Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, Victoria is effectively two drag strips connected by a few corners. You’d think that for a road racer, that’d be heaven. Here’s the truth, though: when you get to the far end of a monster half-mile straightaway that ends with a curve, you are more than likely praying your ass off that your tires are okay, your brakes are going to do what you ask of them, and that if all else fails, that the tire barriers are as squishy as they look, because otherwise the last thing you’ll think of before the first big impact will be, “this is gonna hurt.” Actually, scratch that…unless you make Turn 6 perfectly, you won’t even need to ask that question. The answer is easy: this will hurt, and it’ll be caught on video for you to review the hospital staff decide that you are free to move about on your own again.The track has been rumored to be shutting down for years now, and with a collection of incidents like this, it’s no secret what the biggest argument against Sandown is besides the noise. These are some genuinely frightening impacts you’ll see!
Wow – that corner has NO room for error at the end of that straight if the brakes fail. That corner needs the fence pushed back another 15 meters and a big gravel trap.