24 Hours of Le Mans

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

Well, quite. And you can bet that in no way will the reporting concentrate on how remarkable it is, given the severity of certain accidents, that this is the first fatality during the race itself since Jo Gartner in 1986.

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Exactly that in itself speaks volumes for the work and progress motorsport is making.

Back into the Race.

These conditions are making this a very tricky first 4 hours. It has drizzled and dried out about 4 times now.

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Originally Posted by steveaki13

Back into the Race.

These conditions are making this a very tricky first 4 hours. It has drizzled and dried out about 4 times now.

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The Anthony Davidson rant about being on slicks was quite good. He must have been hammering down Mulsanne and even paused, presumably to go through one of the chicanes, before carrying on complaining :D :up:

I know it was classic.

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Originally Posted by steveaki13

Exactly that in itself speaks volumes for the work and progress motorsport is making.

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It does. However, the initial unconfirmed (can't stress that word enough) reports of what happened would, if borne out by the facts, suggest that progress we thought had been made in other areas might not necessarily have gone far enough. Time will tell.

RIP Allan Simonsen :(

Hopefully Aston Martin can get the win as a tribute to him.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

It does. However, the initial unconfirmed (can't stress that word enough) reports of what happened would, if borne out by the facts, suggest that progress we thought had been made in other areas might not necessarily have gone far enough. Time will tell.

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Thats true, we discussed that above. If as you say its true a tree was involved, that is a big question mark over the barriers and safety.

Although as I said progress has been made in leaps and bounds, there is still areas that are an issue and its always sad it takes this sort of incident for people to realise there is always more that can be done.

Well the Aston team were running 1 and 2 earlier, but a Porsche has split them now, but a long way to go. It would be a emotional and wonderful tribute to Allan Simonsen

3 cars appear out at the moment.

The Aston though Simonsens sad accident

Also No. 31 Lotus and No. 28 Lola.

I don't think that you can ever eliminate all risk from motorsport, and if you did then it would lose a lot of what makes it exciting.

You also have to consider the location of the accident. There aren't many accidents at Tetre Rouge that would result in a car going head first into the barrier at that spot, far more likely to end up in the gravel, in the armco on the inside or spinning off down Mulsanne.