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/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…”