TOP Gear co-host Steve Pizzati stunned racegoers at Eastern Creek yesterday
when he survived a spectacular crash in which his car flipped two and a half times in the air.
Logifuse's note: It's a friggen race car you moron, they are built to survive crashes.
The larrikin motoring commentator and former race car driver amazingly walked away with just a "humdinger of a headache and a sore neck" after what some spectators described as the most spectacular crash of the year.
Pizzati was a guest driver along with Channel 7's Neil Crompton in the Aussie Racing Cars super series, held as the curtain-raiser to the Australian Superbikes Series.
After starting well back on the grid, Pizzati was coming into the final lap just behind the front-runners when caught up in a crash involving other cars.
"On the last lap the two guys in front of me banged wheels and hit me," he said. "I've got caught up in it and it's caused me to flip - I guess you would say two and a half times, because the car's ended up on its roof."
The high-speed crash destroyed the car's fibreglass shell but the internal steel frame remained largely intact, saving Pizzati from potentially life-threatening injuries.
It was a bad day for the Top Gear franchise overall, with UK presenter Richard Hammond involved in a four-car pile-up near his home in the village of Over, Gloucestershire, about midday local time on Saturday.
Hammond was reportedly shaken but uninjured in the accident, which trashed his treasured $220,000 1930s-style Morgan AeroMax, capable of reaching a speed of 273km/h.
The 39-year-old is no stranger to accidents, having survived a 450km/h crash in a dragster while filming for the hit BBC show.
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his twitter confused me when I first read it...I was thinking 'how the heck do you flip a car three times in one race and still keep going?' three times all at once though, I can understand that. From his account the first time he drove the car was in qualifying so it probably wasn't a spectacular performance. Still, wish I could see video of the crash...
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