Klaus Ludwig fined €10,000 for this 24hr incident?
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- Parent Category: Nurburgring
- Category: Racing at the Ring
- Created on Wednesday, 06 June 2012 09:58
- Last Updated on Wednesday, 06 June 2012 20:16
- Published on Wednesday, 06 June 2012 19:37
- Written by Dale
The McLaren and a Seat Leon came together after Flugplatz at over 220kmh. It was then followed by a ridiculous outburst from the local 63-year-old and career hothead Ludwig.
Now you can watch what happened from the view of the amateur driver in the Seat (who Ludwig had blamed squarely for the crash on TV just hours later). First he cuts his overtake a little close, wiping out two teams from the 24-hour race. Then he decides to physically threaten the other driver. Bad move. The Seat driver (Klaus Weigner) stands up to this and an angry Ludwig storms off again. Rhein Media TV uploaded the following video with the following statement:
Der Unfall aus der Sicht des Seat Amateur Fahrers und der darauffolgende Ausraster von Klaus Ludwig der eine Strafe von 10.000 Euro bezahlen musste."
It's worth noting that before Klaus Ludwig was being paid to smash Gemballa McLaren GT3s on the Nürburgring Nordschleife (the first car was written-off on the first lap of the first VLN practice) he had a very successful career racing sportscars and touring cars such as the Zakspeed Capri and Mustang Turbo. Check out his wiki entry here.
Comments
That's the great thing about everyone having on board camera's these day. It's so blatantly obvious where the blame lies.
He undoubtedly was one of Germany´s best touring and sportscar drivers for more than only one decade - especially being amazingly fast&safe in wet conditions at the Nordschleife. Some people still do remember him opening a gap of nearly a minute in overall standings at the beginning of the 2007 24h race racing an Aston Martin DBRS9. 2006 he put the Callaway-Corvet te on pole in Silverstone/FIA -GT3-EC race - his co-driver being a "margin" of 6s slower!
But also undoubtedly he was well-known as "Mr. Arrogant #1" in every paddock round Europe - being a really intelligent driver but that kind of self-pleased person like "I´m king Klaus and who are you?!"...
Bernd Schneider did learn a lot from him as his long term teammate - but he suffered also for a very long time being always brutally outlined by this fact.
So neither this "reaction" surprised me really nor this accident caused by the same mental problem which lead to the first wreck-off weeks before: "Where I decide to place my race car, nobody else should even try it. Because I´m Klaus Ludwig".
This is the reality.
And how Mr. Ludwig´s brain is programmed in race track mode.
To save his ego he "decided" already at the ring to stop racing because "this was a sign" he explained. "There are so many unprofessional drivers round the track".
May be his best decision so far.
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