Allan McNish's crash at Le Mans

[roguejuror]

Horrible crash one hour into the the 24 hours race in France today.

 

[Mudcat]

Man, seems like it would not have been too hard for some of those guys standing around behind that bank of tires to end up dead.

 

[gregm]

he just walked away from this, unbelievable engineering in those cars. My link for Eurosport keeps changing over to womens soccer but link 3 seems to be consistently streaming the race

http://www.firstrowsports.eu/watch/68404/3/watch-24-hours-of-le-mans-:-the-race.html

 

[CaliGirlNY]

wow. Greg is right, amazing engineering.

 

[roguejuror]

death 10 minutes into this year's race

 

[Matty]

Ack. Took nothing at all, did it. Ack ack ack.

 

[roguejuror]

Apparently but it was high impact, like Ayrton Senna's.

 

[Matty]

And Dale Earnhardt.

 

[gregm]

Really treacherous conditions today, they said he was awake and talking with medics when they extracted him