Havoc

Havoc was a British documentary made for TV I think in the late 1970's. It is quite tacky in a lot of ways, the main sticking point being the obviously dubbed sound effects on a lot of the old footage.

It starts out with a few old clips from the earliest races on record in Europe and the USA, progressing into some of the dangers.

It then talks at some length about the 1955 Le Mans disaster, with some nonchalant remarks from British driver Lance Macklin. Also shows the fatal accidents involving Lorenzo Bandini (Monaco 1967) and Roger Williamson (Zandvoort 1973).

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• motorsport
• f1
• indycar
• fatal
• accidents
• crash
• havoc
• lorenzo
• bandini
• monaco
• lance
• macklin
• lemans
• roger
• williamson
• zandvoort

[schwillo]

David Purely is the most heroic driver ever. The fact that he stopped his car while the other drivers kept driving, to try and save his friend, is nothing short of absolute selflessness and class.

[watchika]

Another note, Savage was killed not because of the crash but because of a bad blood transfution that gave him hepatitis B.

[benjsmit]

wow Lance Macklin with controversial comment! "that's what you came here for..now you've got a good one (accident)".

[dalezid]

At the opening titles of the British HAVOC documentary (late 70ies or early 80ies), what was the classical music it was playing?

[utheman01]

Macklin said that he didnt know that that many people had been killed.

I hate seeing the williamson one. Truely horrible.

[MissEgasMoniz]

@schwillo What Purley did was very very heroic - however he ain't the only driver to try and save a stricken fellow competitor.

[MissEgasMoniz]

Did I hear Macklin correctly...."thats what you came here for......you came to see an accident....and now you've got a good one."??? Good grief - talk about a driver not understanding his audience not to mention the sheer crass vile nature of his comment. A true douche bag in my opinion.

[7Lukibi99Tore7]

As others have stated, this TV series from the 1970's was called "When Havoc Struck" and was narrated by actor Glenn Ford. One of the episodes was titled "S.O.S: Disasters At Sea" which was about the Titanic sinking,the Andrea Doria-Stockholm collision, the Morro Castle disaster, the Eastland disaster, and the Mont Blanc-Imo disaster. Another episode was about the Hindenberg disaster.

[spudracer13]

macklin is an idiot for his comments... and the report or whatever you call this video is extremely biased

[smgoodboy]

Hi azkatro, can u upload the full version? thx

[schwillo]

@arceveink Fair point - but all world champions, all remembered by the record books. I place Purley above these guys on the basis that he is someone who should not be forgotten; it's irrelevant that he was a racing driver, moreso that he is an example for everyone. You mention the three names and say others; well, Purley was an 'other'.

Mind you, all three you mentioned were racing that day at Zandvoort.

[arceveink]

@schwillo No doubt that Purley made a heroic attempt to save Williamson, but this was in a certainly way something common among the 60´s and 70´s drivers. Fittipaldi, Hunt, Lauda and many others stopped their cars yet to help their racingmates.