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Simonade DeSilvestro: 2001 Indy Practice

I bet this massive crash put some hair on her chest

She did suffer severe burns on her hands and this crash is no laughing matter at all, however I have been waiting to use the "hair on chest" line for like 30 years

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Wow....what a strange crash. Lucky girl...

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Nelson Piquet: 1992 Indy 500 Practice

Huge crash that looked head on and identical to Gordon Smiley's crash from the amazing picture that I will post as well

As you can see in the clip I threw together from an IMS DVD and a newscast his car was spinning and had slowed down

Thats not to say that it wasnt a huge hit because it was

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Pictures

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Smiley/Piquet comparison

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Gilles Villeneuve: 1982 Belgian Grand Prix

I made a seperate thread well before I made this thread about one of the best drivers of all time

This video comes from an early 80s Mondo Doc that has nothing new as far as footage goes

It does however have the complete audio of the crash as well as a close up slo-mo replay that focuses on Gilles being ejected

Gilles died on my birthday, as a child I remembered that and thought it was cool

As I grew older I came to realized it was the most uncool thing ever

RIP to one of my favorite F-1 drivers

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And for anybody who was disappointing with that last clip here is some extended and rarely seen footage of Gilles right before and after his fatal accident

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Didier Theys 1993 Indianapolis 500

Theys almost joins the likes of Firestone, Cogan, Dismore and Billy Boat by hitting the abutment at Indy

However he misses it by a couple feet

Still a bad crash

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Chris Gehrke: 1991 Talladega ARCA Poulan Pro

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Originally Posted by AlvinKarpis ↗

Petty's arm was hanging out the window for most of the crash, its amazing that his arm wasnt ripped or sheared off

And the first window net in Nascar was born. His wife hand-made it for him after this crash.