Nigel Roebuck: Fifth Column
"If I'd been their team manager, I'd have fired the pair of them"
For the second time in three weeks we had on Saturday one of those accidents that brings a collective gasp in the press room, and then near silence.
It was 'a bad one'. When Ernesto Viso crashed on the opening lap of the GP2 race at Magny-Cours, one's initial thought - as with Robert Kubica's shunt at Montreal - was that the driver was unlikely to have survived.
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