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Bill is Dead.
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Alaska.
Posts: 9,633
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When I shared this with the club I belong to, this is the response I got. Thought I would share it with you all.
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Those guys DIDN'T walk away. The Ferrari, yellow car, was split into two halves. The half with the engine ended up on the outside of the front straight, and the front half in the infield where the new pit wall would be. You can't see it in the in-car video, but there's an old Porsche against the outside wall just past the exit to 12. There's kind of a big splotchey blur where it should be.
Road Atlanta was red flagged for 2.5 hours to clean up the debris. The driver of the yellow Ferrari was LifeFlighted out. And, was in the hospital for some time after the wreck. The driver of the Aurora had two broken legs, and in the video at the point of impact the Olds driver looses consciousness.
How do I know all this? I was there. I watched it happen from the Pirelli Chalet, which overlooked the pits (old pit).
Oh, and at that time those were World Sports Cars. ALMS wasn't around, yet. I think Don Panoz bought the track two years after that incident.
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02-03-2006, 02:36 PM
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