Most of you will remember the John Dawson-Damer fatal accident @ Goodwood which claimed the lives both of John Dawson-Damer and marshal Andrew Carpenter. Happily enough the driver in this accident got away with some minor injuries. The car was an Aston Martin V8 rally GT built by Prodrive, the driver was a Prodriver salesman who was demonstrating the car to a customer who had bought it.
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