Billy Monger.

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Formula 4: Jenson Button pledges £15,000 to support British driver Billy Monger.

Jenson Button has pledged £15,000 to a fundraising page set up to support a British Formula 4 driver who had both legs amputated following a crash.

Billy Monger, 17, drove at high speed into the back of a car which seemed to have stopped on the track during Sunday's race at Donington Park.

Lewis Hamilton has also offered support, tweeting: "Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family."

More than £500,000 had been raised by 13:00 BST on Thursday.

Monger, who has been described as "an extremely talented young driver" had to be extracted from his vehicle at the Leicestershire track and airlifted to hospital.

 

[spurs fan in a coupe]

I saw it on the news, he is fairly local to me. The accident was sickening, high speed into a stationary car on track.

Good on Jenson, I know he can probably afford it, but it's still his money. I like him, I feel so sorry for the young lad, but at least he survived.

 

[t-tony]

I saw this on the BBC the other night, a real shocker at the time but injuries not revealed. So sad to hear it's as bad as it turned out.

Tony.

 

[Brian H]

Sad hear this, it was a sickening crash. Heard on the radio today that they had brought him out of an induced coma and he was upbeat all things considered, still talking about racing etc. He was put under again the afternoon for another opp.

The crowd funding page has reached £580k + now.

 

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View: https://youtu.be/vu1ieQUgqfc
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[t-tony]

Poor lad had no chance of avoiding that.

Tony.

 

[Jimmy Weston]

I was at donnington park this weekend at the British touring cars with a few zedders,one off the support races was f4 , 17 year old billy monger hit a stationary car (unsighted)At high speed, 50 meters from where were standing,the meeting was halted for over 2 hours whilst they extracted him from his car, the air ambulance landed on the circuit and performed there magic as always, sadly today Billy's as had to have both lower legs ampitated , a tragedy for such a young talent, my heart goes out to him and family.

 

[Jimmy Weston]

Sorry hardtop I didn't read ure thread, I just posted a new thread about this my apologies.

 

[spurs fan in a coupe]

That slo-mo shows just how awful it was, gut-wrenching. He is lucky to be alive. If he has survived with no brain damage he is extremely fortunate, the car he hit came into the cockpit.

 

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I just posted a new thread about this my apologies.

No probs, I can remove it if you want?

 

[Jimmy Weston]

Yep you beat meet to this one , I just started a new thread called tragedy , as I was standing there when it happend at the track, please delete mine , and let this one roll mate.

 

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Yep you beat meet to this one , I just started a new thread called tragedy , as I was standing there when it happend at the track, please delete mine , and let this one roll mate.

No, just read yours, I will merge it into this thread.....

 

[Jimmy Weston]

I think sometimes when u sign on for a race , u just do it and don't think anything else off it , 5 minutes before this crash happened where we standing, I bumped into and old team mate off mine,who crashed last year at blonchimond corner at spa at high speed, thankfully Eddie was OK after a few days ,but hasn't been racing since then, i think now armchair Motorsport is the best way to get thrills.

 

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meeting was halted for over 2 hours whilst they extracted him from his car,

Yep, they said it took 90 mins to get him out of the car.....

 

[t-tony]

They had marshals holding up sheets to hide the sights I read somewhere. Poor kids legs must've been a mess.

Tony.

 

[Jimmy Weston]

Nope the reports are wrong , the crash happend at 12.05 ish , and the air ambulance took off just after 2 .10 , I've never seen so many people on the track attending things, somebody behind me said , ohh it's only 1 car crashed till he looked close at it, and 2 cars were mangled into 1

 

[Jimmy Weston]

It delayed the race so much , I thought it might have been cancelled,here's the last race off the day around 6 ish

 

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Here is a similar crash in F3

View: https://youtu.be/BOvt8OlfX4E
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[Jimmy Weston]

Holly Mooly,that's what u call flying,and he limped away thankfully.

 

[andyglym]

That's a really bad shunt, sympathy to the lad. It's good to see the racing driver community helping out.