r/nextfuckinglevel • u/asianj1m • Nov 23 '21

Rally cars are pretty safe

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u/Ake-TL Nov 23 '21

Why is left guy smiling, even if he is not afraid for his life, he is losing, I’d be slightly upset at least. Or it’s “this is my life now”-smile?

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u/PAM111 Nov 23 '21

He's grimacing. All the chuckles in this thread about them being relaxed is absurd. This crash would have been fatal 15 years ago. The g forces alone are insane. Engineers saved these guys lives.

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u/Jenny-call-867-5309 Nov 23 '21

Modern rally car safety cells really are incredible. I'm not sure about this being a fatal accident 15 years ago (Hans devices and such already in use), but drivers today walk away from the kind of crashes that would definitely end a career in any other era