![]() While pulling the damaged vehicles off the track under a local yellow flag, the field came around turn eight, and Flanery, looking to pass “Mad Max” Papis, former Champ Car driver, after the turn, ended up rear-ending Carter. “I knew when I saw his car, and could read his name, that I was unfortunately going to hit him,” said Carter. “I turned the corner and had about five hundredths of a thousandth of a millisecond to react, and there was nothing much I could do,” said actor Sean Patrick Flanery, best known for his role in “Boondock Saints.”įlanery collided with two other cars when rounding turn eight, a pile-up that included Brett Davern, who plays Jake Rosati on MTV’s “Awkward,” and Bob Carter, senior vice president of Automotive Operations for Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A.ĭavern, upon taking turn eight, had hit the tire barriers, and Carter who was right behind him, hit Davern’s rear quarter panel. Just as the race was beginning to heat up on the 1.97-mile street course in downtown Long Beach, yellow flags were thrown. Ribeiro started in the middle of the field, but in just two laps passed seven drivers, including Dara Torres, 12-time Olympic Medalist, and Adam Carolla, comedian and radio personality, to secure the lead. Ribeiro, now a four-time Toyota Pro/Celebrity winner (1994, 1995 & 2015), is best-known for his role as Carlton on “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” Ribeiro, who is the new host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” had the fastest lap of the day with a time of 1:42.102. An appreciative crowd witnessed the stunning performance by Ribeiro, who started the race in the eighth position and successfully avoided any collisions or walls to take the checkered flag. Alfonso Ribeiro won the 2016 Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race, triumphing over the most accomplished field the annual charity racing event has ever seen.
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