Updated throughout the day with quick takes from staff.
"The car splitting in half, which is what it's designed to do..." Open-wheel racing, please never, ever stop blowing my mind.
Chris van der Drift--that is his real name--survived this crash in the Superleague Formula at Brands Hatch yesterday,but not without taking a broken ankle, two broken ribs, a cracked shoulder blade, a dislocated shoulder and two broken fingers as prizes. Considering he flew twenty feet in the air and hit a bridge, that's not a bad parting gift given the other goodies you could have gotten out of the contest.
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For those wondering...
… modern open-wheelers are designed to split in half.
More appropriately, the monocoque
is supposed to break away from all the extraneous bits to remove the possibility of energy needing to dissipate dissipating into the driver.
Hangin' half a hundred
by BarnacleKB on Aug 3, 2010 3:14 PM EDT reply actions
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