Watch this 19-year-old F2 racer dramatically save his own bacon in the wet

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Dino Zamparelli has mad skills behind the wheel of his FIA Formula 2 machine, and he managed to show just how good - or how crazy he is - on Belgium's legendary Spa circuit.

As the track filled with rain mist from cars in front him, Zamparelli, 19, sped toward a group of cars clustered together at 150 mph. The racer narrowly misses a slowing car that appears at the last second from out of the mist, deftly swerves out of the way on to the grass, passes two more and then cleanly brings his car under control back on the slick track.

Amazing.

Of course, not all of the Youtube specators were as impressed, pointing out that Zamparelli may have also missed a yellow flag, telling everyone to slow down. Zamparelli defends himself in the comment thread on YouTube:

"Actually just to clarify -- we had already passed the incident that caused the