1999 - Le Mans - Aftermath of Mark Webber's warm-up accident

During Thursday's qualifying session, Mark Webber's #4 Mercedes-Benz CLR went off in a big way and flipped at high speed at the fast approach towards Indianapolis and the driver was taken away by ambulance. But later on he was fine to carry on with his weekend at Le Mans.

Well the good news is that the #4 Mercedes has been rebuilt over night, so has Mark Webber and they were reunited in time for the morning warm up.

Now the bad news...the #4 Mercedes is back on its roof ! Yes,it is true believe it or not.It looks as if precisely the same thing happened as last time, same car. same driver, and much the same circumstances. Mark Webber must have wished he stayed in bed this morning or maybe let Jean-Mar Gounon or Marcel Tiemann take the car out. Mercedes will have a spot of bother convincing us media lot that the car didnt wind up on its roof this time! This was on Webbers out lap. We wonder what the team are thinking at the moment but both other cars are still out there and the other team drivers must be just a mite apprehensive dont you think ?

Not wishing to be too tabloid about this bit of local difficulty but Mercedes did have another spot of bother here in 1955. So is it just the #4 car that is spooked or quite incredibly unlucky?

Eventually at 11.30am on race-day, Mark Webber went home - he's had enough.

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[Zeggawong]

Are any of webbers flips at Le Mans actually on film? I can't find them. 

[lemanslegend]

@Zeggawong There are no footage of the flips at all, this video angle missed it and there wasn't nothing during practice (although I am certained it would have been filmed)

I know Christophe Bouchet's Mercedes got an onboard camera but I don't know about Mark Webber's car.

[TimWan93]

Crash comes at 2:30

[Slashbag69]

This just proves that Mark Webber had wings before Red Bull.

[GeorgeCaminhaZ]

wtf that viper gts-r team oreca is doing among the prototypes? O.o

[soundslave]

Aussies do things upside-down.

[blainyrules]

@kzruns That's Peter Dumbreck

[izybluffen]

@kzruns Dude, that's not Webber's flip.

[OMGgroupB]

mark has a habit of doing this

[yop911]

is that a toyota GT-one at the start?



[sultanabran1]

@TheAirsoftmadman They can if they are set up for it. None of the current F1 tracks allow for the car to be set up to go that fast in a straight line however. I believe if you look up Honda F1 and Bonneville, they did max out an F1 car, but that was set up for straight line speed only. It had no rear wing and a lot of other mods were done.

[kzruns]

@lemanslegend

wrong, there IS footage of the flip: watch?v=rQbgSe9S54I

[Gav70100]

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