alan mcnish crash at le mans

[bigemp]

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com//11062...ror-crash.html


how the hell did the car not go over the tyre wall,some lucky marshalls etc there today

[Scott.T]

Amazing, everyone was very lucky there.......

[asperformance]

very, very lucky............strangely was reading an interview with McNish today and he was taking about the problems of passing the slower spec cars - spooky

[Hongkongfooi]

i was watching it at the time....it was pretty tense til he walked out. Amazing strength these race cars

[Scooby_Greg]

So lucky it didn't go over the barrier....

[MIDLIFE]

Look at it slow motion, seems a bit of a khamikazi over-taking move to me? but pleased it turned out ok for everyone.

[Bolesroor]

OMG ,the camera guy was lucky too with the wheel just missing him?

[Granby]

Another Audi crash at around 200mph

Thats been one hell of a race so far!

McNish and the marshalls were extremely lucky. The wreckage flying about seemed to miss everyone somehow, unbelievable stuff.

[Steve_PPP]

Watched quite a bit of this today and yesterday when it started, was watching live when McNish crashed. The marshals/media/crowd looked to be more at risk than the driver in that one, worrying how it seemed to get airborne bouncing through the gravel!

Fantastic result for Audi though, the team must really have been on edge after going through two massive crashes like that.

[asperformance]

Originally Posted by MIDLIFE

Look at it slow motion, seems a bit of a khamikazi over-taking move to me? but pleased it turned out ok for everyone.

he was passing slower lapped traffic rather than an outright over-take........think the car in front got confused by the Audi still behind him and didn't see McNish until he turned in on him...........

crap marshalling re the use of blue flags unless you were french by the looks of the rest of the race!!

[RobEvo5]

Was there when it happend, scary, but also amazing to see him get out and walk away. Audi really done the business this year despite crashing 2 cars because ferrari didn't get out the way.

If was even more disturbing when the last remaining audi was nearly taken out by Peugot in a blatent attempt to take them out of the race. The peugot crossed from one side of the road to the other to try and block/take out the audi despite the peugot being a 4th position runner and the slower car. Very poor tactics from peugot and the french team.

Great event and really enjoyed myself once again and will post up some pics at some point. But the weekend was a bit deflated when my Brother in his porsche got pulled by the gendarme and got a 1300 euro fine, banned, car impounded with a court hearing date in Sept. The french police have really clamped down this year, and are a law unto themselves.

I now hate the french and has put me off going back to leman or france for that matter..! Poor sportmans, and the law in france is like something from the wild, wild west.

That's terrible news. What did they pull him for? There can't be anything bad enough to be hit like that surely! That's ridiculous

[AndyWRX]

Originally Posted by RobEvo5

If was even more disturbing when the last remaining audi was nearly taken out by Peugot in a blatent attempt to take them out of the race. The peugot crossed from one side of the road to the other to try and block/take out the audi despite the peugot being a 4th position runner and the slower car. Very poor tactics from peugot and the french team.

Didnt really watch alot of lemans but i saw that bit, did the peugeot driver get a warning or anything?

[RobEvo5]

Originally Posted by worzel

That's terrible news. What did they pull him for? There can't be anything bad enough to be hit like that surely! That's ridiculous

Totally disproportionate IMO, and they can do whatever they like with no structure to the legal system. He has been charged with doing 166km/h in a 90km/h. Which I must admit does sound bad, but no one was hurt, and was allegadly clocked at this speed whilst he was overtaking a lorry.

The car can accelerate very quickly. So It was very possible he was only doing 80km/h before the overtake and 166 whilst doing overtake, but would have then backed off again. So I think they have just seen a porsche driver, making an example and throwing the book at him.

The 1300 euro fine already paid, will likely be the tip of the iceburg with impound fee's to be paid, legal fee's to be paid and another heavy fine.!

Its opened my eyes up, and really put me off going back, and the fast car thing as you just can't get to play or enjoy it anymore.

[RobEvo5]

Originally Posted by AndyWRX

Didnt really watch alot of lemans but i saw that bit, did the peugeot driver get a warning or anything?

Nope complete cover up by the hoast, They didn't even play a replay of the incident. The radio le-man team wouldn't let it go though, and were on the war path and even went down to the pits and challenged Peugoet team live on air, of which peugeot had little to say.

That's simply ****ing shocking.

166k sounds a lot, but in reality it isn't really. It is the merest amount over 100mph. On French roads, which are virtually empty most of the time.

I suppose the only thing you could say is, that it would be a ban over here so it should be the same in principle over there, but the 1300 euros and the impounding of the car, plus the extra legal fees is bang out of order. You can probably add the same amount again as a minimum.

IMHO, they were looking for someone just like this, and I would lay good money that there were many other Brits royally ****ed by the Gendarme over the last few days. They must rake it in over this weekend. It's reasons like this that I always try to cruise down to the Ring through France & Belgium, the bastards are everywhere, just waiting for easy pickings. Germany on the other hand