Video: Ginetta hit by door at 140mph
Watch as GT3 racer gets struck by a flying door at Brands. And keeps his foot in…
Racing drivers aren't cut from the same cloth as you and I. Their
internals are forged from unobtanium and their minds wired up to sniff
out circuits, not spreadsheets. Strange creatures, we understand one of
this enigmatic breed is apparently terrified by ducks...
Anyway, Mike Simpson, Ginetta GT3
racer. Last weekend at Brands Hatch, the Ginetta works driver was
running in third place and chasing down second position when,
inexplicably, the windscreen of his G55 was hit. BY A FLYING DOOR.
And it wasn't like he was coasting along, either; he was doing
somewhere in the region of 140mph - the scary region, then - when said
FLYING DOOR smashed into his windscreen. Mike's reaction? He kept his
foot in, and continued chasing down the car in front.
Unfortunately, the impact of aforementioned FLYING DOOR destroyed his
radiator and windscreen, and forced him into an early retirement,
because the car began sliding around on its own coolant. Said Mike: "The
collision was an issue outside of our control, yes it destroyed the
windscreen and radiator, but it's a good job we build them strong at
Ginetta, or it could have been a different story."
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