TERRIFYING multi-car crash takes out IndyCar championship contender

Pato O'Ward exited the Honda Indy Toronto in dramatic fashion on Sunday afternoon, spinning out before getting collected by a host of other cars.

O'Ward's car ended up pointing backward, narrowly missing championship rival Alex Palou as he spun, and a couple of cars managed to take evasive action before Santino Ferrucci, Marcus Ericsson, Pietro Fittipaldi and Nolan Siegal all piled into the Arrow McLaren.

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The first impact damaged O'Ward's front wing and nose, meaning that Ferrucci was greeted by a stationary car essentially acting as a ramp – and was launched fully into the air and into the catch fencing in terrifying fashion.

Ferrucci and all of the other drivers involved avoided major injury in the incident.

WATCH: Huge IndyCar crash in Toronto race

A massive Turn 1 incident involving multiple cars sends the No. 14 airborne.

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The race was under caution for most of the first ten laps after a couple of incidents of contact, but was under green flag conditions all the way from then under lap 67 when Kyffin Simpson hit the Turn 8 wall.

That caution bunched the field up, leading to the conditions for O'Ward and co's pile-up just two laps after the restart.

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