Survives 160m.p.h. Crash

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31366, 11 May 1967, Page 15

Survives 160m.p.h. Crash

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) INDIANAPOLIS. The Austrian motor racing driver, J. Rindt, escaped unhurt as his car burned after a crash at nearly 160 miles an hour in practice at the Indianapolis speedway on Tuesday, Associated Press reported. Rindt, second in the 1966 world’s championship, rode his burning car to a halt after sliding almost 2000 feet, and then jumped out. The 25-year-old driver’s car throttle stuck as he neared the first turn in practice for the 500-mile race on May 30. His car banged into the outside wall, slid along the wall

for 1110 ft, then skidded another 750 ft into the infield grass. Rindt had just completed a lap of the 2|-mile oval at 158.4 miles an hour. The Italian racing driver, L. Bandini, severely injured and burned when his car crashed in Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix, was still in a critical condition in hospital in Monte Carlo on Tuesday. Dr. L. Orechhia, chairman of the Monaco Doctors’ Association, told reporters that Bandini had recovered consciousness.

Bandini, aged 31, underwent an operation for removal of his spleen shortly after his

Ferrari crashed in flames on the round-the-houses circuit. He is also suffering from multiple fractures and burns over 70 per cent of his body, doctors said.