House
18-06-16, 10:07 PM
I love this!!
Earlier, 2 hour into the race, Audi changed a turbo on their number 7 car, in 20 minutes, they used CO2 fire extinguishers to cool the engine down then cracked on!!!
Also, this years garage 56 is a car that a quadriplegic driver can drive but also it's driven by 2 able bodied drivers aswell.
Taken from an article about him and garage 56
"In 2012, a French businessman called Frédéric Sausset scratched his finger while on vacation in the southwest of France. Tragically, the scratch rapidly led to a life-threatening infection (necrotizing fasciitis) which left Sausset a quadruple amputee.
Sausset's team, SRT41, had a tricky job. A 24-hour race like Le Mans isn't a solo effort—each car has three drivers who split the race between them, swapping in and out during pitstops. The team had to convert its Morgan-Nissan LMP2 car so that Sausset could drive it, without compromising the ability of his two able-bodied teammates Jean Bernard Bouvet and Christophe Tinseau from being able to do the same.
The accelerator and brake were relatively simple. Sausset's seat insert has a paddle for each thigh; levers connect these two paddles to the pedals. During a driver change the team also remove the Morgan-Nissan's usual multifunction steering wheel and replace it with a special adapter that connects to a prosthetic Sausset wears on his right arm."
I think that's friggin awesome, It's hard enough to drive a car fast with 2 feet and 2 hands, this guy is flat out using his thighs to accelerate and brake. Fair Funking play.
Earlier, 2 hour into the race, Audi changed a turbo on their number 7 car, in 20 minutes, they used CO2 fire extinguishers to cool the engine down then cracked on!!!
Also, this years garage 56 is a car that a quadriplegic driver can drive but also it's driven by 2 able bodied drivers aswell.
Taken from an article about him and garage 56
"In 2012, a French businessman called Frédéric Sausset scratched his finger while on vacation in the southwest of France. Tragically, the scratch rapidly led to a life-threatening infection (necrotizing fasciitis) which left Sausset a quadruple amputee.
Sausset's team, SRT41, had a tricky job. A 24-hour race like Le Mans isn't a solo effort—each car has three drivers who split the race between them, swapping in and out during pitstops. The team had to convert its Morgan-Nissan LMP2 car so that Sausset could drive it, without compromising the ability of his two able-bodied teammates Jean Bernard Bouvet and Christophe Tinseau from being able to do the same.
The accelerator and brake were relatively simple. Sausset's seat insert has a paddle for each thigh; levers connect these two paddles to the pedals. During a driver change the team also remove the Morgan-Nissan's usual multifunction steering wheel and replace it with a special adapter that connects to a prosthetic Sausset wears on his right arm."
I think that's friggin awesome, It's hard enough to drive a car fast with 2 feet and 2 hands, this guy is flat out using his thighs to accelerate and brake. Fair Funking play.