{"id":10147,"date":"2025-07-21T05:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10147\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T05:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:48:10","slug":"terrifying-crash-engulfs-lamborghini-huracan-in-fireball-at-misano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10147\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrifying crash engulfs Lamborghini Huracan in fireball at Misano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-21-075246-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Terrifying crash engulfs Lamborghini Huracan in fireball\"\/>Georgi Donczew&#8217;s Lamborghini Huracan goes up in flames after hitting an Armco barrier at Misano.<\/p>\n<p>Competing in the latest GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS round at Misano, Donczew was tipped into a spin by BMW driver Darren Leung.<\/p>\n<p>The Paradine Competition car made nose-to-tail contact at the high-speed Turn 11 kink, which sent the Grasser Racing Team driver into the Armco barrier.<\/p>\n<p>The Lamborghini Huracan erupted on impact before spinning across the circuit towards the gravel trap.<\/p>\n<p>The trailing pack of cars took evasive action, but not all could avoid the mess. Lionspeed GP driver Gabriel Rindone clipped the stationary car with his Porsche 911.<\/p>\n<p>The race was subsequently red-flagged with 44 minutes left on the clock.<\/p>\n<p>Leung was apologetic for the accident.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tWin a trip to the GC500 valued at $5,000 \u2014 or take the cash! <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/fastdeli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not been the easiest of days, for sure,\u201d said Leung.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was glad, as soon as I went down, I saw Georgi in the garage and he was uninjured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just kind of exchanged a few words about how scary that moment was. I just think it\u2019s one of those things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t expect him to come from a blind spot and come across the front of me. It\u2019s such a high speed corner. That does stuff to the aero in these cars. It does quite a lot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did lift, I lifted as much as I could without losing the car myself and he obviously had a bigger lift.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks like I\u2019m trying to go for a move there but really I\u2019m trying to give him the space after he came across the front. There wasn\u2019t really anything else I could have done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most important thing is that he\u2019s okay. I think he knows and hopefully the Grasser team knows who I am and how I manage things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the lap before, I gave him plenty of space in the high speed section.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, for me, that was the situation that resulted in the tiniest of touches between us which had the biggest consequence. Again, I\u2019m glad he\u2019s okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After a lengthy delay, the race resumed. Garage 59 drivers Marvin Kirchhofer and Benjamin Goethe were victorious in their McLaren 720S.<\/p>\n<p>It marked the first win for Garage 59 in 2016 in the then-known Blancpain GT Series with Rob Bell and Alvaro Parente at the Nurburgring.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas Auer and former Supercars driver Maro Engel were second for Winward Racing in their Mercedes-AMG. Patrick Niederhauser and Sven Muller were third for Porsche team Rutronik Racing.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend\u2019s earlier race was won by Valentino Rossi and Raffaele Marciello for Team WRT in their BMW M6.<\/p>\n<p>Alessio Rovera and Vincent Abril were second for AF Corse while Team WRT bookended the podium with Charles Weerts and Kelvin van der Linde.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Georgi Donczew&#8217;s Lamborghini Huracan goes up in flames after hitting an Armco barrier at Misano. 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