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Old 30-10-2011, 08:21 PM
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Default Chaos at Brands

Went up to the Truck Racing as a friend at work managed to get some Free Tickets.

Why do free things always end up the best, as it turned into quite an eventful day.

Lets Start with a small Scooby Fire :
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v9...t=100_8553.mp4

Followed by Truck roll on the run down to Graham Hill Bend




Several minutes laters....(pic nicked from P'heads')


The big accident on entrance to Graham Hill bend on Lap 2, truck rolled and driver trapped.
For obviouse reasons all regular marshalls stand well out of the way during the racing, basically in with the crowd.

What was strange is that none of these marshalls were attending the rolled truck, only what may be specialist recovery.

Anyhow....after several minutes with the truck on it's side the Fire Pick-up comes out of the paddock and around Paddock Hill bend, little does he know one of the Trucks in lap 1 had dropped diesel all round the track.

Fire truck gets well sideways, everybody cheers....then as it gets to the steepest part of paddock it flips onto it's roof rupturing the fire extinguishers, then lands back on it's wheels.

Driver and passenger from Fire Truck now trapped aswell......Marshalls then descend from everywhere....complete Chaos.....

Both Fire attendants and driver from original Truck crash all taken to medical centre.
Fire Truck driver/passenger had no crash helmets, so hope they are all OK. Fingers crossed just whiplash. Race Truck driver may have broken shoulder.

Needless to say it all took a little while to clear up.

A few pics from my vantage point, shame the camera kept focussing on the fence







In this one you can see how bent the arnco was, which took a while to put right :



Nice of the Marshall to highlight the Diesel spill, if maybe a little late for their collegues in the Fire Truck ;



The Damage :


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