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Le Mans 1955 Disaster

Big Nasty · 2011-05-03 20:09:50

Was just on RTE2 - very good watch! Anyone else see it?

03-05-2011 8:09pm

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Big Nasty

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Was just on RTE2 - very good watch!

Anyone else see it?

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#2 03-05-2011 8:10pm

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Good and sad in equal measures

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#3 03-05-2011 8:15pm

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Caught the last half of It, was glued to the tv.
Wanna watch it again, still not sure what happened and how teams finished the race. Doesn't add up.

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#4 03-05-2011 8:35pm

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Very interesting and sad at the same time. The accident was simple enough as all accidents are. They 'said' they kept the race going as stopping it would mean 300k spectators exiting and hindering the dead / wounded being transported out but the race continued for its full 24hrs which would have been pretty much normal practice at the time.

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#5 03-05-2011 9:01pm

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I missed something good again... Damn!

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