[DeTomaso] NPC: Some old footage

[Kirby Schrader]

An amazing piece of footage of Mike Hawthorn doing a lap of Le Mans in 1956 
in a D Type Jaguar. It's incredible to see the bikes and traffic out on the 
track, and an almost total lack of safety, bearing in mind the previous year a 
Mercedes flew off the track on pit straight and killed 84 people, seriously 
injuring a further 120. The accident was inadvertently caused by Hawthorn as he 
braked to go into the pits, his Dunlop disc brakes were awesome, and other cars 
braking hard to avoid running into the back of his Jaguar lost control resulting 
in a Mercedes hitting a sloped earth bank, launching into the air and 
disintegrating. 
 
Incredibly the race continued, although Mercedes withdrew it's remaining 
cars, and Hawthorn went on to win.

Was this the first on-board camera?

https://vimeo.com/59410466#at=0