What are the odds?, Freak incident at the race track today ... Options

[SirAndy]

we've been running here at PIR in portland all weekend and today we had a rather unusual incident on the track.

after qualifying yesterday we got on grid 2nd for the race today. everything went great, we were leading the race, tom was consistently running low 124s and pulling away from the competition by a 1/4 second each lap.

this was a 20 minute race and we shared the track with another (faster) rungroup, mostly 911 Cup Cars.

in lap 8, tom came up on a cup car on the back straight and was about to pass him when he suddenly lost all power to the car. the electrical just shut off and the engine died. tom rolled off the track and onto the green and waited to be towed after the end of the race.

back in the paddock we looked over the car and noticed large rubber markings on the front hood and drivers side fender.

turns out, a big chunk of tire rubber came off the cup car and hit the wire loop for the kill-switch and shut off the car!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif)

opened the front hood, flipped the switch back and the car came back to live!

i looked through the in car video and there's a frame where you can clearly see the rubber chunks flying through the air right before they hit the kill switch. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

we were on our way to win this race and we got taken out by some piece of tire rubber.
what are the odds of that happening?
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/screwy.gif) Andy