one before that was in 1986, a vast improvement on the times when tragedy seemed to strike nearly every other year.
Devastating Blow
Sadly, this year saw the latest tragedy-free period come to a shattering end when Danish driver Allan Simonsen crashed
30 www. cprmag. co. uk heavily in his Aston Martin Vantage at Tertre Rouge less than 10 minutes in, and died a short time later in the circuit’ s medical centre. It was a devastating blow, and one that rendered the rest of the race almost irrelevant as drivers and teams just seemed to go through the motions of running the race, but had little conviction or enthusiasm to continue with the proceedings. In fact, the remaining Aston Martin cars would almost certainly have pulled out of the race, were it not for a request from Simonsen’ s family who specifically asked them to continue. I can only imagine