1955 24 Hours of Le Mans

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Footage of the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans. The 23rd 24 Hours of Le Mans and took place on June 11 and 12, 1955 at Circuit de la Sarthe where one of the worst accidents in motor racing history took place. It was the fourth round of the F.I.A. World Sports Car Championship.
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@alexdoidge1733 2 года назад

Cant believe after such a terrible incident the next day spectators are standing in the exact same spot

@carlosb1 Год назад

People back then were mentally stronger.

@naglafar2651 Год назад

@@carlosb1 Stronger or reckless ?

@freqeist 3 месяца назад

@@carlosb1 yep ww2 was only ten years before this.

@olliebeck2952 Год назад

Some love for Ken Miles in this video. Pops up a couple of times in the MG. Love it.

@tomlusty8376 2 года назад

Thanks for your Golden Age race videos !

@howl_with_the_wolves Год назад

Seeing this in color is SO much better then the b&w British pathe video,that said many ppl who were at this race didn't realize or even know about it till after the race.

@ScottieMacF Год назад

I'm really surprised at the graphic scenes of dead bodies in this video. Not upset by it; just surprised its included.

@angelsone-five7912 Год назад

Have seen many accounts of this race but this is the first time I`ve seen the bodies, many were decapitated.

@kirbyseverson Год назад

You have to see it to really know how dangerous it is.

@kurtbilinski1723 Месяц назад

It may be because this was only 10 years after WWII, and some there were probably already desensitized to such things. We seem to be working our way back towards such graphic displays, what with some of the YT videos from the Ukraine war...

@tsf5-productions Год назад

Auto racing experts over the decades have said this race made big changes in some safety issues and I believe that. Even though the 1950's had many great auto races, the tragedy of loss was great in drivers and spectators. 1955 at Indianapolis had the tragic loss of a talented driver- Bill Vuckovich...bad time for auto racing. I still feel sad about the many spectators at LeMans in the 1955 event. It should not have happened.

@DL-ls5sy Год назад

what about Tourist Trophy races in the Isle of Man ?

@alessandroaleman4512 7 месяцев назад

12:20 the famous crash

@johndeere1951a 10 месяцев назад

Mercedes Benz didn't have disk brakes like Jaguar which explains the air brake flap.

@fortsonre Год назад

Great video.

@angelsone-five7912 Год назад

This is the first time I have seen the actual human carnage resultting from that terrible crash, awful. They were right to keep the race going in order that emergency vehicles weren`t hampered by exiting crowds.

@chapmyers9272 Год назад

That’s an interesting take, one I hadn’t considered. Myself, had I been anywhere near the accident I would have been way too freaked out to stay.

@vince065us.2 Месяц назад

The air brakes on the Mercedes Benz.Unreal.

@thedriskillarchive 2 года назад

Do we know who was narrating this film?

@DL-ls5sy Год назад

First race at Le Mans for Lotus with Chapman (10 mn)

@nac5605 3 месяца назад

Man the wind hitting those huge air brakes probably made the cars next to impossible to control in the corners

@PhotosOfBuildings 21 день назад

You don't brake mid corner, you brake before the corner.

@altfactor Год назад

If such a horrific accident happened at LeMans today, the race would be terminated.

@JackH675 Год назад

They kept it going due to the potential mass exodus that would’ve occurred, and would’ve prevented ambulances from getting in and out of the track

@DL-ls5sy Год назад

same thing in Monza 1961 ...14 dead

@stampede122 Год назад

@@DL-ls5sy15 once you add Von Tripps

@jokermaan1 9 месяцев назад

A disaster on this scale would be impossible today though, simply as a result of safety measures that have been introduced, many as a direct result of this particular accident.

@dubdaze68 Год назад

I have never seen some of these shots.

@billwright1880 Год назад

Vive la France!

@markholroyde9412 Год назад

Mercedes still put pointless crap on their cars today🤣 They were only doing 60mph into a corner...otherwise the pressure would have ripped the rear end off🤣

@ohandanotheronebitesthedus6247 Год назад

What was the tragedy did anyone get hurt

@imablobfish2839 Год назад

-_-

@PhotosOfBuildings 21 день назад

Watch the fuckin video!

@paulreilly3904 5 дней назад

It must be tough being blind

@midgeratchet Год назад

Mr. Judgey McJudgerson doing the narration

@MrACOUSTICPETE 3 месяца назад

Crazy spectator behaviour . Rally spectator tragedies very similar . " bull fighter syndrome " maybe . Testosterone brain 🤔

@speakfreeley4473 Год назад

The crash was caused by Hawthorn.

@columbmurray 10 месяцев назад

Not so.

@jokermaan1 9 месяцев назад

Hawthorne's Jag had disc brakes that meant that it pulled up very quickly before the pits, surprising the following driver, Lance Macklin in an Austin-Healey who pulled to the left to avoid a collision but in doing so ran into the path of Pierre Levegh in the much quicker Mercedes. It could be argued that Hawthorne instigated the crash, but not really through negligence.

@turboslag 6 месяцев назад

It was caused by non existent safety precautions and poor circuit configuration at that location. The circuit was still running it's original layout from a time when speeds were much lower, this was absolutely inadequate and dangerous for the speeds these much faster cars were reaching, especially the Jags with disc brakes.

@johngeren1053 2 месяца назад

Brakes do not make a car faster. The air brake s of the MBs were vary effective and probably would have neutralized the disc brake advantage. The fastest cars in the race were the new 6 cylinder Ferraris. Enzo inexplicably abandoned the dominant 375 Plus/412S at the end of 1954 and told his engineers that he wanted to beat the 6 cylinder British and German cars with his own 6.

@PhotosOfBuildings 21 день назад

Oh shut up! You don't know all the facts. Hawthorn did nothing wrong.