For those who remember the Amaroo Park layout, he failed to take the left hand turn at the top of the hill from the start/finish line , and bounced across the very rough infield at quite a pace.
From the left turn at Skyline, you drop down into a long right hand turn called Dunlop Sweeper.
Basically, after bouncing through the infield, he launched off an earth ditch on the inside of the sweeper, airborne across the track, and half-volleyed into an earth filled tyre wall on the outside of the sweeper.
It took ambulance people close to an hour to remove him from the car, and apparently Bap was instructing the medics on what bits of the car to cut, so the whole front end didn't collapse in on him. All this with two badly broken legs. It is also rumoured he suffered a heart attack on the way to the hospital, and it was his high level of fitness that helped pull him through.
The sound of a Cosworth V8 echoing through the Amaroo Park valley was fantastic.
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