A rally driver has had a lucky escape at the Dakar Rally after being hit mid-race by a low-flying helicopter.
Entrants to the Dakar Rally have to be prepared for all sorts of unexpected scenarios over the course of the two-week race, but it seems unlikely that close encounters with helicopters are something drivers are typically on the lookout for while they hurtle across the desert.
In a scene looking more like a stunt sequence from a Fast & Furious movie, a video posted to YouTube over the weekend shows the chopper attempting an overhead fly-by of driver Anton Shibalov’s Kamaz rally truck, when the vehicle unexpectedly gets some air off a large sand dune, sending it flying up and into the underside of the helicopter.
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