OMG -One of The Worst Crashes I've Ever Seen

Amazing safety.......

 

Makes you think that if Dale Earnhardt had been driving the COT platform car at Daytona, he would almost certainly have walked away.... McDowell was lucky

 

That is if he had worn his seat belts.

 

or the HANS device.

 

IMO the worst crash i have ever seen was the 355 in that japanese championship. I can't find the video, but it was horrible.

A Porsche went of track and out of nowhere there was a 355 smashing into it. Huge fireball!
After the fire is put out you can see the driver crawling out of the car. You can see he is severly burned.
It was painfull to watch..

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Found it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOGtUMCB0IY


And here is another really bad RS200 crash. Driver lived, co-driver died
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xokJEbfsDe0&feature=related

 

If you don't use your seatbelt, the HANS device isn't going to work

 

Very true, very true.

 

I've been around all the eastern super speedways near race speed. The wall was no where as intimidating as the trees and cliffs I see rallyracing. Unless you really screw up on an oval. its going to be a glancing blow. I've been off into the forest, over a ravine and smacked a tree five foot airbourne large enough to come to complete stop and break majority of ribs.

Nothing is as sphincter clinching as the couple years I've raced Pikes Peak hillclimb. Go off there and you're in a for a hurting. Finish it and you're on top of the world (or at least pretty damn high anyway).

 

I think this is the worst crash I have seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2ORmCDb_sM&feature=related

 

I think this is one of the worst NHRA crashes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPEJE4HWb0o&feature=related

 

Wow, the thing said he pulled over 200Gs, thats just unbelievable.

 

I was at an F1 watching party when Kubicas accident happened. Many non-racing fans there did not know what they were witnessing. I whispered to a fellow F1 addict that Kubi was dead. A real miracle to survive that.

Carbon fibre is miles ahead of tube but Safer Barrier and Hans saved the day with McDowell

 

Thought less dramatic, Heiki's crash this weekend was very, very scary. He stopped from a high rate of speed in about 10 feet, pulling an estimated 26 g's. That is right on the limits of what the human body can take, and then you start tearing internal organs (usually your aorta). The tumbling around with crap flying off the car looks scary, but the body is not getting beat up nearly so bad as the sudden decel from hitting a wall.

Personally, I would not like my head sticking out of an open car in a big fat crash. I am all about the cage.

 

I just hope thats the proof talking.

 

Absolutely. This years humps are a step in the right direction but not enough. The best compromise to see the driver and still have adequate protection would be to have a Top Fuel type cage. Carbon fibre thus thinner and way more cool to boot.

 

Swede Savage - Indy 1973

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLUbDwW9XWk

Salt Walther - same year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-IsOuo5be8

Lyn St. James - Riverside 1986

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1egp4_1986-riverside-lyn-st-james-big-cra_auto