Documentary of 1955 crash

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I recorded it this morning, but if you are interested it repeats twice today on PBS America under Sky Documentaries, the last one being at 21.30. I just loved Norman Dewis' comment on passing the Mercedes at 193 mph!

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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 that

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Good grief no! A direct top would give 4,000 rpm at 80 mph and 8,000 at 160 mph. This is way into overdrive country.