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Originally Posted by johngee
Don't wish to contradict but the meeting at Brands Hatch was the BOAC 500 and it ran the full distance. I thought that was the case but just looked it up to be sure (before all the experts shot me down in flames!) 
We got the tragic news in the clubhouse afterwards |
I was at the BOAC and I certainly don't recall the race being shortened. Nor do I recall an announcement as far as the public were concerned - but I may just not have heard one anyway. Or I may have forgotten. Both are likely.
Let's face it whilst it would have been a huge shock, Clark being the great Clark and at that time my driving hero of the hour, one has to recognise that driver deaths were not exactly uncommon back then with big names falling from time to time. In fact probably at the rate of about one a year? Plus a few less well know names as far as the public was concerned.