GM Development Chief Crashes Corvette ZR1 Pace Car At IndyCar Race
Well, this is a little awkward, isn’t it? Mark Reuss - product development head for General Motors - managed to punt a Corvette ZR1 pace car into a wall at the Detroit Grand Prix, just before round 2 of the IndyCar Detroit Grand Prix.
Reuss lost control of the 755bhp V8 monster after hitting one of the street circuit’s notorious bumps, pitching it into a barrier with enough force to set off the airbags and leave the front-end of the car in a rather sorry state. Reuss - who has been on pace car duties at Detroit numerous times before - was thankfully uninjured in the crash, as was passenger Mark Sandy.
Following the accident, GM fielded a back-up ZR1 with Spanish IndyCar driver Oriol Servià at the wheel. The race itself was eventually won by Ryan Hunter-Reay, ahead of championship leader Will Power.
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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Mark Reuss’ daily? Ford Mustang. Weekend hobbies? Car meetings.
This is going in top comments. I’m sure.
Literally the most overused and dead joke there is.
Thanks for the cheap humour.
Because a GM chief would definitely drive a Ford
What a smashing start to the race
literally
I wonder if Taki Inoue was driving that car….it could have been Pastor Maldonado since he’s in France causing chaos at Le Mans…..
I AM SAD
General Massacre.
American cars and turning. Always bad idea :D
You can really feel the irony when a safety car is the first one who crashes
GM Dev Chief crashes a car… no big deal.
I crash a car… It’s a big deal.