crashed wrx rally car

[asphotos]

Tony and Ben were VERY VERY Lucky.

arc, round from tassie last weekend.

both drivers walked away.

 

[pdanev]

hoooooooooooly... :shock:
that is some serious damage
those guys are really lucky to have walked away from that. its a miracle they survived this with. daaaamn... nasty crash

 

[jayjaya29]

Wow! Not even any leg injuries?

 

[SL65]

How the hell can you survive that?! Dive outa the car before it hits anything? :shock:

 

[Leppy]

Yeah how the fuck do you survive that? And what the hell did they hit?

 

[jayjaya29]

I'll take the engine.

 

[fbc]

I'm guessing the major damage is from rolling into a tree?? either way, lucky lucky boys

 

[Got3n]

awwww make me wanna cry

 

[freakster_991]

how the flyin fuck they survive....... very lucky men....

 

[asphotos]

was the tassie round of the OZ rally championships.

the driver is tony sullens, he won targa tassie in 2004.

they came round a left hander (right hand drive car) in 5th (about 160km/hr) and the back let go, into a ditch, hit a tree, which turned it around. and then dug in. and tumbled up into the air/

the car hit the tree side on, about 2m up the trunk, at over 100km/hr.

the driver was knocked out for a short time, but didnt suffer any real injuries (some bruses).

i guess it shows what a good (carbon fiber) seat, high quality 4" 6 point harness and decent crash helmet can do.

the car also looks a bit worse, as i believe tony was Cut out, and the result isnt as pretty.

the co driver was Ben atkinson, brother to chris atkinson, the WRC works subaru driver from australia.

 

[fbc]

happier times...

I'm still amazed by their escape

(any chance that's you in the yellow vest asphotos?)

 

[Renesis]

wow... :shock:

 

[bihus]

Lucky, lucky guys. When I was 5 or 6, I was in an accident and the roof over my father's head was like that, touching the wheel. The seatbelt wasn't mandatory, and gladly he wasn't wearing it.

 

[norbert_halaksa]

God bless Schroth?.

 

[asphotos]

nope. didnt make tassie.

 

[SL65]

For Aussies, you can see this crash between 1-2PM (EST) on Ten. I know i'll be watching

 

[Leppy]

I must have missed it... I watched from about 1:20pm onwards. dammit

 

[ArosaMike]

Christ. Lucky guys! That's some serious damage considering the car had a roll cage!

 

[asphotos]

its australian rally.

their names wern't crocker or ordynski, the crash was never going to get any coverage!!!

its a shame australian rally fails to recognise their are more than 4-5 people running in events.