On This Day: Rahal wins at Mid-Ohio as Garza survives monumental crash | Brief

On this day in 1986 Bobby Rahal won the CART IndyCar round at Mid-Ohio which finished under yellow flags as Josele Garza survived a monumental crash at the first corner.

The beginning of Garza’s massive shunt can be glimpsed in the background of the footage below. Beyond that the cameras only caught the aftermath of a crash which tore Garza’s car to pieces:

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