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Prince Abu Ibrahim of Johor has walked distant uninjured from an tremendous clang astatine Bathurst's infamous Mount Panorama.
Driving the Triple Eight Race Engineering-run Mercedes-AMG GT3 with Jamie Whincup, the Prince mislaid power of his car astatine the iconic McPhillamy Park.
Ibrahim skated done the gravel and got airborne earlier making interaction with the tyre wall, which sent the car into a pirouette and end-over-end earlier landing connected its roof.
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The Prince was taken to the trackside aesculapian centre for an valuation and was released soon thereafter with nary injuries.
The league was subsequently stopped and did not resume owed to the betterment effort.
Speaking with Wide World of Sports aft the incident, Whincup said helium was amazed his operator managed to locomotion distant unscathed.
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"He's fine, which is each that matters really," said the squad owner.
"Massive shunt. The G-graph is retired of control, some affirmative and antagonistic – like, it's hitting the bounds connected some ends.
"Huge, immense crash. I can't judge however good helium is for however large the interaction connected the information is.
"He's fine. He wants to get retired of the aesculapian centre, but I conscionable said, 'mate, with the G's we've seen, you're amended disconnected conscionable sitting present for an hour. I cognize it's annoying, but it's champion for you'.
"The information shows 40G 3 oregon 4 times, affirmative and negative. Huge, roar boom boom, arsenic he's rolling over. He's a pugnacious small nugget."
The seven-time Supercars champion said Ibrahim was amazingly fast, considering it was his archetypal clip astatine The Mountain.
"He was pushing hard," said Whincup.
"First clip astatine Bathurst. To bash a [two-minute point] 8 successful 1 of these cars is beauteous impressive.
"He was greenish sectors. He was connected a quicker thigh again and he's conscionable mislaid the rear implicit McPhillamy and that's got the car rolling successful the gravel trap.
"Then it's deed the obstruction and gone extremity for end."
Whincup conceded his play successful the No.88 introduction is done with nary plans to perpetrate to an overnight rebuild.
Neither Whincup nor Ibrahim are successful contention for a title having lone committed to the bid midway through.
Despite the enormity of the incident, the car is repairable.
"From a car connected its extortion astatine McPhillamy, it looks amended than what I expect to beryllium honest," Whincup admitted.
"I expected the happening to beryllium a spot of a canoe and unrecognisable. It benignant of fractional looks similar a racecar.
"There's nary accidental [to get it fixed] this weekend. There's nary request for everyone to beryllium doing an all-nighter contiguous erstwhile we're not battling for the championship.
"We'll enactment it successful the motortruck and analyse if there's immoderate chassis damage."
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