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This is from the 1963 Le Mans 24 hours when the engine of Bruce McLaren's Aston-Martin P212 suddenly exploded, throwing oil over the track at Hunaudières. Mike Salmon in a Ferrari 330LM and Bob Grossman in a Jaguar XKE managed to keep their cars on the track. But the Aston-Martin DB4 GTZ of Dewez span and Roy Salvadori's Jaguar XKE crashed into the car. The Jaguar erupted in flames but luckily for Salvador, he had been thrown out of the rear window and survived. The young Jean-Pierre Manzon (René Bonnet) crashed into Salvadori's Jaguar and was badly hurt as he was also thrown out of his car. Then arrived Brazilian Bino Heinz, at over 220kph in his Alpine A210 M63, he crashed into the wrecks as he tired to miss the prone Manzon, turning over and being trapped in the burning wreck and sadly losing his life.

A repost with a rare photo (first photo) of Bino's burnt out Alpine...

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British GP at Silverstone 1981 and Gilles Villeneuve spins his Ferrari on lap 4, taking Andrea de Cesaris and Alan Jones with him. John Watson was delayed by this but went on to win for McLaren.

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Originally Posted by windowlicker ↗

Brian Redman's Cooper T86B front suspension breaks, (second picture) at high speed at the Belgium GP at the fearsome Spa circuit in 1968.

The Cooper flew off the road into a car park and spectator area, hitting a parked vehicle and catching fire. Redman suffered a nasty compound fracture to his right arm and didn't race in F1 again until 1970.

Redman said, "I was at going at 150 mph in top gear when a front wishbone broke on my Cooper-BRM. The results were disturbing to say the least, the car hitting the barrier and rolling over it, leaving me with a compound fracture of both bones in the right forearm"

A re-post with a better photo of the wrecked Cooper and the damaged parked car it had hit.

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The Ferrari 126C was clearly a 'tricky' car as these two photo's show Gilles spinning again, this time at the start of the Dutch GP at Zandvoort.

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Onboard F1 camera old school style....

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The amazing 'Black Widow' Turbonique VW with its microturbine engine.

The first photo shows it beating the awesome four engined racer of Tommy Ivo, featured in a previous post. The last photo shows what was left of it after turning over during a run.

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Pretty amazing photo's of Doug Rose crash in the 'Green Monster' at Richlands on the 4th of July 1966, on a wet track.

Due the conditions Doug did a slow run, putting a show on for the fans, but the jet powered car hydroplaned on standing water and impacted heavily into the guardrail destroying the front of the vehicle.

The car came to a stop and Doug tried to get out, "I unhooked my harness and pushed against the seat with my legs, but I just kept going down. I looked down and there was nothing there. I lay down to keep from losing too much blood and then asked for tourniquets. I told them to find my legs and take them to the hospital and I told them my blood type."

Doug's legs were found and packed into a track workers beer cooler. Sadly it was to no avail, when his legs had been ripped off, the veins, nerves and muscles were destroyed. The left leg was taken off five inches below the knee, the right just above the ankle.

Within three months Rose would drive another of Art Arfon's jet-cars fitted with hand controls and wearing his new artificial limbs.

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A nasty looking accident during the Formula Vee 1300cc race at Chimay 1972.

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Dick Johnson, the five-time Australian Touring Car Champion and three-time winner of the Bathurst 1000, crashing out of the 1980 Bathurst while well in the lead on lap 18 after hitting a large rock which found its way onto the track.

Dick also took part in seven NASCAR races during 1989-90.

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Gerhard Berger receiving expert medical attention... Imola 1989.