Mike Hawthorn on TV

[Tel 911S]

Originally Posted by Erich Stahler

I saw the documentary, very interesting to me particularly as I live in Farnham his old town where there are still plenty of reminders of him. Consequently I knew quite a bit about him but I didnt realise he was more or less to blame for the 1955 crash at Le Mans which caused many crowd fatalities! Came as quite a shock to me.

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There was a BBC program called [ I believe ] "The Deadliest Crash " , which attempted to blame Hawthorn for the crash .
This was a lot of faked quotes & not accurate pictures .
Genuine film footage of the time , & an investigation by the Race Stewards proved it was not Hawthorns fault .
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...0MVl_WC907bhaQ

[Eric.D]

Originally Posted by Tel 911S

There was a BBC program called [ I believe ] "The Deadliest Crash " , which attempted to blame Hawthorn for the crash .
This was a lot of faked quotes & not accurate pictures .
Genuine film footage of the time , & an investigation by the Race Stewards proved it was not Hawthorns fault .
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...0MVl_WC907bhaQ

Initially a shocked Hawthorn said that it had been his fault but that was shock talking, It was of course a 'racing accident' and a tragedy for everyone involved. A couple of months later Lance Macklin finished 5th in the Goodwood 9 Hours in the works HWM-Jaguar shared with Bill Smith.