[mtakala]

Originally Posted by windowlicker ↗

The only photo I think I've ever seen of Duval's crash at Japan.

ouch, that looks like the tree/rock (?) was right where the seat would have been. Imagine the rollbars and the door in there as well. Survival space would have been very small. And this kind of crash is not solvable by simply moving to a slightly larger car either.

[windowlicker]

Originally Posted by windowlicker ↗

The Dutch GP 1973 and Roger Williamson crashes his privately entered March at the same corner as Piers Courage three years earlier.

The car suffered a front end punture causing the car to run wide into the barrier which was not correctly installed and bent over sending Williamson's March onto its side and stopping close to the inside of the next corner, already on fire.

Dave Purley who was close behind stopped but was unable to put out the fire with the single small fire extingisher he was given or roll the car over. None of the marshalls were wearing fire proof clothing and the heat from the fire was intense. Roger was alive and conscious in the up-turned car....he was overcome by the fumes and was dead by the time a fire truck arrived at the scene.

Very sad images of a wasted talent in a situation where he should never have lost his life.

Original post from page 184.


A photo of the aftermath that I haven't seen posted before, Niki Lauda in his BRM passing Williamson's upturned March...seems unbelievable in this day and age that the race was not stopped.

[windowlicker]

There's not a lot left of Mikko Hirvonen's WRC M-Sport Ford Fiesta after it caught fire during the Italian round in 2014. That's around £400,000 up in smoke...

[fortythree]

Originally Posted by windowlicker ↗

Dave Matthews at Silverstone 1973. Matthew's Capri collided with Dave Brodie's Escort just after Abbey. Both cars crashing heavily into the bridge.

Notice how Dave is hanging out of the car as it flips and in the last two the position of the engine...

Few more from this huge looking crash, Matthews Capri starts to tumble

[fortythree]

Go's end over end

[fortythree]

And leaves Matthews hanging out the left side of the cockpit as it comes to rest

[fortythree]

Originally Posted by windowlicker ↗

A few more images and an interesting visualisation of the tragic Indy 500 crash in 1964 that cost the lives of Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald.

One more (I think new to thread) of MacDonald during the rescue attempt

[fortythree]

Originally Posted by windowlicker ↗

A few more images and an interesting visualisation of the tragic Indy 500 crash in 1964 that cost the lives of Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald.

And a larger version of the impact shot

[fortythree]

Tommy Herbert's massive wreck at Daytona in 1960. I believe this was career ending?

[Buford61]

Originally Posted by fortythree ↗

And a larger version of the impact shot

That one was the center spread of life magazine.