1998 - Le Mans - Bernd Schneider retires from the race

At 15:13 disaster struck the leading Mercedes when it slowed on the pit straight and ground to halt at the exit of the pit lane. Bernd Schneider was in deep pooh .. he couldn’t reverse back down the pit lane (although he tried rolling backwards down the gentle incline until a marshall started pushing the other way!) and no way was the car going to make another lap. The record shows that this was where car number 35 ceased to be part of Le Mans 1998 ! Schneider was advised by the marshal that if he went further than 100 meters from the car he would be deemed to have abandoned the car ... no matter it was all over anyway ! The problem was a huge oil leak ..
Schneider suffered an electrical malfunction, leading to power-steering pump failure; the servo drive for the steering pump was common to the oil pump, and an engine failure followed.

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