Mike Hawthorn

<h2>Death</h2>
<p data-rte-fromparser="true">Hawthorn had previously lost a kidney to infection and began suffering problems with his remaining kidney in 1955. He was expected at the time to live only a few more years.<sup data-rte-washtml="1" class="reference" id="cite_ref-BBC_Four_5-0" data-rte-attribs=" class=reference id=cite_ref-BBC_Four_5-0"><a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22external%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22%7F-ENTITY-%2391-%7F6%7F-ENTITY-%2393-%7F%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22http%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Fen.wikipedia.org%5C%2Fwiki%5C%2FMike_Hawthorn%23cite_note-BBC_Four-5%22%2C%22linktype%22%3A%22text%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Afalse%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5Bhttp%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Fen.wikipedia.org%5C%2Fwiki%5C%2FMike_Hawthorn%23cite_note-BBC_Four-5%20%26%2391%3B6%26%2393%3B%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="2660-4514134305d87dbaf11c03"  class="text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Hawthorn#cite_note-BBC_Four-5"><span data-rte-entity="#91">&#91;</span>6<span data-rte-entity="#93">&#93;</span></a></sup>
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">A matter of only months into his retirement, on 22 January 1959, Hawthorn died in a road accident on the A3 bypass near Guildford driving his British Racing Green highly tuned <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22external%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Jaguar%203.4-litre%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22http%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Fen.wikipedia.org%5C%2Fwiki%5C%2FJaguar_3.4-litre%22%2C%22linktype%22%3A%22text%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Afalse%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5Bhttp%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Fen.wikipedia.org%5C%2Fwiki%5C%2FJaguar_3.4-litre%20Jaguar%203.4-litre%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="2660-4514134305d87dbaf11c03"  class="text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_3.4-litre">Jaguar 3.4-litre</a> sedan (now known as the 3.4 Mk 1). The cause of the accident is still unknown, suggested causes being driver error, mechanical failure, or blackout. There is evidence that Hawthorn had recently suffered blackouts, perhaps because of kidney failure, that might well have caused the accident.<sup data-rte-washtml="1" class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" data-rte-attribs=" class=reference id=cite_ref-6"><a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22external%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22%7F-ENTITY-%2391-%7F7%7F-ENTITY-%2393-%7F%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22http%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Fen.wikipedia.org%5C%2Fwiki%5C%2FMike_Hawthorn%23cite_note-6%22%2C%22linktype%22%3A%22text%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Afalse%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5Bhttp%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Fen.wikipedia.org%5C%2Fwiki%5C%2FMike_Hawthorn%23cite_note-6%20%26%2391%3B7%26%2393%3B%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="2660-4514134305d87dbaf11c03"  class="text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Hawthorn#cite_note-6"><span data-rte-entity="#91">&#91;</span>7<span data-rte-entity="#93">&#93;</span></a></sup>
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">In Farnham, the town where he lived up to the time of his death, there is a street named Mike Hawthorn Drive (off Dogflud Way). It was also in this town that Hawthorn ran The Tourist Trophy Garage. Jaguars, Rileys, Fiats, and Ferraris were serviced and sold from there.
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">There is a corner named after him at the Croft racing circuit, at Croft on Tees in North Yorkshire.
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