VLN1: Incident 28/03/15

Sterling Archer

I don't like to post things like this but I'm fairly sure this is an incident that will be discussed at lenght in places

During this weekends VLN1 race the Nissan No. 23 left the track at the Flugplatz, got airbone and crashed into the spectator area, tragically 1 spectator was killed, several more were injured, the race was stopped and did not restart.

From the video of the crash it appears the #23 was missing its front splitter, prior to becoming airborn.

BTG piece on the incident - Includes a video of the car catching air (thankfully does not show the impact with spectators) http://bridgetogantry.com/2/index.php/racing-at-the-ring/693-vln1-tragedy-at-flugplatz

Nissan statement - http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=3b7e85c6366c81b77d50b7b35&id=f90fe5cbaa

VLN Statement - http://vln.de/de/news/3844/vln-auftaktrennen-unfallbedingt-abgebrochen.html

For reference here is a video (from 2012) taken from the spectator section https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIUF3_qjHvU

And an in car video of the same corner (VLN6) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2FySFr-1U0

RIP

Grim.

sickening crash

The splitter still seems to be on the car when its airborne in the video ive seen

unfortunately GT3 Cars blowing over at flugplatz is something that's been threatening to happen for years and with no run off and spectator areas on the outside of the corner the consequences of a crash were inevitable.

Sad day for Motorsport

RIP to the fan who died

Killinator

Shocking accident, hope it doesn't set back Jann's burgeoning career.

Flugplatz is so popular for fans largely on the sight of cars going flat out or near enough over the crest quite regularly catching air, with the cars getting faster it really did appear to be a ticking time bomb waiting for a car to go flying like that, although the bounce that sent the car flipping was the kind of bad luck so often affiliated with these tragedies.

A man, just a fan, like any of us here, taken away whilst pursuing his passion for motorsport,

RIP and hopefully a speedy recovery to everyone else involved.