Today, it will be 60 years that the 1955 Le Mans disaster occurred during the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race, when a crash caused large fragments of racing car debris to fly into the crowd on the main straight at Le Mans. Eighty-three spectators and driver Pierre Levegh perished at the scene with 120 more injured in the most catastrophic accident in motorsport history.
It should always be remembered that motorsport is dangerous sport. No matter what era it is, no matter whatever if its Go-Karting, motorbikes, Formula 1, Indy Car, any kind of Motorsport is dangerous. But with that horrific disaster from 60 years ago. It made the sport, gradually year by year with the likes of Jackie Stewart, the FIA, so forth making the pit lane's around the world safer, expanding the widths of the tracks, a much wider space between track and fans it made motorsport more safer between tracks, fans, spectators, tracks marshals, people in pits, cars and drivers too.
Never forget the Eighty-three spectators and Pierre Levegh.
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