1990 - Le Mans - Aguri Suzuki's huge accident

All that changed at 8.22pm, when the Tom's Toyota of Aguri Suzuki was involved in a dramatic clash with race leader Gianfranco Brancatelli at the Dunlop Curve.

The Italian moved into the inside of the corner in an ambitious effort to overtake the yellow Toyota and the result was a potentially horrific accident. Suzuki's car, tapped from behind, shot off the circuit and slammed into the barriers.

The Japanese driver was taken to hospital with concussion. His car, making its race debut at Le Mans, faired even worse , losing both rear wheels and much o the back-end. Brancatelli limped round with broken front bodywork and a punctured tyre.

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[mackc6r]

Suzuki driving a Toyota? The irony

[26thidclan]

le mans and murray walker...a BRILLIANT COMBO

[Hynee]

@nagasako7 It does look like that.

[9999faill]

murray would probably commentate for the full 24hrs with no breaks

[nagasako7]

Was that molten metal dripping from the turbo spool

[powersurge001]

@26thidclan i think disastrous would be a better description... the way he jumbled and confused a 20 car field in formula 1, i can only imagine what happened with the 100+ cars and 300+ drivers at le mans.

[Bekr13]

That's what you could call crash! Hopefully everyone was ok. /Becker SWE @ Fb & XBL

[TheArsebiscuits]

Palmer and Walker? Is this from the BBC?

[bradleyblackster]

he crashed again in the aforementioned mexico gp as well...terrible luck

[Marcus666Sund]

WOW, I've never heard Murray Walker comment Le Mans. The voice of motorsport.

[DavidSkywalker01]

@ericstranne Turn one looks like.