THESE are the dramatic images that capture frame by frame a horror 143mph crash that a Hampshire driver miraculously walked away from.

With his car smashed into more than 200 pieces and a fire engulfing the engine, Dean Stoneman simply stepped out of the wreckage and said: “That was a big one.”

It is not the first time Dean has beaten the odds having overcome testicular cancer two years ago.

“I must have nine or ten lives”, the former Fair Oak Technology College student said adding that he was a bit “stiff and sore” from the crash.

Dean was testing his car on the opening day of the Formula Renault 3.5 testing session in Southern Spain when the car careered off the track.

Destabilised by a strong cross-wind, the car - which can reach top speeds of 200 mph - hurtled off the tarmac and went into the outside wall ricocheted into another barrier and spinning down the track.

Images show how the Red Bull car turned into a fireball as it went from one wall to the next, with dust flying up behind it and tyres strewn across the road.

The damage was so severe that more than 200 parts of the car were thrown more 200 yards away from the vehicle.

The 24-year old driver from Bishop's Waltham suffered no injuries and even joked to his father, Colin, who was by his side seconds later saying “that was a big one”.

Speaking to the Daily Echo, the father-of-two said that after screeching to a halt, he climbed out of the car and sat on the wall catching his breath.

“The quality and strength of the car is unreal. The initial impact wasn't really painful but it was when it spun around, that was really painful. It was so quick it happened so quickly I never had a chance to do anything.”

But far from panicking, Dean let fate take control of what was going to happen.

“You're surrounded by so much safety equipment, the helmet, the cockpit, you just brace yourself,” he said.

“You have to know something's going to go wrong. Because you're used to the spec of the car you can steer into bends, beyond that point you just hold on tight, relax and let the car take the impact. There's not much you can do.”

In January 2011, Dean began a two-year long battle against testicular cancer which forced him to bow out of competitive racing while he underwent treatment.

Two years later and he was back behind the steering wheel and is now back in the Formula Renault 3.5 series, one rung down from Formula One, racing for the DAMS team.

After paramedics checked him over he was back with his team 20 minutes later having a briefing about what happened.

Technicians with the Le Mans-based team worked overnight to rebuild the car and by the next day he was out testing the car again.

Dean's friend Anthony Shaw said: “It's hard to believe that over £100,000 worth of damage was done to the car.

“Years ago that accident would have killed somebody. He's a very, very lucky boy.”