It was in October 2003 that Kenny Bräck raced at Texas Motor Speedway, in the final race of this year’s IndyCar season.
Kenny was by then a household name in the IndyCar series, which is one of the fastest racing series in the world. In 1998 he won the championship, and the following year the biggest race, the Indy 500.
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Crash at over 350 km/h
Towards the end of the race in Texas, Kenny joined and fought in the pack.
In the fight for third place, his tires hooked the tires of South African Thomas Scheckter’s car, and Kenny’s car was thrown into the air at a speed of over 350 km/h.
The car was thrown into the high guardrail that surrounds the track, and was immediately smashed to pieces. The only part that was intact was the cockpit where Kenny sat.
You can watch the spectacular crash below.
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Highest g-force ever
A measure of the violence of the crash is that a sensor in the car measured a maximum G-force of a slightly unimaginable 214 G during the crash. This is the highest G-force ever measured in a racing accident.
– I wouldn’t really have survived such a crash, Kenny told Nyheter24 in connection with his participation in Mästarnas Mästare on SVT in 2011.
Although Kenny survived the accident, he was far from unscathed, spending 3 months in hospital.
The injuries included a broken sternum, a crushed vertebra, a broken femur and two broken ankles, as well as nerve damage and internal bleeding.
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Back in record time
After an accident of this magnitude, you would think that Kenny would stay away from racing, especially a series as fast and dangerous as IndyCar.
However, it was not to be, and just six months after being discharged from hospital, Kenny was back out testing the racing track.
The IndyCar comeback came in the 2005 edition of the Indy 500, and with a statement. In qualifying, Kenny set the fastest time, with an average speed of 366.283 km/h. However, he had to abandon the race itself due to mechanical problems.
After this, Kenny has moved on to somewhat calmer disciplines, and has competed successfully in rallies, long-distance races and historic racing, among other things.
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