Warning: the above video contains a very violent race car crash. It also contains some truly bitchin’ footage shot from inside one of the cars that collided–you get to see and feel what it’s actually like to be in one of these formula racers. Two nights ago (Sunday the 16th–which happens to also be ‘Bloomsday’, the celebration of James Joyce’s Ulysses’, which takes place on the day the book takes place on–June 16th…but I digress) a seriously nasty crash happened which amazingly did not result in any fatalities. To quote some article I found online in some publication I didn’t bother to look at the name of::

IndyCar Series drivers Josef Newgarden and Louis Foster walked away from a massive collision halfway through Sunday’s Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at World Wide Technology Raceway at Madison, Ill., near St. Louis Newgarden, caught at the wrong place at the wrong time, T-boned Foster at about 170 mph at the start-finish line on 1.25-mile oval. Foster’s car hit the outside wall and slid backwards across the track into the inside wall and Newgarden’s path. The No. 2 Team Penske Chevrolet went airborne and flipped over, flames licking inside the cockpit. But the aeroscreen did its job protecting Newgarden, and the AMR IndyCar Safety Team immediately arrived at the scene and flipped the car upright, allowing Newgarden to exit on his own power.

170 Miles per hour? Are they kidding? that’s almost a hundred miles an hour more than I’ve ever driven at! Jesus. Glad they survived. And I hope they find another line of work.  Parachute testing, perhaps.