24 Hours of Le Mans

He just lost it exiting Forza. Corvette onboard:

ONBOARD 24H Le Mans 2013 Aston Martin Crash - YouTube

Said on the Eurosport broadcast that they've seen the on board and there didn't appear to be any contact with another driver but that he may have been distracted by 3 cars touching ahead of him. Then wheel on the kerb and it snapped on him while trying to catch the slide. Not too dissimilar to what the #96 car just did.

The big halt helped me as I had trouble with my internet and was able to drive to my folks during the SC, meaning that I didn't miss too much of the early laps.

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Originally Posted by Ranger

First SC after 10 minutes, that's gotta hurt for the Aston Martin team. I have no idea what's actually happening as I don't have commentary on my stream.

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time4tv.com and pick the British Eurosport or Eurosport2 links (it's on Eurosport at the minute but will switch to Eurosport2 later). Stable stream for me at the minute.

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Originally Posted by MrJan

Said on the Eurosport broadcast that they've seen the on board and there didn't appear to be any contact with another driver but that he may have been distracted by 3 cars touching ahead of him. Then wheel on the kerb and it snapped on him while trying to catch the slide. Not too dissimilar to what the #96 car just did.

The big halt helped me as I had trouble with my internet and was able to drive to my folks during the SC, meaning that I didn't miss too much of the early laps.

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The safety car was out for 50 minutes, it was pretty excruciating viewing.

Looks very dark and greasy on track now.

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Originally Posted by MrJan

time4tv.com and pick the British Eurosport or Eurosport2 links (it's on Eurosport at the minute but will switch to Eurosport2 later). Stable stream for me at the minute.

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Thanks Jan, but the page doesn't load for me at all. I'll check again in the morning, if I'm not careful I'll end up watching it all night! :\

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Originally Posted by IndyCarFan

He just lost it exiting Forza. Corvette onboard:

ONBOARD 24H Le Mans 2013 Aston Martin Crash - YouTube

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It was Tetre Rouge, not Forza. Forza is the name of the first chicane this year. Pretty nasty the way it speared off like that, the car just completely snapped on him. Hope he's okay, the reports were that he was conscious but still hasn't been assessed at hospital.

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Originally Posted by Ranger

The safety car was out for 50 minutes, it was pretty excruciating viewing.

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Yeah I was watching a few years ago when there was that huge stoppage because of the big Audi crash between Mulsanne corner and Indianapolis (forget the name of the fella), think that was 45 minutes plus of watching cars behind the safety car in the dark.

Race seems to be settling into it's rhythm now, although the light rain is adding a bit of jeopardy.

They had to repair a large section of barrier, but 50 minutes seemed quite a long time.

The conditions are really tricky, seen plenty of cars having trips through the gravel traps.

Any news on Simonsen's condition? That was a bad error so early but a big hit, so would like to hear he is OK. Last I heard he was on route to hospital but was conscious.

#7 Toyota stopped on track... and now it's started again.

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No. 7 Toyota in trouble, so thats a shame. 21 hours+ to go and one challenger to the Audi's gone.

Audi settling down now and its an inter Audi battle that is shaping up nicely.

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Originally Posted by steveaki13

one challenger to the Audi's gone.

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Well not gone, but falling back