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Originally Posted by intakexhaust
Mike- Just curious, was it a tire going bad? Could you share some insight on the incident? The era of Colin Chapman and driver relationship is fascinating. For different incidents, both Clark and Chapman had to contend with the courts for negligence. Must have been enormous pressure for them on a personal level.
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There's exactly one person who knows what happened in that crash, and he died in it. I thought it was on a back stretch in the forest, and there was basically no one right there to see it, but it's before my time and I haven't read that many reports about the event.
Dave Sims (his mechanic at the time) was a teenager, and it still haunts him that he might have not torqued some bolt right, or not put some locking tab in or whatever, but as afterburn said, it seems that every examination and study of the crash attributes it to a flat tire at speed, probably from debris or separation, but nothing that was done wrong in the garage.