While Audi managed to win the 2011 24 Hours of LeMans, the victory came at an awfully high price. Two of their cars, both handmade, one-off, multi-million dollar pieces, were reduced to broken shards of carbon fiber in a couple of monster wrecks. Allan McNish was involved in the most scary crash of the entire race in just the first hour of the event. 

While there was some speculation on the cause of the crash, no mechanical failures have been cited and McNish refuses to place blame on the Ferrari driver that got caught up in the tangle. When McNish’s car skittered over top of the pea gravel run off zone and exploded into the tire barrier, photographers and fans were in the line of fire for flying parts, but luckily, amazingly really, no one was hurt. Pay attention to the guy out running the tire!

Watch McNish’s wreck, then scroll down for the second one, involving his teammate Mike Rockenfeller.