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**Porschinelle** · 02-09-2014, 04:55 AM

Extracted from an English newspaper a day after the tragedy

**Porschinelle** · 02-14-2014, 03:22 AM

Back to work after a few days business trip through Europe
To day 1956

**Porschinelle** · 02-14-2014, 03:33 AM

Exceptionnaly the 1956 Le Mans edition took place end of Joly due to a delay in the completion of all the road works decided after the terrible 1955 accident
Below an exceptionnal video of a complete tour of the Le Mans track by a Jaguar D driven by Mike Hawthorne the 1955 winner
This video was done some days before the race
As I told you before the Le Mans race track use a large parts of National roads
These roads stay open to normal traffic except of course for the practice and official races
As you will see in those days it was possible to drive very quickly a race car on open roads with cars and bicycles going in both direction

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hx21ESCM0U

**Porschinelle** · 02-14-2014, 03:36 AM

Sorry typing error try

www.youtuhbe.com/watch?v=9hx21E5CM0U

**Porschinelle** · 02-14-2014, 03:39 AM

again a mistake

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hx21E5CM0U

**Porschinelle** · 02-14-2014, 03:50 AM

For the 1956 edition Porsche KG entered 3 cars
2 off 550 and 1 off 356 Carrera
550 0103 race number 24 driven by Hans Hermann/Umberto Maglioli
550 0104 race number 25 driven by Richard Von Frankenberg/Wolgang Von Trips
356 Carrera GT race number 26 driven by Max Nathan/Helmut Glockler

**Porschinelle** · 02-14-2014, 04:03 AM

2 off 550 spyders were entered by private teams
550 041 race number 27 entered by Wolfgang Seidel and driven by Mathias Heyzemans/Carel Godin de Beaufort
550 034 race number 28 entered by Gonzague Olivier and driven by Claude Storez/Helmut Polenski

**Porschinelle** · 02-14-2014, 04:06 AM

The blue 356 race number 34 was also entered by Porsche KG and driven by the French pilots Roland Bourel/Michel Slotine

**Porschinelle** · 02-14-2014, 04:12 AM

**Porschinelle** · 02-14-2014, 04:26 AM

The race was very tough
Out of the 50 starting cars only sixteen finished amonsgt these 2 Porsches
550 0104 race number 24 driven by Richard Von Frankenberg/Wolfgang Von Trips finished 5th overall covering 300 laps ie 3795 kilometers
The 356 race number 34 driven by Roland Bourel/Michel Slotine finished 13th overall