Toomas Heikkenen XGames crash

[Triathlete]

During practice today for the X Games Rally-X Heikkenen crashed and broke his ankle. This is the crash...

OUCH!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgBVLJsLThQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[whitebreadx]

damn that was a hard hit!

[VXorado]

He wasn't even close to making the landing. Surprising considering how much speed he had going into the jump.

[Triathlete]

He hit the ramp so hard that it moved the ramp about a foot. That ramp is big and heavy!

[rowhard]

damn lucky it was only his ankle.

[Triathlete]

Don't think luck had a lot to do with it (though it helps)...those cars are built like tanks. I watched an episode of "how its made" that showed the build process of WRC rally cars. 80% of the car is rebuild/replaced and the cages and safety equipment is the nest in the business. The cars are a million dollars plus each!

[VXorado]

Don't think luck had a lot to do with it (though it helps)...those cars are built like tanks. I watched an episode of "how its made" that showed the build process of WRC rally cars. 80% of the car is rebuild/replaced and the cages and safety equipment is the nest in the business. The cars are a million dollars plus each!

I noticed the rally car sounded like cardboard crunching rather than sheet metal. I figured the crunch areas were made of some fancy composite. :_confused

[Triathlete]

They use a lot of aluminum and carbon composits.

[pbkid]

ya, ouch. that was really hard. I thought they had people to do measurements and say, you need to be going 60-65 mph to clear this jump kinda thing?

nice vids billy.