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[jaybie]

Hi All

Can someone have a look and see if they can identify this?

http://cfm.globalf1....s/crash_009.jpg

Thanks

J

[P4Replica]

How about Le Mans, 1956 - Ferrari 500 TR #21 (chassis #0624) - driven by Tavano and Meyrat ?
See: http://www.barchetta...4MDTR.500TR.htm
Looks like Hawthorn in a D Type passing the scene ....

[Vitesse2]

Yep, that's what I came up with in this thread, which also includes a picture of it from the front. It was picture number 3, but BorderReiver seems to have removed them.

[Kpy]

And it looked so nice before it was bent. Sorry the image is so small
http://www.albaco.bi...ns 24 small.jpg
Does anyone know where on the circuit the accident happened?

[jarama]

According to Dominique Pascal's "Porsches at Le Mans", the collision was on the straight between Maison Blanche and the pits.


Carles.

[jaybie]

Thank you!

[P4Replica]

Originally posted by Vitesse2
Yep, that's what I came up with in this thread, which also includes a picture of it from the front. It was picture number 3, but BorderReiver seems to have removed them.

Footnote:
In fact, Richard, I hadn't seen the previous thread, before. However, thinking that I could just make out a 'Scudetto' above the wing vent, I followed a similar line of logic that you used in your post #11, and flicked through the pages of Dominique Pascal's 'Ferrari at Le Mans'. On page 30 there is half page B&W photo of the aftermath of the accident, taken from a similar angle to the one in your post #13, but earlier on the Saturday night, not long after the accident had taken place (10:00pm). Tavano was flung out of the car, but got away with just a broken nose. The Porsche (#26) was destroyed, and it's driver Glöckler suffered burns and a broken leg.
It's seems strange, given the current market value of TR's, that #0624 is one of the very few NOT to have been restored or 'resurrected' (yet?) ....

[Gary C]

& it looks like Hawthorn in the D-type going past, too??