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23 Jun 2005, 11:01 (Ref:1338193) | #1 | ||
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What Happened To The T2M Motorsport Porsche No 91
Just wondering if anybody knows what happened to the T2M Motorport Porsche? After the race when we got to the parc ferme we saw the state on it and where a bit shocked, and no body had mentioned anything about it.
It must of hit something very hard and hopefully no one got hurt. Sorry if this has been talked about in another thread. |
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23 Jun 2005, 11:15 (Ref:1338211) | #2 | ||
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Xavier Pompidou lost the car and threw it through a gap in the barricade -- a kind of freak event -- we saw the medical car en route to the accident, but nothing was ever said further about it, and I for one am concerned about that. I hope M. Pompidou is all right.
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23 Jun 2005, 11:18 (Ref:1338213) | #3 | |
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It was pretty shocking to see and I had no idea what had happened to it.
Was told by John Brooks after the race that it had hit a tree, which seemed unbelievable in this day and age, but have a look at the account of it on lmsr.net: http://www.lmsr.net/julmt2mf.html Apparently a wheel failure rather than driver 'losing it', but Pompidou was unhurt, which would not have been the case were it a right-hooker... |
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23 Jun 2005, 11:36 (Ref:1338232) | #4 | ||
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Here is what it looked like in parc ferme.T2M Porsche a bit bent
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23 Jun 2005, 13:18 (Ref:1338327) | #5 | ||
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Dear lord, if that was John Brooks' writing... Well, I won't go there.
Stephan Gervais is credited with the news on dailysportscar; he provided the photo of the broken wheel as well as some pics of the tree in question. A brilliant (lucky?) bit of driving by Xavier to avoid the marshals and get the car facing in a direction that at least would protect him some. |
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Glad to hear that Xavier is ok and nobody else was involved.
Perhaps he can jion the green party now, as thats a good bit of 'tree hugging'. |
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that's a hell of a whack... did he feel a bit "wooden" after that? ....OK I'll slap myself for that one lol
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