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Round 3 Sprint Race, Donington Park, April 28th - Parr Motorsport’s Barbara Armstrong was the innocent victim as one of the race-leaders spun on the opening lap of the Sprint Race, Round Three of the 2001 Michelin Porsche Cup.

Approaching Coppice, two thirds of the way through the opening lap, Armstrong was comfortably holding fourth when Pete Chambers lost it going into the crested right hander. The championship leader took to the gravel, then rapidly regained the track and veered across the racing line. Armstrong’s first thoughts as she arrived on the scene were "Whoaa, I’m up to third here!", but was then astonished as he picked up speed to cross directly in front of her. "I had nowhere to go!" she exclaimed. "If I braked, I’d hit him. If I took avoiding action, I’d hit him. So I braced myself . . . and he hit me!"

The Porsche Cars GB car took the impact on the front three-quarter, and Armstrong was sent spinning off the track. The car would not restart, so she clambered out of the car.

The marshals were quickly on the scene. "I got a fireman’s lift back to the side from a very nice marshal," explained Armstrong. "Pete saw me being carried, ‘I thought you were injured’ he says." Fortunately not.

" I was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time," said a philosophical Armstrong.

The incident means that Barbara will start tomorrow’s Feature Race from the back of the grid. With the forecast for rain, she should have an interesting race.