David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)
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So if you crash one of those cars and the front wheels suddenly turn, you're really going to hurt your hands if you don't get your hands off the wheel.
I hadn't raced enough of those cars to know that I had to get, or to have the instinct, to have developed the instinct that I had to get my hands off the wheel.
So I didn't.
And I really hurt my hand.
And this was just, I think, a month before the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
So I thought, oh man, I'm going to have to miss it this year.
I had like a...
Not a cast.
It was just seriously sprained.
And then somehow, miraculously, like a week before the event, I was like, oh, yeah, actually, it's okay now.
So got to do it.
And that would have been grave regret if I would have seen my team go on to win the race and I would have to sit on the sidelines.
But I really have been quite fortunate in the sense that most of my crashes have just been expensive or sporting inconvenient.
They've never been...
Something where I got seriously hurt.
But I've seen plenty of people who have.
In fact, my co-driver this year and for several years, Petro Fittipaldi, drove a race car at Spa.
Spa is one of the great race tracks of all time and has this iconic corner called Arouge, which is probably the most famous corner in all of motorsports.
It has a great compression before you...
Climb uphill.