It was, Andrew Miedecke remembers: “the closest I came to dying, not in a racing car but at the track.” You can read more about that in part two of our Miedecke feature on page 56. But I can tell you here that he’s not kidding, because I was there that day at Lakeside, and I saw it happen right in front of me. More than 30 years later it’s still the scariest thing I’ve ever had to witness.
There must have been something in the air in Queensland that weekend. Earlier that day in the production car race Garry Waldon’s Mazda
