VETERAN driver Pete Diccox survived a 100mph crash after his car flipped upside down and slid along the track at Combe on Saturday.

The 75-year-old, of Frogwell, Chippen-ham, horrified a packed crowd at the circuit when his car turned over and skidded across the finish line with his head inches from the tarmac.

But he walked away with just a bruised arm and 24 hours later was racing at Combe again in a borrowed car.

“It is unbelievable I got out of it,” he said. “When I stopped I got the marshals to cut the safety strap because I was struggling to breathe.

“I am only 5ft 7ins, which I think was lucky. If I was a few inches taller my head would have been dragged along the floor.”

Diccox was taking part in a Formula Ford race when the incident happened.

His Van Diemen RF89 was storming around the final corner when disaster struck.

Diccox, who still runs his structural engineering company Webcox, in Calne, said: “I got out of sorts and had all four wheels on the grass. The car jumped about a foot off the ground.

“When it came back down I think I must have hit the edge of the concrete on the track and it threw it over.”

The car then scraped along the Tarmac, sending sparks flying in the air, before crossing the finish line.

He escaped with just a bruise on his arm and a story to tell – and a bill for up to £5,000 to repair the car – but returned in a rented car for another race on Sunday.

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