A dramatic crash during Saturday’s Formula 3 race at the Red Bull Ring in Austria ended with a three-car wreck with two drivers getting hospitalized as a result. The horrifying ordeal started when Carlin’s Ryan Tveter slid off of the track and kicked up a big cloud of dust that impeded the visibility on the track, ultimately causing his teammate, Zhi Cong Li, to inadvertently drive up the back of the Tveter’s idle car, launching the Chinese driver’s own race car into the air, corkscrewing multiple times before slamming into the gravel trap on the other side of the track. Van Amersfoort Racing driver Pedro Piquet also found himself unwittingly involved as his own race car slammed into Teeter’s spinning car, wrecking the Brazilian driver’s car in the process.
The spectacle of the crash would have been incredible if not for the fact that the two Carlin teammates were sent to the hospital as a result of the crash. Li got the worst of it as it was reported that he lost consciousness after the wreck. Fortunately, he eventually awoke and was alert at the hospital, although he did suffer broken bones on his heel to go with four fractured vertebrae. Tveter appeared to be fine in the immediate moments after the crash; he even got out of the car on his own before scampering onto the side of the track. But eventually, he too was sent to the hospital for a precautionary scan. The good news is that Piquet remarkably sustained no injuries from the crash, even though the impact of the crash completely mangled his race car.
In a visual spectacle sort of way, a massive three-car crash like this is what makes motor racing enjoyable to watch. But it also magnifies the kind of risks these drivers take when they’re competing in a a high-octane sport like racing. It’s not the kind of thing anybody would want to be involved in, even though it looks extraordinarily dramatic when you’re watching it on TV.
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