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Originally Posted by windowlicker ↗

Great new photo's...

Thank you. Those were the best seats I ever had, and I missed almost all of the race due to the rainouts. I had to go home the day of the race.

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Originally Posted by windowlicker ↗

Great new photo's...

Thank you. Those were the best seats I ever had, and I missed almost all of the race due to the rainouts. I had to go home the day of the race. Walther slid to a stop right across the track from us but I'd stupidly run out of film, so no more pics.

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Another photo of Salt that I don't remember having seen posted...

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Originally Posted by windowlicker ↗

Len Sutton's USAC Indycar crash at Milwakee 1962...

Len raced in the premier class from 1955 to 1965, with 76 career starts, 43 top ten finishes, and 3 victories also finishing second in the 1962 Indy 500.

Original post from page 141.

Another photo of Sutton's crash.

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Louis Hery's fatal crash on lap 5 of the 1956 Le Mans in his Monopole X86 - Panhard. Louis was trapped in his car when it flipped at Maison Blanche and died soon afterwards.

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Guy Mairesse's fatal crash during practice for the Coupe de Paris at Montlhery in 1954 when trying to avoid another car he crashed heavily into a wall.

Guy finished second at Le Mans in 1950 and '51 as well as taking part in three GP for Talbot during the same period.

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The wrecked Ferrari 330 MM Vignale of American Tom Cole Jr after his fatal crash at Maison Blanche during the 1953 Le Mans. Tom left the road on lap 175, hitting a farm house and being thrown from the car.

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Floyd Roberts fatal crash at Indy 1939 on lap 106 when he hit the spinning car of Bob Swanson and was launched into and through a fence at over 100mph. Floyd died of head injuries.

Roberts had won Indy the year before after starting from pole.

Swanson died a year later while qualifying for a midget car race in Ohio.

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Originally Posted by windowlicker ↗

Dieter Spoerry's Porsche 908 collided with Jack Brabham's Matra 650 during practice for Le Mans 1970, the Porsche cartwheeling over the barrier landing in a ditch and breaking in two.

Amazingly Dieter walked away, barefooted, as his racing boots had been ripped from his feet.

Original post from page 38.

The first photo is another one of Dieter huge crash, showing part of the Porsche 908 that stayed on the track.

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The Francois Picard/Robert Tappan Ferrari 500 TR after crashing out on lap 137 of Le Mans 1956.

Picard took part in one GP, the 1958 Moroccan Grand Prix where he crashed into the spinning Ferrari of Olivier Gendebien. He was seriously injured and never raced again.