The MINI Challenge series has seen another spectacular crash at the Ipswich 300 event held at Queensland Raceway today. Sarah Harley’s car reportedly had a sticking throttle, forcing her car to understeer off the track and into the tyre wall. The impact happened at high speed and she was lucky to walk away with no serious injury.
After the incident Harley was taken to hospital for observation but was soon released. On her return to the track she said, “That was a really big hit this morning and it is a testament to the MINI and its strength that I walked away with just a bit of whiplash. It was scary heading into the tyre wall so fast I kind of tensed up and braced myself. It was a hard impact but all the safety features on the car did their job and officials worked really quickly to help me out of the car and secure the situation.”
News footage of today’s incident from Channel Seven can be seen after the break. The clip also includes a brief interview with Kain Magro, the driver involved in yesterday’s dramatic incident.
In on-track news the round was won by Warren Luff, who was making his MINI Challenge debut. Defending champion Paul Stokell ended the round in second place, while current series leader Chris Alajajian came home in third. A highlights package of this round will air nationally next weekend on the Seven Network (check you local guides for details).
Photos of the two crashes can be seen at the Catch Fence Photos forum.
6 replies on “Another MINI Challenge crash at Ipswich 300”
It’s quite a testament to the strength and build integrity of the vehicles that these drivers are walking away. A tad worrying when one flips over a spectator fence though, amazing that no one was seriously injured in that incident. By the way Sarah is quite an attractively girl who you’d never pick for a race driver, much less one that does a lot of her own spannering.
Pfffft.. rolling a MINI is soooooo 2004!
mass understeer haha
That’s my sister, she is a champion driver!
Not much you can do when the brakes fail.
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