The Car Crash That Decapitated Fourteen People | Last Moments

this was some final destination shit

They call that the Day that Racing Died.

Unrelated but try auto-captions on this video.

Hawethorne is 1000% responsible here. Without a shadow of a doubt he is the reason this crash happened.

Thanks again. Auto racing used to be nuts

Jaguars left a sour taste in my mouth. Bad taste completing the race too.

6:30 Karma is a fickle bitch aint she mate? Ya should have owned up to and accepted at least SOME culpability.

I've been to several LeMans races, and they are an amazing experience for any fans. Everybody plans ahead, rested and ready to see the whole race. Top bands play, there are all kinds of food all night and the energy is great. If you love racing theres nothing on Earth like it. You can do the whole trip for a few grand, catch a train direct from the airport or rent a car to camp.out of and its like making the pilgrimsge to Mecca. I'd tell everyone to go once, but that will almost garauntee you go again!
Modern catch fencing and different layouts make that kind of horror impossible, but having worked in GP racing this is still talked about. I've always heard almost 110 died in total, some from infections because of huge wounds, or needing operations that nobody could do then. There were over 120 officially injured. That was only the most serious cases hospitalized that day, as some even lost an arm but went to their own doctors. There were no emergency rooms, the best hospitals were instantly overwhelmed and it was like a bomb had hit.
It was despicable that the race went on, and the Jaguar team got no good will out of continueing. It was a single race not in a series, and with all the top competition out it was a simple win. The bad PR wasn't worth it, and everyone knew that made it no achievement.
Mercedes was a paragon of respect for the dead, and would not put the massacre behind them for 30 years, until F1 racing had long become a very safe sport. They not only sadly pulled out of all racing, but made safety a prioriy in passenger cars, long before anybody else did, and they still do.

180 were killed outright

Hawthorn shouldn't have been driving he was medically unfit

Fangio was behind them and said that he almost crashed with one of them because he couldn't see a single thing, literally nothing. He hit one of those cars but thankfully, he could keep his car under control

Another thing that killed drivers in the 50s to 70s was the hurry of the drivers, le mans used to have a diferent start with the drivers out of their cars and had to run to the cars, close the door, put the seatbelt, and then start the car and go, but some didnt put seatbelts on the start and would rather put it in the race then putting it on while the car was parked, drivers believed that cars without a roof if caught on fire, they would be lauched off the car, but when jacky ickx did a protest and instead of running, walked to his car, and later that race, a driver of a porsche 917K would crash and lost his life, le mans adopted a running start, which made it a little safier for drivers