Flying 911 - brave cameraman - ALMS today

[Matt Harper]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfvu29GMv8c

[Allyc85]

See I stop watching and stuff like this happens!!

Amazing escape for everyone involved!

[Alex Langheck]

Insane!! He was filming the GTE Porsche, and only just noticed the Cup class Porsche bouncing along the tyre barrier - and took cover......

Strange race, lots of full course yellows for debris, and a grass fire.

[moribund]

The lass in the Marshall post with her back to the crash was VERY lucky!

[jeff666]

moribund said:

The lass in the Marshall post with her back to the crash was VERY lucky!

I think she may pay a bit more attention in the future

[jasongtr]

1st rule isnt it? surely marshalls shouldnt be turning their backs on the action

[chim666]

jasongtr said:

1st rule isnt it? surely marshalls shouldnt be turning their backs on the action

She looked more like a friend of a marshal or something. Cool summer top on - no Nomex. If so, she shouldn't have been there. It was only when the blue flag marshal tapped her on the arm she looked back.

[jasongtr]

either way, damn lucky

[Dan Friel]

chim666 said:

jasongtr said:

1st rule isnt it? surely marshalls shouldnt be turning their backs on the action

She looked more like a friend of a marshal or something. Cool summer top on - no Nomex. If so, she shouldn't have been there. It was only when the blue flag marshal tapped her on the arm she looked back.

If she was the yellow flag marshal, then she was looking the "right" way and her colleague with the blue flag did his job..

[designndrive62]

No mention for the cameraman? Doing a heroic effort to focus on the first Porsche to turn around and find the other land inches from him!

[KJR]

Dan Friel said:

If she was the yellow flag marshal, then she was looking the "right" way and her colleague with the blue flag did his job..

+1.

Also, as a flag marshal, she has no requirement to wear nomex. It would be the track marshals job to deal with any crash and they would/should be wearing nomex.

As a flag marshal in the UK for the last 20+ years I have, on occasion, worn orange t-shirt and shorts.