... drivers, died after crashing in a sports- car race preceding the German Grand Prix. In the major race Hans Hermann had a lucky escape after his B.R.M. became a total wreck. During a race for smaller racing cars in France, Ivor Bueb crashed in a Cooper- ...

... Death and Disaster at Le Mans Track Pictures from the Twenty-four Hours Race of the Accident Unparalleled in Motor-racing History THE CAUSE OF THE TRAGEDY The Mercedes lies gutted on the parapet on to which it has rebounded after leaping off the track ...

... FOCUS ON ACCIDENTS Oliver Stewart MY chief quarrel with road accident statistics is that they fail to differentiate clearly enough between minor accidents and major accidents. The law requires that most kinds of accidents be reported in one ...

... ACCIDENTS: THE HUMAN FACTOR There is much good sense in the report of the RAC road safety working party which was published recently after several months of active investigation. I think the working party hit the nail bang on the head when it declared ...

... broken pieces together, his crew had a lot of time on their hands. One of them was Desmond Scannell, secretary of the British Racing Drivers' Club the other was Leslie Seyd, director of Brown, Gore Welch, wine merchants of long standing and high repute in ...

... condition in spite of the fact that only a very small proportion of accidents are caused through any mechanical defect. We hear on all sides that the state of our roads is to blame for the accident rate. Without quoting figures as to the number of times road ...

... and lists the cogent factors that make motor racing Britain's fastest-growing spectator sport. Jack Esten took the pictures at Silverstone in International racing, and the effect was cumulative. With races to be run and prizes to be won nearly every weekend ...

... Tragedies and Thrills on the Race Tracks The Funeral of Italy's Alberto Ascari Motor Racing at the Nuerburgring Race-course, Crystal Palace and Indianapolis THE FUNERAL OF ALBERTO ASCARI, ITALY'S MOST SUCCESSFUL RACING DRIVER AND WORLD CHAMPION IN 1952 ...

... yards, in order to minimise the risk of accidents. Fifty-one crews entered for the Torpids, one more than last year, and the races were held on six afternoons instead of on four as in 1949 THE OXFORD BOAT RACE CREW PRACTISING ON THE FLOODED THAMES AT ...

... Time is the automatic form horse for the Ascot race. There is, however, more to it than that. I have always under stood that Gay Time was to have been trained for the big Ascot event and, barring accidents, I feel sure that he will go very close. He must ...

... Does racing speed progress MOTORING by GORDON WILKINS THE CASE against racing rests largely on the great and obvious difference between racing single seaters and the cars the average man wants to buy. Even the sports cars which one sees in classic events ...

... The Risks of Motor Racing Thirteen Cars in a Multiple Crash in America's Classic 500-Mile Motor Race THE MULTIPLE CRASH ON THE FIRST LAP: Cars spin out of control on the north-east corner of the Indiana polis race track in America during the 500-mile ...