Do you fancy an on-board lap round the Le Mans circuit with Mike Hawthorn in 1956, complete with normal road traffic including cyclists and pedestrians? Wonderfully refreshing stuff in this age of health-and-safety, with no speed limits in force, no armco, just a few straw bales in place and damned dangerous all the way. And this a year after Pierre Levegh's Mercedes flew into the grandstand killing hundreds, mentioned by Hawthorn almost in passing without any referennce to his own part in the catastrophe. Another world, then, which I witnessed as a young reporter, in which drivers, when they got it wrong, tended not to walk away with a stiff neck as they often do today. Of course Hawthorn was a survivor of that era himself, retiring as Formula One World Champion, only to be killed in 1959 at the wheel of a Jaguar on the Hog's Back near Guildford. But it's interesting to hear his voice spanning fifty-plus years and sounding like it was yesterday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2irKVQB41