2010 Bathurst Crash
10-13-2010 | 10:49 AM
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10-13-2010 | 10:52 AM
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LOL Calvin, his mistake was trying to get back on the track by turning the wheel. If he had stayed going straight he would have probably gotten stuck in the gravel trap, but he wouldn't have flipped either. Given the choice I probably would have done the same as him, as a racer all you want to do is get back into the action.
10-13-2010 | 04:25 PM
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LOL Calvin, his mistake was trying to get back on the track by turning the wheel. If he had stayed going straight he would have probably gotten stuck in the gravel trap, but he wouldn't have flipped either. Given the choice I probably would have done the same as him, as a racer all you want to do is get back into the action.
10-14-2010 | 02:16 AM
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but it looked as though the tire blew as he was turning in, at the point of maximum load as the commentator said, so was the driver not already past the point of being able to keep the car straight? 
(I have not done track racing, so hard for me to judge if that spin could have been caught at that point.)
good to see he walked away, unbelievable.
(I have not done track racing, so hard for me to judge if that spin could have been caught at that point.)good to see he walked away, unbelievable.
