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A Nissan Skyline Turbo Super Silhouette racer barrels into the first corner at a hair under full throttle, its comically outsized rear end just beginning to spin out wide as its super-sticky slick tyres concede to the laws of physics and lose grip on the glass-smooth track surface.
For a fraction of a second, it looks as if its steely-eyed pilot can pull everything back in line and send the Group 5 icon scrabbling towards turn two at full pelt, in pursuit of another blistering lap record. But then, disaster: the Porsche 911 RSR endurance racer on the inside misjudges its pace on corner exit and careens haphazardly across the track, slamming into the opposite barrier and eventually coming to rest on its roof – whereupon it is brutally impacted by the Nissan at a closing speed well north of 200mph.
Scale speed, anyway. Had an incident of that magnitude occurred in real life, the conse