Ortelli's crash Le Mans Series at Monza 2008 (replays)

Stéphane Ortelli looses control of his Courage-Oreca LMP1 at a speed of 315 km/h during the 1000 km of Monza race, 2nd round of the Le Mans Series. He escapes with only an injured ankle (small fractures). Initially it was reported that the cause of the crash was not brakes but a wing failure (but also was reported later that it was a suspension failure - can't find a source).

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[18sux29rox]

"did it hit the audi, it hit the audi, it just missed the audi" why do the fucking commenters and well everyone in rolex and whatever series this is say the car man. and not the driver's name. Respectfully speaking, this kind of racing is boring, and just very confusing. I can never follow it. No cool wrecks like this happen mush.

[FormulaOneSpy]

@18sux29rox It simply makes more sense because every car has two drivers and in longer races three.

"No cool wrecks like this happen mush."

You should go watch demolition derby or something like that.

[golferchin76]

anyone can explain why this race car just turn tail-happy in that split of the second? The car's running at 300+km/h and far away from the front car's turbulence. I myself race amateur with front or rear driven race prepped cars with much lower power output. I suspect this is caused by a sudden chassis fail? a tire blowout? suspension link fail?

[FormulaOneSpy]

I can't remember if it something broke in the rear wing or was it a brake problem, but anyway reason for the take off were obviously the aerodynamics of LMP car and some particular areas in the bottom of the cars.

[drummingbomb]

wow when the accedent happened, the annoucers seems like they didn't even care, or weren't looking

[FormulaOneSpy]

like I recently replied to another comment below, it is a replay.

[masepidesevive]

NOOO CHOCO EL GUILLE ORTELLI! JAJAJA

[M5PowerM3Power]

worst commentators ive ever heard in my entire life.

[mxdudeguy45]

JUST missed the audi. DAMN

[Excel115officiel]

C'est pour éviter des crashs de ce type que "l'aileron dorsal" est devenu obligatoire, aussi bien en ILMC qu'en Formule 1 ;)

[Pablin6114]

chris is weird

[CharlieEnno]

@FormulaOneSpy : Suspention failure

[ursuss100]

Rear wing problem... Investigation (and particularly the track's video tapes) showed that Ortelli's car lost a small part from his rear wing in the stretch between Ascari and Parabolica.

[golferchin76]

@sirpiccolo very true, and a steering rack failure will do the job also, as I recently just experienced coming out of a chicane :-(

[CastrolSupra12]

@golferchin76 Also whereas with something you create downforce when you reverse the flow of air you create lift.

[HepcatMatty]

@18sux29rox I try not to hate on NASCAR, but most of the nascar fans i have met are all about crashes. It just really irritates me. Im glad to hear you're in it for the racing, not the crashing.