HUGE crash at Surfers Paradise

[TotalF1 Jens 0]

Did any of you catch the CART race in Surfers Paradise? The crash at the start was huge, the drivers couldnt see a thing in all that rain!! Take a look at these three clips from the crash, the onboard with Andretti is astounding!

VIDEO 1

VIDEO 2

VIDEO 3

[DJC-Grafix 0]

that was one hell of a crash,

Jimmy and Tora both goin over,, scary,

and then Mario DOminguez winning.

[TotalF1 Jens 0]

It was a very odd race, I didnt watch the whole thing as it got boring watching the cars follow the pace car for 36 laps. And they were going slowly, but the drivers were still telling the safety car to slow down as they couldnt see a thing! From the Andretty onboard cam the car infront only came into view a few metres before impact. I would say the rain was worse than Malaysia 01 or Spa 98.

[nichosnz 0]

WOW what a mess!

[DJC-Grafix 0]

well, it took ages to come thru on my 33k connection (no comments)

but when they came thru,

that onboard shot on Andretti, he went straight under him, reminded me a bit of wen Alez Barron went on top of Bryan Herta, Laguna Sega??

and the trackside shots Takagi went flying, wow,

THANK you all the safety ppl who design the cars, u guys just saved 2 lives..

[TotalF1 Jens 0]

Definitely only a few years ago this crash could have been fatal, as Andretti did just slide right under the car infront. Crazy!

[nichosnz 0]

2 lives, and quite a few bones as well!

[December 0]

Yep certainly quite astounding, especially being there!

This race put Australia on the motor racing map, but for all the wrong reasons.

[TotalF1 Jens 0]

You were there?! Wow, did you actually stay there for the whole "race" or leave early along with the other 100,000 spectators?

[nichosnz 0]

The shortest F1 race in history was also in Australia, Adelaide 1991 24m 34.899s (14 laps) won by Ayrton Senna. This was stopped by extremely bad rain also, much worse than Belgium 98 or Malaysia 01.

For a reference the fastest lap was a 1m41 vs a pole lap of 1m14

[TotalF1 Jens 0]

And I always thought Australia as a sunny place...

[nichosnz 0]

I think it is but when it rains it really rains!