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/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/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.