The Car Crash That Decapitated Fourteen People | Last Moments
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- Опубликовано: 25 мар 2021
- This crash wiped out whole families, even war veterans were horrified by its brutality. The disaster at Le Mans 1955 remains the deadliest motor racing crash in history.
"The 1955 Le Mans disaster was a major crash that occurred on 11 June 1955 during the 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race at Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, France. Large pieces of debris flew into the crowd, killing 83 spectators and French driver Pierre Bouillin (who raced under the name Pierre Levegh) and injuring nearly 180 more. It was the most catastrophic crash in motorsport history, and it prompted Mercedes-Benz to retire from motor racing until 1989. The crash started when Jaguar driver Mike Hawthorn pulled to the right side of the track in front of Austin-Healey driver Lance Macklin and started braking for his pit stop. Macklin swerved out from behind the slowing Jaguar into the path of Levegh, who was passing on the left in his much faster Elektron magnesium-alloy bodied Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR. Levegh rear-ended Macklin at high speed, overriding Macklin's car and launching his own car through the air. Levegh's car skipped over a protective earthen berm at 200 km/h (125 mph) and made at least two impacts within the spectator area, the last of which caused it to disintegrate, throwing him onto the track where he was instantly killed, and sending large pieces of debris into the packed spectator area in front of the grandstand, including the engine block, front suspension, and bonnet. The rear of Levegh's car landed on the berm and exploded into flames.
There was much debate over blame. The official inquiry held none of the drivers specifically responsible and criticised the layout of the 30-year-old track, which had not been designed for cars of this speed."
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Cliff young ultramarathon runner
You stole this idea from horror stories you made 3 VIDEOs including his most popular vid from him
@@copeharder7554 cope harder bruv
imagine watching your teammate/husbands lifeless body skidding down the track while burning and then seeing a guy pop champagne and celebrate winning hours later.....
Different times I guess.
Absolutely disgusting 💔
Exactly.. Mental
Damn sounds like from a Death Race scene
Most drivers fought in WW2, so they had to be used to see dead people. I guess death was viewed differently back then.
Jaguar after the crash : Oh no! Anyways. "proceeds to win the race"
Jeremy Clarkson lol
This comment is hilarious but he's got to be one of the biggest assholes in history. ,
@@jt8162 who
Karma when the jaguar won (hothorn's team). And years later hothorn dies in a car accident on his jaguar
Stiff upper lip and all... hoy-ti-toy-ti-toy...
"I stood as if in a dream, too horrified to even think." -And this from a WWII veteran.
It might have brought back memories of the war he was barely getting over with already.
Imagine surviving a brutal war then returning home, finally finding peace and quiet. Then suddenly screaming, explosion, carnage. Almost like a twilight episode.
The eastern front was way more brutal and horrifying than the western front.
Any front is horrifying and mentally scarring for those involved, what's the point in trying to compete for how bad a particular front was?
@@Tobi-ln9xr hardly relevant
I recall reading an interview with Jacques, one of the French survivors. Jacques said that just before the crash Claude, a fellow spectator, was standing beside him with a pair of binoculars slung around his neck. An Instant later, Claude was still upright with the binoculars hanging around his now-headless neck. Not the sort of thing one forgets.
yiiiikes
sheesh
Ooouch
@@anynonymous1585 imagine this guy before sleep after this fatality nightmares
Perspective changes everything. On one hand, you were nearly decapitated in such an unspeakable tragedy. On the other, free binoculars 🤷♂️
Let me get this right. So, there is absolute carnage here, almost like a war zone. There are severed heads, body parts, blood and guts everywhere, people burning to death in extreme heat. and what happens? They continue the freaking race. And to top it off, the winner pulls in smiling with someone holding his Champagne bottle. No words.
That was my first thought, but had to scroll first,,You said it brother,,,What????
Amen brother...absolutely no words myself.
Even worse, the smiling winner was actually the one who caused te accident.
Can you imagine if that happened today?
They had their priorities straight man.
“you killed 84 people, pull out of the race”, “lol no, we taking this dub”
Jaguar go zooom
@@k3nz1e73 hehehe people go booom
Haha!!
Mercedes pulled out for a long time.
No wonder Jaguar is cursed
The fact that Hawthorne died in a car accident overtaking another car just shows he's got this habit and to me points even more to the fact that he's the one who caused the whole tragedy. And then he had continued on with the race, not even caring that he was the one who set off the whole chain of events, instead smiling that big smile, only caring about himself and that he won.
@@derklavierspieler7491 I don't believe that. I know that's a common argument, but I don't agree. To save time, I'll just say we'll have to agree to disagree.
Hawthorn's disgusting Le Mans champagne célébration was made all the worse by him causing the accident and Jaguar not withdrawing from the race, the irony is Hawthorn killed himself racing Rob Walker along the section of the A3 road, known as the Hogs Back, he was driving a Jaguar 3.4 and Walker a Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing, Karma?
the fact it was a mercedes he was over taking that killed him makes me think that car was taking revenge for its fallen brother in 1955.
What goes around comes around, is my first thought.
I’m just learning to get my license for manuals and even I know what Hawthorne did was downright negligent and dangerous. Applying brakes without slowing down just after you overtake another car is a recipe for disaster, especially at such high speeds. How such a reckless driver made it into such a racing event I’ll never know.
I had the misfortune of being two cars behind a car full of teenagers, that hit a tree at high speed.
They’d overtaken me and the dude in front of me at high speed on a very bad corner.
I was on my way to work at the time.
The driver was a 17 year old lad….He was decapitated.
The front seat passenger was nowhere to be seen……A farmer found her in critical condition a good bit up the road from the crash….She had no seatbelt on and was ejected out of the windscreen.
There were two 15 year old girls and a 17 year old lad in the back of the car, but at the time, we didn’t know the two girls were in there……The front of the car had taken that big of an impact, that there were no back seats left…..The front of the car was now where the back seats used to be, which killed the 2 girls instantly.
The young lad in the back wasn’t killed instantly as the rear left hand side of the back of the car wasn’t completely crushed.
He died crying for his mom right in front of me and the 6 others who had stopped to try to help…..There was nothing any of us could do.
The only survivor was the 16 year old girl who had been ejected from the car, but she spent months in hospital, with multiple fractures, a severe head injury including multiple skull fractures and damage to all her organs.
I NEVER what to see something like that again
Jesus thats rough D:
I’m sry you had to go thru that
Liar
@@andrewgarfield9898
If I wanted your opinion, I’d tell it to you.
Holy shit-
It didn’t just crash, it didn’t just explode, it disintegrated
Or as Elon call it, an "unscheduled rapid disassembly"
Let's make a car out of white phosphorous!
@@LTPottenger better yet plutonium
@@LTPottenger that is a car the CIA can get behind
@@LTPottenger Willie Pete can resolve any problem.
"Despite the tragedy, the race continued"
*Speed racer doesn't see life or death, he only sees the finish line*
mike hawthorn: the real life speed racer
Yeah I know its a joke but to explain why if anyone wants to know its also so the ambulance could come in
Thats not even a win I would want by my name
They didn’t know any different..they were either very tough or just dam stupid back then..
Finna see hell later on
My great grandfather served in both Africa and Europe as a sergeant in the royal artillery between 1938-1944 when he was finally invalidated by the loss of his leg below the knee in action.
He loved his cars and in 1955 he took his wife kaytlin and his 6 year old son Ian to the le mans 1955 24 hour race. Tragedy would do them apart as the car flew over the barrier and he and his wife were killed Infront of Thier son by flying debris which narrowly avoided him. "And that bastard Hawthorne celebrated with champagne".
He only spoke to me once about it when I was alone with him atop of Ben Lomond overlooking loch Lomond but I could see him shaking. My grandfather is a good man and the fact that this happened to him at such a young age is almost unimaginable as to how much suffering he underwent
I’m so sorry to hear that 😢 May they Rest In Peace 🙏
My sincere condolences about the death of your great-grandparents.
huge respect to levegh for putting his hand out before colliding at 150mph and dying, to save his teammate
the guts
One hand off the steering wheel at 150mph was probably what killed him.
The true story here is that the Austin slung around and hit directly behind Leveghs front right tire and drove it forward as well as driving the car skyward. Pierre Levegh never hit anyone. His car was hit by a car sent out of control by Mike Hawthorns repeated short braking moves. When the Austin Healey hit directly behind the front right tire and drove it forward, it knocked Leveah's hand off the steering wheel. He was not signaling. He was trying to get his hand back on the wheel, going 180 mph while flying into the sky because of Hawthorn.
@@golden.lights.twinkle2329at that speed in that situation, he was already dead
@@lonewolf5238dead man flying. The innocent always die while the perpetrator gets off Scott free.
Imagine surviving a world war and died watching a race
F
@@TangoRango19 F
Wasted
Could have been worse, they could have died sitting on a toilet .
@@Brett33 YOU COULD HAVE AN ANEURYSM ON A TOILET. You never know!
Props to Mercedes for pulling out of the race, true sportsmanship.
At least their next flying car doesn't kill people anymore
If they see their car fly, they quit.
Ehem.... I don't think 𝓼𝓹𝓸𝓻𝓽𝓼𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓹 is the appropriate term to use here.
thats not sportsmanship thats guilt. they killed 84 people. BENZ is shit
@@hanshasntshoweredsince8590 you can say that again. using sportsmanship were it doesn't belong.
What makes this crash do eerie to me is that, when you see the parts flying off, they hit they crowd so directly that they don’t get stopped by a wall, they get stopped by a raw wall of humans that get immediately killed, they were literally the barrier.
im trying to imagine an engine block _flying_ through a mass of flesh.. i cant
By design. More money for pharma....
@@Schimml0rd it's very similiar to cannon ball.
It happened lots of times in ancient wars, when cannons appeared.
The engine was probably more massive, but has flight slower, but maybe overall energy was higher.
I remember, that cannon balls had same effect, they were rolling after hitting the ground, mutilated several soldiers, if it hit the crowd.
Was at a race on an oval dirt track, my first race. Myself and friend, sat where no one else did. Inside of a turn, we shortly found out why. We moved up a little higher on the bleachers. As a stock car came around the curve, we heard a bang.. and debris flew over our heads. As we looked over the path, we thought it had cleared the bleachers, heard screaming. Saw a man wavering his arms at the ambulance it the center of the track a few feet behind me. There I saw a young woman, hanging upside down in the bleachers with the top of her head missing, a little girl crying with her elbow mangle, and a little boy setting in front of me in shock, It was his aunt..
What year and what race was this?
Bullshi5
@@parkeranderson7599 Mid-seventies..
@@parkeranderson7599 Crystal Motor Speedway.
@@OhKnow379 Methane
This must’ve been a horrible thing to witness, it’s always strange watching after the accident how people act, some run away some walk around and don’t show emotion
Edit: damm I didn’t expect to wake up with almost a thousand likes cheers lads
I am the most famous man on YouTub! This is not bragging! This is the truth! The truth will set you free, dear komm
In shock.
What is horrible to some is METAL to others
The Human reaction is a super weird thing. My uncle used to serve in the army, one day when he was back in the states a man started suffering a heart attack. He was simply frozen in place unable to do anything. His mother was a nurse, however, and she began helping the man with absolutely no hesitation. Some people lock up in shock unable to figure out what to do, some function on muscle memory and don't hesitate, some people still need a minute to actually process what is going on and if it's real.
@@AxxLAfriku sorry to bother you but who are you?
"... ultralight magnesium" the moment i realized where this was going
I imagine spraying water on such a fire would result in the equivalent of small explosions tossing burning magnesium around. Due to the water rapidly vaporizing into a gas.
Yep. Chemistry is cruel indeed.
@@NefariousKoel and that’s one of the many reasons magnesium isn’t used in race car bodies anymore
Oh boy have you ever heard of Group B? The competing cars were just paper thin magnesium bodies with 500+ horsepower. Unfortunately in 1986, that magnesium structure would end a young Toivonen's life.
@@Louzahsol - I recall reading about B-29 Superfortress engines using some Magnesium parts in WW2. As you'd expect, they had a higher tendency to ignite and burn like mad once they got going.
Mariska Hargitay (star of Law and Order: SVU) was a toddler in the backseat when her movie star mom's (Jayne Mansfield) car slid underneath a semi trailer, instantly killing her and the driver. Thankfully she was too little to be hurt. Laws were passed that a bar be put on the back of trailers from then on to keep this from happening again. It's referred to as the Mansfield Bar to this day.
Thanks for the heads up.
Surely, aerodynamic car design nowadays would allow the front of the car to force its way underneath the bar.
@@kennycoinneach1712oh it absolutely still happens due to car design and rear impact guard (Mansfield bars) varying designs. Havent you ever noticed some bars come way down, doubling as a step up into the trailer and others are little more than perfunctory bars barely fit to be a handhold? Some cars now ride super low some dont. I do think its bad design all around to allow such variance but I'm not with the department of highway safety so /shrug
My god, that flying guillotine skimming across the stands like the grim reaper's scythe. What a horror. I guess it was an innocent time before people had a second sense of safety mindedness.
Yep :( people back then didn’t even know the words “safety regulations”
They weren't sure of what to worry about back then , if they even really cared to make things safe,
Well the racers had helmets and seat belts and the cars have roll bars(although maybe not high enough). And there's a barrier but it wasn't adequate unfortunately.
I sincerely doubt modern people suddenly invented the idea of safety. We have a very specific kind of idea of safety born from the media and over exposure to every ill and sordid event that happens anywhere at all times. We dont have some second sense of safety, we have a grossly neurotic and anxious society. These people just survived 2 world wars, a pandemic and the greatest economic depression yet. Why would they think to worry about something as mundane as a car race.. especially without a 24/7 news cycle keeping them frightened over every little thing.
If you don't believe me look at the current fear of child abduction. Rates of child abduction by strangers are at all time lows but everyone thinks its epidemic and out of "safety" aka anxiety won't let kids be kids. No playing out of sight, no sleepovers, no going outside, no time without the ever watchful eye of mother dearest. Even though we know this is profoundly damaging to kids we just can't help but do it too because all we hear is the incredibly rare and unfortunate cases where abduction does happen. Is that safety or neurotic?
@@evil1by1 I agree with you; in fact was just making that same point myself today, and for the same exact cause if you can believe it. We went careening from a sense of life just happens to making sure everything is "safe", to the point of destroying any semblance of normality.
"Not a single Ferrari finished the event, all of them having mechanical issues."
At least some people had a normal day at the race.
😅
My kind of dark humor.
lmaoo yoooo 😂😂😂 Ferrari doing what they usually do best
@@JDMHaze This is their year! 💪🏁
Imagine your car and all of the other Ferraris break down and *THAT'S* the best part of your race.
Cars: *death and destruction*
Mike Hawthorne: 🏆😁👍🍾🥂
Your name really isnt proper for this...
@@ffturbo Lol I actually didn't think of that oops.
Karma got his ass though
@@machinarreventortas6245 Yup
well it was the jaguar team
Hawthorne was also suffering from a terminal illness at the time of his death. He’d already had a kidney removed and was experiencing serious problems with the remaining kidney. He’d been given only 3 years to live just prior to the day of his death at only 29 years of age. Sad stuff all round.
I read that his recklessness and devil may care attitude stemmed from the knowledge he didn't have long to live
@@notagain2856 why not be a monumental bastard before going out on your limited time
That guy that smiled in the race?
@@notagain2856 I don’t care though. He put people’s lives at risk because he had little time to live.
I find it very hard to feel any sympathy for Hawthorn.
this made me think of a different event. the 2011 reno air race crash! during rhe 49th national championship air race, a plane basically lost control and crashed into the grandstand so 11 people died and 70 others were injured. the cause of the crash is still debated, but this was and still is a massive deal especially in the aviation community
The galloping ghost crashed because of metal fatigue (at least that's what I found) one of the bolts was affected and a piece of the tail fell off (at least I think that's what happened)
The plane was modified beyond its capabilities. This race tragedy is more similar to the air show disaster in the Ukraine in the early 2000’s. It was brutal.
Fangio said of Pierre raising his hand before the, accident “It was like he was waving goodbye.”
Ouch yet poignant
What is the urge humans seem to have to try and make events even more tragic?
@@Octopetala Making it more like a story somehow makes it seem more meaningful. To many, that can be a comfort, as opposed to the cold, harsh, and callous beast that reality can often be during such tragedies.
@@Octopetala there are stories of stuff like this actually happening, but where there's more direct evidence. Not sure on this one but who knows.
Lmaooo is this a reference to Team America: world's police ??
"The imagined horror paints a picture even when the memory cannot." What writing.
Ikr...i had to rewind to that beautiful sentence.
You forgot vivid before picture smh
paints a 'vivid' picture*
@@badcornflakes6374 I already said that 10 hours before you did
Words perfectly put together man 👍
I don’t think there are words to express how angry it makes me to hear Jaguar refused to allow Hawthorne to pull out of the race.
Someone would have won the race even if they did.
What are you talking about? Hawthorn didn’t want to pull out.
Well, a win is a win in competition. If your opponents are weakened or eliminated...go for it.
Safety in motorsport has evolved lightyears ahead of what it was and it’s genuinely impressive
With max verstapen and grosjean both walking out of 50+ G crashes relatively Unharmed except for some burns after grosjean caught fire
and 2 weeks ago Guanyu as well
That grosjean crash/fire had my girlfriend crying. We both knew he was just dead. Amazing engineering, no doubt about it.
from Joel: “What it was” was pretty grim. I’ve been attending races since 1946 (age 8) and stopped counting at 15 fatalities in front of me. (The most recent one was Dan Wheldon.) Chris Economaki’s book “Let ‘Em All Go” does an excellent job of talking about the much-different mindset of those gory early days.
Has anyone who watches this channel heard the story of William Buckley? He was an English convict who was sent to Australia way back when, he escaped from his captors into the wilderness and then lived in the aboriginal community for more than 30 years after the people mistook him for the ghost of a dead family member come back to life.
The whole story is quite amazing, and I feel if you are subscribed to this channel it'd be the type of story you'd find interesting.
There's like this great documentary and everything if you can find it.
Thank you. It sounds very interesting.
Time to do some research. Thankyou for the suggestion
Excellent suggestion!
That sounds pretty dope, solid recommendation
I always found the story about the early Aussie escapee, who began killing and eating his fellow escapees in the group, the most interesting of all the infamous Oz escapees.
Jaguar: Everyone has pulled out of the race! Something about in memory of some victims! Heres our chance!
That's the jaguar mindset the company that kept the name SS in fear the Nazis would win and hopefully leave them alone
If you ain’t first, you’re last.
Do we go directly to Hell if we laugh at that comment.
@@kevinarndt6110 First Loser.
lol
Not to sound insensitive but....
I don't think I would put my children on a corner whip and think that the odd bale of hay would stop the projector.
by far your best work. the emotion involved and sheer gravity of such an event addressed in a informative and respectful way
Wow. I dated a guy who went every year to Taledega. His mom and Dad were big fans. He invited me to go with them, and excitedly told me how they always got tickets to be along the front of the crowd, talking about the roar of engines, and the sand grit that peppered your face. I told him no thank you, I wasn't into racing. The thought of being that close to the track still gives me shudders, and I didn't even know about this major tragedy back in the 1980's!!
This was 1955
Talledega superspeedway and racing in general is very safe now, with race tracks and drivers alike taking safety precautions to the max. For fans sitting that close they have something called the cathfence which sits over the wall. The catchfence is also a 22 foot fence on top of the wall intended to keep cars on the track. So far no cars have flown into the stands at talledega ever, and with the addition of the catchfence it makes it even less likely that a car will fly into the stands!!
The legend has it, after this crash Mercedes makes an oath to prioritise car safety. It's one of the car brands today that pushes the boundaries of car safety today, along with Volvo.
Well to my knowlegde nobody has died in a mercedes racing car ever since
Along with many others
Volvos are so safe that they won’t even start these days. Can’t get hurt in a car that can’t go. Brilliant
Mercedes stopped making Race cars and got ready for Nazi invasions . Making the Fuhrers Parade cars and those of the Top Nazi leadership that murdered tens of Millions ... but .. Their cars were safe
@@stevephillips3541 that was BMW and Porsche bro
Pierre Levegh's co-driver was John Fitch, a highly respected American driver and one of the first to race in post war Europe. It was Fitch who convinced Alfred Neubauer, Mercedes' racing chief, to withdraw the remaining cars out of respect for the dead. Keep in mind that it was just 10 years after WWll, and underlying feelings still ran strong. Fitch told Neubauer that he could envision the newspaper in Paris reading "Germans race on after killing many French." Stirling Moss was in a Mercedes, leading at the time of the accident. I'm not sure he ever forgave Fitch for talking Neubauer into withdrawing their cars. It was a point of contention for many years after. The reason for not red flagging the race was that the more than 250,000 spectators would crowd the roads, reducing the response time of ambulances for the many injured. Mercedes withdrew from all factory sponsored racing for the next thirty four years. It was the very darkest day for motor racing.
I think Fitch did the right thing here. Not only was pulling out of the race was the right thing to do, he probably saved Mercedes' reputation considering WW2 was still relatively fresh in people's minds
@@adlilzafri2322 - I have had the honor of knowing John Fitch as he used to live 1/2 hr. from me in Lime Rock, Connecticut. John was always at Lime Rock Park for the annual Historic Festival and drove his one of a kind Fitch Phoenix sports car to the event. He was a brilliant man (had 15 patents under his name) who was fascinating to speak with. When he was in his final months of life a few short years ago, he invited me to his home to sign my 1955 Mille Miglia poster as winner in the Standard Sports Class. I felt guilty about troubling him as he was in bed with oxygen and looking quite frail. He looked up at me with that honest and sincere Fitch grin and said "nothing is too good for an avid race fan." When I learned of his passing 2 months later, it affected me deeply. A remarkable man and driver who I will always remember and respect! RIP John Fitch.
@@Loulovesspeed that's such a nice memory. 👍Thank you for sharing
250,000 spectators? Are you sure that number is accurate…it’s 1955
@@johnnychimpo7539 - Actually, I low balled it. The attendance, including all involved in the race, as well as vendors, etc. was estimated at 250,000 - 300,000. In 1955, this was the biggest racing event of all in the world and people didn't just cross a few state lines to get there, they came in from world wide. Even in 2009 when I was there, the attendance was 238,000. When Ford finally achieved victory with the GT 40 MK ll in 1966, the attendance was over 280,000. I believe it was closer to 300,000 again in 1967. Close to 2,000 media people alone flock to this event. As I said before, Le Mans was and still is one of the biggest, and oldest auto racing events there is. Thirty six years before the first Daytona 500 race!
For those curious about why water made the magnesium fire worse. It burns hot enough to separate the water molecules which are made of hydrogen (fuel) and oxygen. Like pouring gasoline and using some bellows on a normal fire.
can a nuclear bomb underwater under pressure over 220 atm (boiling point of water is 380 C at that pressure, and if temperature exceeds that, it will turn water molecule in oxygen and hydrogen) do the same?
Masterful video; writing, video editing, and narration. You set the perspective of this accident in context of the following 34 years. Amazing work.
You can tell the man at 4:34 is either completely in shock or served in WWII. Everyone around him is panicking. But he seems more inconvenienced by the wreck from the moment he walks into frame at 4:27.
In case it isn’t clear, I’m talking about the man with a jacket in his hand that walks from the right.
Yeah he's pretty casual, I wonder what went through his mind.
@@GIANT406
I could see that.
When horrible stuff happens, people react weirdly.That's why medics get trained-training programs you on what to do.
He even has blood on him
Or he just smoked a massive blunt to enjoy some racing and debating lighting another one on those flames
A horrible event, but your animations and re-telling of this were especially tasteful Qxir.
Hesitant to open this one, knowing the history of this event. Appreciate your sincere comment, Gandalf, it gave me the confidence to do so.
Of course, thank you Qxir, what a wonderful narration and accompanying video.
Agreed. I haven't really come across any channels disrespectfully covering True crime/real life tragedies, except for ThatChapter who constantly cracks shitty tasteless jokes when talking about murder victims. Got sick of that dude's content after a while and I never saw him in my recommended, I'm glad RUclips's "not interested" feature works very well.
The cars aren't made by Qxir but are the work of Ray ray ray
Did you have to describe it as "Tasteful" while he is talking about dead bodies and decapitated people. My stomach feels funny now. 🤢
I concur
I'm so proud of you and your channel, I remember back when you told people that you would like to have a hundred subscribers the next morning when you woke up you had 300❤❤❤
Great job telling the story accurately and with correct detail. Im a race enthusiast and have seen many vids about this. Your graphics showing how the crash happened are probably the best I’ve seen at describing exactly what happened. Great job! The only thing is, you freaked me out with the actual video of the crash. The vid you used was flipped. The cars should be traveling left to right. But, that doesn’t detract from your vid if you haven’t seen this in the past.
Do you believe that Hawthorn was to blame?
E I G H T Y F O U R? holy sh*t. that is one hell of a crash. And i mean god damn, magnesium burns so bright too it isn't even safe to look at. The speed at which that engine block and hood travelled into the crowd was astonishing. Just completely unimaginable weights of solid metal hurling toward your face and body.
Imagine how American civil war soldiers felt getting cannons shot at them
Doesn't magnesium combust when combined with water?
@@TheCFD_Dude yeah I believe it does but it may have to already be ignited. He mentions that in the video. The water made it 10x worse. I remember my high school organic chemistry teacher saying never to burn magnesium in the dark and look at it cuz you will surely go blind. Luckily that scenario is exceedingly specific and will never happen naturally. You'd have to purposely do it.
yall said “imagine how they must of have felt” im pretty sure if you get hit by a cannon ball or a piece of metal sharp and hot enough to decapitate you you’re not feeling much of anything
@@djbdyckfbsgsg9176 yeah that's facts .. if you're lucky enough to have it completely sever your head you'll be in good shape. Anything else you're gonna struggle through pain until the last maybe 30 seconds before you die.
Wait, he passed someone right before he intended to pit? That makes no sense. Clearly, he is at fault.
I agree.
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
We don't know what was happening to his car having just passed.
Maybe he changed his mind at the last minute. We'll never know...
@@ruthe6017 He was lapping them. It isn't like he was passing for rank. If something went wrong, it is still on him for passing and then brake checking, which is essentially what occurred.
Great video as always. Well give. Thanks!
You're videos are awesome! Love your channel, your videos are always fascinating from beginning to end. Keep up the good work 👍
I knew this was a deadly crash, but I didn't know how high the death count was.
I know... Crazy! And seeing video and pictures of it... wow. I wouldn't be surprised if some people weren't the same after this. Witnesses, victims who survived, the racers, etc.
@@IceKoldKilla I don't think many were.
@@LoneWoIfPack19 yea,people get ptsd and have life long trauma,nightmares and memories of crazy disasters like this 😕
That flying hood of the car in the video
My RUclips recommendations are getting dark but I'm here for it
I know, who else saw decapitation and replied, "good!"
Mine too. I may need to rethink what I’m watching...
@@leighnewman6160 I agree with the ( so far ) 3 of you.
Ive been depressed but working on it
It’s great . Saves searching for it 👍
My grandmother Marie Louise Bustamante was there. She was 12 yrs old and was sitting on the second row when it happen and lost her aunt. She develop a phobia to cars that lasted even now in her seniorhood. She still refuses to take rides in any kind of vehicule unless it was strictly necessary. And even that she hides her fear but goes pale and sweat profusley while she pray in low voice. My grandpa also want her to go to a mental health professional but she still refuses.
PTSD can last an entire lifetime unfortunately 😢
Sending big hugs to your grandmother ❤❤❤
All righty...
Sir, you won't see this comment but I still want to say that the editing, art, and presentation of your videos is genuinely spectacular and it's obvious that so much hard work goes into every video you make. You are also able to condense all the relevant information into a short space of time without losing important details, which can be very difficult. I really respect what you have accomplished on this channel. Thank you :)
Very well stated. My thoughts exactly.
I remember asking my father(German immigrant) in 1970 as a 10 year old why Mercedes Benz didn’t compete in races, he told me the story of this tragedy from a perspective of someone that was there. I never asked about it again and he never mentioned it but it was clearly very upsetting for him too talk about. Great video!
Remember that this happened not long after the end of WW2 & the Germans didn't want or need the bad PR of their race cars killing spectators.
from Joel: I’ve spoken to just one eyewitness. Ferrari driver Phil Hill was standing in the pits awaiting a driver change with his co-pilot. He saw the horror unfold, but did not share any further details.
RIP to all those who died at the scene, it was a huge shock to the motorsport even to this day. I hope we never get another motorsport disaster like this again, with drivers or spectators killed.
@@TheOnlyRealAlf That's the gayest thing I have read in 10 fucking years.
@@Toxic2T 😂
calm down snowflake
theres actually tons of deaths 2021 motorsport
just saying
Always come back to rewatch these video
great job on the video
The accident was absolutely horrific. This guy did a great job; very poetic. He allowed the accident to speak for itself; sought to facilitate the horror.
Clicked faster than this car went over the crowd
Le oop
top comment jajajajajaja you little boy
why tf am i laughing so hard holy fuck
Sick bastard. I like you.
Ooffffff
I really appreciate the examples you give with the story
Almost at 1M subs! Congrats!
To survive WW2 and then see pure carnage of that magnitude would be surreal for that poor chap..
Kaiser based
Kaiser based ?
Wilhelm Kaiser? Or Wilhelm idk how to spell it
To put into perspective:
Hamilton was a pilot during WW2 so most probably he dindn't see any combat closeup.
@@Zargnagel back then they would see guys burn alive in cockpit b4 either eating a bullet or hitting the ground. Close combat even in the skies back then
Oh lord the Le Mans '55 Disaster.
As someone within the motorsport community, this is a dark, Dark, DARK moment our history. And one we don't ever want to have again.
I want it to happen again.
@@twottle_bird8985 not even funny man
@@twottle_bird8985 not even funny 😂
The less disasters we have the better, crashes and such are to be left to destruction derbies.
@@twottle_bird8985 go take a shower pal
Thank you Qxir . I’ve just found your channel . You make it very interesting. The true stories are amazing. Keep up the good work . I look forward to your next video. Can’t believe Mike Hawthorn carried on and the celebrate with champagne. It beggars belief ! 😮.
Your choice of a soundtrack was spectacular 😢 thank you 😊
Yay another Qxir video!
Holy fuck this got dark
@Random Animations Except for those people killed by it in the past 20 years or so. Not really safer for them.
@@Oblivisci........ motorsport has gotten extremely safe, what people get away with without injury is insane.
Qxir in a nutshell
yeah, this is part of a sub series of his, if you found this unsettling, be on the look out in the future for the subheader | Last Moments | at a videos end to know whether or not your gonna be seeing a video about someone dieing
How dark? Chocolate or Chris tucker dark?
My dad was at an Indycar race at Charlotte where debris flew into the crowd. He said “I went to use the bathroom and came back and saw a bunch of emergency people and a bunch of wrecked cars” needless to say Indycars haven’t ran at Charlotte since
Do they still run at Texas? Because if so, Texas is almost an exact replica of Charlotte
@@legendracer8566 I’m not sure I don’t really follow indycar but I know they run at Las Vegas which is also a mile and a half
That must have been one lucky pee
I was there too, they made NASCAR look like golf carts they are so fast. 3 wide in curves at 220+. I was kinda lit and having a great time with friends when the crash happened. We had one section of seats between us but we could see a little, they quickly put a tarp over the area. Sobered me up pretty quick.
@@spicyboi2223 they didn't race at Las Vegas anymore after Wheldons' death in 2011. They still run on Texas tho
These mini-docs are so well made. Always a fan.
I do believe the reason for continuing the race was to keep the 250k spectators off the roads. This way ambulances could get better access to the injured. I could be wrong though, however this always made great sense to me.
This story is horrible I’m so sorry to all those involved.
The music is horrible too 😔
2021 - 1955= 100?
@@dikathemas6713 what
@@dikathemas6713 what have you been smoking
@@dikathemas6713 yep
woah its kinda crazy how fast you can be decapitated by a flying hood
never underestimate the hood, fool
The neck has very little muscle
Final Destination shit...
@@leshiro5574 more like sharp, hot metal can have very high momentum and very low surface area
It is said that your head lasts about a second once you are decapitated.
Your the BEST narrator on RUclips! Great but SAD video!
Me, a racing fan seeing the thumbnail:
OH BOY WE'RE IN FOR A TREAT TODAY
Haha yeah exactly
Same here lol
@@wrathagar same here lol 😂 but seriously I love racing
Me, a racing fan seeing the thumbnail.
OH GOD NO! NO NO NO NO *click*
Same lol
I guess when you see your whole continent in ruins from war 10 years before you don't get phased by 90 people dying.
fazed !
2022 ... hold my beer ;]
A lot of people dont seems to know this but more french civilians died when the US bombed towns in the days leading up to D Day than soldiers died on D Day itself.
@@mushieslushie it wasnt a planned depopulation of Europe at all though guys
I just found your channel! NEW SUBSCRIBER! Amazing work mate!! 👏👏👏💋
I just love your work. Thank you for this. Love ya. Philadelphia USA
84 people dead, carnage and decapitation everywhere, a driver was incinerated, other teams abandon the race.
Jaguar : Yeah....we won the race. Hip-hip-hooray!
Everybody : (Death Stares)
Jaguar : What?....Too Soon?
The video makes it seem almost deliberate,,if jaguar was pitting he could have backed off sooner, disk brakes have much better stopping power than drums, he knew, he wanted to disrupt the 300slr with dick move skills and it went really bad, jaguar should have been penalized, I drive trucks and if a Honda did that to me for example missing a exit, it would be their fault if proven and with 84 lives ended one must find a party at fault,,,sorry for rambling
@@davidpistek6241 It's hard for 1955. Safety is pretty much zero. Mercedes Car also made from same material as Japanese Burning-Shrapnel Shell use during WW2.
You can make dick move and only became meme because Mercedes flying car doesn't kill people like 1999 version.
I remember the clk gtr flip crash on tv it was nuts, they had safety equipment and pit rules the course was further from spectators much has changed, it's just crazy that jaguar kept going any event of any kind now would be instantly stopped for such a tragedy
@@davidpistek6241 It's 1955 dear. Both from event and car safety is zero. Moreover people killed in the race is pretty much a tradition rather than tragedy
People expected something like this (or much worse) happened again in the future
@@davidpistek6241 The race was almost cancelled, it was not stopped due to fears of clogging the roads for emergency personal and ambulances taking survivors to the hospital. Its 1955, there are no medical helicopters to fly people to the hospital and even if there were no event would have the number of medical copters available to handle the number of injured, I can remember the number off top my head but along with the 88 deaths there were over 100 hundred people injured many with life threatening injuries.
If you replay the parts flying through the crowd you can see bodies flying... Brutal that was.
I agree that the audience should be apart of the race.
@@JeffMcDuffie72MeridianGate that's somewhat rude but not, careful with your words m8 someone may misunderstand
Oh thanks. I guess.
@@retardomilos982 there is a huge difference between 'apart' and 'a part'. If you misunderstand then you are one of those who also misunderstands 'there', 'their', and 'they're', and 'your' and 'you're', and think that if you didn't do something then you 'should of'.
@@janet180971 thanks for your English lesson, but "apart" I meant further from the race or quite literally separated from life in that race. Another thing, ignore people who forget "their" English, nobody's going to take you seriously. What you should be wondering is the meaning not my 4y old grammar, have a nice day.
Great video. Your a story teller for sure.
Keep it up qxir. Great videos. You respect the tragedies that you cover to. Because thats what they are. Some of your fire disaster videos motivated me to be that much more dilligent with fire safety around my own home. Always lessons to be learned. Great content, peace.
4:16 you can see the actual flying piece of car responsible for the deaths... it literally becomes a slicing blade at that speed 😬
jesus, imagine just seeing that thing coming for your head 🙁
Fucking hell I get wat you mean
Not “literally”
I'm pretty sure that spray of liquid at the end of the clip most likely belongs to anyone who was unfortunate enough to have been in the way.
@@iknowexactlywhoyouare8701 it literally does
84.
It’s almost an unfathomable amount of lives lost in a moment. People who didn’t even see it coming. A very sobering story.
Creepy really...
I see you a lot in the funi mush channel
More people died from a tiny German car crashing than from a gigantic German Zeppelin exploding. Think about it.
What are you doing here?
Reminds me of the 2018 fire that wiped Paradise, California off the map. The death toll was 86 but some people think that's too low. The Netflix documentary about it is hard to watch...
I just cannot imagine how the race continued with that many people dying. Different times I guess. I can’t get enough of this channel
Outrageously horrific!! And you told the tale with beauty !!!!
I go to this race every years and their is a ceremony to the victim every times
That's beautiful to know thank you for sharing that
Mmm your grammar is wonderful
@@moonshadow4817 Im a fucking french, try to say the same in my language
@@Nez_Buleuse Don't mind that kind of mess lol. What would you say was the best year that you attended this historical race? It blew my mind when ford brought back the gt 40 a few years ago for this event
@@Nez_Buleuse touché
I'm assuming you write your own scripts? I really like your writing style, it's straight to the point but not boring at all. You rock dude! The diagram of the 4 cars helped a lot too, your is the first video I've seen on this disaster that had a diagram.
He also had a diagram on his explosive decompression video about the byford dolphin diving bell incident.
He is indeed getting quite good at these. Excellent balance of introduction with the meat of the narrative.
Lmao, For some reason I thought the cars were going from right to left until the accident.
@@Neal_Schier yeah, he explains everything really well to someone who might not be an expert on what he’s talking about in the video aswell
He has a paid ghostwriter
great story teller & story ty
Thank you for showing the map, it helps show the race's route.
Bless those poor souls, who had nowhere to run. That moment would have been burnt into the memory of the survivors for ever.
Nowhere, and no time.
I know someone who was at the Bali bombing, was it about 20 years ago. He was down the street and was one of the first on scene. He won't talk about it. Hit him really hard to see that carnage.
I wonder how many people that witnessed this horror ending up committing suicide. The smell of burning bodies had to be horrendous.. some people have said they could smell it and taste it.. not with this particular event, just in general
@@tomfoolery333 😭😭
My uncle was a police officer he retired about 15 years ago.. some things he absolutely will not talk about... seeing his facial expressions while recalling some instances was shocking..
😞
4:47 poor guy, he is doing his best to help 😥
*causes a massive explosion instead
Great job! You’ve got a cool James mcAvoy vibe going. Look forward to more like this.
My great-grandfather had a copy of a gruesome photo that was taken that day. The photo showed a boy holding an icecream with no head. The story goes that the boy was having his photo taken as the crash occured and the snap was taken just as the disaster occured. The photographer decided to make many copies of the image and sell them. Yikes.
I don’t know why, but seeing that bonnet fly into the crowd, knowing what it was about to do, made my eyes water in horror a little bit
@Yongo Bazuk uhhhh idk why you think they’d be so far off lol, it’s a British way to say hood, really.
@Yongo Bazuk hood is what degenerate anti crown rebels say. A hood is what you wear when you have just shot someone you were mugging, and are about to take his shit
@@nathanflynn6092 Imagine if the Royal Navy had called it's ship that got blown up the HMS Bonnet instead of the HMS Hood though? Would it still have sunk? Or would it have floated?
@Yongo Bazuk maybe if you played a lot of Oregon Trail on Apple IIe.
Gives me chills
I love the timing of the screen that goes with the quote at the end. Duncan Hamilton..... Jaguar driver.......WW2 veteran.
A glimpse of the next-level trauma this man suffered is given time to sink in before we're told that he'd previously been involved in the most significant conflict of human history. Powerful stuff.
Also, the animations of how the collision happened were really good and clear.
Duncan Hamilton won the race drunk in 1953
Great narrative! Well done.
You're a fan of racing history, that good, we need more young guys who keeps history alive !
"Not a single ferrari finished the event" typical lmaoo
Yes, how typical of the team that won 14 World Sports Car championships from 1953 to 1972 (Ferrari in 1972 won 10 out of 11 races). Yes, how typical of the team that dominated sports car racing for nearly 20 years. Yes, how typical of the team that has won more World Championships and Constructors Championships than God. Yes, what a failure Ferrari has been at racing.
@@MegaStephen68 always one
@@MegaStephen68 ferrari now is a bit shit tho
S🅱️inning since the 50s
You car people are so weird and toxic, lmao
These last moments videos are my absolute favorite
Makes one wonder how they’ll spend their last moments. I have an extra ticket to a motor event if you’re interested.
Yeah they are super enthralling
Is everything ok at home?
@@chulebam I just realized how twisted this sounds, I meant like they’re very instresting and I like learning about these kind of things
I am a retired chemist. Fire extinguishers contain either water, carbon dioxide, or baking soda which is solid carbon dioxide in powder form. In the first university chemistry class the professor ignites magnesium. The professor uses each extinguishing agent, one-after-the-other. The burning magnesium extracts the oxygen from each in turn to burn even hotter. Just about the only way to extinguish a magnesium fire is with nitrogen gas, which is what my professor used. There were no tanks of nitrogen at Le Mans.
7:21
Jesus christ, that flying debris hit the crowd incredibly fast
I read that some of the victims were children that were still holding onto their ice cream
Edit: When I mean by still holding onto their Ice creams, I actually meant it by the fact that some of these children were decapitated
This is so sad and horrifying
Fuuuuuuck
Wouldn’t be surprised
holy crap
Well yeah he said whole families were killed
The entire time I thought the car animations were moving to the left, I was so confused
Poor graphics.
DUDE SAME!!! Lol
I thought so too.
Me too!
Yeah that confused me too at first. If you read the writing on the wall it's backwards. For some reason the video got flipped.
So mind blowing I had to watch the video twice...
Wow
so very sad mate ..your video is awsome ..but my heart goes out to those affected...long before my time . but i greve just the same . i also hear the sadness in your voice ,,,your awsome mate .