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"Would have ended very differently": Luck for van der Linde in horror crash

Schubert BMW driver Kelvin van der Linde was incredibly lucky during his horror crash in Saturday's DTM race at the Norisring. Former DTM champion Rene Rast believes that if his BMW M4 GT3 Evo had been further into the Grundig-Hairpin, the impact from Maximilian Paul's unbraked Lamborghini would have had much worse consequences.

"Of course Kelvin was extremely unlucky to get hit, but on the other hand, he was also extremely lucky because if he had been five meters further into the corner, the angle would have been completely different," Rast told ran.de. "He could have been hit much more from the side."

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