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this whole passage is one sentence...

Not anymore, but this article is still stubby. The German version of this article is much better. [[User:Norm|Norman Rogers\^talk]] 13:00, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Mike Hawthorn at the Museum of Farnham, Surrey[edit]

Would it be possile to add a link from this page to The Museum of Farnham homepage please?

We have lots of information about him in our archive and Museum.

The homepage is www.waverley.gov.uk/museumoffarnham.

Many thanks Museum of Farnham193.164.113.179 (talk) 14:28, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

farnham.museum@waverley.gov.uk

This article says that the 1955 LeMans tragedy had 82 deaths, while the main article 1955_Le_Mans_disaster says there were 80. Which is correct? Gwhodgson (talk) 18:37, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't there be a mention that the guy and his "inspired" drive was directly responsible for those 82 deaths? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.89.0.73 (talk) 12:04, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

References[edit]

Whoever edited this page at 13:32 on 26 May 2012 managed to wipe out all the references in the process. I don't know enough to put this right myself. Could someone else (perhaps the genius who caused the problem) please do so. Peter Kenny (<email address redacted>) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.189.114.203 (talk) 21:59, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. DH85868993 (talk) 02:52, 1 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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"he was allegedly suffering from a terminal illness at the time. "[edit]

In the opening to the page this line appears, without a reference. It is then not mentioned in the rest of the article. I would suggest either a source to be found or a removal of it.Flibble (talk) 14:52, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I agree but to allow other editors to comment or find a source perhaps wait a week or so. I doubt the content came from nowhere but there may not be a suitable source.SovalValtos (talk) 19:39, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I gave it 2 years, nowt, so removed it.Flibble (talk) 04:36, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Carlotti Takes the Wheel[edit]

I have added a brief paragraph about a children's book he wrote published in 1959.it looks to be quite rare/unknown but it exists and i have just bpught one on ebay...

"He was expected...to live only three more years"?[edit]

Under the heading "Death" the penultimate paragraph ends with "By 1955, Hawthorn had already lost one kidney to infection, and had begun suffering problems with the other; he was expected at the time to live only three more years." The cited source for this is an hour-long BBC radio documentary which is no longer hosted by the BBC, so it's an unsatisfactory source, and an assertion that raises more questions than it answers. Why was Hawthorn in kidney failure? Was he diabetic? Had he suffered kidney damage from an injury, or from his lifestyle? Who "expected" him to live just three more years? If the state of his kidneys is relevant enough to warrant a mention, this information ought to be included. Bricology (talk) 11:45, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]