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Transportation => General Vehicle Discussion => Topic started by: DD1975 on June 17, 2012, 19:02:05 PM

Title: Anthony Davidson - Le Mans
Post by: DD1975 on June 17, 2012, 19:02:05 PM
Former F1 driver Anthony Davidsons rather nasty accident at the end of the Mulsanne straight in the Le Mans 24 hours today:

Anthony Davidson Huge Crash 2012 Le Mans 24 Hours (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzw5i14ewXY#ws)

Davidson was hospitalised with two fractured vertebrae (T11 & T12)
Title: Re: Anthony Davidson - Le Mans
Post by: Data on June 17, 2012, 19:21:48 PM
I don't really follow  Le Mans, so sorry for this newbi question, which car was Anthony driving the red or the blue? 
Title: Re: Anthony Davidson - Le Mans
Post by: DD1975 on June 17, 2012, 20:14:12 PM
Davidson was in the prototype, the blue car, the ferrari was in a different class completely and also a lot slower.

It would appear that the driver of the Ferrari wsn't paying attention to what was going on around him,and was being passed by a much faster car and just turned into him.

This is one of the problems with Le Mans, there are a number of different classes of cars in the race so drivers have to be very aware of what is happening out there