[elky] Fwd: YOU MIGHT THINK "JUST WATCHING" IS SAFE
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- Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 07:09:57 -0400 (EDT)
Smokey Mt Frank
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Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 4:05 AM
Subject: YOU MIGHT THINK "JUST WATCHING" IS SAFE
Every year we visit Le Mans for the 24 Hours. We meet the drivers, the
teams and our collector friends. We obtain press passes for access to the pit
lane and trackside throughout the race and come back with several thousand
photos to help us in our efforts to get the models right. Whilst we need
eyes in the back of our heads in the pit lane with cars constantly entering
and leaving and are constantly alert not to get in the way or cause an
incident, it is far more relaxed at track side. The access road that runs
around
the circuit for the marshals, their safety equipment and press
photographers is protected from out of control cars by armco barriers,
tyre-walls and
very often, wide gravel traps. So safety is not usually a major concern in
the forefront of our minds.
This year was different for us. In the bottom photo below you can pick out
two of our photographers. Alex, who spends most of the year in our factory
in China developing our models, is the one dressed in black with the blue
vest, crouching behind the scooter and Manu who helps us with photographs,
is in the red shirt, blue vest and carrying the big lens. Manu broke his
wrist as he fell avoiding flying debris. Alex who should have been crushed by
the shattered Audi, escaped miraculously when the car, just as it was about
to go over the barrier, performed a vertical pirouette on its nose and
then fell back on the trackside.
You can see all this in the spectacular crash sequence on the youtube link
below (after the photos Of Allan, Tom Kristensen and Dindo Capello at our
China factory last year and the picture of Allan waving). When you see it
in slow motion you will understand why we, who could see the accident from
the other side of the track, had our hearts in our mouths and were so
relieved that our friends, including Allan were all alive. That Allan McNish
could walk away from the shattered remnants of his Audi attests to his fitness
and the huge advances in safety technology of recent years. We are
grateful.
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3yj4Vnmrzs&playnext=1&list=PLA81BEF46D55AF020_
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3yj4Vnmrzs&playnext=1&list=PLA81BEF46D55AF020)
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