Hi Gang
The racing at the Goodwood Festival today was truly magnificent. We had two
and three quarter hours of it on TV. The day was marred, however, by a very
nasty accident involving Sir Jack Brabham at about 4pm this afternoon in
the F1 race. The cameras caught the accident just as Sir Jack spun off the
circuit on a fast section (in an F1 Mclaren BRM). He went off and hit a
bank very hard backwards and spun violently several times back into the
middle of the circuit on the penultimate lap. The car was a write off and
the race was stopped. Although moving about in the car he was doubtless
very badly shaken. The transmission ended there and after summing up the
day the TV people said he had been taken by ambulance to the Medical unit
for treatment. Two cars were involved and it looked like a coming together
of some sort, but that was out of camera shot. Sir Jack, now 73, was
driving quite brilliantly until the shunt and was in fifth place showing
all the 'young uns' how it was done. There's been no bulletin on the early
evening news here so lets hope that no news is the best news and he was not
badly hurt.
Paul
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