{"id":353117,"date":"2026-03-29T03:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/353117\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T03:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:27:07","slug":"scott-mclaughlin-walks-away-from-terrifying-200km-h-indycar-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/353117\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott McLaughlin walks away from terrifying 200km\/h IndyCar crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Kiwi IndyCar driver Scott McLaughlin has walked away unharmed after he crashed through the fence in a terrifying high-speed accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The 32-year-old spun when he dipped a wheel on the grass as he attempted to maximise his entry into turn one in practice at the Grand Prix of Alabama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The Team Penske driver sailed through the Turn 1 gravel runoff, launched rear-first and slammed the fence above the protective tire barrier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Commentators suspected he was travelling at more than 200km\/h during the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">McLaughlin laughed as he explained it in simple terms following the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;I dropped the right rear, spun and I was flying backwards \u2014 then I ended up halfway through the fence,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;I&#8217;m upset for my team more than anything &#8230; the way it slipped through there (the fence) I&#8217;m really hoping it (the car) might be OK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;I&#8217;m just really thankful for the safety and whatnot &#8230; little misjudgement just trying to open the apex, and I knew I was screwed about now (when the car left the track backwards).<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;It was just hang on and see how we go. It&#8217;s not a laughing matter, it&#8217;s a mistake and I need to be better.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiwi IndyCar driver Scott McLaughlin has walked away unharmed after he crashed through the fence in a terrifying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,64,69,213],"class_list":["post-353117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-north-america","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}