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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe remains of Manuel Gil del Real’s Porsche 911 after crashing at Laguna Seca. Image: Ryan Wevers via X<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe remains of Manuel Gil del Real’s Porsche 911 after crashing at Laguna Seca. Image: Ryan Wevers via X<\/p>\n
China GT made headlines globally, with mainstream outlets including the New York Times, The Guardian and BBC all reporting on the carnage.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve covered those events in detail HERE<\/a> and HERE<\/a>, but there were plenty more major moments locally and abroad, including Charles Leclerc\u2019s ugly accident in the Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix.<\/a><\/p>\n Was this Laguna Seca\u2019s biggest crash ever?<\/p>\n Manuel Gil del Real\u2019s crash at Laguna Seca resembled something straight out of a video game with the way his Porsche 911 shot through a catch fence and tumbled wildly down an embankment.<\/p>\n On the last lap of the opening Porsche Sprint Challenge USA West race, Real approached the infamous Corkscrew at unabated speed.<\/p>\n The car launched into the air, over the tyre barrier and through the catch fence before barrel-rolling down the hill. Real was reportedly conscious before being airlifted to hospital.<\/p>\n Porsche Motorsport North America issued a statement after the incident.<\/p>\n \u201cDriver Manuel Gil Del Real is awake following an on track incident during Saturday morning\u2019s race at Laguna Seca,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n \u201cHe has been transported to a Salinas hospital and is being evaluated and treated.<\/p>\n Aussies fail to finish Supercup at Monza<\/p>\n There was chaos to begin the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup race at Monza, with three incidents in the space of a lap.<\/p>\n The action began at the Variante del Rettifilo chicane when Juan Pablo Vega Dieppa, Matheus Ferreira and Jukka Honkavuori collided.<\/p>\n Australia\u2019s Caleb Sumich was among the casualties on the second lap when wheel-to-wheel contact with a rival spat him off into the gravel trap at the Variante della Roggia chicane.<\/p>\n The Safety Car was called, but the incidents continued. Not fully sighted on the broadcast, Sam Shahin and Andrea Galli collided on the run to the Ascari chicane.<\/p>\n Shahin was none too pleased, gesturing at Galli after the incident.<\/p>\n The race was red-flagged as a result to clean up the mess.<\/p>\n \u201cPlenty for The Bend entry to be proud of despite a horrid end at the last round at Monza,\u201d Shahin wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n \u201cReckless driver ignored multiple flag warning signals and multiple Safety Car signals barrels into yours truly at full speed.<\/p>\n \u201cThe best one-make series in the world was let down by one of its own today (including the commentator).\u201d<\/p>\n Robot race car rear-ended<\/p>\n In a world dominated by artificial intelligence, it\u2019s hard to imagine race car drivers being replaced by robots soon.<\/p>\n Away from too many prying eyes, the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL) marked its first venture outside of Yas Marina.<\/p>\n Five teams took to the track at Imola. Unfortunately for leader Unimore Racing, its car reportedly suffered a hardware failure that caused it to slow.<\/p>\n The second-placed Polimove failed to navigated its way past and slammed into the back of the stationary car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The remains of Manuel Gil del Real’s Porsche 911 after crashing at Laguna Seca. Image: Ryan Wevers via…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-883044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883044","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=883044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}