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was basically a nightmare. Uh in all respects, there hadn't been a death in the sport for
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decades at that level in WRC. And at the time when the accident happened, basically the team told us go home, sort
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yourself out, you've got to be in Sweden in 3 weeks' time. Um your job was to to
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be back in the car. And there there was no support. We had no phone call from the team for 3 weeks. We had nothing
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from anyone. We were just literally told go home, sort yourself out. It was basically a nightmare. Uh in all
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respects, there hadn't been a death in the sport for decades uh at at at that level in WRC.
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So, to be part of to be, you know, a part of that um was a a hard pill to swallow. It
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just It just seemed like your world was crumbling. The reality was, you know, someone had
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just lost a family member. And whether who was right or wrong, that we I was the person behind the steering wheel of
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that car. Um it took a bit to get over that. And um just the fact that you didn't really have any support
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mechanism around you at that time in the middle of nowhere in Germany, uh where we were living, probably made it a
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little bit harder than what it probably should have been.