Le Mans 24hrs: driver gets run over at first pit stop, carries on to win LMP2 class

Every year the 24 Hours of Le Mans throws up a load of stories that prove just how impressive the drivers who race in the World Endurance Championship are. And 2023, was no different.

Limp forward, Inter Europol Competition driver Fabio Scherer who was actually run over by a Corvette in the pit lane as he was getting out of his #34 LMP2 Oreca-Gibson 07 just under an hour into the race. He decided to carry on for 23 more hours and was seen hopping up to the car on his right leg during driver changes, yet somehow, he and his team still managed to secure victory in the LMP2 class. Ridiculous. 

It was close too. Scherer and his teammates Kuba Śmiechowski and Albert Costa Balboa finished 10th overall – just 21.015 seconds ahead of the second LMP2 car of Team WRT. One of the drivers in that second car? Just F1 race winner Robert Kubica. No problem.

Inter Europol even tweeted a quote from Scherer at 1am during the 24 hours in which the Swiss driver said: “I’m lucky the foot is in one piece. It could have been worse. It’s okay for normal driving but I feel it in the slow zones. I don’t want to know if it is broken or not. Now I just want to drive and win this thing.”

What an absolute machine. Congratulations to Scherer and Inter Europol Competition, and remember the key to overcoming any injury – Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation.