https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMoh5hZAaZk French Race car driver Pierre Levegh, competed in five consecutive 24 Hours of Le Mans, which is an annual 24-hour endurance race. Using one car, individual drivers or teams compete against each other to see who can complete the most laps in that 24-hour period. The best Levegh did was score a 4th place finish in 1951 and in 1953 he finished 8th. In 1952 his car broke down before it could finish the race and in 1954 he crashed the car. In 1955, Levegh switched from his previous team, Talbot, to American John Fitch's team and was driving a Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR. The race began on June 1, 1955 and about two hours into the race Levegh was driving down a straight away doing 150 mph (240 kph) near the fan pits when he clipped Lance Macklin who was driving an Austin-Healey. Levegh's car flipped and crashed into a wall that housed spectators, sending large pieces of debris into the crowd. Macklin's car spun, but he was unhurt in the accident. Sadly, Macklin was the luckiest person in the whole crash. Levegh was killed on impact, 83 spectators were killed and another 120 were injured either from flying car parts or the ensuing fire. The 1955 Le Mans Disaster is the deadliest crash in the history of race car driving.