The Bathurst 12 Hours Gave Us This Jaw-Dropping 720-Degree Save
Even as far as road-based race tracks go, Mount Panorama is an unforgiving so-and-so. The extremely tight section around the circuit’s highest point leaves precious little room for error, which is why we’re amazed this 120mph+, 720-degree spin from Audi Sport WRT driver Will Davison didn’t result in a shower of broken carbonfibre and aluminium.
It happened during a practice session for the Bathurst 12 Hours last weekend, which unfortunately means no TV cameras were rolling at the time. Still, we get a good sense of the sphincter-tightening incident from the on-board camera.
Davison finished the race itself in 14th, with his WRT teammates Robin Frijns, Stuart Leonard, and Dries Vanthoor taking the victory. Albeit under unusual circumstances - a huge crash with 20 minutes to go brought out the safety car, which was soon followed by a red flag due to the extent of the debris field left on the track.
The race wasn’t restarted before the clock hit 0, crowning Frijns, Leonard, and Vanthoor the victors, ahead of the Mercedes-AMG GT3 of Jamie Whincup, Tristan Vautier, Kenny Habul and Raffaele Marciello.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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the Audi be like
Like a record
You spin my head right round
Thats one big impact
Slaptrain would be proud…
Nah he did it on purpose, just some improvised weight saving measures through the expulsion of brown matter.
100% accurate onboard footage:
This R8 sounds like a huracan performante (know it’s the same engine but the performante has a very different exhaust system). Weird
Both are race car. I don’t think that there is 1000 way to get the most efficient exhasut, and they probablt share parts
“at one of the most forgiving parts” Didn’t you rather mean “unforgiving”? MattRobinson
V8 super cars took down the vid 😢
Yep, I got the same thing sadly…
That’s an oof…oh well, my computer’s so slow it can barely run the video anyway!
Yeesh that mustve been terrifying