Venray

[Frits392]

Big fire in the H3 car after 62 blown his engine, about 8 cars got in the wall and H3 got in fire, H3 could get out the car on his own while he was burning and rolled over the track to stop the burning and was helped by H99, pictures of the fire can be found HERE on the www.ovalracing.nl site. and HERE on the ovalnews site.

Hope  all goes well with H3 and hope that van wamelen makes a speedy recovery.

Edited June 26, 2005 by Frits392

[psyko75]

Went to Venray but later than this accident happened. Best wishes to the injured driver.

[Edman23]

Hope van Wamelen has a speedy recovery. The time he sat in that firball seemed to last forever. It got to a point I thought he wouldn't make it out of the car alive.

 

Ironically I was sat on the turn 4 grandstand, where I usually never am, because my dad came along and he wanted to test his new camera. I'm glad it was new because he was so pee'ed of with the capability of the firecrew that he would have thrown the thing over the fence. The photos are send in to www.ovalnews.nl

 

Many of the people on track can be lucky that the firetruck didn't provide water as they would have tried to extinguish a liquid fire with water. It would have turned worse if they had succeeded. A lot of spectators went home angry and in disgust about the whole thing. From what I could see the Hotrod drivers were already discussing about loading up and refuse to race.

 

At least we know the condition of the driver is stabil, so that's a good thing. Well done to Johan Catsburg, who seemed to be the only one to do something.

 

Edman.

Edited June 26, 2005 by Edman23

[FireStorm]

Nasty fire. I hope the driver recovers and is back racing soon. wouldn't like to be stuck in that unable to get out