A race car driver miraculously escaped without a scratch after launching into the air and crash-landing into a tire wall at more than 100 miles per hour.

Kenneth McKell came just seconds from death after the front brakes of his Mitsubishi Evo failed, sending the car spinning off the track. He managed to drag himself from the wreckage seconds after the vehicle barrel-rolled along the ground and came to a halt upside down. The racer was on the finishing straight of the Knockhill Racing Circuit, near Dunfermline, Scotland, when the accident happened.

Photographer Leyton Cleverley was only feet away when he captured the moment.

“I saw it clear the top of the marshall’s hut. That’s when I started to take photos,” Cleverley said. “There was a very loud bang. Fortunately, it didn’t clear the fence because if it had, it would have landed on me. It was easily [8 feet] in the air.”

Cleverley’s pictures show dozens of parts flying off the car in all directions as it barrel-rolls along the tarmac. Moments later, McKell walks away from the obliterated vehicle, with hardly a mark showing on his black racing suit and helmet.

Marshalls can be seen running to his side before the Mitsubishi is winched onto a recovery truck and taken away.

“The second the car stopped moving, the driver was starting to get out of the car,”Cleverley said. “He didn’t lose consciousness or anything.”

The photographer, who has seen hundreds of racing events, described the driver’s lucky escape as “exceptional.”

“The whole thing was a big shock,” Cleverley said. “This was easily the worst one I have seen in years. I think I was probably more shocked than he was. People were diving for cover.”

McKell was competing on Sunday in the Scottish Saloon and Sports Car Championship, part of an event organized by the Scottish Motor Racing Club.