Watch This Dramatic Accident At A Formula 3 Race

A crash at the Formula 3 European Championship race left the two drivers critically injured on Saturday

The crash happened after Ryan Tveter's Formula 3 car threw up a cloud of dust as it slid through the gravel trap, reducing visibility for Zhi Cong Li and causing him to drive up the back of Tveter's disabled car and launch skyward. Pedro Piquet also hit Tveter's car, but with significantly less spectacular results. The race was immediately halted.

Initial reports from the scene indicated that Li was unconscious after the wreck, but he was awake and alert at the hospital. Li suffered injuries to his heel and four fractured vertebrae. Tveter was also taken to the hospital for unspecified injuries, but Piquet was unharmed.

See video below....