Danish driver Allan Simonsen has died after his #95 Aston Martin Racing Vantage hit the guardrail head-on early in the 24 hour sports car race. The guardrail outside Tetre Rouge was damaged so severely it required an hour-long repair, and the bark was scraped off one of the trees one meter behind the guardrail. The video below, taken from the factory Corvette team's online stream, does not show the impact. It's the first death at Le Mans since 1997, when Sébastien Enjolras's Peugeot flew over a guardrail in prequalifying.
Simonsen was 34, and was racing in his seventh 24 Heures du Mans. His team were actually polesitters in the LMGTE Amateur class.
Read more at NBC's MotorsportsTalk. Top image courtesy Jalopnik.
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