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he drove the #95 Aston and crashed on Tertre Rouge corner of the Circuit de la Sarthe.
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He hit that armco barrier hard. RIP. -
Not a good few weeks for race car drivers...Comment
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is there a clip of it? i want to see what happened.Comment
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No bueno. The Astons are my favorite group out there. This came across my twitter feed.
(the 95 car - far left - is the one that crashed)
Sorry if this is in bad taste, but here's onboard vid from the car behind him when it happened
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And damn it was only on the third lapComment
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i just found that clip of the car behind him. i don't think it is in bad taste, i just wanted to see what happened, see the circumstances behind it.Comment
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found this too. that was a very hard hit
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That's terrible. The first vid posted is very eerie. One minute in control, and then next you're gone. Sometimes with all this safety and technology we forget just how dangerous motorsports are. I would think at that particular location in the track they might not want bump strips near a spot where you can have a perpendicular collision with a wall."When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
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How did that happen? That's the last turn before the straight, early throttle on 3rd lap cold tires? Looks like they were taking it slow and easy.
Maybe it looks slow because its smooth.
320rwhp. 7.67 @ 90mph 1.7 60'
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The bump strips there in forza, my only experience with Le Mans, are very big and will really mess you up if you hit them, they're a few feet back behind the rumble strip though.Originally posted by CJ View Post
From what I can tell, it just lost the ass end.
320rwhp. 7.67 @ 90mph 1.7 60'
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It's sure it's a combination of both, it just (to me) looks like that bump strip caused him to lose control.Originally posted by 91CoupeMike View Post"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
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Those rumble strip are slick as shit. Looks like he was feeding it some power and the ass end stepped out, he made a correction, the tires got back onto the racing surface where they had grip, and it shot him into the armco barrier.Comment
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"Simonsen's car appeared to snap loose on the damp and slick track, then immediately turned back to the left has he corrected and slid into a steel barrier."
Quoted from the Yahoo Sports article. So going by what I quoted, and what I have seen in the clips, if there was still water on the curbing, when he dropped 2 wheels on the curbing, he lost traction, started to slide, correct, and then hit a dry spot on the track and when the tires caught, he probably still had left hand correction in the wheel and the car shot to the left and into the wall.
Of course, that is just my opinion.
Also by that article, there is a tree behind the Armco where he hit and bark was missing from the tree.
Might look slow, but you can bet they were still hauling the mail around that corner. Just by looking at the damage to the car, Simonsen was more than likely running a pretty good speed.
Sucks to hear and see that happen.
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