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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Field’s Corvette was mounted by Dylan Hughes’ BMW during the Utah leg of Formula D.<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Field’s Corvette was mounted by Dylan Hughes’ BMW during the Utah leg of Formula D.<\/p>\n
Field was leading Dylan Hughes during their one-more-time (OMT) run during the top four when the pair collided.<\/p>\n
Hughes\u2019 left front wheel rode Field\u2019s right front and launched the BMW E46 M3 into the air and over the nose of the Corvette C6.<\/p>\n
Both drivers escaped injury, each giving the crowd a thumbs-up afterwards.<\/p>\n
Hughes and Field joked afterwards, the former offering a somewhat comedic take on the accident.<\/p>\n
\u201cI came up in there and the skinny pedal [throttle] was down,\u201d the BMW driver said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of a sudden it was like a hovercraft and I\u2019m just staring at the sky and then we\u2019re just moving and we\u2019re still moving and we\u2019re still moving and I can\u2019t see anything and we\u2019re still moving and I\u2019m just like \u2018Oh my god I hope I\u2019m not on top of Matt himself personally\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I just climbed the back of the tyre. I\u2019m good. I feel bad. My rig is parked on top of Matt\u2019s, that\u2019s not what I had in mind. And we have to find my phone. My phone was ejected somewhere. We\u2019ll figure that out later.\u201d<\/p>\n
Field explained the accident from his point of view.<\/p>\n
\u201cDylan bumped me and I probably dropped a tyre and I was still throttle down, but obviously going a lot slower because one tyre is in the dirt,\u201d the Corvette driver said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hear him throttle down, then he\u2019s pushing me, and we\u2019re probably glued and I think he just climbed the front. That must have been it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hughes was deemed to be at fault, which gave Field the win to progress through to the final against Ford Mustang driver James Deane.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the judges unanimously put the fault on Dylan Hughes on this one,\u201d said Formula Drift judge Reese Marin.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe made it a point in the drivers\u2019 meeting to say, hey, when you get into outside zone three, make sure you let off, and that\u2019s what we saw, clear as day.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what we were reviewing and it was just an unfortunate process there. I\u2019ve seen this four times in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Deane won the final against Field while Adam LZ finished third.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Field’s Corvette was mounted by Dylan Hughes’ BMW during the Utah leg of Formula D. Field was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,77956,806,805,803,804,9910,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-108795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-drifting","11":"tag-motor","12":"tag-motor-sports","13":"tag-motosport","14":"tag-motosports","15":"tag-slot2","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}