Seventeen-year-old Pedro Piquet is a bit bruised and battered, but isn’t much worse for the wear after this extremely violent airborne crash during the first lap of the second race of the Porsche GT3 Cup race in Goiânia, Brazil. Piquet, son of Nelson Piquet and younger brother of Nelson Piquet, Jr., was in sixth place coming into the corner when his Porsche got struck by Ricardo Baptista. As the two cars made their way towards the outside of the corner, Piquet’s Porsche went up onto two wheels in a semi-slide, and once the tires met the dirt they dug in and that’s when the real show began. Piquet’s 911 GT3 went over nine times, including a gymnastic-like move we haven’t seen outside of the Olympics, before finally stopping on the track right-side-up, spewing fluids.
Piquet suffered bruising and a small hand injury, but is expected to drive in the next Brazilian Porsche GT3 Cup race, though if he didn’t make it, we’d understand…just watching the car spinning makes us dizzy.
(Courtesy: motorsport.com)
I can certainly understand the hand injury… you can see it sticking out the window by the A-pillar during the majority of the roll. By the looks of it he narrowly missed his hand getting pinched between the car and the ground.