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Dubai Grand Prix Victory I Crash and attempted rescue - Video

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10:33 PM Fri 11 Dec 2009 GMT
'Victory' Class 1 World Powerboat Championship &copy
The first vision from the Dubai Grand Prix accident in which driver Mohammad Al Mehairi, 34 from the UAE and throttleman Jean-Marc Sanchez, 48 of France were killed in the first race at the 2009 Dubai Grand Prix, the final round of the Class 1 World Powerboat Championship.

The two offshore powerboat racers were racing Victory I in the the early stages of the Class 1 Dubai Grand Prix first race at the Dubai International Marine Club, when their boat flipped and landed upside down.



As you can see safety personnel attended to both pilots at the scene, but the crew were not quickly recovered. They were subsequently airlifted to a local hospital, where all efforts to resuscitate them were in vain.

The race was eventually red flagged (called off).

Al Mehairi was the European Class One champion in 2009, while Sanchez was throttleman aboard the 2007 World Class One champion team. The Victory 1 team were eight points behind Fazza 3 for the 2009 World Championship and were hoping to overhaul their rivals with a victory on Saturday, although they had started the race second on pole.




by Powerboat-World.com




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