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Chuck Bryant

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: 1955 Le Mans Disaster

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

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: 1955 Le Mans Disaster

I wonder if that was the reason, though.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: 1955 Le Mans Disaster

Do we know that?

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: 1955 Le Mans Disaster

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

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: 1955 Le Mans Disaster

I don't know.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: 1955 Le Mans Disaster

I want to just believe in humanity.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: 1955 Le Mans Disaster

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

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: 1955 Le Mans Disaster

I hope so.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: 1955 Le Mans Disaster

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

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: 1955 Le Mans Disaster

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.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: 1955 Le Mans Disaster

It's a tough pill to swallow, you know?

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: 1955 Le Mans Disaster

Not just died, died because of him.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: 1955 Le Mans Disaster

And he's like just celebrating like it's the end of whatever race, any other race, you know?

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: 1955 Le Mans Disaster

He never claimed responsibility for it.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: 1955 Le Mans Disaster

He would never take accountability.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: 1955 Le Mans Disaster

And two years after that, he died in a car wreck when he was racing a friend.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: 1955 Le Mans Disaster

And when he overtook the friend, that was when he spun out and died.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: 1955 Le Mans Disaster

He was also driving a Jaguar.