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This Onboard Of A Rally Car Crashing Into A Lake Is Utterly Terrifying
This Onboard Of A Rally Car Crashing Into A Lake Is Utterly Terrifying-May 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:44

Crashing is bad enough. Rolling down a hill into a lake is probably the worst case scenario, ever. Here's the onboard footage from the crash where driver Ott Tänak and codriver Raigo Mōldar plowed nose-forward off the track and rolled into a reservoir during the World Rally Championship's Rally Mexico.

The Ford Fiesta understeered around a bend that followed a hill on the stage at just the wrong moment. Unbelievably, WRC with the crew for 17 minutes after the crash.

Rally Mexico has not gotten off to a good start. Ford's WRC team lost contact for 17 minutes with…

Tänak has a lucky duck around his handbrake. Unfortunately, that duck was not so lucky and went down with the car.

However, Tänak's M-Sport team was able to fish the car out of the water. According to , they thrashed on the car overnight to get it ready for the next day's stages. It still had some electrical gremlins from being submerged, however, the car for them.

Duck, you're safe. Just don't try to return to the water again.

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