29 Jan 09 Vancouver bobsleigh track, out of corner 13, CRASH!
Today I’ve had the pleasure of a new experience, for me. What my collegues had already had, and not me: a crash with my bobsleigh, down the track.
It was on the second run of the day, when you are more confident, after having passed the first without (say) any problem. They know that corner 13 here is very tough, because it’s the fastest point of the track (145km/h) and 13 is very tight; no error is admitted there, and one error we made.
Being the brakeman, you don’t really understand well what is happening, until your helmet hits the wall and you can hear a bad noise.
We haven’t any big problem apart from:
- Our Sled broken on the right-back part
- My helmet broken
- My shoulder’s skin burnt in a 5 centimeters area
- Fabrizio’s rib… he doesn’t know what…
The most important thing, they say, is not to think about it and go down as soon as possible, to leave phantoms out of your head 
