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On 22 January 1959, only three months into his retirement, Hawthorn died in a car accident on the A3 Guildford bypass while driving his comprehensively modified 1958 Jaguar 3.4-litre saloon (now known as the 3.4 Mk 1) VDU 881 to London.
Jan 22, 2019 · Known for wearing a bow tie when behind the wheel and epitomising all elements of the gentleman racer’s cultural stereotype, Hawthorn was killed 60 years ago today, crashing his comprehensively-modified 1958 Jaguar saloon at high speed on Friday January 22, 1959.
It was the most catastrophic crash in motorsport history, prompting Switzerland to institute a nation-wide ban on motorsports altogether that lasted until 2022. The crash started when Jaguar driver Mike Hawthorn pulled to the right side of the track in front of Austin-Healey driver Lance Macklin and started braking for his pit stop.
Jun 2, 2015 · Driver Mike Hawthorn narrates a lap of Le Mans in this video from 1956, one year after the circuit's notorious crash. Read more and see the video at Car and Driver.
Jan 21, 2019 · After retiring as world champion in 1958, Mike Hawthorn died in a mysterious road accident just months later. Sixty years on from that accident, Maurice Hamilton looks back on the career of the...
- Maurice Hamilton
Jul 7, 2023 · “After Duncan went to identify Mike’s body following his fatal crash in the Mk1, Mike’s mother – Winifred Hawthorn – handed him the cap and the keys, which had been given to her by the policeman who attended the accident scene. The Hamiltons kept them until I got them.” A short, but poignant story.
Feb 12, 2019 · Just three months later, he sadly died in a road car accident. 2019 marks the 60thyear since his untimely passing. A charismatic and cheery racer, Hawthorn was tall, blonde, handsome, and put as much effort into partying as he did racing.
