Movie star Michael Fassbender crashes in 24 Hours of Le Mans qualifying
Fassbende🌃r span out of control on a straight, crashi🍸ng into the barrier and causing a red flag.
He was able to drive his Porsche 911 RSR, for Proton Competition, ཧback into the pits. Porsche confirmed he was unharmed.
The actor, aged 45, has been training for this race for the past four years. He has already taken part in the Porsche Carrera Cup and the European L𓆏e Mans Series.
He is teaming up with Z🐠ach Robichon and Matt 💟Campbell.
“It’s exciting and scary,” Fassbender said.
“It’s the history and the respect for the ꧒place that gets you, I just hope that I perform well, after this four-year journey. I feel like another four years would have been good! Anyway, it’s almost surreal to be here.
“There’s somet🌄hing so addictive and magical that’s hard to put into words. As soon as I left the track I wanted to go back on again immediately. Even the town itself, you can feel the race is in the blood here.
"It’s proper motor racing.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to♎ F1.
