Battle wounds!

So this is what happens if you ask too much of your car during a race!

I went to a track in Belgium last month (in the weekend of my birthday). I had a great race weekend, but the track was very unforgiving: everything was breaking stuff on their cars. Until that point I had only lost a front shock tower (in a practice session). In the last final of the race day however, I pushed my luck (too far): The car crashed for a ...th time. The car landed on it's wheels but I immediately saw something was wrong: The front end was nearly touching the ground. However, it did still seem driveable, and with my best race result at stake, I decided to continue. Though it wasn't my best final heat, the car held out and I finished... without losing any more positions after the crash!

I inspected the car when I came home. The damage was a cracked front arm and a snapped suspension mount. I'm amazed that the arm didn't snap in two (in the crash or in the 2 minutes of running after the crash), I guess I got very lucky there! :) It goes to show how tough these cars really are!