Speed Channel's showing most of the race...God bless 'em.
McNish hit some oil and skidded off into the tires, then got rear ended by a Champion Audi that hit the oil. Then one of the GTS Ferrari's hit the oil and did a spin, but he didn't hit anything. McNish is in a Le Mans hospital now with a possible concussion...alas he won't be able to drive again. Damn shame since I liked him a lot from his prior Le Mans drives, not to mention his brief stay in F1.
Canadian Ron Fellows (my boy) also went into some tires when he lost concentration for a second and missed a braking spot. He managed to get it back into the pits to get some repairs done, which I think took half an hour. That really ticks me off, cause the two Corvettes and the two Prodrive Ferraris were all set to be the best battle of the race by far, featuring Fellows in the #63 Vette and possibly my favourite athlete on earth in Colin McRae in the #65 Ferrari (who span out and burnt the clutch out on the restart, costing them a lot of time in the pits). Blah...nothing's going my way so far.
There's also been a lot of punctures so far...a lot of gravel and debris has been getting onto the road, and the road has a reputation for being pretty abrasive, so some rear tires are just getting chewed to shreds.
Anywya, this is the coolest part of the entire race...dusk. Going from the setting sun into night while these beasts are motoring around is one of the coolest sights on earth.
