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What a finish! Mags was pulling out all the stops and Bergi was having none of it. Mags had used the pitlane to pass on the inside through One and the stewards made him give up the position (without a stop-go) on the next-to-last lap. Then the Red Mist took over for the Dane and he made some Berserker moves on that last lap. Bergi brake-checked Mags in Eleven and Mags just drove into him. Trying to go up the inside using the non-homologated Vette motor's torque seemed like a good idea at the time, but when Bergi defended the Vette was too unstable to push him off and instead shot across the track. Mags crossed the finish in second place, perpendicular to the racing line. I was in Pit Lane when Bergi got out of the car. He was shaking like a leaf and his car was damaged on three corners. The Vette fared much worse...



The irony is that the Bergmeister/Long/Flying Lizards Porsche had already sewn up the Championship and Corvette will need to run a new (homologated) engine for 2010. Fortunately nobody got hurt!
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