Holy smoke, Allan McNish has just had a bone-rattling shunt in the № 3 Audi R18. His prototype tried to pass a G.T.E. Am. in a spot where there was just not enough space, the rear left of his car came together with the front right of the another, & both were thrown off the track. The Audi flew sideways into a tire barrier, at which point it was smashed to pieces, showering the nearby photojournalists & track marshals with debris & tires in truly terrifying display. That was the most violent crash I've seen in my three years of watching the "Grand Prix of Endurance." Between them, the three drivers of McNish's car had won Le mans thirteen times, but neither Tom Kristensen nor Dindo Capello will get the chance to drive in the 2011 race. McNish was able to climb out of his deranged prototype after the marshals had managed to flip it off its back & initial indications are that he is, almost miraculously, unhurt. That was terrifying.
One of the three Audi R18s, out inside of the first hour. Fortitudine vincimus.
P.1
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G.T.E. Pro.
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Don't worry, Porsche & Ferrari are dueling it out in G.T.E. Am. It wouldn't be Le Mans with Ferrari v. Porsche.
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