My condolences to all the family's of the victims.
Rest In Peace.
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My condolences to all the family's of the victims.
Rest In Peace.
According to driver he went off he road due to very strong wind in that area (which is true, whole day was around Uhersky Brod very strong wind). Killed people were standing at very bad place very close to the road...
Such a twist of fate. My condolences to all who ever is involved in this tragedy. R.I.P.
proffesional video!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bartek
Martin Hudec dancing at the end of video is so funny :-D
I heard that tomorrow is important meeting about future of Prague and Mikulas, is it true?
Tomorrow will be meeting of rally commission. There will be lot of questions during meeting...
Czech Rallying seems to be facing really tough times, and my thoughts goes to everybody involved after the terrible tragedy last weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
Cameramen from my company followed norwegian driver Petter Kristiansen in Rally Pribram just a few weeks ago. They reported back that the rally had lots of marshals and security personell on the stages, and that they had been spoken to several times during the rally when marshals wanted them to move away from different spots. It must be said that my personell were accredited as TV-photographers and they wore the photo tabards from the organiser. They are also very experienced personell having filmed motorsport for up to 20 years, and felt at a couple of occasions that the marshals focused more on speaking to accredited photographers than guiding the spectators.
On SS6 there could have been another tragedy when driver of car no. 5, Pavel Valousek (Peugeot 207 S2000) missed his braking into a junction and went straight on over a pavement curb and into a grass banking were spectators were sitting. The speed was not great though, and therefore the spectators managed to roll away from the oncoming car. But it was close, so close! One of my cameramen filmed the incident, but it happened in a split second and he didn`t manage to film it properly. Still his immedate thoughts were that there had to be spectators underneath the car. Happily there was none, but that was only pure luck! The stage was running again as SS8 later the same day, and now the grass banking was marked as forbidden area and guarded by marshals. This time a Mitsubishi went off...
It just goes to show that even with lots of marshals around, there is no way to totallly secure every meter of a rally. And it also depends on the experience of the marshals and security personell. The place where Valousek went off was not deemed dangerous initially and not marked as forbidden for spectators, but it certainly was...
Henning, that place from Příbram You speak about was found dangerous by Jan Kopecký and Pavel Dresler who were driving one of safety cars. They asked stage director to move the people back. for me it is not very clear what happened later. I heard the crowd refused to move more than a bit and only after the off of Valoušek the people agreed to back off. Sure it was luck nothing happened.
Here in Uherský Brod it was different at least according to all available information. All taping and no-go zones were perfectly ok in the area. Problem was that the marshal who was local guy was chatting with his relatives and friends (turned back to coming cars in strong wind - impossible to hear) instead of moving them out of dangerous zone. He was among the people hit by the car and he survived injured however all his friends are dead. If they stood just four meters from the road they would be all alive. A huge tragedy caused by a stupid human fault. Now we'll see if rallying can continue in our country as the media hunt is enormous.