how close was that flying debris to you?
Many years ago I had a near experience with flying race car parts. I was at the local drag strip, and was leaning on the front fender of an ambulance. A gas dragster had a clutch/flywheel explosion on the line and a spectator over in the grandstands got fragged. The ambulance crew jumped in and tried to get over there, but the right front tire was flat. After the excitement settled down the ambulance crew changed the tire and found a gaping hole in the tread. A fist sized chunk of pressure plate had missed my shin by about 6 inches and took out the tire. The noise on the line was so loud at the time that I didn't hear the loud clunk that shrapnel must have made when it hit the wheel inside the tire. I could have lost my left leg that night.