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Old 19-05-2009
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Default safety car idiot driver
during the latest round of world touring cars the safety car driver was told to go to the end of the pit lane and wait. he didn't listen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfQ2jjn0w-s
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Who was driving the safety car?.....the old woman in the orange jumper that you see?

What a prat!
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Old 20-05-2009
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I had heard that the safety car board was not put out in time when the leading BMW driver crossed the start/finish...
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they were all mostly driving like drift enthusiasts/plebs by the looks of.
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they were all mostly driving like drift enthusiasts/plebs by the looks of.
Spoken by someone who obviously never watches touring cars.

Pau is nuts, this happened a couple of years ago, it's so unforgiving as a 'race track' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4-PrsWoY_A
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Farfus is my WTCC Hero after that Quali crash.
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Mirror, signal, b*ll*cks.

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The official verdict,
http://www.fiawtcc.com/Read_News.asp?idnews=170
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What a donut Soon as the safety car driver saw the beemer, he all of a sudden pulled straight out. Its almost like he panicked. The magic orange lights didnt help him either
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thanks for that. i hadn't heared the official findings. looks like they are for the chop
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Wayyyy to many cars on a tight track springs to mind, ohh and a tool of a saftey car driver!
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Bit of an endorsement for chevy tho'... the safety car wasn't that badly wrecked considering... and the stewards walked away...
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Thats secretly why they did it, it be on the next chevrolet advert
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30 Apr 2009 ... Not every teenage idiot driver is so lucky ... He'd pranged up his car so bad that steam was billowing out of the crushed radiator, and smoke was ... Bridgestone's safety programs have been around for about seven years, ...
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