My new toy
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24 Hours of Spa underway.
Five SA drivers, in five different cars:
- Kelvin van der Linde - #32 Audi R8
- David Perel -#33 Ferrari 488
- Sheldon van der Linde - #34 BMW M6
- Jordan Pepper - #70 McLaren 720
- Stuart White - #107 Bentley Continental
Big, ugly multi-vehicle accident at 30-minute mark. Race remains under Full Course Yellow for the moment.
- Confirmation that Estre has been released from med centre and is back in the pits.
- Confirmation from Race Control now that Aitken and Rigon are being transferred to hospital for further tests - no life-threatening injuries thankfully.
- Perera is also cleared to return to pits now.
Callum Illot (one of the four cars was being driven by his teammate Davide Rignon) makes a fair point - today’s accident was at the top of Eau Rouge into Raidillon again, the same place as the Anton Hubert accident.
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Fair point. Too fast for a blind corner with negative camber. Something needs to change, but then we lose an iconic corner. Worth it? For sure!
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Today is sad indeed, a marshal passed away after another massive accident
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I agree, it would be a shame to lose it, but something must be done. I don’t think necessarily losing it entirely though. It needs to be something with the barriers on the inside of Raidillon. The first car - Jack Aiken in the Lambo - spun into the barriers on the left and bounced back into the center of the circuit. Like the Hubert accident, the following car - Estre in his Porsche - coming up that blind rise from Eau Rouge at such high speed, had no chance to react to a car across the circuit.
“And then suddenly I saw a lot of smoke and debris in front of me over the crest. I braked. I didn’t really know where to go because I couldn’t really see if there was a car stopped or anything. I just saw debris and smoke. I stayed on my line, but then apparently I hit the Lamborghini from Jack Aitken on the right side."
Nor the next two. Absolutely terrifying, and a miracle that injuries weren’t significantly worse. A testament to the strength of roll cage and safety cell. This is what was left of the Aitken Lamborghini:
There is video of the accident too: {Trigger warning of high-speed motor vehicle accident}
Something to stop cars returning to the circuit after colliding with that barrier.
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No amount of sim-racing could prepare you for the terror/thrill of real driving around Nords.
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It’s one of my bucket lists, I’m sad I didn’t go there when I was in Germany. I love this track and love seeing vids like this.
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I came across this 200SX driver recently. If you like vids like this, do check the rest of his channel
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Love it! He’s punching it in that thing eh.
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Watched this last night and love Guy Martin, such an absolute legend. Though at first he seems rather unimpressed 
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Not sure if this belongs in a petrol based thread…
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FTFY 
The sounds!!! 
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Curse you, I had to stop my banging beats to listen to that. No ragrats. 
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He hardly blinks! 
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