Aussie Racing Cars driver Damien Flack has been the victim of a horror car crash which saw his car flip 12 times before catching on fire, caused when his brother Adrian accidentally ran into his car while they competed in the support session.
At 9.30 on Saturday morning, Flack had come to Conrod Straight - the fastest section of Mount Panorama's track - when his car was bumped off the course by another car. It's the second wild crash in less than 24 hours at the Bathurst 1000, after Australian Chaz Mostert flipped his car on Friday afternoon and suffered a broken leg and wrist to end his racing season.
Flack's car quickly careered out of control, slamming into a barricade and up into the air, issuing smoke as he flipped madly out of control. When he finally came to a stop the car burst into flames, with fans jumping the fence to try help. Medics rushed to the scene, where the driver was found conscious, alert and able to talk. Flack has been flown to hospital in the company of his brother Adrian. It's believed after an initial medical examination that Flack has escaped with just broken ribs and a punctured lung. All that was left of his car was charred metal, after metal was stripped off.
‘Sickening crash at #Bathurst in the support race. Feeling sick after seeing it,’ tweeted Tom Gordon.
Aussie Racing Cars is an Australian motor racing category. Essentially a motorcycle powered Silhouette racing car class, it was created by former touring car racer Phil Ward, influenced by the American Legends category. Ward sold the category in 2012 to Keltic Motorsport, a motorsport company owned by Queensland based father-son team of Tony and Klark Quinn with Bathurst 1000 winner Jason Bargwanna acting as commercial director.
The category contests an annual Aussie Racing Car Series which is approved by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport as a National Series. In 2009 the series made the transition from running at V8 Supercar events to run on the Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships program. The series has since reverted to having most of the rounds alongside V8 Supercar events.
