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Originally Posted by R4LLY
I was there on the day and the driver is a very good friend of mine.

There's a lot of mis information flying around as well as some uncalled for comments.
Someone on PH pointed this post out to me. I can't help but voice my opinion.

I was there on the day in a Honda Accord and I was there all day.

These are the things I saw:

The GTR belonged to a group of close friends who enjoyed each other's company.

They could have arrived late as I didn't notice them in the safety briefing.

Just before lunch time a very powerful white 911 belonging to the group out braked me into turn 7 while positioned to do so in the middle of the track, indicating that he had planned to do so. We know it had some power because we started braking at +90mph.

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Followed by the white GTR doing the same.

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again

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and again

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and again......

Until possibly the same white GTR forced us dive away from the apex to the outside of turn 12.

and it gets worst.

He then forced a BMW off track limits by what looked like a outbraking manoeuvre at propane bend as seen a few times in the video.

The 4 of us let the marshal know, luck would have it the BMW came over to do the same.

In the afternoon:

While having a chat with one of the marshals near the machine someone in a caterham came over to have a private word with a different marshal and I overheard complaints of a GTR overtaking on the wrong side, then overtaking on the left again in chicane on the back straight. After the marshals spoke to each other on the radio orders to black flag him was given.

After we went back to check our fuel the GTR came into the pits with some paint damage to the front right of the car.
He stopped at the marshals post, BLOCKING the track exit, shouted something at the marshal.

When the traffic behind the GTR had cleared, the McLaren came in, followed by my mate.

My mate immediately went to let the marshals know that he was behind the incident and had witnessed it happen.

This is what happened:

Once the GTR passed me on the first straight it had caught up the McLaren, as the McLaren's front left wheel touched the curb which is known to be the apex point of that hairpin the GTR hit the left rear wheel of the McLaren. Exactly what the GTR driver did to another Megane in the video at the 1:00 mark.

We can confirm that we did not see the McLaren indicate his intention to let the GTR pass at that point as it would be monumentally stupid to do so. Bear in mind the up coming hairpin, before all the straight in the world afterward and the complete lack of space before the hairpin.

While we were standing at the marshal's post, ensuring the driver of the McLaren wasn't hurt and giving our account of the incident. Your friend came charging towards the driver of the McLaren with all the anger in the universe, shouting abuse, using his size to overwhelm the marshals holding him back, accusing him of "stealing the racing line", threatening physical violence and gave complete disregard to the organiser.

Your friend's behaviour out of the car was exactly the same in the car, he has no concern for any rules, he has no concern for anybody's safety, he lives his life as a bully and he tried to bully the McLaren's driver after the GTR had caused a crash. I was afaid your mate wasn't going to be held back by the marshals, the only one not afaid of your mate was the driver of the McLaren. He didn't even say one thing back to the driver of the GTR other than to request that he stop shouting abuse and let the grown ups talk. Which ever friend you were R4lly, the way that you didn't control him can only lead us to believe you were used to him bullying everyone around.

At this moment my mate, would also like to tell everyone that the GTR carried on racing along after he had tried to spin the McLaren. AND that a marshal told him after the crash the driver of the McLaren had been doing passenger laps and also sitting passenger to instruct a first timer on his first track day during the morning session.

I doubt anyone can support your version of events as a handful of people came to voice their complaint about a group of white cars including the GTR in the video.

So which car were you driving?

If you were truely his friend, you ought to stop trying to blatantly lie for him and keep him away from the tracks, for the good of his safety and everyone elses.

Because none of us want him anywhere near us, in a car or in person. Your friend is truely obnoxious.

Since you consider him as a friend, I doubt you are a very good person either.