{"id":439,"date":"2008-04-05T02:54:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T07:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp\/index.php\/2008\/04\/05\/michael-mcdowell-qualifying-crash-photos\/"},"modified":"2008-04-05T02:54:14","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T07:54:14","slug":"michael-mcdowell-qualifying-crash-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/michael-mcdowell-qualifying-crash-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael McDowell Qualifying Crash Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bighugelabs.com\/flickr\/onblack.php?id=2388576479&#038;size=large\" title=\"Michael McDowell Crash Composite by sidehike, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3284\/2388576479_0b318a75b1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"92\" alt=\"Michael McDowell Crash Composite\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During qualifying for the Samsung 500 Michael McDowell plowed the #00 &#8220;Aaron&#8217;s Dream Machine&#8221; nose first into the turn one wall at nearly 200 miles per hour. After impact the car flipped into the air, rolling sideways, belching fire and leaving a trail of parts until it finally came to rest about a quarter mile away at the bottom of turn two.<\/p>\n<p>Without a doubt, I can say that it&#8217;s the most gruesome and spectacular crash that I have ever seen live. <\/p>\n<p>McDowell pulled himself from the car and walked away with only bumps and scratches. <\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I had my camera aimed that direction and started firing quick enough to catch most of the carnage. Click the image above to see a composite of the scene stitched together from the nine or ten frames I was able to fire off as the car careened down the track. <\/p>\n<p>Or <a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3284\/2388576479_7681366a62_o_d.jpg\">click here<\/a> to download the original size and scroll around to your heart&#8217;s content.<\/p>\n<p>You can also check out the individual photos in a set by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sidehike\/sets\/72157604389648744\/\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Michael McDowell is one supremely fortunate dude. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During qualifying for the Samsung 500 Michael McDowell plowed the #00 &#8220;Aaron&#8217;s Dream Machine&#8221; nose first into the turn one wall at nearly 200 miles per hour. After impact the car flipped into the air, rolling sideways, belching fire and leaving a trail of parts until it finally came to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[4,14,19],"tags":[60,91,124,133,156,225],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}