Rally Car Driver Falls Off Mountain And Lives
Total Pro Sports - During a race on April 3rd, 2009 rally Car driver Jari-Matti Latvala, is lucky to be alive, following a frightening crash in Portugal a couple of days ago. Not only did this guy almost die, but now his team wants to fire him, and I thought North American sports were cut-throat.
Apparently, someone forgot to tell this guy that there are no guardrails in rally driving. After watching the video multiple times, I can't believe the actually survived.
"This was the biggest accident of my career," said Latvala. "All was going well as we approached a right bend over a crest before a slow left corner. I was carrying too much speed into the crest and the car lifted. It hit a bank, went up onto two wheels and over the barrier. I rolled maybe 150m off the road. As we rolled there was an incredible noise and the roll cage started to fold in around us. It was very frightening." (Race Results)
The best part is all of this happened on his birthday. What a great present!!!
Check it out for yourself right here.
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wow thats amazing
Ive watched this video 100 times and I sill cant belive it
Rolling rolling rollling!!!!!
A stock car would have been torn to shreds
no guardrails in rally driving? looks to me like there *is* a guardrail, but he bounces off the opposite bank and just rolls right over the rail. Crazy.
I would shit my pants if i had to drive on those roads let alone speed on them lol.
Rally drivers are the best damn drivers in the world.
F-1 and NASCAR are booooooring….
Balls of steel baby
Rally of Portugal FTW!
Latvala is actually a pretty good driver. Good thing he survived this.
He’s lucky to survived. And what a great surprise for his birthday!