Formula Renault 3.5 drivers Marco Sørensen and our local race-ace, Jazeman Jaafar were involved in a big crash at Monza recently, sending Jaafar backwards into the barrier, whilst Sørensen went flying through the air, upside down, the top of his car scraping against the asphalt and pit wall.
Miraculously, both of them managed to walk away from their cars seemingly unharmed and none the worse for wear; as Bond would put it, ‘shaken, but not stirred’.
Both Jazeman and Sørensen made the slightest of wheel contact, but when an ‘open’ tyre is spinning at extremely high speeds it has the tendency to flip something up and over. The something, in this case, was Marco Sørensen’s car. Sørensen looks like he slid down the better half of the pit wall, the whole time with his head just inches from the track. It’s a nightmare scenario that no driver wants to be in.
This is the kind of crash that would’ve killed Sørensen, if not seriously injured both drivers, just a few decades ago. This is proof that even in the lower leagues of racing, safety is still very important and it’s fantastic how far crash safety technology has come insofar as racing is concerned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa0iCmt0kV0
Source: Jalopnik
