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looks like a racing incident to me. mcnish takes the other audi and attempts to put the ferrari between them assuming the ferrari has seen them coming. unfortunately he hasn't and that is the result. people on the service road should nip off and put their lottery number on, its clearly their lucky day.
and the matey running down the service road being chased by the wheel is genius.
Have to agree with Scaredypants. The Ferrari was on the racing line for the corner and Im sure was concentrating on the Audi behind him and not what was behind that Audi. As previously stated and what is stated in all drivers briefings for endurance races is its the responsibility of the faster car to make the pass safely and of the slower car to stay to the racing line. So, although unfortunate, in my eyes it was a racing incident.
Im just wondering how many have actually sat in a GT car and tried to see out of the mirrors...?
there is a waved blue flag. so he should have been looking for faster cars passing him.
do really think the driver will be looking away from the apex to where the blue flag was being waved?
My point did come across all wrong.
What I meant was when you are racing, the decisions you make to overtake or not are made in a split second.
Nobody but Alan McNish knows if it was a correct move at the time or not. To me it looked perfectly possible and as others have pointed out a racing accident.
Heart-stopping incident, though. I've watched quite a few times now, and the thing that amazes me is how the car pauses on the top of the tyre wall, seems to pirouette, then drop back down onto the gravel. As above, the gravel trap didn't do very much, the car just skims across it like a teatray. As the Audi boss said, “To see that the cars are strong is good but that's not the way we like to demonstrate it”. A great demonstration of understatement, I think.
As previously stated and what is stated in all drivers briefings for endurance races is its the responsibility of the faster car to make the pass safely and of the slower car to stay to the racing line.
Just like sking or any sport the crazy f....er coming up the rear or trying to overtake needs to take responsibility for his actions, needs to count his blessings he's alive