The story starts with the 1955 LeMans. On lap 35, Pierre Levegh swerved his Mercedes 300 SLR to miss Mike Hawthorne’s Jaguar D-type, clipped the back of Lance Macklin’s Austin-Healey, went airborne, landed on an earthen berm and somersaulted violently, tearing itself apart. The hood went flying into the crowd, as did the engine block and the […]
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