by stubuchanan » Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:45 am
Ahh, I remember it well. I was standing just to the left of the shot, on or behind a wire fence. People were crossing the road between cars, me included, and the two cars before Cook were the two very slow Russian Ladas. I think there were 2 minute gaps between cars at the start of the stage, but the Ladas, seeded far too high at numbers 8 and 9 were so slow that Cook was only about half a minute behind the second Lada at this point (?maybe the Lada had an off?) and the road was still full of pedestrians when he arrived, hence the above incident. Nobody seemed to be hurt and Cook shot off quickly.
On later stages some hoons were yelling abuse at Cook because of this, but when faced with a road full of spectators, he stopped pretty well, I thought.
Don't know whose photo it is; seen it quite often.
Stu
Ahh, I remember it well. I was standing just to the left of the shot, on or behind a wire fence. People were crossing the road between cars, me included, and the two cars before Cook were the two very slow Russian Ladas. I think there were 2 minute gaps between cars at the start of the stage, but the Ladas, seeded far too high at numbers 8 and 9 were so slow that Cook was only about half a minute behind the second Lada at this point (?maybe the Lada had an off?) and the road was still full of pedestrians when he arrived, hence the above incident. Nobody seemed to be hurt and Cook shot off quickly.
On later stages some hoons were yelling abuse at Cook because of this, but when faced with a road full of spectators, he stopped pretty well, I thought.
Don't know whose photo it is; seen it quite often.
Stu