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Originally I had this picture but with no details.
With a bit of digging I've found out that the driver is Antonín Komár from Czechoslovakia.

During the sixteenth lap of the Ostrava Race, while fighting for the second position in the 1200 class, Komár crashed his car into a tree with fatal consequences, he died on the way to the hospital.

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do know what type of car Komar was driving? those headlight are throwing me of completely.. I know it's a Tatra but I cant make out the type..

I found a pic of that Tatra before it crashed though.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D0794TaE7F...TatraplanSport

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Masaharu Nakano was driving a Chevron B23 at the Fuji 200 km race in Japan on 23rd November 1973.

The Fuji Raceway has some very fast steep banked turns and a long 1.5 km straight. Nakano was racing in 12th place on the first lap when, due to driver error or a mechanical issue he spun to the lower part of the banking. As he was carrying considerable speed his car crossed over to the upper part of the banking collecting a number of cars. With a full tank of fuel the Chevron exploded burning 24 year old Nakano to death.

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While racing in the French GP in 1973 at the Clermont Ferrand curcuit, Austrian BRM driver Helmut Marko was hit in the face by a stone flung up by another car. The stone shattered his visor and embed itself in his eye. Marko managed to stop the car but his sight could not be saved and his F1 career was over. Helmut is now an advisor to the F1 Championship team Red Bull.

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Originally Posted by Norwegian1 ↗

do know what type of car Komar was driving? those headlight are throwing me of completely.. I know it's a Tatra but I cant make out the type..

I found a pic of that Tatra before it crashed though.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D0794TaE7F...TatraplanSport

Hi there, on the site were I found most of the details it states he was driving a Komár - Škoda....

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Norwegian1 - I've found a bit more,

'The car Komár was driving when he was killed was built by himself on the base of shortened Škoda 1101 Tudor chassis and powered by a Škoda engine.'

I don't know if this is right or not....

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Norwegian 1 - forget that last one, totally wrong, this should be right,

Tatra T602 Tatraplan Sport.

[AlvinKarpis]

Originally Posted by windowlicker ↗

Originally I had this picture but with no details.
With a bit of digging I've found out that the driver is Antonín Komár from Czechoslovakia.

During the sixteenth lap of the Ostrava Race, while fighting for the second position in the 1200 class, Komár crashed his car into a tree with fatal consequences, he died on the way to the hospital.

Holy shit!

When I opened the pic up in the larger DR window I flinched so hard that my ass left the computer chair for at least half a second

Those are the Gruesome pictures that nightmares are made out of

And thatnk you because I dont have that picture, I dont know the driver, and never heard of the crash

Now I have all three

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My mistake....these are the correct details....I clicked on the wrong bit....

'Bruno Sojka was the greatest Czechoslovakian driver in all the Voiturettes Czech Grand Prix - Masarykově okruhu v Brně - scheduled at Brno circuit: he arrived 2nd in 1933 and 3rd in 1931, 1932, 1934 and 1935. From 1932 onwards he teamed up with countryman Florian Schmidt, racing an old Bugatti T37A. In 1934 they acquired a 1.5-liter 8-cylinder twin-cam supercharged Bugatti T51A, formerly owned by Pierre Veyron, and Sojka obtained a 2nd place in the Frontières Grand Prix at Chimay (Belgium) and a 5th place in the Eifelrennen at Nürburgring. In 1935 again in the Eifelrennen at Nürburgring he arrived 6th overall.
After the Second World War, Sojka became works driver for Tatra. The first car the team built in 1949 was a new Tatra T600 "Tatraplan" a sportscar fitted with a rear-mounted air-cooled engine and an aerodynamic body. The drivers of the team were Pavelka, Sojka, Vrdlovech, Chovanec: they won many sporting events such as the Internationale Österreichse Alpenfarht in 1949 where four T600s took the first four places in overall classification.
Based on the T600, in the following seasons Tatra built the aluminium two-door T601 Monte Carlo and the T602 Tatraplan Sport. At the wheel of one of these works sportscar the aged driver Bruno Sojka died after a crash during practice for the the 1951 Ecce Homo hillclimb, a race he had already won the previous year.'

Thanks Norwegian1

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This photo goes with the above text. Sorted, got there in the end....