[Healeys] LM Disaster film

Alan Seigrist healey.nut at gmail.com
Sat Aug 10 01:12:19 MDT 2013


oh wait, didn't the D-type have four pot front brakes?


On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Alan Seigrist <healey.nut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Didn't the D-Type use the same dunlop brakes as the 100?
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Bob <jagxk120 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Or Macklin surprised by the efficacy of the Jaguar's brakes...
>> B
>> HBTL244
>>
>> Le 10/08/13 05:36, Greg Lemon a icrit :
>>
>>> Wasn't '55 the first year the S spec 100s ran at Le Mans?, I think I
>>> remember reading some speculation that Hawthorne wasn't expecting it to be
>>> so fast, and that may have had something to do with him misjudging the
>>> overtaking.
>>>
>>> Greg Lemon
>>>
>>> ------------------------------**--------------------
>>> From: "Alan Seigrist" <healey.nut at gmail.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 6:58 PM
>>> To: "Jose Vicente Vargas" <jvvmusme at yahoo.com>
>>> Cc: "Healey" <Healeys at autox.team.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [Healeys] LM Disaster film
>>>
>>>  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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