Longreads<p>"It would take years before elite drivers stopped dying at alarming rates, and for the popular image of them as peacetime fighter pilots—fast, courageous, likely to be killed in action—to fade away."</p><p>For Esses Magazine, Darrell Hartman writes about the 1955 Le Mans disaster that changed motorsport forever: <a href="https://www.essesmag.com/articles/racings-deadliest-day" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">essesmag.com/articles/racings-</span><span class="invisible">deadliest-day</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Cars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cars</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CarRacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarRacing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GrandPrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrandPrix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Ferrari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ferrari</span></a></p>