Driver had a broken arm & some broken ribs, but apparently not serious (I hope):
Just a glimpse of it here…Whoops at Donington on Vimeo
At least he lived to type the tale
Can’t open it what’s he hit…looks like he’s clobbered something or someone him.
This is very interesting not knowing as I can’t work out where on Donny you could do that much mess unless it was on the pit straight…and how? Hope he’s ok… who was the TDO?
Tar
Hi mate
Incident at start of pit straight ie the only section that has been altered, in that Goddards has been moved 80m back towards Coppice. Apparently, the kerbing may be a factor in contributing to the accident.
Was it a “hire” car, SimonE?
Clucking bells that looks nasty, not sure you can blame curbs for a crash though, if they are big and nasty don’t go on them? I was always sure they are there to stop you cutting the corner anyway?
The kerb on the first element of the new chicane is quite big and should be avoided…
The pit wall (which is apparently what he hit) is now a long way from this chicane and most cars are on full powers and straight as they pass the pit entry so it may not have been part of the accident…unless he went about 100m across the run off.
I’ll try to ask a man ‘who should know’ what happened…
Further to my last here are a couple of photos that show the new chicane and the run to the pit straight…
The first one shows the view from behind the recticel in the run off area
and the second is the view from the same point to the start of the pit complex - as you can see it’s a long way… The old right turn is at the extreme left of the second picture.
Copied from Pistonheads:
[color:#000099]Hi all,
It was my Lotus involved in the intimate meeting with the pit barrier, with my brother in law driving.
Thank you all for your concern, it’s really appreciated and I will pass on your messages to my BiL.
Basically, he managed to sustain the following injuries:
7 broken ribs (in 2 places each, front and back)
A broken collar bone
Broke his pelvis in 3 places (relatively minor fractures of some of the smaller bones from what I can understand)
A partially collapsed lung (not serious enough for a chest drain, but serious enough for them to be concerned about infection)
Unconscious for around 10 minutes
Anyway, he is in hospital for certainly the next 3-4 weeks with full recovery time being between 6 and 8 weeks. That is the important thing though, he will make a full recovery (no doubt with the twinges associated with so many broken bones).
To be fair to him, he’s doing really well, the morphine they have him on to make sure he breathes properly despite the rib pain has got him talking some interesting nonsense. Yesterday, I was really pleased to see him much more alert and himself and breathing really well.
Funnily enough because I have spent the last three days visiting him in hospital, the pictures in this thread are the first time I have seen the car - wow, that corner’s not going to panel beat out.
In terms of what actually happened, he can’t really remember. He said he remembers wrestling briefly with the wheel, then waking up in the ambulance, nothing in between.
I think personally, that he caught a bit of gravel, or as some people have said maybe caught that high kerb, difficult to say now unless anyone actually saw it first hand.
Certainly, the A&E doctors told us they have already had several in from Donnington (all bikes), and there was another arrive yesterday presenting identical injuries - they were going to move my BiL to a new ward and make space for the new guy.
Anyway, thanks again for the messages of support, he will appreciate them.
Take care
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Glad everyone will be ok.
Jeez, was this particular track mod anything to do with the proposed F1 layout? Given the alleged number of injuries to bikers etc is there any proposed changes to this corner??
I’ll still be there on the 10th Oct btw 
I now know what happened and it was nothing to do with the kerbing on the inside of the chicane…he apparently lost it on the exit of the second element and hit the wall in front of the hospitality suites. It seems, as has been said before, that arrival on the start finish straight is now quicker than it was through the old Goddards so too much power/off-line activity has a bigger consequence than previously.
There’s nothing wrong with the new corner except maybe too many people remembering the old one…but in light of this accident, tyre walls/recticel placements may be reviewed.
Motor sport can be dangerous…
Thanks for clarifying that Mike - good to have someone on the inside in the know 
Seconded 
Yep, me too. Thanks Mike.
Thanks mike, I’m sure it will make more sense when I see it on the 10th
Wow - that’s a scary read!
Glad all are going to be OK - I was there on Tuesday & that part of the track is all newly laid - when it rained on Tuesday evening it was pretty slppery there.
Mark
Fooook me - that looks scary.
Glad the driver is ok
that pretty frightening glad the driver is ok, relitivly speaking.
Some of the track manners look a bit questionable.
Who was the organiser??
TDO was Circuit Days.
From SELOC
"Unrelated to the accident I am sure, but I would NEVER do another trackday with circuitdays. Worst experience I have ever had with a trackday in terms of organisation, pitlane queues, dangerous driving, terrible marshalling (like being waved out dangerously close to traffic - ie with the guy shouting at me to go when plainly it wasn’t safe). "
the above is not related to the accident though.