{"id":33172,"date":"2020-09-08T12:09:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T16:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acpmotorsports.com\/?p=33172"},"modified":"2026-04-19T10:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:18:25","slug":"the-horrible-accident-of-le-mans-1955-pierre-lemans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/the-horrible-accident-of-le-mans-1955-pierre-lemans\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR 1955 #LeMans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/nuvolari\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/lastflag_sixtwenty_lg_25.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-featured-blog-large wp-image-7760\" src=\"\/nuvolari\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/lastflag_sixtwenty_lg_25-750x437.jpg\" alt=\" The Horrible Accident Of Le Mans 1955 Pierre #LeMans\" width=\"750\" height=\"437\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The horrible accident of Le Mans, 1955.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Levegh\u2019s Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR ran into Lance Macklin\u2019s Austin-Healey 100 and crashed into the audience, killing 83 spectators and Mr. Levegh himself. The crash resulted in a new pit being built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The horrible accident of Le Mans, 1955. Pierre Levegh\u2019s Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR ran into Lance Macklin\u2019s Austin-Healey 100 and crashed into the audience, killing 83 spectators and Mr. Levegh himself. The crash resulted in a new pit being built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golden-age","category-lemans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43694,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33172\/revisions\/43694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}