Le Mans Track Now Deemed Safe
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LE MANS (France). Jan. 21. The Le Mans car racing track, where 80 persons were killed in a crash last June, has been declared safe for future races. An examining committee, headed by Mr Jean Bnancourt, an engineer of the Public Works Ministry, has inspected the changes on the world famous circuit and said that they satisfied the new safety regulations. The French Government cancelled car racing last summer after the crash during the Le Mans 24-hour endurance race. New safety regulations—including extra precautions to protect the spectators from crashing cars—were drawn up. These include the construction of 50 new pits, where the cars refuel, spaced out over 380 yards. A “slowing track” for the cars when they come into the pits is also to be built, and special straw barriers are to go up in front of the public enclosures.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27873, 23 January 1956, Page 11
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