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Two horrible accidents and two very lucky drivers, not to mention the spectators and photographers. Shows how far the safety has come on.

Thankfully no fatal accidents yet but you do have to wonder how long this run will last.

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Originally Posted by Shifter

I was so frightened, it probably seems dumb of me to make this assumption, but I never would have believed that Rockenfeller got out of the car on his own; so when they were attending to him over the wall I thought he'd been thrown from the car.

The strange thing is, I think it was that very kink on the hunaudieres straight that Jo Bonnier tried to go inside a Ferrari (again), a GTO, and the same thing happened with fatal results.

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Not strange at all to make those type of assumptions. As motorsport fans we are sort of prepared or geared towards expecting the worst. Also it hasn't been until very recently that we've begun to see drivers even surviving the type of accident that we've seen these Audi drivers have.

Incidentally this wasn't on the Hunidieres, it was between Mulsanne corner and Indianapolis.

Well we didn't see the Audi remains properly. I did think it wasn't goo as you could see from my posts.

Tbh I was fairly sure McNish was OK. I was thinking a marshal or photographer might be badly hurt

Just seen the accident in real time from the gantry camera. Can't think of anything to say about it....it was, erm...well.....yeah.

Yeah. Scary stuff. But that's why the drivers get paid a lot more than you or i

Unbelivable, some very strong cars. Fastest part of the track. 2 very lucky Audi drivers.

Sorry I don't know why I called it the hunandieres...but yeah its the straight with the two kinks ending with the banked right at Indianapolis, a straight I've long maintained is more dangerous than the hunandieres...those two kinks are massively quick and it might be debatable whether or not a GT car can be expected to take an 'outside' line through them to let a Prototype through, especially at night...I guess they can, but it seems really easy for contact to happen there--not sure I'd be brave enough to try to pass a GT there. I too figured McNish might be hurt but I wasn't as scared for him as I was for Rocky, I guess partly because we didn't actually see what happened at first other than the onboard and then the car post-crash.

Two terrible accidents, now I hope Rockenfeller is ok... the only good thing is that at least Audi showed that their cars are really strong

GT cars are not ment to take the outside line. Any prototype driver will tell you. A GT or slower car should stay on the racing line. Its up to the faster car to overtake. In my view thats what the Farrari did, and the Audi dived for a gap that was dissapering.