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The Sun
14-06-2025
- Sport
- The Sun
Shocking moment furious Le Mans driver kicks and punches rival's car before being restrained by stewards
A FUMING Le Mans driver needed to be restrained by stewards as he punched and kicked a rival's car. In an insane start to Race 2 of the Le Mans Cup - before the iconic 24 Hour endurance race - Ferrari 296 GT3 driver Gino-Generoso Forgione was put out of the race after a collision with Josep Mayola Comadira. 3 3 3 Several drivers had crashed out of the race in the early chaos after No.8 Team Virage LMP3 spun after making contact with the No.29 Forestier Racing by VPS LMP3. And Forgione, driving the Ferrari No.21, was left fuming as he was caught up in it when Comadira collected his rival by bumping him and spinning him around. The incident left both cars stranded on track and brought out the safety car. Forgione was seen getting out of his car and marching over to Comadira's No.23 Biogas Ferrari. As he approached the Swiss driver lifted up his helmet visor and broke into a trot before unleashing a kick into the side of the car. The 61-year-old followed this up with a flurry of punches to the car window. Race stewards rushed over to restrain him, as Forgione continued to hit the car, now raining hammer fists down on the roof, before he was dragged away. TNT Sports "As you can understand, racing at Le Mans and getting tagged out in the first corner is not going to leave you feeling very happy. "The problem is, everyone is checking up there because of the spinning Porsche. "He has spun because he is checking up because the cars in front are slowing down dramatically." Fellow commentator Graham Goodwin added: "It is not giving Gino-Generoso Forgione any credit at all for the behaviour at the end there. "But he will feel that he checked up and the car behind did not... "Yeah, not very happy is the international sign language there." A remarkable 19 former F1 racers are competing in the iconic 24 Hours of Le Mans this weekend, including Jenson Button, Mick Schumacher and Kevin Magnussen.
BBC News
05-03-2025
- Automotive
- BBC News
Teenager swaps racing games for competing on the track
Jude Peters is about to race a car that can do 160mph even though he has never driven on a 16-year-old, from Malmesbury, Wiltshire, was a sim racer, but has gone from racing in his bedroom to a real endurance racing contract in just two contract with Team Virage in the Ligier European Series will see him compete at famous European circuits, including Le Mans and Silverstone."My dream goal was just to be able to do endurance racing, and now I'm doing that at the most iconic tracks in the world," he said. Jude's rise to professional racing has been two years ago he had never driven a racing car of any kind, nor taken part in competitive karting, which is the usual had been racing for years at home with a basic simulator set up in his bedroom - a racing wheel and some pedals that plug into a how much Jude loved sim racing, his parents booked him onto the simulator experience at the Ginetta Race Cars HQ near was immediately quicker than the factory invited Jude to take part in a competition for its Junior Scholarship, which he won, giving him a partly-funded drive in the Ginetta Junior Championship. The next step, the Ligier European Series, is the first on the endurance racing ladder and Jude's new team, Virage, has won the championship for the last three was at the Paul Ricard circuit last week to test his new car."It's a difficult career to get into and there are so many people that want to," said Jude."For the people that make it, it's a small percentage, but it's a goal I have and I'd like to get to the top."Jude's mum, Kirsty, watched nervously through her fingers as her son competed in the Ginetta series."I was terrified the whole time," she said."Jude has put in a lot of time, a lot of dedication and a lot of hard work, and this hasn't come easy to him."We've become his managers, supporting him in making sure he eats the correct food, making sure he's exercising, booking accommodation, doing the PR."It feels like it can be a full time job."
