Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2015

[Mirek]

It's not that hard to find it by yourself, but I have a good day so here you go:

And they are claiming that they showed the red SOS sign immediately when Bertelli started to feel sick and dizzy. The spectator you are arguing so fiercely about was a paramedic who was just helping there. The co-driver called the Chief Medical Officer as well. So according to FWRT incident report they did everything by the rules and had been refused an ambulance for over three hours.

It's pointless debate. It doesn't matter how the crew asks for medical assistance. The point is they asked for medical assistance and that was refused by chief medical officer over a phone. That's unacceptable as it is impossible to determine the medical state of any person via phone.

I can speak how it is here as I was several times personally involved (even though I was just a spectator). In any event from local rallysprint to ERC Barum rally the HQ never refuse to send medical assistance. I would like to repeat the word never as the procedure is clear - in case of such request there are no questions, stage is topped and ambulance starts immediately after previous competitive car. The life and health of the affected person is much more important than smooth run of the stage. In case there is a warning about a crash from the G-sensor at the HQ, the HQ calls the crew to check the situation. When the crew says that everything is allright but the HQ knows it was a crash of bigger magnitude the HQ continue to periodically check if everything is ok.

For example I was personally last year at the crash of Odložilík in Barum rally. His co-driver hit the rollcage by his head and felt dizzy and sick which is basically same situation as here with Bertelli. The HQ sent the ambulance immediately after receiving the information that he feels sick. They didn't even ask whether the ambulance is needed. It's common sense as nobody of us there including the crew had a CAT scan device with him to exclude internal injury. That's why the procedure (at least here) is to ask no useless questions but act.