Dark skies loom over the Belgium Grand Prix.
The 1968 sidecar Belgium Grand Prix at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps featured a fiercly competitive race between the BMW teams of Johann Attenberger and his passenger Josef Schillinger and Georg Auerbacher and his passenger Hermann Hahn. The teams reportedly were actually bumping each other trying to get into position for the win. On the last lap at full speed down the Masta Straight, Johann lost control and hit the corner of a house and then crashed into a nearby pine tree. Tragically, Attenberger and Schillinger were killed instantly.
Johann Attenberger and Josef Schillinger had won the Dutch TT at Assen just one week earlier, and were leading the World Sidecar Championship.
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