DoubleFault wrote:Bourdais was about to jump in the car as a scheduled stop, he hasn't bothered and has now taken his helmet off. Seems like it will be a long time in the garage, wishbone change taking place at the momenmt.
It's definitely out. They have stopped working on the car and put the cover over it. Probably a suspension attachment point to the tub broke.
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Commentators said that the suspension mount had come away from the tub. They also said they didn't think it would be a general problem because the Pug's rarely have that kind of failure.
Nigel Mansell's crash that put his Beechdean Ginetta out of the Le Mans 24 Hours has been put down to a slow puncture.
The 1992 Formula 1 world champion was just four laps into the raced when his car pitched sideways into the wall between Mulsanne Corner and Indianapolis. The accident caused a half-hour safety car period while Mansell was extricated from the car and taken to the circuit's medical facility.
He suffered a concussion in the crash but was released from the medical centre and has returned home.
Beechdean team principal Andrew Howard said: "We are very relieved to report that though Nigel is very sore, he is okay. The data from the car has shown that the cause was a slow puncture to the rear left tyre."
Currently a safety car on track because the GT2 Aston was stranded in the Porsche Curves.
***Some say you should live each day like it was your last... but who wants to live each day in wild panic and extreme death anxiety?
The universe, look at the hugeness of it... it is a dizzying thought that little ol' me is the centre of it all!***
Even after more than an hour radio Le Mans is still discussing the overtaking action of Davidson what lead to the crash of the Corvette.
One of the commentators: He drove like a d**k.
Brian Redman: "Mr. Fangio, how do you come so fast?" "More throttle, less brakes...."
Watching the replays I'm struggling to see what Ant did wrong. He was clearly down the inside of the Collard Corvette and had the racing line. He didn't make a late lung and at the point the Corvette spun there hadn't been any contact nor had Ant strayed from the line he was on. If anything it was Collard at fault, had he been more circumspect then he and his team mates would still be leading the class.
