Jackal

[rossybee]

Jackal/Richard had a nasty shunt at Spa - he's ok, he has broken some ribs but no major injuries.

As you can see from the video (it's on his site, so I'm sure he won't mind it being posted) it was a big shunt and not his fault, could've been worse with the silver Honda hitting him:

[url]http://www.jackals-forge.com/lotus/movies/Spa2005_crash.wmv[/url]

[L100NYY]

and on the cooling down lap too!

He is a very lucky chap and I wish both him and his car a speedy recovery.

[rossybee]

Lots more on blatchat about it

[L100NYY]

rossybee said:

Lots more on blatchat about it

Now there's a blast from the past, I haven't been on Blatchat for months!

I can't bear to do it since I've been Caterhamless!

[Murph7355]

File's not working for me (stops just after the opening credit - Mac with Windows Media Player).

[Eric Mc]

I loaded it off Blatchat and it took about 20 minutes.

Nasty, nasty incident - with two VERY lucky drivers.

[Murph7355]

Cheers Eric - file downloaded.

Nasty and both lucky to walk away.

Is that grass on the other side of the kerb (is it proper kerb?)?

[dannylt]

It was not a cooling down session, the whole day was open pitlane. It's astro-turf, not grass (though I can't comment on the relative grip level, since I avoided it running over it this year)

[jackal]

back at work today fellas

rib pain is reducing daily at quite a dramatic rate. i can now sleep on my back and on both my left and right sides ! TBH, towards the weekend the neck and back pain from sleeping awkwardly was more painful than teh damm ribs !

>> Edited by jackal on Monday 17th October 14:22

[tonyhetherington]

Jackal - was it you that I passed in my black Elise with Stu on board last night on the M20? I know Stu (in the passenger seat) waved at someone driving it because he knew them!

Sorry to hear about the accident, glad all's good!

[jackal]

nope, most definitely not

[stuartwatkins]

No it was fauldsport on their journey home. good choice if they're repairing it as well as bringing it back, top guys! it did look seriously nasty, as does the video.....glad you're ok!

[jackal]

ahh yes, it wasnt me but been informed that it was my car

[jackal]

hmmmm, just under 14,000 unique downloads of the movie of the incident since last thursday

thats a fair bit of bandwidth and quite a lot of people

[rossybee]

It's amazing the interest created from someone else's misfortune...

I suppose you were lucky though, all things considered

Hope things are working out OK for you

[GetCarter]

Bloody hell Rich - I just saw this. That was some shunt! Glad you're OK

Steve

[jackal]

yep thanks steve
hope you are well too
car gets stripped next weekend

you still planning on another for 2006 ?