It was a bad weekend for Forumla1 driver Heikki Kovalainen and LeMans Series driver Stephane Ortelli. 

Early Sunday morning Kovalainen’s McLaren Mercedes had a sudden loss of tire pressure sending him careening off the track head-on into a tire wall at over 150MPH. He was embedded in the tire wall for about 10 minutes. Live coverage of the race on SPEED did not show emergency crews freeing Kovalainen’s car leaving most fans assuming it was a deadly accident. Heikki waved to fans while being stretchered off the track and is reported to have suffered no injuries. 

Video of the crash is below [Via: F1Fanatic]:

Later Sunday afternoon Ortelli lost control of his ORECA Courage LC70-Judd in what I’m sure will be replayed forever in those “Worst Wrecks” DVDs and late night TV shows. All said and done Ortelli has a broken ankle. I won’t even try to explain this one, check the video [Via AutoBlog]:

Not to be outdone the fine folks at NASCAR decided to have every single car on the track crash…

… and Dario Franchitti broke his ankle.