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To: DUMBGRUNT
Andrew on Twitter:

I don't think this was the same sled.

2 posted on 02/06/2022 10:21:22 AM PST by Yogafist
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The crash started when then-rookie Kurt Busch, Rob Morgan, and Lyndon Amick were racing three-wide through the tri-oval front straightaway. In the exact moment Bodine moved to get around the outside of the trio, Morgan was turned across Busch’s nose into the side of Amick’s truck, who was at the bottom. Amick’s truck was damaged in the contact, which caused it to veer hard right, pushing Morgan into Bodine who was on the outside. The contact between Morgan’s front right tire and Bodine’s front left tire caused the front of Bodine’s truck to vault upwards over the outside retaining wall, sending his truck into the catch fencing nose first, at a speed of nearly 190 mph (310 km/h).[4]

...As it tumbled, it got hit yet again, this time by Jimmy Kitchens, which ignited the fuel that was spilling out of the tank. Bodine rolled nine times before coming to rest on his roof. The accident was so severe, the announcers, crew members and fans all believed that Bodine had been killed.

As a result of the collision, Bodine suffered fractures in his right wrist, right cheekbone, a vertebra in his back, and his right ankle as well as suffered a concussion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Bodine#Bo-Dyn_bobsleds


4 posted on 02/06/2022 10:39:21 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: Yogafist

What is this NASCAR mess on TV now?


9 posted on 02/06/2022 2:45:41 PM PST by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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