MINI Challenge crash @ Ipswich 300 - pt2

Kain Magro's MINI Challenge racecar crashed over a barrier into the crowd at the 2010 Ipswich 300 event. Noone was seriously injured. Footage from Channel Seven news.

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• MINI
• Challenge
• Australia
• Ipswich
• 300
• Queensland
• Raceway
• crash
• Magro
• accident
• crowd
• fans
• incident
• rollover
• rolls
• R56
• motorsport
• JCW
• Cooper

[WTq39]

"miraculously the driver was not hurt" LOL

the miracle here was no one in the crowd end up dead

[qwertygnf]

It tells you on the back of your ticket that motorsport is dangerous and this type of thing can happen, it doesn't matter how high the fence is, Nascar have probably 30 ft high fences and cars can go right through it , should they have a 6 ft concrete high fence around the whole track ?.....i don't think so. Its just a freak accident

[spiewu]

wht the fuck where is killer !!!???

[stigger91]

That's like LeMans in the early days right there. So glad nobody on the ground was killed.

[Huebination]

Kinda reminds me of someone doing floor exercises :D

[golferluke]

Ya, I'm sure that's it, he just mixed up the pedals and can't drive. Oh except for the fact he was upside down through the braking line, but I'm sure that didn't have anything to do with it.

[mitchyman92]

You may not have noticed but that is a fairly sharp corner. He shouldn't be going that fast. Don't let those who can't drive in these event.

The crowd is a safe distance away, but that guy must have mixed up the pedals.

[WhiteHatBobby]

@iluvrnb1 I just checked the video again. The fence isn't even 1500 mm tall. Look at the spectators hanging on the fence. If that fence was Talladega-spec with its seven metre high catchfence supporting a 1500mm tall wall, the car would have been stopped by the Talladega catchfence.

[iluvrnb1]

@WhiteHatBobby hi bobby i do not know the hight of that fence, however from what you mentioned it seems maybe no hight in a fence maybe safe enough, all i can say is if i attent a race im going up the back.

[jungl3boy]

@oliroolz it is possible, a majority of aussies at the v8's are drunk by the time the v8's get out there. in all honesty alcohol & motorsport should be kept separate.

[oliroolz]

@jungl3boy alright ill give you that....

maybe they were all really drunk and were like

hey, theres a car upside down....its coming towards me....wait a minuite.....SHIIIIT!

it is austrailia after all :P

[jungl3boy]

no it sure isn't im highly involved in motorsport you are taught as a child to run as soon as a car comes of the track, they had plenty of time to move, in a rally event you usually have less than a second to get out of the way. not hard.