178 Miles An Hour Into The Tires – Joel Miller’s Crash At The Twelve Hours of Sebring

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The sudden, sickening realization that the brakes are no longer functional is enough to send an icy spike down the spine of even the most veteran driver. Braking force is paramount…if the brakes can’t slow you down, everything else is going to be that much worse. At over 170 miles an hour, you don’t even […]

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[studemax]

Whoever thought up using old tires as a safety device for racetracks was a genius!

[pdub]

Good gosh. Holy CRAP.......how/why in the world did the brakes work in one corner and then totally not work in the next one? Maybe kicked up something that broke a line? Good grief, that's not something you ever wanna see.

But he had the presence of mind to hit the pile head-on instead of sliding sideways into it. WOW.