1000 km di Monza - Vince Peugeot

[Paolo-LoveGT40 Modelworks]

nice sunny day in Monza.

Peugeout simply too faster than all the others.

saw this for real:
YouTube - Le Mans Endurance Series at Monza - Ortelli's massive crash

:stunned:

as soon as I will understand how to move DV cassette video from my videocamera to my pc I will post my video of it (from high up tribuna)

 

[Paolo-LoveGT40 Modelworks]

and here is mine:

YouTube - 1000km Monza 2008- Ortelli Crash

 

[Pete McCluskey.]

Scary stuff, the way the car snapped sideways it looked like something broke. How was the driver?

 

[Paolo-LoveGT40 Modelworks]

Video: Stephane Ortelli survives horrific crash at Monza — Maximum Motorsport

they talk of a broken ankle.
I stopped to film with my camera when ambulance arrived,cause watching that "live" really makes your heart arrive to brain (and u think everything in such moments,also to tragedy).We spctators were anyway quiet cause he anyway moved arms and unlock the steering wheel, trying to get out of the car.
They worked on the crashed monocoque for up to 10 minutes before bring Stephane into the ambulance.

Prototypes do not give the speed sensation u can have when watching formula1.
Asap such cars touch grass they start to fly(I had the time to see the spin) ...and thought all will be finished there...then see this colored Courage flying as a card plane,and just for a miracle it missed Mc Nish Audi.
I have filmed another Courage touching grass an hour before and crossing all the track at a very high speed, in drift.

I think Ortelli had a tyre failure (all this happened 29 laps before finish).

 

[Pete McCluskey.]

Given the extent of the damage, he is a lucky man.

 

[Doug Clark]

I see the underbody mods introduced to stop the cars flying worked well :stunned:

 

[Paolo-LoveGT40 Modelworks]

I see now they have placed my video into Ortelli's website.

http://www.stephaneortelli.net/

I just left him a message to be back racing soon, and maybe win again Le Mans !