Seat Eurocup Incident at Brands Hatch

[dank]

This is unbelievable: http://youtu.be/GKtUoxx7nok

Not a single person injured either!

[Subaru_WRX_STi]

thats haorrible indeed, a nasty crash, the poor marschalls are escpaing ant the Leon is heading !!

[dank]

I was at Brands Hatch yesterday for the WTCC qualifying and complained about the new catch fencing they'd installed at most of the circuit recently!

Seems they probably haven't gone far enough...

[Sodemo]

I thought you were going to post this crash...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x1sR68Sg-w

[skells22]

now how long is that red flagged race delayed for? thanks for posting the link to that crash over the barriers and that is the 2nd time this year a car has done that in the UK.

[dank]

Originally Posted by Sodemo

I thought you were going to post this crash...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x1sR68Sg-w

I was there for that last year. Can just about make me out in the crowd!

But, as crashes go, I think today's was a lot worse...

[redshoes]

They were lucky that the crowd had started to thin out after the second WTCC race finished. There's normally 20-30 people standing at there and it's on of the spots I usually stop at on my walk around the track. I had intended to watch the SEAT race from there but luckily changed my mind just before the race.

[skells22]

who won the race of this?

[jordan81]

Originally Posted by skells22

now how long is that red flagged race delayed for? thanks for posting the link to that crash over the barriers and that is the 2nd time this year a car has done that in the UK.

We had a car over the barriers and into the trees at Gurston Down today too!

[tux]

So glad everyone is ok after that it was a massively scary accident. I guess next year there will be catch fencing there and the thing that annoys me most about that is that hundreds of people will moan about the catch fencing.

[Alfa Fan]

Thats a very near miss! Look how close the car gets to the marshal on the last bounce

[stuart thompson]

Originally Posted by tux

So glad everyone is ok after that it was a massively scary accident. I guess next year there will be catch fencing there and the thing that annoys me most about that is that hundreds of people will moan about the catch fencing.

probably not, its a year to the day since Surtees fatal accident and the GP circuit remains unchanged, remember the wheel went into the spectator areas.

[grantp]

It would be a shame to have a rare occurrence like an errant wheel to result in all tracks(for that is how it would go) being surrounded by high fencing.

On a dirt stock car oval it's expected or a Nascar or Indy oval with very high speeds, but road circuits - preferably not as a general requirement around the full circuit.

On the other hand what irony if the requirement comes about at Brands Hatch because of some offshore dodgem drivers who, perhaps, would be more suited to racing on the aforementioned ovals. Maybe in figure of eight configuration to save time.

Or am I being too harsh?

[gixxer]

We also had a huge one at Combe today and again it was a seat leon that lost it coming up avon rise went into the corn field dug in and rolled 4 and half timest not sure if the tv cameras got it tho!

[oneofapair]

Looks to me, as the cars are going into dingle dell, some have four wheels on the grass. If the "lead" car is not expecting this"overtaking" position it would seem inevitable contact with the resulting off's are going to occur.
Corner cutting seems to now be the norm ' nowadays, despite threats of penalties, maybe now is the time to become stricter with these penalties before someone gets hurt and also to protect our sport that we all love so much.