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by rndholesqpeg 4969 days ago
The author keeps referring to the incident in practice before the Petit Lemans as if it was the Porsche driver's fault for the incident. Its quite apparent that the Delta Wing's line is way off on the pass if he expects the Porsche to be able to make turn 12. When you see in the video that Porsche turns in he would barely be able to have made turn 12, the Delta Wing left him no room and it looks like the Delta Wing driver was aiming for the motorcycle course not the car course which sweeps right from under the tunnel.
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The accident was just a racing incident IMO. The Delta was taking the normal line a prototype would take to get around a slower GT car. The GT oversteered at the exit of the right hander (you can watch his front tires as he tries to save it) and collected the Delta. What I found to be crappy was the GT driver flipping off the Delta driver after the collision. He also never went over to talk to Gunnar afterwards (Once of those unwritten rules in racing).

http://www.joe.ie/uploads/story/29499/porsche.jpg