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Le Mans '55: The Crash That Changed the Face of Motor Racing
by Christopher Hilton
Binding: Hardcover, illustrated edition edition, 256 pages
Publisher: Breedon Books Publishing
Weight: 1.76 pound
Dimension: H: 0.94 x L: 9.61 x W: 7.01 inches
ISBN 10: 1859834418
ISBN 13: 9781859834411
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The worst crash in motor racing history – killing more than 80 people – was produced by a ferocious and haunting combination of circumstances: nationalism, raw speed, the nature of a 24-hour race, and chance. The crash drew in Mike Hawthorn, the blond playboy from Farnham, in a Jaguar, and Juan-Manuel Fangio, one of the greatest drivers of all, in a Mercedes. A crowd of 250,000 watched hypnotised as Hawthorn set out to break Fangio, the two cars going faster and faster... and faster. Another English playboy, Lance Macklin, was caught up in the crash in his Austin-Healey, along with a 50-year-old Frenchman driving under the assumed name of Pierre Levegh. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It cost him his life, even as his car was torn to pieces that scythed into the dense crowd.

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