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http://sports.usatoday.com/201...sh-indianapolis-500/ They must be making cars safer, I cannot believe how he walked away from this crash. | ||
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That was amazing. I thought for sure Dixon was toast and seeing him get out of the car and walking away just blew my mind. Great race. I was kinda rooting for Alonso. He gave it good shot. I hope he comes back to give it another try. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
Dude's having a bad week. He was robbed at gunpoint just the other day. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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I couldn't believe they both walked away from their cars. A friend of mine was there. He was standing at the wall/fence in turn two and saw accident. Sent me a pic of the aftermath. Didn't get any shoots of the crash. _____________________________________ Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. Jack Kerouac | |||
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From the article, and I quote "Dixon’s car was destroyed." “We’re in a situation where we have put together, and you guys did it for our administration…President Obama’s administration before this. We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,” Pres. Select, Joe Biden “Let’s go, Brandon” Kelli Stavast, 2 Oct. 2021 | |||
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| Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated  |
Amazingly he wasn't killed. His car hit that rail in a good spot. Seems many Honda engines showed up for the race but failed to finish. Just a wee bit of reliability issues. "Someday I hope to be half the man my bird-dog thinks I am." FBLM LGB! | |||
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He was very lucky because the way his car landed on that wall, had it hit it all the way upside down it looked like the cockpit with him in it would have came down on the wall. | |||
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That was a plane crash. Man oh man. It wasn't that long ago that such an event would have resulted in a dead driver. Car safety has come such a long way. -- I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. JALLEN 10/18/18 https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...610094844#7610094844 | |||
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| Alea iacta est |
Bah. 20 years ago (1996) I was at the race, sitting 9 rows up on the inside of pit row. That famous last lap crash because of the spilled fuel in the pits debacle? I have 35mm photos of that one. Everyone walked away from that iirc. And during practice that year, drianan (sp?) wrecked REAL good. Got a broken hip out of it if memory serves, but still raced after getting patched up. Point is, they've been safe for a long while, and you have to be exceedingly unlucky to not survive these days. | |||
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The soft walls also help. Amazing, he walked away, but I bet he'll have a hard time getting out of bed in the morning! If it ain't woke... don't fix it. | |||
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Go to 2:50 for Dixon's view. __________________________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard M Nixon It's nice to be important, it's more important to be nice. Billy Joe Shaver NRA Life Member | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Yeah, safer cars and all that - but a good amount of luck as well. Do it again tomorrow and he could easily be dead. | |||
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Advances in Safety technology saved both drivers. 10 years ago that would have been a serious injury incident, 20 years ago perhaps fatal. Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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| I swear I had something for this |
He had to go back to the Medical Center for a walking boot because his ankle hurt. He'll be sore tomorrow, but that's it. | |||
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| I swear I had something for this |
Scott Brayton was killed during practice that year, and he was one of the professionals racing against the IRL jobbers while the real pros were at Michigan. And let's not forget, Jeff Krosnoff (Toronto 1996), Gonzalo Rodriguez (Laguna Seca 1999), Greg Moore (California 1999), Tony Renna (Indy 2003 tire test), Paul Dana (Homestead 2006) and Dan Wheldon (Las Vegas 2011). Rodriguez was unlucky because his throttle stuck on his Penske going into his corkscrew, but everyone one else didn't run out of luck. Justin Wilson was unlucky dying in a similar way to Ayrton Senna (debris hitting him in his head at Pocono 2015). The others didn't run out of luck. They got into crashes that their equipment couldn't save them from, and that's a lot of dead racers not to long ago. Things sure have been SO safe for quite a while now.  | |||
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Totally agree. That could have been fatal but for a boat load of luck. 10 years ago that was fatal no matter how much luck was involved. | |||
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did he fly over a hundred feet ? or under a hundred feet , distance wise Safety, Situational Awareness and proficiency. Neck Ties, Hats and ammo brass, Never ,ever touch'em w/o asking first | |||
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Probably several hundred feet of hang time. If he had hit the inside wall cockpit down instead of on the side, it would have been all over. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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