Broken Wheel, Anyone had this problem (Pics)

ChrisSlicks

I've seen it happen on track mid-corner where the wheel fails due to fatigue, now that would be scary. Driver rolled multiple times and landed on the other side of the safety barrier.

In your case I think you got lucky the wheel failed so that it didn't rip the rest of the suspension off the car.

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Rockcrawler

Yes, generally you want the wheel to be the fuse and save the rest of the car, it's what circle track guys do and I've seen a lot of cast wheels break that way at the rock crawling comps, usually due to rollovers etc.

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