Hi guys,
I got to Thunderhill Raceway at 6;00 p.m. today; my fiancee was driving a two-day track event here. Reportedly, on the second lap of the first session of the morning, an original GT40 went off the track HARD at the exit of the fast, uphill turn 8, leaving the track violently and going into a ditch at speed, blowing apart and winding up on its roof.
People described it as a genuine, original GT40, NOT a replica. It's red, wearing the #18.
That sounds like P/1018, the former Scuderia Filipenetti Mk 1 that is run out of Reno, and looked after by Intrepid Motorsports. Last time I saw this car, it was being driven into the wall at Sears Point and the whole front end had been cleaned off. So it wouldn't surprise me to learn that it got wrecked again, but this time it sounds far more serious.
The driver was okay, and in fact, he reportedly dusted himself off and then spent the rest of the day driving a vintage NASCAR racer, so the wreck obviously didn't bother him too much.
The question is--was this really P/1018, or just a car painted up to replicate it? Numerous people in the know claimed it was a genuine car worth a million bucks.... :cry:
I got to Thunderhill Raceway at 6;00 p.m. today; my fiancee was driving a two-day track event here. Reportedly, on the second lap of the first session of the morning, an original GT40 went off the track HARD at the exit of the fast, uphill turn 8, leaving the track violently and going into a ditch at speed, blowing apart and winding up on its roof.
People described it as a genuine, original GT40, NOT a replica. It's red, wearing the #18.
That sounds like P/1018, the former Scuderia Filipenetti Mk 1 that is run out of Reno, and looked after by Intrepid Motorsports. Last time I saw this car, it was being driven into the wall at Sears Point and the whole front end had been cleaned off. So it wouldn't surprise me to learn that it got wrecked again, but this time it sounds far more serious.
The driver was okay, and in fact, he reportedly dusted himself off and then spent the rest of the day driving a vintage NASCAR racer, so the wreck obviously didn't bother him too much.
The question is--was this really P/1018, or just a car painted up to replicate it? Numerous people in the know claimed it was a genuine car worth a million bucks.... :cry: