{"id":460699,"date":"2006-02-01T13:30:18","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=76202"},"modified":"2024-12-02T19:48:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T19:48:48","slug":"it-wasnt-all-wine-and-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/it-wasnt-all-wine-and-roses\/","title":{"rendered":"It Wasn\u2019t All Wine and Roses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Quite a few younger folk seek me out and want to hear about how wonderful sports car racing was during the fifties. Without exception, they view those days as halcyon and lament that they weren\u2019t there too. Those of us who were there then often look back with nostalgia, but we also sometimes remember that all was not a bed of roses.<\/p>\n

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Racing during the fifties was dangerous. A number of our friends didn\u2019t make it to the sixties. It\u2019s commonly thought that 1955 was racing\u2019s most tragic year. Brock Yates has even written a book about it, titled Against Death and Time: One Fatal Season in Racing\u2019s Glory Years. One of the worst accidents happened at Le Mans when Pierre Levegh, in a Mercedes-Benz 300SLR, went into the crowd. Numbers vary depending on accounts, but close to 90 didn\u2019t survive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n