Matt Brammeier has just shared the photo below, showing the damage his head did to the Porsche team car he hit at high speed during the recent Tour of Utah.
Matt Brammeier was in remarkably philosophical and even up-beat form when we caught up with him for an interview a few days ago about his high speed crash at the Tour of Utah.
The video of the collision, as he was descending, was difficult to watch given the sheer speed he hit a Porsche team car just ahead, having clocked 109kph moments earlier.
And the photo below showing the damage his body did to the car really hammers home just how hard he crashed.
The 30-year-old came off on the high-speed descent on the penultimate stage of the American stage race on August 8th.
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He suffered three rib fractures on both sides, a punctured lung as well as broken sacral and pelvic bones, among other injuries.
The car, and Brammeier's body, may have been crumpled but with the speed he was going the four-time Irish champion was lucky this Porsche stopped him hurtling off the road and down into the woods.
“Doctors told me my broken ribs are usually sustained from your head hitting something,” he explained to stickybottle.
“But I’ve got no head injuries and I had some internal injuries like a punctured lung and my liver was damaged. But the medical staff couldn’t believe I didn’t break more ribs.
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“My pelvis as well; where that’s broken but for my spine to be intact is unbelievable, I’m lucky I came away with what I did.
“My sacrum is broken at the back and my pubis bone too, but nothing has been displaced, which would have been worse.”
He is hopeful he can be back racing again as early as the Tour Down Under in Australia in January, or sometime thereafter.
Brammeier hurtles into the hairpin behind and in this shot is just about to hit the back corner of the white Porsche, to the right of photo. Had the vehicle not been there, he would have flown off the road and into the woods straight ahead.
A tactical headbutt to the crumple zone. I gave you a run for your money @Porsche but I think you won the Joust :-) pic.twitter.com/QND5bvzoCE
— Matt Brammeier (@Mattbrammeier85) August 28, 2015
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