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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
The suspension broke when he hit the wall but he would not have hit the wall unless his steeriing broke.
I was watching the race on TV (Live, I believe). The impact did not look that great, but unfortunately the suspension and wheel folded around and impacted him. I remember it well. The camera came in on him and he was simply sitting in the car and it appeared looking straight ahead. You could see him twitching just a bit, and one of the announcers said softly that we could be watching him dying.
Sometimes the talking heads get it right, unfortunately, in this case.
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thanks for sharing tom, amazing part of history you saw, no matter how gruesome.
i'm really regretting my punk rock rebellion, that caused me to take interests elsewhere at the time. this mans life has really affected me for some reason and i'm really bumming at not being able to see him in action. i'm a huge fan of the 80's in general and his life seems to have touched a lot of what made that decade great, not to mention him just living that lifestyle. it's also weird that i played with a marlboro sponsored matchbox car as a child, could have been his!
i've never been a racing fan but now i can't get enough. watching him dart down the track in the rain, tweaking the car back and forth like a mosquito, and out-driving everyone on the track is thrilling.