🗣 'Unusual things happen at Le Mans' 🤪 The mysterious crash that befell United Autosports' frontrunning LMP2 car at the LeMans24 Hours is finally explained 👇
had moved into the class lead after a storming stint in the wet from Blomqvist when the Briton briefly went into the gravel.
"This looks like it’s something in the gravel trap that’s damaged the brake line, it’s not a piece of gravel," Dean told Motorsport.com when asked about the #23 entry's first incident. "You look at the series of events, of ‘he’s gone off through the gravel in one corner, the next corner he’s got no brakes’, you suspect they’re linked. It’s unusual for a trip through the gravel trap to have that effect."Photo by: Alexander Trienitz
"They put another one on and then four laps into the stint the wheel has come loose," said Dean."Again we have to do proper investigations but we suspect that when the wheel went on and stripped it, it’s damaged the retaining pegs and damaged the thread. "But we’re not the only disappointed people here today. In that first six hours, a lot of garage doors were shut [due to retirements]."
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