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Originally Posted by M5Rick
Full to the brim with 110kg of fuel was the tank behind him and it split in the exact place where the rear end separated from the monocoque.
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IF the car had not split and separated, then his helmet might have not made it totally through the Armco thereby pinning him underneath it. Some of the 3D animations show this survival cell separation as a sort of hinge point forcing the survival cell through to the other side of the Armco and coming to rest within inches of the gap between the Armco top rail and intact cockpit halo rail.
Squeezing and twisting through such a gap when the cockpit was on its side during a fire with his foot pinned under one of the pedals was truly miraculous IMO.