Despite how close the spectators get to the cars Rallying is generally pretty safe as motorsport goes. But today the inevitable happened -
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/10867554/Three-dead-after-crash-at-road-rally.html
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Nasty indeed.
However;
"[witness] said that about 20 minutes before the cars set off officials warned a group of about a dozen spectators to move because they were in an “unsafe place”".
So, shocking, but perhaps not a surprise?
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>> shocking, but perhaps not a surprise?
Indeed. Even watching rallying on TV - something I don't often do - one sees spectators standing in absolutely insane places, asking for it. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.
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Spectators in the UK are generally well behaved, although they do tend to exhibit a lack of understanding of the physics involved.
Some continental rallies in the past though were utterly dreadful in the past and if you've not seen this before, have a look:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAbsLE885nw
I spectated on the RAC rally throughout the Group B years and I never saw anything remotely as bad.
We'll have to wait for the informed sources as to what really happened here.
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A Nasty One - No FM2R
