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The Le Mans 1955 Disaster.

Early in the 1955 Le Mans 24-hour race, Pierre Levegh"s Mercedes 300 SLR smashed into the crowd, killing 83 and injuring 120, the worst disaster in motor racing history. The story was engulfed by conspiracy theory, blame and scandal. Was the explosion caused by Mercedes gambling on untried technologies? Did they compound it by using a lethal fuel additive? Have the French authorities been covering up the truth ever since? Or was the winner, Britain"s Mike Hawthorn, guilty of reckless driving?