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Old 24-03-2009, 06:13 PM   #1
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Has anyone heard any news about a V8 driver being bashed, i was told by a relative that who ever it was came 13th on sunday so i looked in the pits thread to find out who it was and it was Shane Van Gisbergen.
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Old 24-03-2009, 06:30 PM   #2
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some more info.
It was my aunty that was telling me this news, she knows someone that was an official at the clipsal 500 who went to one of the after party's where Shane was, there where gate crasher's who bashed him enough to put him in hospital. thats all i know thus far.
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Old 24-03-2009, 07:16 PM   #3
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I've met shane a few times, hes no small kid and wouldn't be overpowered to easy.
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Old 24-03-2009, 07:22 PM   #4
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thats horrible why would someone do that. i am guessing only that it was an angry fan or somesuch. but speculation only.
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i can't find any reference to it thusfar. How reliable is this information?
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is there anything rock solid on this. pretty bad if it did infact happen
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so i looked in the pits thread to find out who it was and it was Shane Van Gisbergen.
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where did you find that cause i just looked and couldnt see anythin even close to realting to this?
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Does this not relate to the Bathurst 1000 last year where a sponsor attacked Michael Patrizi? Crossed threads?
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where did you find that cause i just looked and couldnt see anythin even close to realting to this?
I think he means he looked in the pits to find out who finished 13th and it was Van Gisbergen.

If the story is true it may take a while to come out in the news.
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i don't know how reliable the person my aunty knows is but i trust my aunty thats for sure.
and if you go to pits thread look under clipsal 500 spoilers page 6 i think it is its there.
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and its deffinitly not crossed threads with the patrizi incident
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Still nothing has hit the news.............Very interesting.
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Yeah I googled it last night when I first read the thread and nothing came up. If he's been hospitalised he's most likely been admitted to the Royal Adelaide Hospital. I hope that this rumour can be either confirmed or denied.
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Geez... not 1 skeric of info or fact, not even any gossip elsewhere... maybe it would have been better to wait for some actual info before starting this?



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Has anyone else heard that Shnozz Skaife has had emergency Rhinoplasy so for the next round he can be closer to the microphone.
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Shane had sponsor commitments on Monday morning and then he spent Monday afternoon at the pits with his team. SBR prepared the cars on Monday ready for this coming weekend in Melbourne.

Shane flew to Melbourne yesterday morning, so he can't be too bad if he did get bashed. He certainly hasn't mentioned it at all this week.

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Just rang Stone Brothers, they said no.

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