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Dare:
Remember Spyker driver Winklehock who led a
f1 race in his first drive,here's how lucky his dad
was in a 1980 race

Alianora La Canta:
That looked like the accident Mark Webber had at Le Mans in 1999. How Manfred Winklehock got out of that one nearly 20 years earlier takes some explaining...

cosworth151:
Looked like a "blowover" in powerboat racing. He was certainly a lucky man to jump out and walk away.

It remined me of the Mercedes CLR-GT1 cars at Le Mans in 1999 too, Ali. Peter Dumbreck walked away from this terrible looking crash:



Mark Webber had a similar flip earlier in another CLR during warm-up:



After Webber's flip, M-B put a small fin on each side of the nose. After Dumbreck's, they withdrew the team.

Steven Roy:
I seem to remember three back flips for Mercedes at LeMans.


http://www.motortrend.com/features/scenes/112_0509_lemans/index1.html

According to this link(bottom paragraph) Webber flipped twice then Dumbreck had his flip.

Alianora La Canta:
You're right, Steven. There were three flips. Mark Webber withdrew after the second one. It was the event that caused him to try to escape the comfortable world of sports car racing.

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