Onboard Crash 1 Britcar 24Hr 2011 - Civic Type-R vs Seat Leon, Island Hairpin, Silverstone GP

A Seat Toledo is waaaayy off track through Farm and rejoins the track, totally oblivious to cars already lapping, almost wipes out a Ginetta who has to swerve to avoid and drive straight across in front of us and BANG!


We are doing 94mph and starting to brake hard for the 40mpg hairpin. Cant' brake harder, nowhere to go. The Seat driver should be thrown out of the event IMO, if he had been 1 sec earlier coming back on track he could have wiped out 3 cars.


As it is he seems to have been able to continue with just side damage, our offside front end was wiped out, had to replace wishbone and arb etc. and re-align, cost us best part of 1 hour.


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[MaxxUK]

@albertcres - Ooops, thanks for pointing that out :) It was really down to our team manager if he wanted to go to the CoC but I think we were pretty busy and at the time just put it down to a racing incident. I still think it was dangerous and incredibly careless and can't believe a driver would drive back on a track without knowing whats coming. If we were leading at the time i'm sure more would have been said about it.

[tgm]

James May was driving last year and his wine drinking buddy and someone else was his co-drivers.

[DionysisX]

@andresevers11 well, if that's you, nice job!!!

[flammenjc]

Lol, name on the rear door of the seat says 'James May'

[albertcres]

It's a BMW Z4 not a Ginetta ;-) Not the world's greatest move by the Seat driver I must say! With hindsight, you probably should have had a word with the CoC. Good to meet you the other day - by the munched Mosler. AB