Mark Webber!

[DasArab]

How did the :eek::eek::eek::eek: did he manage to walk away from that!!!!!! :eek:

[supersione]

That was mental.....!!!!!!!

[Deztroyer]

that was an incredible accident - the in car footage - his hands never left the wheel :eek:

he was very fortunate to walk away from that :hat:

[RobW]

Testiment to the safety features and the regulations in place now!

I expected him to be out cold at the very least, VERY lucky escape!

[GSi-Col]

woah replay's here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8766194.stm

[soulman]

Yep that was certainly some scarey in-car footage....thank goodness for their very stringent safety measures

[Hideous]

i must admit, for a second or two during that accident i feared the worst.
good fortune that nobody was hurt - not just webber but the other chap too.

[74-lad]

not the first time for him hes had worse.

[m8internet]

his hands never left the wheel
I wouldn't have taken my hands off the steering wheel either
Was watching it live and saw it coming; wiggle, wiggle, bang
It's some time since a car got as air-borne as that
I noticed he also impacted the sign overhanging the track, smashing that which took the offside wheel off, and in turn rotating the car

[lee866]

I wouldn't have taken my hands off the steering wheel either
Was watching it live and saw it coming; wiggle, wiggle, bang
It's some time since a car got as air-borne as that
I noticed he also impacted the sign overhanging the track, smashing that which took the offside wheel off, and in turn rotating the car


Dunno how you saw that coming as no one else did as it happened way too quick. Also if that flimsy sign was capable of ripping the wheel off i doubt webber would be alive. The wheel came off when it came back down on the floor

[Matt&Jemz]

Was watching it and was holy :censored:, Matt was half way up the garden putting stuff in the shed and heard me came running back in. Thank goodness for sky plus!!

[bowler]

Compared to Mike Conways crash at the Indy 500 this year Webbers crash today was not in the same league see this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4CCWoF-DCU&feature=related

[Dan_BlackSRi]

Dunno how you saw that coming as no one else did as it happened way too quick. Also if that flimsy sign was capable of ripping the wheel off i doubt webber would be alive. The wheel came off when it came back down on the floor

He was probably watching Freejack on Sky Movies at the time ;)

[silverhairedracer]

One lucky guy only glad he walked away,awesome in car camera footage we will see a lot of repeats of that over the next few years !

[siadwel]

That's why you should always leave a gap between you and the driver in front

[silverhairedracer]

Just a thought is that why the Red Bull cars slogan is "Gives you wings " ?

[DasArab]

Either that or maybe they should be sponsored by Spec Savers.

[Deztroyer]

indeed webber has form - didnt his lemans car take off in a similar fashion about 8-10 years ago ??

[DasArab]

Must be the reason he handled this one so well lol.

[74-lad]

indeed webber has form - didnt his lemans car take off in a similar fashion about 8-10 years ago ??

yep smashed him up very bad did both his legs in if i remember correctly was knakerd for a while.

[Jezzy]

indeed webber has form - didnt his lemans car take off in a similar fashion about 8-10 years ago ??

Must be common at Le Mans then...the one I remember is Peter Dumbreck in the flying Mercedes, Le Mans 1999. The interesting bit starts at 30 seconds in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow3rxq7U1mA

[lee866]

Didnt they happen in the same weekend?