Anthony Davidson Toyota #8 Massive Crash - Le Mans 24 Hours 2012

Ferrari hits the toyota which leads to a massive crash. Like last year with the Audi, and rockenfeller. Its a Ferrari again.
Anthony Davidson Huge Crash 2012 Le Mans 24 Hours
Anthony Davidson Toyota Crash | Le Mans 24 2012
Airborne
Anthony Davidson gets together with F458 Italia driven by Perrazini, goes airborne and crashes hard into the wall. Both drivers got out of the car on their own. Ant is getting medical treatment right now....
CRASH Le Mans 2012 - TOYOTA n°8 - Anthony Davidson - LIVE Eurosport HD FR
Toyota #8 Huge Crash 2012 Le Mans 24 Hours (RAW HD VIDEO)
An intriguing Le Mans 24 Hours erupted into drama when the Toyota Racing TS 030 - HYBRID of Anthony Davidson suffered a huge crash after contact with an amateur team car.

The British driver was looking to pass the #81 Ferrari 458 Italia of Piergiuseppe Perazzini at the Mulsanne Corner when the Ferrari looked to move across and the two collided.

Davidson's Toyota was sent spinning into the air, fortunately landing the right way up but then hurtling into the tyre barriers while the Ferrari, which also went into the barrier, ended up on its roof.

The incident forced the race organisers to send out the safety car while emergency services attended the scene. Early reports indicate that both drivers are unhurt.

The incident provided a bitter-sweet moment for Toyota as they had just taken the lead for the first time in the race. The #1 Audi R18 e-tron quattro of Marcel Fassler had been leading for the first five hours until the #7 Toyota, driven by Davison's team-mate Nicolas Lapierre, overtook him on lap 57, also on the Mulsanne Straight. The pair continued to dice with each other through Indianapolis and Arnage and towards the start-finish line before the Davidson crash brought the safety car out.

Only a few laps earlier, the #3 Audi of Romain Dumas also crashed on the Mulsanne Straight. Dumas jumped out and could be seen ripping off bits of the Audi's bodywork before getting back in and coaxing the diesel car back to the pits.

Toyota team's director of business operations Rob Leupen told Autosport that Davidson was ok: "Anthony is in the medical centre and the good news is that he is walking and talking and seems OK," he said. "He will be going to the hospital for further investigations.

Toyota Racing said in a statement: "Anthony Davidson was taken to the circuit medical centre following his accident during the Le Mans 24 Hours.

Doctors at the circuit have confirmed that Anthony is suffering from shock and back pain, however there are no signs of any injuries and he is walking and talking with no problems.

"He will be taken to a local hospital for precautionary checks but the team is relieved and happy to hear he is okay. Further updates will follow in due course."

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[thughes218]

Time to kick these amateur ferrari drivers out of Le Mans.

[MiniOne82]

Ferrari was at fault for not checking mirrors. if he had he would of seen a LMP1 Toyota coming behind him.....fast and given room for Davidson to pass.

[Kenneth Ellefsen]

Ferrari owns the race track, always have, always will. Ferrari is the best and fastest, just ask any Ferrari fan and they will tell you all else is shit...so it must be true......NOT! Dumb ass hazardous Ferrari move. I hope they where given a hefty fine, as well as a driver penalty.

[atibingler]

Idiot Ferrari

[MrSisterfister100]

I agree with this guy.

[SaintBEEP]

Racing is Racing. Racing is not crashing. These Ferrari drivers cause severe accidents all the time. Last year with McNish (though, I think that was McNish's fault), and Rockenfeller's crash, I thought Mike had been killed. The Ferrari's only get in the way, unlike their other class members, it seems only they get in the way of others.

[godillon3]

racing is racing, drivers make mistakes and crashes happen. 24 hrs at le mans is the toughest race in the world and the ferrari guy broke his concentration for that split second and it ended in a crash. thats all that happened

[lemans24fan]

Oh, shit, you told him!

[lemans24fan]

Hell yeah.

[thughes218]

You are the idiot for saying that I don't watch multi class endurance racing and don't understand safe passing. If you'd watch my channel you'd see me driving a formula car at Infinion on an open test day passing lots of different types of cars with rather different speed and making a bunch of safe passes, appropriate for a test day. I've also done a lot of racing in a Lotus Exige when I was the slower car getting passed. I'm a big fan of ALMS and watched lot of racing in person and on TV.

[MrEdsterify]

Anyone know if there is a in car camera angle showing this crash? Cheers :)