Five Killed At Motor Race
IN.Z. Preus Association —Copyright) SEBRING (Florida), March 27. Bob McLean, who went from Australia to Canada in 1959 and became Canadian motorracing champion, was one of five people killed today in two spectacular crashes in the annual 12-hour race in Sebring, Florida.
The four others killed were spectators.
I McLean, aged 30, died [trapped inside his blazing Ford-GT 40. He had been lying in thirteenth place when his car lost a wheel on a hairpin bend. It spun off the track, cartwheeled into a pole and burst into flames.
Rescue workers stood by helpless, beaten back by the flames. McLean was the father of two children. An elder brother was killed in Australia in 1957 in a motor-cycle race. Later in the race, a Porsche mowed through a crowd of spectators, killing a man and his two sons instantaneously. A woman spectator later died of her injuries. The Porsche was manoeuvring a sharp bend when it collided with a Ferrari, which had spun out of control, and was deflected into the crowd. Neither driver was hurt.
Finnish Visit.—The Soviet Premier, Mr Kosygin, will visit Finland in June. —Moscow, March 27.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31020, 28 March 1966, Page 15
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