SATURDAY 12/6 1999 - morning warmup

By: Jock Simpson

Just as your Club Arnage Team were getting upto speed, sorting out hangovers and a few technological challenges drama struck ‘big time’ ... do you want the ‘good news’ or the ‘bad news’ ? Well the good news is that the #4 Mercedes has been rebuilt over night, so has Mark Webber and they were reunited in time for the morning warm up .... now the bad news ... the #4 Mercedes is back on its roof ! Yes .. it is true believe it or not... it looks as if precisely the same thing happened as last time, same car. same driver, and much the same circumstances. Mark Webber must have wished he stayed in bed this morning .. or maybe let Gounon or Tiemann take the car out . Mercedes will have a spot of bother convincing us media lot that the car didn’t wind up on its roof this time ! (see previous reports !). This was on Webber’s out lap ... We wonder what the team are thinking at the moment .. both other cars are still out there ... the other team drivers must be just a mite apprehensive don’t you think ? Not wishing to be too tabloid about this bit of local difficulty but Mercedes did have another spot of bother here in 1955. So is it just the #4 car that is spooked or quite incredibly unlucky? Perry McCarthy drifted back into the pits in the #10 Audi R8C, he tells us it has a little niggle, like losing second gear, but basically the #10 car is in cracking shape. No other serious dramas that we have heard of to date. So the warm up session is now over and there have no surprises, but we are all wondering what on earth Mercedes are going to do next ..

Latest information (11:30) is that Mark Webber is going home - he's had enough.


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