I've done it, smacked the wall and let go right before...cause when I first started racing, my 2nd weekend out I was leading my heat race, lost power steering, and got knocked sideways by the 2nd place car, then the 3rd place car finished me off and when he did he caught my LF wheel and it didn't break my wrist but it damn sure sprained it pretty good and I was out the next week cause my hand and wrist was still swollen up. I don't see anything "stupid" by what her or 5 time did by letting go of the wheel. Can't make any money with a broke wrist and you see exactly where Jimmie got hit, LF...even if he would have kept his hands on the wheel and tried to drive out of the wreck he was finished for, someone would have got him, they were on lap 2 in a huge cluster F*** of cars..