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Tributes are flowing for drag racer Sam Fenech who died after a horror high-speed crash in Queensland on Saturday evening.
A multi-agency investigation shall be launched into the reason for the deadly accident which was witnessed by shocked onlookers on the Willowbank Raceway in Ipswich.
Confronting footage taken from the stands reveals the automobile sliding, earlier than flipping and turning into airborne, crossing the monitor and smashing over the fence.
The automobile crashed right into a digicam tower, and a digicam operator was taken to hospital with non-life threatening accidents.
Queensland Ambulance Service mentioned the affected person was in a steady situation.
The accident occurred throughout Willowbank’s New 12 months Nitro drag racing occasion.
“It’s with nice unhappiness that High Gasoline Racing Australia proclaims that Sam Fenech, driver of the Fabietti Racing Doorslammer, has succumbed to accidents suffered in a racing accident at Willowbank Raceway and handed away this night,” mentioned a press release on Willowbank Raceway’s Fb web page. .
“We ship our love and assist to the Fenech household and the entire group at Fabietti Racing.”
Queensland Police’s forensic crash unit is working with Office Well being and Security to analyze, and persons are being requested to keep away from Champions Means, the place the racetrack is.
Members of the drag racing neighborhood posted tributes on-line.
Todd Hazlewood mentioned he was “completely misplaced for phrases”.
Dee Ekert Potenza mentioned drag racing had misplaced “a real legend”.
“You had been additionally such a gentleman. Could you Relaxation In Peace Sam Fenech,” she wrote.
A member of a digicam operator Fb group, Brett Ramsey, mentioned it was one of many worst accidents he had seen in additional than 50 years overlaying motorsport.
“I am at all times very reluctant to have crew down at that finish of the strip,” he wrote.
“If one thing goes fallacious it goes fallacious huge and this was big.”
