Falling camera narrowly misses Jaguar boss

Miraculously, the high-mounted tracking camera narrowly missed all the other 35 Jaguar staff working in the garage and pitlane. The apparatus, belonging to a local television station, took four men to move.

"We were very lucky," said a Jaguar spokesman. "If Bobby had been hit by the scaffolding he could have been seriously hurt. That camera is so heavy someone could easily have been killed if it had hit them.

"It was running above the garage and just came crashing down. It fell one way and the scaffolding went the other, missing Bobby by a foot or so. Fortunately both cars were in the garage at the time. If the organisers want to put the camera back up they will have to give us assurances about our safety."

The circuit was fined £66,000 last year after giant advertising hoardings fell on the track three times during qualifying - one almost hitting the Prost of Jean Alesi.