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In a crash during the Gran Premio di Siracusa Hawthorn suffered serious burns, [3] but finished the year with three seconds and then victory in the season finale in Spain, placing him third in the Drivers' Championship. [17]
Jan 22, 2020 · It was this car in which Hawthorn was to lose his life. On the morning of 22nd January 1959 Mike Hawthorn was chatting on the forecourt of his Tourist Trophy garage in Farnham, Surrey, prior to taking a drive to an appointment in London, 40 miles to the northeast.
Jan 22, 2019 · Known for wearing a bow tie when behind the wheel and epitomising all elements of the gentleman racer’s cultural stereotype, Hawthorn was killed 60 years ago today, crashing his comprehensively-modified 1958 Jaguar saloon at high speed on Friday January 22, 1959.
On the 22nd of January 1959, only months into his retirement, world famous racing driver Mike Hawthorn died on the A3 Guildford bypass while driving his comprehensively-modified 1958 Jaguar 3.4-litre saloon.
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This Pathé news footage details the last moments and death of U.K.'s first Formula One world champion, Mike Hawthorn, after he died in a traffic accident in ...
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Jan 22, 2019 · On January 22, 1959, Hawthorn lost control of his Jaguar while driving on the A3 road near Guildford and died in the resultant accident. He was just 29 and it was a mere three months on from Hawthorn claiming his world title and then immediately retiring from racing.
Jan 25, 2009 · Mike Hawthorn died at the age of 29, in a road crash on the A3 near Farnham, Surrey, on 22 January 1959. A service was held for the Yorkshire-born racing driver at St Andrew's church in...
