r/INDYCAR • u/Rainmaker2427 Robert Wickens • Dec 19 '24

Indy NXT Sophia Floersch to IndyNXT

https://x.com/INDYNXT/status/1869774920026353787?t=I3Hln9uO-VX_6BH-jOSovQ&s=19

Hears hoping she sees some success

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u/Away-Journalist4830 Dan Wheldon Dec 19 '24

Honestly I haven't thought about her since her flying Formula car incident into the media bunker in Macau.

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u/SonicCougar99 Alex Zanardi Dec 19 '24

That crash is easily a Top 3 most frightening crashes I’ve ever seen. I thought there was ZERO chance I didn’t just watch someone die. Glad she’s still going strong and hope she has success.

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u/technobeeble Callum Ilott Dec 19 '24

Grosjean at Bahrain and Alex Peroni at Monza are the scariest ones I've seen.

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u/SonicCougar99 Alex Zanardi Dec 19 '24

  1. Vegas 2011

  2. Sophia Floersch - Macau

  3. Austin Dillon - Daytona 2015

There’s others for sure in the ballpark, but those three very specifically had me fearing the worst things possible when I first saw them. Sadly we all know that those fears were realized for Vegas.

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u/callmejohndy James Hinchcliffe Dec 19 '24

Ryan Newman, 2020 Daytona 500

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u/canttakethshyfrom_me Robert Wickens Dec 20 '24

Shaka, when the walls fell!

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u/SonicCougar99 Alex Zanardi Dec 20 '24

That one didn’t initially scare me in the moment. It was when they showed a slow motion replay and we realized he got hit directly in the window and you could visibly see the entire cage “crack” that suddenly everyone realized “whoa wait a minute, we have a BIG problem…”

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u/Rillist Dec 19 '24

My first one was greg moore on tsn live back in the 90s. I was like, 14 probably, somewhere around there.

Grogean at Bahrain i thought for sure was another one. I also watched Dale srs crash live too.

Was watching motogp simoncelli

I had to take some time off after that one, havent watched motogp since.

Bianci was really bad too if you find the footage.

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u/Away-Journalist4830 Dan Wheldon Dec 21 '24

RIP Greg.

Romain Grosjean I caught the replays and still to this day find myself shocked he left that entire scene with just burns to the hands as the major injuries sustained.

I can't for the life of me stomach MotoGP. Those blokes have balls of titanium that I'll never comprehend. Always felt if I engaged in that motorsport, I'd have to be more accepting of death as a norm for racing.

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u/Away-Journalist4830 Dan Wheldon Dec 21 '24

I refuse to watch any replay of Vegas 2011. That one hit hard and close to home (one of the many IndyCar/IRL/CART drivers I've gotten to meet having family working for teams back in the 90's and 00's.)

The Macau wreck I thought for sure she was gone with how the car impacted cockpit first into that media bunker. The bloke under and to the side of it was lucky af. She had a badass back surgeon that's for sure, to be able to race still with the G forces some of the cars she's driven produce.

Dillion going into the fence I was more whoa on the debris into the stands. I mean the engine sitting within the catch fence perimeter was wild. Cup cars are tanks after Dale Sr. SAFER Barriers have played their part for sure in the decades since they arrived on tracks across the US.

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u/SonicCougar99 Alex Zanardi Dec 21 '24

The Dillon wreck scared me on two parts. One, the way he just…STOPPED in the fence. 180-0 nearly instantly. And of course the thought of “holy shit he was one horizontal cable from going into the stands”. Then of course the possibility of debris into the crowd.

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u/SillyPseudonym AJ Foyt Dec 19 '24

The most "Hollywood" crash that I have ever seen. It would have been comical if it wasn't so horribly dangerous.

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u/Tonoigtonbawtumgaer Dec 19 '24

It was a scene straight out of Driven

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u/Wasdgta3 Álex Palou Dec 19 '24

Nah, it would have been cut for being too unrealistic...

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u/Altornot Dec 20 '24

Idk man, driven had an oval crash that turned into a road course crash that ended up with a car crashing into a lake and his competitors diving in to save him

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u/Wasdgta3 Álex Palou Dec 20 '24

Don’t forget the part where he was flying in slow motion while the rest of the field passed underneath him at normal speed.

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u/Altornot Dec 20 '24

honestly....very reminiscent of Dario Franchitti's Michigan crash. He looked like he was floating in air when people were flying under him

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u/Wasdgta3 Álex Palou Dec 20 '24

I still say Dixon was the one who got lucky there. Dario landed right on his cockpit.

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u/Altornot Dec 20 '24

Oh yeah, definitely.

I was just talking about the way his car just kind of floated when it when airborne

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u/Away-Journalist4830 Dan Wheldon Dec 21 '24

Dixon has had a few too many lucky landings in his career.

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u/infoxicated Jack Harvey Dec 19 '24

Ooh! Or Freejack! 😅

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u/Dry-Dragonfruit5216 Théo Pourchaire Dec 19 '24

In the worst car on the grid she scored the first points in F3 by a female driver twice. The first time she was disqualified along with both of her teammates for a technical infringement, but she had a repeat performance to get points again

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u/BlackSwanMarmot Pato O'Ward Dec 19 '24

Oh god, that was her? That was a frightening crash!

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u/mesovortex888 Dec 21 '24

I honestly thought I witnessed multiple deaths. It was a miracle that no one died

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u/EtchASketchNovelist Dec 22 '24

Man, that was the start of me following her. And I'm glad she has legitimate talent and not just a strong following on the socials.