Documentary of 1955 crash
Discussion
V8covin said:
I watched that but have difficulty believing a car with 300bhp could do 190mph.
The crash was horrendous,thank god health and safety became important ....but unfortunately not important enough to stop the deaths at group B rally events
Not at all impossible when you look at this. The 2.93 ratio, extremely rare today, was used for Le Mans. 170 mph equals 5825 rpm. Jaguar engines were supposedly redlined at 6250, but Norman Dewis confirmed to me many years ago that the Le Mans engines went further than thatThe crash was horrendous,thank god health and safety became important ....but unfortunately not important enough to stop the deaths at group B rally events
99dndd said:
Any idea if there are any repeats? I'd be interested in seeing this.
no longer available on BB iPlayerhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sfptx
but can be found on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpOTNcro2wU
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