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Old 19 Jul 2011, 02:41 (Ref:2928369)   #55
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Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith View Post
Of course it has to be but if the roll bar didn't fail, the problem was down to the chassis/fuel tank design.
In fairness the car had suffered major trauma by the time it stopped upside down, and had done its bit by keeping the driver alive and relatively uninjured. He was not trapped in the car so much as under it.
At that point extricating him from the car was the problem which should have been performed by the marshalls and rescue personell .........

In my book the problem was that he couldn't get out, go and stand on the other side of the armco, and watch the damn thing burn.

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