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Spielberg, Austria - They shook hands and walked off, the way only racing drivers can after crashing at 209km/h.
But for a few chilling moments here in the Styrian mountains, it is no exaggeration to say that Kimi Raikkonen was an inch or two away from losing his head.
The chilling scene unfolded on the first lap at the start of the top straight, with Fernando Alonso’s McLaren on the left-hand tail of Raikkonen’s Ferrari. Raikkonen suddenly lost control of his car, his hands wrestling with the steering wheel.
Alonso braked too late, his car climbing over the Ferrari, just missing the head of Raikkonen as it did so. The two cars, Alonso’s on top of the Ferrari, careered into the barriers.
The Spaniard climbed out of his cockpit and he - and fans watching on the big screens and on televisions around the world - waited anxiously for Raikkonen to move. Thankfully, he also got out of his machine, a crumpled red mess. Alonso shook his friend’s hand. Two former world champions were just glad to see that the other was all right.
More at Source: http://www.iol.co.za/motoring/f1-grand-prix/kimi-was-just-inches-from-tragedy-1.1874446#.VYgDlkZRKFs
But for a few chilling moments here in the Styrian mountains, it is no exaggeration to say that Kimi Raikkonen was an inch or two away from losing his head.
The chilling scene unfolded on the first lap at the start of the top straight, with Fernando Alonso’s McLaren on the left-hand tail of Raikkonen’s Ferrari. Raikkonen suddenly lost control of his car, his hands wrestling with the steering wheel.
Alonso braked too late, his car climbing over the Ferrari, just missing the head of Raikkonen as it did so. The two cars, Alonso’s on top of the Ferrari, careered into the barriers.
The Spaniard climbed out of his cockpit and he - and fans watching on the big screens and on televisions around the world - waited anxiously for Raikkonen to move. Thankfully, he also got out of his machine, a crumpled red mess. Alonso shook his friend’s hand. Two former world champions were just glad to see that the other was all right.
More at Source: http://www.iol.co.za/motoring/f1-grand-prix/kimi-was-just-inches-from-tragedy-1.1874446#.VYgDlkZRKFs
