Pictures are truly top notch, nice!
Just finished watching the race and the finish in GT2 was brilliant. I don't really know who was more in the wrong at the finish, but I think it was good of the stewards to let the drivers determine to finish and not penalties, I'm sure the corvette team won't be happy about that though.
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My favorite part of it all was Jan's reaction. True racer.Originally Posted by jcbe34
"It was really good, hard racing," said Magnussen. "I didn't think I even had a chance after I had to give the position back. Going into the last corner I was too far away to make a proper attack, but Joerg parked the car. I didn't see that, so I slid up and hit him a little - he went sideways and I managed to get on the inside.
"It was a drag race up the hill, and I managed to get ahead of him. Then he turned me into the wall, and he kept turning in. Then I spun around the nose of his car."
Bergmeister said he had not intended to cause an accident.
"I'm definitely sorry Jan went into the wall," Bergmeister said. "I didn't want that to happen. But it was a banging game. I'm glad he's okay. It was tough racing."
Corvette team boss Doug Fehan said he had enjoyed the intense race, but suggested that the rules should be tightened to prevent such battles ending in crashes in the future.
"Those last six laps were as exciting as I've seen in motor racing in a long time – two great teams, two great cars, two great drivers," Fehan said. "It's unfortunate it ended the way it did.
"I think we're going to review the videotapes and see what we can do to ascertain what went wrong there. I'm sure we'll be working with the sanctioning body to address it and put into place safeguards to make sure incidents like this won't happen again."
That's awesome, I like how Magnussen drives for that reason. He dishes it and he takes it. Had that been any of the other current Corvette drivers in the car there probably would have been a lot more bitching and/or drama afterwards. I'll never forget the battle that Magnussen had a few years ago at Daytona in a DP car, with Angelelli I think (?) or maybe it was Tony Stewart, but it was the same type of thing that happened and his reaction was similar. You could tell that Bergmeister was still pumped in the after-race interview. I can't blame him though, I would sure not want to lose the last race of the season by being punted off-line in the last corner. He did a masterful job of winning in what looked to be the slower car.
EDIT: It was Homestead, and the last lap battle with Max Papis that I was thinking of
Last edited by jcbe34; 10-11-2009 at 09:46 PM.
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