[Healeys] LM Disaster film

Alan Seigrist healey.nut at gmail.com
Fri Aug 9 17:58:10 MDT 2013


Ultimately the blame should be on the engineers of the track in my view.
 Racing is unpredictable.... They should have known better even in 1955....

On Saturday, August 10, 2013, Jose Vicente Vargas wrote:

> The same story...same version....
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 9/08/2013, at 5:51 p.m., "Patrick & Caroline Quinn" <
> p_cquinn at tpg.com.au> wrote:
>
> > G'day
> >
> > Below is an extract of the findings from the French investigation
> following
> > the tragedy.
> >
> > Mr Hawthorn, driver of Jaguar car No. 6   overtook on the left the car
> No
> > 26 driven by Lance Macklin, then suddenly came back on the right and
> braked;
> > Macklin, surprised by such driving inclined to the left just as he was
> > joined by car No. 20 driven by Levegh who, trying to pass on the extreme
> > left of the track, happened to collide with the left side of car No. 26
> and
> > ran against the safety banking.
> >
> > Hoo Roo
> >
> > Patrick Quinn
> > Blue Mountains, Australia


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