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Old 29-02-2012, 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Steve_PPP View Post
On tracks like Daytona, they normally have at least once crash per race that they refer to as the "big one". Shards of carbon fibre etc go everywhere, so they have a truck with a jet engine on the back to blow the debris and stuff off the banking and onto the in-field section.
Ah ok, that explains the jet engine and the fuel then. Seems risky but better than them all ploughing into the wall at full tilt when the tyres go bang.
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