Cadillac disintegrates at the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps after a collision

There were less than two hours left in the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, third round of the World Endurance Championship, when a terrible accident pushed the organizers to bring in the safety car and neutralize the event. At the wheel of the Cadillac, New Zealander Earl Bamber, winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2015 and 2017, wanted to go through a mouse hole to overtake a BMW in the LMGT3 category, much slower than it. At the top of the Eau rouge slope, the two cars touched and the American car was thrown into the air, the bodywork pulverized by the violence of the impact which, fortunately, did not cause any injuries to the two drivers. involved.