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Walking Away: Anything Webbo can do…

…Francisco Carvalho can do better.

Ever found yourself walking along the street thinking about what you’d do if you were suddenly confronted by an out of control, airborne Seat Leon?  Try this handy video guide – we’ll sum up once you’re done:

In summary, then:

1) Run
2) Keep running

It’s easy to be flippant about these things when you [...]

Walking Away #3: Lucas Di Grassi

From this afternoon’s GP2 race in Barcelona, here’s Lucas Di Grassi in the Fat Burner Racing Engineering car (I promise you I haven’t made that up) not having his head taken off by Alvaro Parente’s ORT entry:

The car stands up well to being landed on by a fast-moving rival, with the raised cockpit sides doing [...]

Walking Away #2: Carl Edwards

A couple of weeks back we saw Jari-Matti Latvala roll a Ford Focus rally car into a ball and walk away from it.  Now, Carl Edwards checks out of the Aarons 499 at Talladega in another demonstration of how the tiniest misjudgements at speed can have fearful consequences:

The 1987 Bobby Allison wreck referenced in the [...]

Walking Away #1: Jari-Matti Latvala

Motorsport, we know, is safer now than ever before, and it’s easy to become blasé when drivers around the world start to make a habit of walking away from terrifying accidents.  It’s difficult to maintain that, though, when you see a rally car in a never-ending tumble down a huge hill:

 

Thanks to modern-day World Rally [...]