Roger Albert Clark Rally 09 Important news

[MrJan]

I was at the scene of the accident on Ollies and I'm not sure that the car hit anyone. People seemed to get injured trying to jump over the fence and out of the way, looked like 2 with broken legs and one walking wounded with a nasty cut on his ear and possibly a broken arm/collarbone or the like.

Everyone was stood around for ages, the police took interviews, the MSA and organisers asked questions and eventually they let everything get underway again but with only the Kall Kwik rally coming through.

Anyone besides nearly getting killed I had a great weekend, some good driving and incidents at Olivers (especially the Bimmers in the Kall Kwik who kept going through the bales). Forest of Ae yesterday and watched in a good spot where a few ended up in the ditch and then on to Greystoke which was all a bit dull. Anyway after the long drive back to Devon last night I've only just got up so not had time to do anything with photos/videos, will try to get something up later in the day

[snijers FE]

Back home after a grea weekend of rally. It was nice to see for us Belgiums.
We don't know the gravel roads like you do s it was magi for us.
My video is uploading and when it's ready i post him here.
The crash of car nr 5 is also in it.

[MJW]

Absolutely fantastic drive by Gwyndaf in the Vilking Motorsport Escort.

[snijers FE]

My video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaHobMqJ840

[driveace]

Well done to Gwyndaf on a brilliant drive to win by over 4 minutes,well done to Milly the winning navigator,on his 2nd successive win on the Roger Albert,AND a question for Milly "Do you ever look up on a stage"?

[Martin Liddle]

My video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaHobMqJ840

Nice video. It is good to see the cars in action having spent the event in the results room. What happened to your countryman in car 10? Was that on stage 10? Interesting to see the car 5 incident; it is different to the descriptions we had heard and looks a bit of an unusual accident that would be difficult to predict.

[snijers FE]

Nice video. It is good to see the cars in action having spent the event in the results room. What happened to your countryman in car 10? Was that on stage 10? Interesting to see the car 5 incident; it is different to the descriptions we had heard and looks a bit of an unusual accident that would be difficult to predict.

There was a mechanical problem with te car. Luckely they have fixed it by night so that they could start again. When the car was going wel they had very fast stage times. Onlucky this morning when they have an offroad on the second stage of te day. Crew was OK but the car not.

[sal]

I think the organisers would be very interested in the footage of the accident and as Martin says it does put a different angle on things.

Great video though and Stefan put on a great show at Olivers three wheeling round the hairpins. Bring some more Belgians back with you next year!

[J4MIE]

snijers FE were you standing next to a group of photographers at the Heathhall watersplash? There was a few of us discussing what we'd heard about the accident and you said you got it on video?

I'm just home after the RAC and again it was an excellent event Totally knackered, just trying to get organised to head out to rally scotland at about 6am, will try and get a few photos up this evening!

[MrJan]

Interesting to see the car 5 incident; it is different to the descriptions we had heard and looks a bit of an unusual accident that would be difficult to predict.

It was a silly place to stand mainly because you can't run away, you can see in the video how everyone ends on top of each other, but it certainly wasn't an easy one to predict.

He actually lost it coming out of a right hander a good 100 odd yards up the road, over corrected (or the car gripped), hot up a bank, back onto the road, hit the bank again and ended up pinging off either the bridge stantion or a fence post before being speared into the tree. If he hadn't hit that tree I wouldn't be typing this now because I'd ended up in a really bad spot through panic.

When it happened everyone did the usual "oooh" when someone gets it wrong, and it took a bit of time before we all realised where he was going to end up. People probably won't be allowed on the inside of the stage next year but it wasn't an obvious sort of accident to happen, the main problem was that there was a fence behind so no place to run too.

Incidentally I know that the organisers (and the police) have some footage already but I'm sure any will be appreciated. I believe that the MSA are also looking into it.