I thought the BBC did a good job on the LeMans disaster in this documentary:
http://vimeo.com/10479305
Rick
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From: Josi Vicente Vargas
<jvvmusme@yahoo.com>
To: Alan Seigrist <healey.nut@gmail.com>; Healey
<Healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 11:53 AM
Subject: Re:
[Healeys] LM Disaster film
Regarding this accident there is a great
interview of Fangio (the best of all
times) in spanish explaining how the
accident happened and how he saved his
life.
Of what I can remenber Fangio
says that the accident was caused because
Hawthorn in his Jaguar made an
abrupt change of course to enter pits,
believing that the Healey was slower,
and this made the Healey to change
course to avoid hitting the Jag and getting
slammed in the back by the
Mercedes.
Fangio says that when he was entering the
straight he saw all the
public looking in the same direction and that no one
in the public was looking
at the incoming cars, which is normal, and therefore
he suspected that
something had happened in the straight and he slowed down
and this way he
saved his life....
Josi Vicente Vargas
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