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Onofre Marimon was a works Maserati driver in 1953/54 and had a couple of third place finishes during his ten starts.

In practice for the German GP 1954 his car plunged through a hedge, somersaulting down the bank and killing Onofre instantly.

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The two best AJ Foyt soundbites of all time along with Mario Andrettis best as well

All at the expense of poor Kevin Cooooooooogan

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Pat O'Connors fatal first lap crash at Indy 1958.

A.J. Foyt had a front row seat,

"They got to the turn. Rathmann backed off slightly, and Elisian, who was in the groove - that's the only reason Rathmann backed off; there was no place for him to go- well, Elisian was in too deep and too fast. I saw Elisian's car bobble slightly. That's the sign of trouble at Indy. There just wasn't time to turn the car. He slammed into Rathmann and the force took both cars into the concrete retainer wall. Rathmann's car was chopped in two; parts from Elisian's car were sailing everywhere.
I saw Reece slow down, and then Bob Veith hit him, sending Reece's car directly into the path of Pat O'Connor (no.4). Son of a bitch. O'Connor's car went up and over and sailed fifty feet in the air, and when it hit the track on the other side, upside down, it burst into flames.
Everything was happening so fast. But I could see everything, and I remembered everything I had heard in the driver's meeting. 'If you see a car spinning on the start, look for a place to go,' they had said. 'Be careful of the first lap,' they had said. 'Watch the lead cars," they had said. I did all of those things, and it was happening. Just like they had said.
I thought, Oh, shit, I've come this far and it's all over. I didn't even make a lap.
I looked for a place to go. There were cars sideways in front of me, so I spun my car to keep from hitting them. There was a hole and I sort of pulled myself up straight in the seat, trying to make myself as thin as I could. Somehow I thought it might make the car thinner. While I was sideways, I saw a car go up over another car and flip right out of the Speedway. I found out later it was Jerry Unser going over Paul Goldsmith.
My car was still sliding through the hole between Johnny Parsons and Tony Bettenhausen. I got through without touching a thing. The slide had scrubbed off a lot of my speed, like I hoped it would. The car was still spinning to the right, so I turned the wheel right and it started to straighten out. And then I saw it. A clear track ahead.
I had made it.
The yellow lights were all on, of course, so I kept it at about 100 miles an hour. When I got back around to the crash scene, I counted fifteen cars that were involved. They were sending traffic above, below, through, anyplace you could go without hitting a car or a broken part or a tow truck or an ambulance.
O'Connor's car was still burning.
I tried hard not to look at it. Goddamn it, I didn't want to look at it.
The next time I came around, the fire was out, but it was still smoking. I looked. Shit. Why did I look? Pat's arm was frozen in midair. Everything was black. His car, his helmet, his uniform, everything.
Son of a bitch, I thought. I wasn't sure I was tough enough for Indianapolis. It was going to take some thinking.
It took them twenty laps under caution to clear the debris from the track. Long after his car and his body were taken away, I could see Pat's arm sticking up in the air. I felt sick. When I came by the pits, I could see Ed Elisian sitting on the pit wall. His helmet was off and his head was in his hands.
I wondered how it could have happened. But I knew the answer just as well as any of the drivers. You race all month with a guy and you build up this rivalry. It almost becomes a hate. But it isn't. Only race drivers feel it. Maybe som people feel it on the highway. There are just some people who don't like to be passed. But in racing it builds up so much stronger. It becomes an obsession. I guess that's what happened to Elisian and Dick Rathmann. They just got overcome with the obsession to beat each other"

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Lap 49 of the 1961 Indy 500, Don Davis spins in his own oil on the mainstretch, and slams into the barrier. Dazed, Davis stumbles from his car as speeding racecars dodged every direction, trying to miss him. Six cars wrecked, with Jack Turner flipping end over end, soaring over Lloyd Ruby’s Autolite Dealers’ car.

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A.J. Shepherd's career ending crash in the Bell Lines USAC dirt champ car while attempting to qualify for the Hoosier "100" at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis on September 16, 1961.

Shepherd was thrown from the racecar and both he and the car cleared the guardrail and crashed through the wall of a barn outside the racetrack. Shepherd suffered critical injuries and was in a coma for several weeks.

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On lap 113 of the 1971 Indy 500, David Hobb's Lola and Rick Muther’s Hawk collided on the backstretch scattering debris all over the track.

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hey guys. do u have any footage of Russell Phillips crash at charlotte in 95? I looked through thread andi didn't see it. But i saw some where u can see his helmet rolling down the track supposedly with his head still in it a few years ago . Youtube vids arent the clear one i saw.This was in my opinion the most gruesome nascar crash besides the Guy gettin hit while his front end was missing and shearing off his legs

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Edward Glenn 'fireball' Roberts, Jr.

May 24th 1964, at the World 600 in Charlotte, Roberts had qualified in 11th position. On lap 7, Ned Jarrett and Junior Johnson collided and spun, Roberts crashed trying to avoid them. Roberts Ford slammed backward into the inside wall, flipped over and burst into flames. Spectators at the track claimed they heard Roberts screaming for Jarrett to help him. Jarrett rushed to help Roberts as his car was engulfed by the flames. Roberts suffered third-degree burns over 80 percent of his body and was airlifted to hospital in critical condition.

Roberts survived for several weeks. But Roberts' health took a turn for the worse on June 30th 1964. He contracted pneumonia and sepsis and slipped into a coma the next day. He died on July 2nd 1964.

33 wins - 32 poles.

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Originally Posted by cortdb ↗

hey guys. do u have any footage of Russell Phillips crash at charlotte in 95? I looked through thread andi didn't see it. But i saw some where u can see his helmet rolling down the track supposedly with his head still in it a few years ago . Youtube vids arent the clear one i saw.This was in my opinion the most gruesome nascar crash besides the Guy gettin hit while his front end was missing and shearing off his legs

One of the worst most destructive accidents in motorsport history. At the time there was not protection on the roof of the car. Phillips had no chance. AlvinKarpis seems to have all of the videos...

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Cale Yarborough jumps the rail during the battle for the lead at the 1965 Southern 500 at Darlington.