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Originally Posted by Samoan Attorney
From memory - so could be a bit faulty...........at the start the three Mercedes and the two BMW McLarens jumped to the front. Boutsen in the werks Porsche and Gounon disputed sixth and coming out of Les Combes there was some sort of incident, the Frenchman's Gulf McLaren spun wildly collecting first Olofsson, then Nielsen in the other Gulf cars.........all out on the spot. Gounon was stood down for the following race at the A1 Ring - he had comprehensively wrecked a McLaren earlier in the season at Silverstone during morning warm up. Team principal, Michael Cane, was, and no doubt still is, of the John Wyer school of driver management. Crashing your car into your team mates is a hanging offence, no appeal.
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Thank you for the sum up - it is really not clear in the video footage what happened, other than the Gulf's being wrecked.
(I am also relieved that it was not Nielsen making a mess of himself. Something which he quite prone to do)