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Video: Simona De Silvestro goes airborne at Indy, suffers second-degree burns (200 MPH)
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| May 20, 2011
| Jeremy Korzeniewski
Posted on 05/20/2011 1:39:14 PM PDT by decimon
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posted on
05/20/2011 1:39:16 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
Bookmark ping to check video when I get home.
Sounds like she fared better than Gordon Smiley did back in '82.
To: decimon
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posted on
05/20/2011 1:43:16 PM PDT
by
rocksblues
(Obama, the biggest liar in the history of American politics!)
To: tacticalogic
Sounds like she fared better than Gordon Smiley did back in '82.I won't ruin it by telling you. But I'm sure someone else will. ;-)
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posted on
05/20/2011 1:44:01 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: tacticalogic
Everybody who races knows this is a possibility.
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posted on
05/20/2011 1:46:31 PM PDT
by
livius
To: rocksblues
Wow!Nice to see a video that doesn't make you wait for the action.
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posted on
05/20/2011 1:47:35 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
did she get her pilots wings yet?
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posted on
05/20/2011 1:49:05 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: livius
Just watched “Gran Prix”, Frankenheimer’s racing classic from 1966 (?) They didn’t even wear seatbelts back then! A lot of drivers died in those days.
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posted on
05/20/2011 1:49:05 PM PDT
by
pingman
(Durn tootin'; I like Glock shootin'!)
To: rocksblues
And whoever was operating that camera had a set.
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posted on
05/20/2011 1:49:15 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: GeronL
did she get her pilots wings yet?Lucky she didn't get her angel wings.
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posted on
05/20/2011 1:50:42 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
Ouch. Thank goodness she’s okay; that crash looks quite a bit like the one that killed Tony Renna.
To: pingman
“Just watched “Gran Prix”, Frankenheimer’s racing classic from 1966 (?) They didn’t even wear seatbelts back then! A lot of drivers died in those days.”
The prevailing “wisdom” among drivers in those days was that it was better to be thrown from the car than to try getting out of it once it came to rest. This was back when F1 cars still used a lot of magnesium components, not to mention they carried enough fuel to complete a two-hour race.
To: decimon
That one will wake a driver up.
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posted on
05/20/2011 1:54:52 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: decimon
I dont think its someone standing there with the camera, I think its remote.
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posted on
05/20/2011 1:55:18 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: tacticalogic
Sounds like she fared better than Gordon Smiley did back in '82. Or Eddie Sachs in 1964.
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posted on
05/20/2011 1:55:43 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(A "Moderate Muslim"? Nothing more than a Muslim Extremist who has run out of ammo.)
To: decimon
The engineering behind those cars is amazing. A wreck like that and she walks away from it with burns on her hands.
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posted on
05/20/2011 1:58:22 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: decimon
Or Fireball Roberts unfortunately appropriate death.
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posted on
05/20/2011 1:58:39 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
She was booking. Something came loose and she lost it into the wall. Lucky!
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posted on
05/20/2011 1:58:39 PM PDT
by
Shady
(The President has become Judas.......)
To: decimon
never want to go airborne.
My wife’s cousin’s son was doing an off-season tire test at INDY in 2003, spun out, went airborne, hit a catch fence at turn 3 and died instantly.
To: driftdiver
There’s also something to be said for the SAFER barrier...
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