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LOT 184
The lower rear wing component from Martin Brundle's crashed Jordan 196, Australian Grand Prix, Melbourne 1996,
Australian Grand Prix 1996, Melbourne 10 March 1996. It was an all-Williams front row with Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve in the blue and white Rothmans cars. In the first corner Hill was squeezed by Irvine, lost momentum and was overtaken by both Ferraris in the run down going into the third corner. Behind Hill, Alesi sliced across in front of Hakkinen and Barrichello to claim the corner and began a chain reaction of heavy braking as drivers tried to avoid colliding with one another. David Coulthard veered left under braking and his McLaren hit the side of Herbert's Sauber. Herbert tried to avoid the car and braked heavily. Martin Brundle was behind them and unable to slow sufficiently, hitting the rear of Herbert's and Coulthard's cars and was launched into a barrel roll, ending in a sand trap at turn 3 and breaking his car in two. "I was flat out in sixth doing about 290kph so the closing speed was too high for me to do anything about it," Brundle said. "I was a passenger on a high-speed merry-go-round. I just concentrated on making sure I didn't hit my head. The accident seemed to go on for a very long time." Brundle was luckily unhurt. The race was halted to allow the circuit to be cleared, giving Brundle enough time to run the entire length of the pitlane to find Professor Sid Watkins, get a medical check up and make it back to the pits get into the spare car for the re-start. He started the new race from the pitlane, but, as his brakes were not up to temperature, he ran into the rear of Pedro Diniz's Ligier at Turn 3 when the Brazilian braked earlier than expected. This time Martin spun off and stalled, his race was over.

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