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F1 Cars and Walls Go Together Badly

There’s lots of things you never want to see: Bill Callahan announced as your new head coach, your wife making out with Andy Dick, or Jeremy Shockey storming toward you in a club looking angry with a champagne bottle in hand. They’re all horrifying in their own way, especially the rampaging Shockey one.
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↵Add this sight to your list: staring from the cockpit of an F1 car as the tire explodes and turns your high-performance vehicle into a missle headed right for a wall of tires at 180 miles an hour.
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↵↵Heikke Kovalainen, the unfortunate driver in this case, left the track on a stretcher in a neck brace but suffered no major injuries. Which means that if you would probably suffer greater damage from any of the three things we described above, including facing a livid Shockey on the loose. ↵

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