Chuck Bryant

Yeah.

So there was a really controversial decision that was made by the race director, and that was to allow 24 hours of Le Mans to continue.

This happened at like hour two and a half.

It sounds crazy.

Yeah.

And you're like, what a disgusting psychopath.

But.

History has actually vindicated the race director.

I don't know his name, but that he made the right move because had he said, you know, the race needs to end right now, all those spectators who needed aid and whose lives would have probably ended had they not received aid pretty quickly, the emergency crews trying to reach them would have been swamped by all the spectators leaving all at the same time.

So it seems quite heartless, but it actually was the right move to make.

Yeah.

I wonder if that was the reason, though.

Do we know that?

Or if it's just like in retrospect, it worked out better.

I don't know.

I want to just believe in humanity.

So I'm going to say that that guy had that that level of foresight.

I hope so.

Regardless, Mike Hawthorne, the guy who caused the crash, won the race.

And no matter how history looks at that decision, like him popping the champagne at the end when 21 hours earlier, 80 people or 84 people had died.