That's not the way I remember the story. Some little British thing balked at a
move into the pits, and the much faster Mercedes couldn't avoid the resulting
confusion. The resulting impacts launched the Mercedes toward the crowd. The
material didn't matter. That much weight, disintegrating in the grandstand,
along with the resulting fuel and oil fire, killed the people. The team
withdrew because of the deaths of the crowd, and their driver, not because they
were scared of magnesium.
Stu
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The entire Mercedes team quit at Le Mans, while running
ahead of everybody, when one of their magnesium
structure cars struck a wall and sent burning pieces
onto the spectators, killing some. This was caused by
the friction between the concrete wall and the mag skin
which ground the metal to small hot particles. .
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Steve Laifman
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