Fifty-five years ago this weekend, at the 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race, a combination of high speeds, bad luck and the ultimate wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time conditions contributed to the worst ...

1955 Le Mans crash featured in a BBC documentary – Click above to watch the video The 24 Hours of Le Mans is a much, much faster and much, much safer race today than it was back when it created ...