'The Deadliest Crash' dives into the 1955 Le Mans catastrophe

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1955 Le Mans crash, when a Mercedes 300 SLR was sent flying off the back of an Austin-Healey and came apart after Mike Hawthorne cut off Lance Macklin, killing Mercedes driver Pierre Levegh and 83 spectators, not helped by the exploding gas tank igniting the car's magnesium-alloy bodywork.

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