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jrdn7

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6th Aug 12 at 23:19

I've been presented with near enough every form of danger motorsport can throw at you, from being hit in the head with a small stone and requiring stitches to being clipped by a rally car. But this is just unreal.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/101737

_Allan_

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6th Aug 12 at 23:20

Shocking

mike56gte

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6th Aug 12 at 23:29

fuck! thats mental.

taylorboosh

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7th Aug 12 at 08:00

i thought you were safe in a car

Ben G

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7th Aug 12 at 09:08

me too. must have been a pretty shit old car.

neil h

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7th Aug 12 at 09:28

Must have been outside the car tbh, the article is a bit vague about that point.

Unless of course NASCAR now uses convertibles.

[Edited on 07-08-2012 by neil h]

C2RL R

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7th Aug 12 at 09:32

He wasn't racing he was a spectator. It says other people were involved but weren't killed. They were stood next to the car when the lighting struck it. I assume the guy who died might have been touching the car.

taylorboosh

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7th Aug 12 at 09:37

poor bloke but not a motorsport related death

neil h

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7th Aug 12 at 09:39

quote:
Originally posted by C2RL R
I assume the guy who died might have been touching the car.

Not necessarily. He could have been stood relatively close to the strike point. Lightening is fun like that.

SetH

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7th Aug 12 at 09:40

the odds of this happening are tiny, really really unlucky

C2RL R

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7th Aug 12 at 09:43

quote:
Originally posted by neil h

quote:
Originally posted by C2RL R
I assume the guy who died might have been touching the car.

Not necessarily. He could have been stood relatively close to the strike point. Lightening is fun like that.

Probably why I said he might have been touching the car.

jrdn7

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7th Aug 12 at 10:13

quote:
Originally posted by john-d
poor bloke but not a motorsport related death

I think they're treating it as a motorsport related death, seeing as it was within the confines of a NASCAR sanctioned track.

taylorboosh

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7th Aug 12 at 10:31

That is retarded, it was a freak accident

sand-eel

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7th Aug 12 at 22:23

This is where all tracks need lightening conductors from now on...

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