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[JUMPNYC]

http://www.foltyn.cz/car/lambo.htm

[e30damen]

woahhhh no way that dude survived..

[Justin B]

Google chrome translated it :

What else can survive?


Severe accident Wed No. 22 in the race Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo


Lamborghini Gallardo car crew Fabio Babin / Giorgio Bartocci drove from pole position time of 02:04.482 and started in Saturday's race from the first position. In the first round the last corner was Giorgio Bartocci forced to go to the gravel, and when you return to tarmac the car was kicked nearly head-on into a concrete protective wall pit line. The speed of around 120-140 km / h, it was a huge blow to the front of the car flew into pieces. Subsequently ignited gasoline, which apparently is still pushing electric pumps. A fearsome pilot survived, though perhaps with a fractured arm and burns 1st degree of the legs was airlifted to hospital by helicopter. I leave without further comment.

[AndrewBird]

The article says he hit the end of the wall at 120-140 KPH. Not much would survive a crash like that at that speed. What is amazing is the driver came out of his seat. And even more amazing is he survived with only a broken arm and 1st degree burns.

Edit: Beat me to it.

Edit2: If you look at the last picture, it looks like at least some of the car was made from metal. The roof is bent along with a lot of the front of the car.

[JUMPNYC]

I just kept looking at the clock at how fast it went down..

[AndrewBird]

The crash:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=af4_1274754139

More here, though I'm not sure I believe all of it:

http://jalopnik.com/5546461/race-car-driver-barely-survives-horrific-fiery-crash-worse-response?skyline=true&s=i

[george graves]

The guy in white is a bad-ass! He manned the fuck up and saved the day.

[iwantspeed]

wow

took them a while to get some fire extinguishers out

[Ray Smoodiver]

Useless marshals.

Nearly as good as that Ferrari crash in Japan.

[Fusion]

Hey, I live 5 minutes from the track. Here's some info on speeds etc. http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=155525
Dood has a burned leg and broken arm, last I heard, pretty amazing if you ask me.

[vlad]

where is this race track at?

The fire track looks like a 1970s russian made Maz...

amazing crash, amazing rescue effort by the co-driver and very poor job by the track officials

[Fusion]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaryk_Circuit

Oh and the fire truck is a 60's or 70's Skoda MTS. It amazes me that they use that piece of shit.