Bad Luck always comes in threes
November 1st 2007 11:30
Bad luck is following Mark “Frosty” Winterbottom around like a bad smell at the moment, although Mark Skaife would probably disagree, claiming all the bad luck for himself.
Both drivers suffered unfortunate incidents at Bathurst which saw their races go from good to bad in the blink of an eye. Both drivers had experiences at the Gold Coast Indy which were best forgotten, particularly Frosty who saw a well-deserved pole position stripped from him at the last minute due to a minor mechanical infringement.
And now both drivers have been visited by the Bad Luck Fairy once again in Bahrain, even before the championship round has started after a street crash damaged both HRT cars and both FPR cars with Skaife’s and Winterbottom’s suffering the most damage.
If this is the third strike of bad luck out of the way, both drivers are looking good to string together some pretty hot laps this weekend in round 12 of the V8 Supercars championship.
A flat top truck carrying all four cars for both teams was forced to break heavily when a small car cut off the truck. The cars shifted and made contact with each other, two of them slipping off the back of the truck, causing a blockage on the highway and copious amounts of panel damage for both teams to deal with just a day shy of the first practise session.
"This isn't the way you want to start a weekend, repairing a car, especially after my team has worked its bum off getting it ready after Indy," said a disappointed Skaife.
"I suppose these things happen with the different logistics required (for a flyaway round). From all accounts, the damage isn't too bad so Team Red will be ready when the green flag drops."
Mark Winterbottom was frustrated about the whole situation, "we said it couldn't get worse and then we get shunted before it started," he said. "What can you do? We didn't even get in the car so you can't even blame anyone.
"We'll fix it and it'll be ok. It's just hard for the guys because they have to go back to work before we even start."
Each V8 Supercar is worth in excess of $500,000 and teams must dread accidents like this happening with the amount of transportation that goes on throughout the season. Let’s hope all four cars are fixed and ready for the first practise session on Friday.
Both drivers suffered unfortunate incidents at Bathurst which saw their races go from good to bad in the blink of an eye. Both drivers had experiences at the Gold Coast Indy which were best forgotten, particularly Frosty who saw a well-deserved pole position stripped from him at the last minute due to a minor mechanical infringement.
And now both drivers have been visited by the Bad Luck Fairy once again in Bahrain, even before the championship round has started after a street crash damaged both HRT cars and both FPR cars with Skaife’s and Winterbottom’s suffering the most damage.
If this is the third strike of bad luck out of the way, both drivers are looking good to string together some pretty hot laps this weekend in round 12 of the V8 Supercars championship.
A flat top truck carrying all four cars for both teams was forced to break heavily when a small car cut off the truck. The cars shifted and made contact with each other, two of them slipping off the back of the truck, causing a blockage on the highway and copious amounts of panel damage for both teams to deal with just a day shy of the first practise session.
"This isn't the way you want to start a weekend, repairing a car, especially after my team has worked its bum off getting it ready after Indy," said a disappointed Skaife.
"I suppose these things happen with the different logistics required (for a flyaway round). From all accounts, the damage isn't too bad so Team Red will be ready when the green flag drops."
Mark Winterbottom was frustrated about the whole situation, "we said it couldn't get worse and then we get shunted before it started," he said. "What can you do? We didn't even get in the car so you can't even blame anyone.
"We'll fix it and it'll be ok. It's just hard for the guys because they have to go back to work before we even start."
Each V8 Supercar is worth in excess of $500,000 and teams must dread accidents like this happening with the amount of transportation that goes on throughout the season. Let’s hope all four cars are fixed and ready for the first practise session on Friday.
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