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03-20-2004, 02:49 AM

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openwheels cars dont; like goign wheel to wheel

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03-20-2004, 02:50 AM

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this was a nasty wreck, the driver made it. Kenny breck i believe had avery similar one last season in IRL but he was killed

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03-20-2004, 02:56 AM

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excuse me, back survived his wreck it was Tony Renna who was killed last year

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03-20-2004, 06:17 AM

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Cars in flight. Try this Mec at Lemans. I count at least 4 back flip without scrubbing any speed!

http://www.planetofspeed.com/Video/LeMansflipicon.jpg

03-20-2004, 06:33 AM

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Gooood old Christian Fittipaldi flipping a Formula One at Monza in 93!

http://www.f1gallery.ca/f1_movies/1993/flip.mov

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03-20-2004, 09:53 AM

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You guys remember Le Mans, 1998-1999 (somewhere around there) The Mercedes flipping 3 times? Awesome thing to read about. (It may not even have been le mans.)

03-20-2004, 12:52 PM

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Hope that wasn't your car. Mom's going to be pisst

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03-20-2004, 01:40 PM

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yep teh merceded was the one i was talkign about.

that car had some aerodynamic "anomolies" they discovered shortly after teh wreck. That program went away very quickly as they had to scrap the whoel concept of that design as i recall.

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