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Georg Plasa Dies in Coppa Carotti Hill Climb Accident

German Hill Climb driver Georg Plasa, died shortly after 14.00 on July 10th 2011 during the Coppa Carotti Hill Climb.

The Coppa Carotti Hill Climb that goes from Rieti to the ski resort of Terminillo in the Italian Apennine mountains was held for the forty-eight time. Georg Plasa was driving his BMW 134 Judd when he crashed into the mountain shortly after the fourth bend. Immediate relief efforts to try to revive the driver didn’t help.

Georg Plasa was a very experienced hill climb driver and had many successes in his hill climbing carreer. The exact cause of the accident is still unknown, but officials suggest there might have been a technical error. The organizers suspended the race after the crash.

We wrote about Georg Plasa and his BMW 134 Judd for the last time in May of this year. As you can see in the videos of one of his many Hill Climb races in the FIA European Hill Climb Championship, this sport is not for the fainthearted and is among the most intense things you can do on four wheels. Our best wishes the family and friends of Georg Plasa, we will remember him…

His seat belt broke as he crashed

[kellyhound]

The exact cause of the accident is still unknown, but officials suggest there might have been a technical error.

suggest ? Think they can determine pretty thorough what was wrong with the car after a crash or if it was an error made by the driver.
Weird that after a year they still don't know.

[kellyhound]

onlookers say that it was obviously a suspension/steering assembly malfunction as they saw a flash around 20 secs in slo mo.

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Yes, there seem to be indications that the suspension broke (guess the rear-left one since there's a strange flash at some point), but yet is unexplained why he was on VI gear instead of IV, and also why he didn't even try to brake. A possible explanation is that he did mistake two sequences of curves very similar to each other, as both the trajectory and the gear would have been correct if the next corner was left instead of right; but other drivers who made some tests along with him the day before insisted that he could,'t make such a gross mistake, both because he was an extremely experienced driver and also because he knew the track very well.
I know that police seized two more videos, one of them was taken by another amateur from a different angle, the other one was taken from the onboard camera. Of course the conditions of the car after the crash didn't help the investigations.

[Faline]

[minka1]

That's not his body right? I've looked like 5 times but I still can't tell if it is part of the car that popped off from somewhere and slid across the road.

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Originally Posted by minka1 ↗

That's not his body right? I've looked like 5 times but I still can't tell if it is part of the car that popped off from somewhere and slid across the road.

No, he was imprisonned in the wreckage: in the immediate aftermath, from that angle, you can see his helmet inside the car in this longer version of the video

[Zahir82]

umm..yeah...that would do it!

[Alastor R.]

I don't know how to embed the video...if one of the admins can edit this would be nice. Thanks!

German Hill Climb driver Georg Plasa, died shortly after 14.00 on July 10th 2011 during the Coppa Carotti Hill Climb.

The Coppa Carotti Hill Climb that goes from Rieti to the ski resort of Terminillo in the Italian Apennine mountains was held for the forty-eight time. Georg Plasa was driving his BMW 134 Judd when he crashed into the mountain shortly after the fourth bend. Immediate relief efforts to try to revive the driver didn’t help.

Georg Plasa was a very experienced hill climb driver and had many successes in his hill climbing carreer. The exact cause of the accident is still unknown, but officials suggest there might have been a technical error. The organizers suspended the race after the crash

[AlvinKarpis]

Boom

Now its here forever