"I felt the heat of his exhaust as he went by me, no more than three feet over my shoulder. "As I was rolling along backward I saw Levegh's car following me in the air, with Levegh sort of hunched over in the cockpit. Your brain acts so fast you can see everything, and I can remember as I was spinning I saw the timekeepers watching me from their booth. "It's a most extraordinary sensation," Macklin said when recalling an incident that spun his car around and sent it skittling down the track backward.Įverything slows right down as if you were watching a slow-motion film.
His Mercedes Benz clipped the edge of the Austin Healey and was launched skywards. He tried to avoid a collision with Macklin but he was too close and too fast. Pierre Levegh, in a Mercedes Benz, was next on the scene.
My instant reaction when he did it was, 'Bloody Mike Hawthorn, he must be out of his mind!' " "But by overtaking me and braking sharply he forced me to overtake him again, which meant I had to pull out in front of Levegh and Fangio. "I believe he wanted to turn the car over at his stop, still in the lead. "I think he misjudged the speed of my car and its position and that he was afraid of having to go around again and run the risk of running out of petrol. "He pulled across in front of me, and then I remember being surprised to see his brake lights come on. "He came alongside me, and I gave him the thumbs-up sign as he overtook me to wish him luck. "Mike could have been mistaken about how fast my car was going," Macklin would tell Sports Illustrated in a 1986 interview.
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The investigation zeroed in on Hawthorn’s attempt to overtake British driver Lance Macklin’s Austin Healey and a sudden catastrophic decision to pit. Thirty-five laps in the worst disaster in motorsports history unfolded.
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