I'm super certain that he already covered this

It was such a tragedy for all motorsports fans, but ultimately it made racing safer. RIP

@HellmuthsHotRods

Жыл бұрын

Sadly, this kind of thing is what it takes to make it better. In Nascar, Earnhart's crash made the cars leaps and bounds better. Also in drag racing, Kalita's crash brought many improvements to drag car's.

@arnoldhenry

Жыл бұрын

@@HellmuthsHotRods Didn't Dale Earnhart's old-style racing helmet also contribute to his death? While the other NASCAR drivers, including his son Dale Jr., wore the full-face helmets, he wore a style of racing helmet that he wore since he started racing that didn't cover his whole head area. It looks like a football helmet without the face mask.

@triggeredcat120

Жыл бұрын

Sadly many safety rules and procedures are written in blood.

@kingyoshi32443

Жыл бұрын

@@arnoldhenry Partially but it was also due to a number of other reasons. Less restrictions on safety gear (the HANS or Hutchens device wasnt mandatory) led to several driver deaths in 2000 and 2001. His death was the 4th in a row caused by a basilar skull fracture (besides Tony Roper who I believe suffered a neck injury which restricted blood flow to his brain). Even after Dales death these devices weren't mandatory until Blaise Alexanders death later in 2001 in which he also died of a basilar skull fracture. Not only was the lack of a safety device responsible for his death but so was concrete walls still being used and no SAFER barrier existing at this point in time.

I've been waiting for this for ages! Thanks fascinating horror 😀

Scary thing is, the philosophy that it's better to be thrown from your vehicle persisted in hydroplane racing up until the late 80s. It took two high-profile deaths in the early 80s to finally start turning that notion around.

I know that it is available on youtube, but thank you for not using the actual footage from the crash in your video. It’s nice to have an option to relearn about the disaster without having to see the deaths of so many people.

Mike Hawthorn died by racing suicide. He ended up losing one kidney to disease and the other was shutting down, he was not expected to live much longer and the quality of his life was seriously degraded. He ended it by parking a tree in the driver's seat of his modified 1958 Jaguar 3.4 Mk-1. It was right after he passed a Mercedes 300-SL driven by Rob Walker in wet road conditions, and they were racing.

Excellently made and presented as always. You always take the high road and give a well-researched, respectful accounting of times when people are at their best, or at their worst. Possibly in future might you look at the Indianapolis 500, specifically the 1964 or 1973 races?

I love your videos, and It’s kinda interesting being a car enthusiast I know about this story very well so any chance to learn more is very intriguing

Fantastic video

I have been involved in motorsport in Australia since 1991. It took me 15 years to see my first accident that caused deathm then ot have someone die at another event a couple of months later was really eerie.

@carlodifabio7991

Жыл бұрын

Are you referring to the marshal killed by the flying tyre at Albert Park?

@Motorsportqueen

Жыл бұрын

@@carlodifabio7991 No both the people i was reffering to were competitors. Kirk McCarthy Australian Superbike rider had an accident then a couple of months later a Driver at the Festival of Speed on Tweed passed away after rolling his historic car without a roll bar on both events were in 2004.

last week i was in a games shop,,,, i heard Glass Pond by Public Memory start playing. I froze. My heat skipped a beat and started pounding. I went to the front counter and asked the owner. 'Is this song a normal part of your soundtrack?' He asked why? I told him "dude, im about 3 seconds away from running out of this shop and shopping center!" He burst out laughing and said "You must be a fan of Fascinating Horror on KZread like me!' hahah, the legend gave me 40% off my purchases. Legit freaked me the F out!

A respectful and strong quality video as always - thank you

It appears that Hawthorne's tasteless celebrations weren't an aberration. From the girlfriend of Hawthorne's teammate and rival (who had just died): "After visiting the mortally injured Musso in hospital, Breschi returned to her hotel, where she and the rest of the Ferrari team were informed by the team manager that afternoon that Musso had died. Within thirty days Collins too was dead, and the following January, Hawthorn. Breschi could not suppress a feeling of release: "I had hated them both", she said, "first because I was aware of certain facts that were not right, and also because when I came out of the hospital and went back to the hotel, I found them in the square outside the hotel, laughing and playing a game of football with an empty beer can. So when they died, too, it was liberating for me. Otherwise I would have had unpleasant feelings towards them forever. This way I could find a sense of peace."

@ingvarhallstrom2306

Жыл бұрын

I put the accident completely at Hawthornes fault. He should've taken responsibility for his actions, and the fact that he did not follows him into eternity....

@cplcabs

Жыл бұрын

@@ingvarhallstrom2306 why? He did what was required, he signalled what he was about to do.

@ingvarhallstrom2306

Жыл бұрын

@@cplcabs Because he let his ego get the better of him... He already had instructions from the lap before to go into the pits, he could've prepared that pit stop accordingly in a safe way. Instead he made a split second decision going into the pits, after considering going another lap. With new technology comes a responsibility. He was the only one in the field with disc brakes, he should've taken into consideration no one else in the field could break that fast. He didn't look into the rear view mirror, because if he had he would've known that the car behind would crash into him. So, Hawthorn was riding high on his big ego, considered doing another lap, changed his mind, hand signalled, put the foot on the breaks and swirved into the pitlane. The signal was obviously too little too late for anyone to react in a safe way thus leading to the crash. Without Hawthorns actions there wouldn't have been a crash.

@dddgaming885

Жыл бұрын

@@ingvarhallstrom2306 cope. he didn't do anything wrong. And the fact that you try to pin everything on one person instead of acknowledging that everything design wise in the race (car design, track design, safety, spectator seating, etc) was a shit show is ridiculous.

@ingvarhallstrom2306

Жыл бұрын

@@dddgaming885 Yeah, well, I'm not alone pinning this disaster solely on Hawthorn. He was a careless, reckless driver....

Man, that one picture reminds me of that Mercedes CLK GTR that went airborne in 1999 I think it was

@callmeshaggy5166

Жыл бұрын

Mark Webber remembers

@2Drexxed

Ай бұрын

it was a CLR

I am old enough to remember the advent of compulsory seatbelts and the way people pushed back on it and loudly protested, claiming that in an accident it was better to be "thrown clear". People were thrown clear all right, right through the windshield.

I have seen the video of the crash and the disintegrating parts hitting the stands...it is truly horrific to see. We researched, and well presented, DF.

Well yes, they did not stop the race immediately to avoid panic, but it went on for other 18 hours, including night time when a lot of spectators left anyway, so... it was not a decision simply based on safety. By the way if you like animation, here is a short film about the event (taking artistic liberties) kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZGZ9mduDmbLbYNY.html

“WWII on the tracks”. Some serious foreshadowing there.

@ripvanwinkle2002

Жыл бұрын

um no ww2 1939-1945 lemans disaster 1955 that or you dont know what foreshadowing is..

@adamjohnson2914

Жыл бұрын

@@ripvanwinkle2002 Foreshadowing the crash, not WWII. How could you interpret that comment any other way.

@ripvanwinkle2002

Жыл бұрын

id interpret it as you wrote it since ww2 in NO WAY resembled this wreck HTF am i supposed to think YOU think its foreshadowing a car wreck? when NOTHING about ww2 resembles in ANY WAY, a car wreck?

@adamjohnson2914

Жыл бұрын

@@ripvanwinkle2002 still doesn't explain how you interpreted my comment wrong

@ripvanwinkle2002

Жыл бұрын

@@adamjohnson2914 well since the task of making the message clear, is on the messenger not the recipient. id say thats a YOU problem since i was quite clear how youre comment was structured wrong.. but since youve proven quite a dullard.. NOTHING about the race resembles ww2 so what happened in ww2 was in no way any kind of "foreshadowing" of a random wreck in the 1955 LeMans race WW2 on the track refers to the fact the car makers were british german and italian.. btw, do you have the number to the public school you went to? id like to call and tell them they let you down quite badly in the area of sentence structure and reading comprehension.. and a quick word with your history teacher would be swell too..

Lance Macklin's Austin Healey was quite literally ramp shaped in the back: a special drag reducing sloped tail had been fitted. This made an extra 'convenient' ramp for Pierre Levegh's racing Mercedes to zoom up the ramp and into the crowd. His Mercedes' body and wheels were also largely made of magnesium: Magnesium burns white hot and cannot be put out by water. BTW, Magnesium and phosphorous were 2 of the main ingredients in WWII Incendiary bombs.

I just heard about this, I knew you would have a video about it already, and you do. Nice!

I could have swore this topic was covered before. Maybe it was just someone's suggestion on a comment?

@ovinedreamer1451

Жыл бұрын

I was also certain that I'd heard him do this one before...but I know I've seen a Bad Day HQ vid of this so I might just have my memories twisted.

This sounds like the beginning of one of the Final Destination movies that took place at a racetrack. I wonder if the script writer used this as inspiration. Gruesome. ☹️☹️

I wrote about this crash for a book chapter in TAFE many years ago, actually part of an assignment about the history of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in general. Still an insane story in the history of motor racing. There is a beautifully animated short film about the disaster told from the perspective of the Mercedes team that came around the same time as that Ford v. Ferrari film. Worth checking out since it's available on KZread. Oh, and as an addendum to this story, Mercedes did pull out of racing after the crash but they wouldn't return to sports car racing until the late 1980s when Mercedes paired with Sauber to build a car to compete against Porsche and Jaguar. Mercedes did win the 24 Hour race in 1989 and by that time, the speeds at Le Mans had skyrocketed with the fastest ever speed recorded at an astonishing 405km/h (252mph) the previous year. The next year, two chicanes were finally built to reduce top speeds. Mercedes returned off and on to Le Mans and sports car racing, the last time that they did at Le Mans was also the year that saw the Silver Arrows cars take off... and land with a thud.

Driving and surviving back in those days wasn't a question of talent, it was a question of luck. Respect to the drivers such as Jackie Stewart who had enough of the deaths and wanted to stop it for good.

@aj6954

Жыл бұрын

It goes right back to the start of the 20th Century and even the end of the 19th. They got away with it for a few years right at the beginning as they were lucky and the cars were not very fast. But it didn`t take them long to build bigger and faster cars and create a disaster, (see 1903 Paris to Madrid Road Race).

I feel that Mike Hawthorn's character all too often gets besmirched in tellings of this story. He had no method of communication with his crew other than signs they put up, and the Jaguar Team would not have told him the horrible news. He would have known there was a big crash and a fire, but would not have been able to tell the severity of it. In any case, fatal crashes, even ones that killed a few spectators, were somewhat normal, and Hawthorn would have not known the severity at the time. The Jaguar Team not pulling out is absolutely a selfish move, but that was not on Hawthorn. Once he got out of the car, he was distraught that he had caused a wreck, but it would be in the Jaguar Team's best interest to not tell him of how bad it was, and the team boss was dead set on continuing nonetheless (again, incredibly selfish, but for the team boss, not Hawthorn) After the race, he immediately pulled into the winner's circle, where all the photographers were, and celebrated, knowing only that he had won, before eventually being told of the severity. However, the motorsport racing world was far less open to safety at the time, evidenced by the continuing of motor racing. A lot of these people were WWII veterans, and considered any activity where they were not being actively shot at to be "safe". It took decades for people to be convinced that death should have no place in motorsport, and until then, especially in the 50s, it was seen as just part of racing for many.

@dddgaming885

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Someone with sense.

@nicolesaphir

Жыл бұрын

Well said.

Damn I remember watching this channel all the way back in 2020 or so happy to see the channel is still doing good. Would always make my morning every wednesy ong

I love all of your videos! Watching this triggered a thought I had, what about doing a short doc/video on the Ramstein Air Base where all of those spectators were killed when that plane crashed into the crowd? It's an idea... Super-long-time-subscriber, I've watched your entire library of videos! 😊

Of course this is just one of many devastating accidents involving F1 it comes with the territory I guess when you're going 200 mph around a bend the risk is also there but so does getting into any car imo

Yeah the event inspired the final destination 4 its the race that benz withdraw from motor racing until 1989

I was wondering when you'd cover this one! Well done.

I've watched a lot videos about the le mans accident. This is the best one by far, thank you

Is this a re-upload? I could swear I saw this video in 2021.