Video: Rally car slams into pole, continues on to finish second
 

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Most accidents in motorsport will immediately terminate any chance you have of winning the race. Not so when you're nickname is "Crazy Leo." Rally driver Leonid Urlichich demonstrates in the [URL="http://www.perth-wrx.com/2012/04/25/rally-car-slams-into-pole-continues-on-to-finish-second/#continued"]videos below[/URL] how you can shake off an accident like a boxer recovers from a right hook.

The footage comes from the 2012 Rallye Perce-Neige held in early February where Leo and his navigator Carl Williamson were competing in the woods of Maniwaki, Quebec. Leo reportedly tapped the brakes while careening flat out down a snowy straight and his [URL="http://www.autoblog.com/subaru/wrx+sti/"]Subaru WRX STI[/URL] doth protested. The car spun around backwards and slammed, rather violently, into a telephone pole. Amazingly, the damage was mostly cosmetic and the car wound up facing the right way on the track, so Crazy Leo just hit the gas and continued on to ultimately finish the rally in second place.

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