G-Force Motorsport

Hungarian Baja 2009. Foreword to the epilogue.

Sunday, 23 August 2009 05:22

hun09ss1Unfortunately, on acount of the recent events, which happened at the race, at the moment we can't tell you much about the final day...

In the nearest time we'll try to publish as much information and photos as possible about the events which occured on the route and beyond it. We'll also take interviews with Boris Gadasin and Vladimir Demyanenko so that they can personally explain what happened to their crew. To understand our present publishing difficulties, please read carefully below a comment by the G-Force Motorsport director Svetlana Shakhova:

"The race is over. One of the most difficult races for our crew ever. But they managed to overcome everything. They had been second overall even despite a penalisation, a ripped off suspension lever, a damaged sway bar and the detached exhaust system, because of which the whole cockpit was filled with carbon dioxide. On the final scrutineering it turned out that suspension travel on the right (just exactly where the suspension lever had been changed on the final service) side was more than allowed, while on the left it fully met the technical regulations. It was found out that it had happened because of the lever change, and didn't have anything to do with intentional preparations of the car. It's the Stewards' Meeting who make the final decision in such cases, and this time it was decided to exclude the crew.  Stewards' decisions shouldn't be discussed, and we won't appeal to the FIA as was offered to us. I got to know about the decision by phone, when I was in hospital, where the crew had been delivered after the finish. And I didn't have any time to get upset, since just 5 minutes before that I had been tolda by a doctor, that our guys were really lucky that they had been driving so fast - the CO concentration in blood was 14.6% (with the normal level at 1%). At 10-15% human reactions suffer, and at 20% people generally faint away. But they did finish right on time. As for the Cup - we'll win it! The Life goes on!"