The Bathurst 12 Hours Gave Us This Jaw-Dropping 720-Degree Save

Audi Sport WRT driver Will Davison dropped the back end of his R8 at one of the most unforgiving parts of Mount Panorama, and somehow kept it out of the barriers

Even as far as road-based race tracks go, Mount Panorama is an unforgiving so-and-so. The extremely tight section around the circuit’s highest point leaves precious little room for error, which is why we’re amazed this 120mph+, 720-degree spin from Audi Sport WRT driver Will Davison didn’t result in a shower of broken carbonfibre and aluminium.

It happened during a practice session for the Bathurst 12 Hours last weekend, which unfortunately means no TV cameras were rolling at the time. Still, we get a good sense of the sphincter-tightening incident from the on-board camera.

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Davison finished the race itself in 14th, with his WRT teammates Robin Frijns, Stuart Leonard, and Dries Vanthoor taking the victory. Albeit under unusual circumstances - a huge crash with 20 minutes to go brought out the safety car, which was soon followed by a red flag due to the extent of the debris field left on the track.

The race wasn’t restarted before the clock hit 0, crowning Frijns, Leonard, and Vanthoor the victors, ahead of the Mercedes-AMG GT3 of Jamie Whincup, Tristan Vautier, Kenny Habul and Raffaele Marciello.

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H5SKB4RU (Returned to CT)

the Audi be like

02/05/2018 - 10:04 |
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You spin my head right round

02/05/2018 - 13:36 |
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BenPaye(JDMSquad)(MX5Squad)(LFAsquad)(Subie Squad) (Rotary F

Thats one big impact

02/05/2018 - 10:07 |
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HazeTheMaze

Slaptrain would be proud…

02/05/2018 - 10:20 |
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Ian.L

Nah he did it on purpose, just some improvised weight saving measures through the expulsion of brown matter.

02/05/2018 - 10:49 |
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Wogmidget

100% accurate onboard footage:

02/05/2018 - 11:32 |
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Sammy Loehnis

This R8 sounds like a huracan performante (know it’s the same engine but the performante has a very different exhaust system). Weird

02/05/2018 - 12:00 |
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Both are race car. I don’t think that there is 1000 way to get the most efficient exhasut, and they probablt share parts

02/05/2018 - 21:48 |
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Olivier (CT's grammar commie)

“at one of the most forgiving parts” Didn’t you rather mean “unforgiving”? MattRobinson

02/05/2018 - 13:37 |
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Track Broseff

V8 super cars took down the vid 😢

02/05/2018 - 22:10 |
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Yep, I got the same thing sadly…

02/06/2018 - 04:14 |
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That’s an oof…oh well, my computer’s so slow it can barely run the video anyway!

02/06/2018 - 06:33 |
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eXoZGaming

Yeesh that mustve been terrifying

02/06/2018 - 00:12 |
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