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Originally posted by legion
Yeah. I've seen it before. My thoughts:
Anyone who can keep a car from going into a wall around a curve with inner and out walls at 190 mph should automatically qualify as a "professional" driver. Leno had some luck, but I'd also say that he has skill.
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A professional wouldn't have lifted when he got scared, and wouldn't have spun in the first place. Aftere that, it's pure luck. The banking and gravity did the rest. You basically go both feet in and cross your fingers.
I do give him mad props for having the balls to even try this. I've heard from an insider that it had a lot to with "ignorance is bliss". They had to give him a pep talk, telling him not to lift, and had to carefully word it so that they conveyed the seriousness of the event, with out scaring him into panic mode.