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Wurz: Escaping F1's fastest crash still spurs safety drive
Alex Wurz says the ongoing memories of being able to walk away from Formula 1's fastest ever impact - 300km/h – acts as a permanent reminder for him about why he will never give up pushing for better safety. The Austrian was lucky to escape uninjured from a testing accident at Paul Ricard in May 2005, when the right rear tyre on his McLaren MP4-20 exploded through the flat out first chicane. With little time to react, Wurz slammed into the barriers on the left hand side, before spinning across a run off area and hitting another wall. Amazingly, he was not hurt. "It was apparently the fastest impact speed – more than 300km/h – where a driver walked away uninjured," Wurz told...
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