FOTOS ACCIDENTE : British GT Oulton Park 2008

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Hunter Abbott will be celebrating his own Easter miracle today.

The British GT4 Championship driver was 10 minutes into the first race of the season when he left the track at 100 miles per hour trying to negotiate The Cascades, an S-bend on the Oulton Park circuit in Cheshire.

The crash happened in dry conditions, shortly after the start of the hour-long race, the first of the British GT Championship season.

Abbott had slowed down slightly from his top speed of about 160 miles per hour, but had other cars around him as he went into The Cascades. It is thought the Ginetta G50 and another competitor's Aston Martin collided at about 100 miles per hour, causing Abbott to spin off the track and hurtle into the crash barrier.

His Ginetta G50 smashed through a crash barrier, went airborne, thudded into the ground, rolled about three times, landed on its roof and burst into flames.
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Around 1,000 spectators watched in horror as Abbott, now upside down, struggled to free himself from the middle of the fireball for up to 10 seconds.

Then the driver walked out alive and well enough to assist the stewards in putting out the flames around his racing suit.

Drew Gibson, who took this sequence of photographs, admitted:

"As I saw his car rolling, I knew it was really bad and my heart sunk. "Then it burst into flames and I thought 'Oh God, I am watching my first death in motor sport.'

"When he walked out, I was amazed. The car was rolling for about five seconds, disintegrating all the way.

"I assumed he had been knocked unconscious - so there didn't seem any way he was going to get out of that car alive once it burst into flames. The sun was certainly shining on him today."

The race was temporarily halted as Abbott, in his mid-twenties, was helped into an ambulance. His car, thought to be brand new and worth more than £50,000, was destroyed.

In GT championship racing, drivers race in teams of two, changing places at a pit stop.

[franklingc]

Que accidente mas ijeuta!!

[jandorsam]

x dicha no le paso nada al piloto

[mclaren]

que rudo, al chile y que es cierto que tuvo su milagro personal :) , las secuencias de fotos estan buenisimas !!!

[VR6]

Increíble!

...a eso es lo que le teme un piloto (aunque dicen que no siempre)

[Mr. Fly]

eso si es varla de cerca... MUY cerca.

[Danenbs]

Increíble!

...a eso es lo que le teme un piloto (aunque dicen que no siempre)

Miedo a eso ????







Decir milagro personal es vara !!!!


Qué increíble !!!!

[Serpent]

Definitivamente la vio venir y bailó con ella, solo que seguro no estaba preparado para llevársela a la casa..........

Susto es un piropo, milagro es una realidad........