ALMS Laguna Seca – GT2 Final Lap
Submitted by reign on October 18, 2009 – 10:59 pm7 Comments
This is an exciting finish. For the last 20 minutes of the race the Flying Lizard Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, driven by Joerg Bergmeister, was holding back the more powerful Corvette driven by Jan Magnussen. Corvette was bumping the Porsche towards the final laps. This is how it ended. I don’t think it was very sportsmanlike to bump the Porsche from the rear. At least make a clean pass. What do you think?
No one deserves to run into a wall, good to hear Jan is OK.
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I was crazy when i saw this.
The whole story :
http://fatlace.com/stayfresh/mksim/?p=986
so who is more wrong? the corvette that repeatedly threw punches, or the Porsche that knocked him out?
well if you look closely, there was no bump. at least from what i can see
Corvette don’t have to push on the back but after Porsche is wrong, that’s sure.
rj…I’ve a corvette (c5) and a porsche (58 speedster) so hopefully I am not biased. I was standing right above the TV camera at 11 and there was definitely a small bump BUT it was because Joerg really dropped anchor. Check relative speed differential at 1/4 speed view. These guys are really pros…Joerg, at 120+ mph moves toward wall leaving just enough room for Jan to pass without hitting inside wall if Jan’s got the cojones to do it, and he does! Most people couldn’t do this at 20 mph. Looks to me that as soon as Jan got his door ahead of Joerg’s left front fender they both may have moved to the right a couple of inches but one more or less than the other. This could have been a human carnage disaster and I am really glad it wasn’t as there is no give to those concrete walls…my brother spent a week in Monterey Peninsula Hospital with seven broken ribs and a collapsed lung when he slid sideways into a barrier about a third of the way down the corkscrew in an SCCA vintage race a few years back.
The Corvette did not bump the Porsche on the exit of the last turn, he came very close within inches but there was no actual contact. In fact Magnussen taps his brakes to avoid bumping Bergmeister, this is clearly evident if you maximize the size of the video and watch the 1/2 and 1/4 speed clips. A little bit of bumping and pushing is racing however i think Bergmeister pushed it to far by running Magnussen right up next to the barrier. The Vette clearly had speed advantage and would have passed the Porsche easily by the finish line, it appears Magnussen might have back off a little not sure how hard or how far Bergmeister was going to push him toward the wall, but then decided to try and power past the Porsche and the Vette was clearly 3/4 car length ahead at the time of the crash. What’s not really clear is if the Vette might have tapped the wall and that sent him into a spin or if the Porsche tapped him which pushed him into wall causing the spin. Any footage taken from the finish line of the finish?
So Porsche is wrong, agree ?