Horrific accident VERY early on in the race, and puts a huge cloud over the entire event.
SpeedEvo
06-22-2013 04:06 PM
I don't know why the car jolted like that and then there's clear oversteer and I guess he tried to correct it but with no avail. Very sad and the contact must've been very bad as the speed he was going wasn't that high...
Zambrano
06-22-2013 04:22 PM
RIP
LeMans you claim another life, 25 pilots gone :(
997carrerasblk06
06-22-2013 04:33 PM
Weird that he died in the accident, it didn't seem that fast. RIP.
Carrera
06-23-2013 09:09 PM
Originally Posted by SpeedEvo
(Post 1434007)
I don't know why the car jolted like that and then there's clear oversteer and I guess he tried to correct it but with no avail. Very sad and the contact must've been very bad as the speed he was going wasn't that high...
From the video it appears it should have been a routine spin. He got a bit of air on the rumble strips, the back end came around, he steered left to correct it, and then the tires regained their contact patch and flung him head on into the armco barrier.
He likely would have been okay, but the armco didn't flex because there was a tree behind the part he hit, and he evidently went from 100mph to a dead stop instantly. Unfortunately no passive safety device can protect against that sort of impact.
RIP indeed, and ironically in the past two days as well VLN Racer Wolf Silvester died of a heart attack mid race, and a Formula V driver was killed at Lime Rock Park as well.
To top it all of Dan Wheldon's birthday was yesterday...
