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Clay Regazzoni crashes out of the Spa 1000km in 1971 after colliding with a backmarker in his Ferrari 312.

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Two times F1 World Champion Graham Hill's massive crash during the US GP at Watkins Glen 1969. Graham had spun his Lotus 49 on oil and got out and push started the car but was unable to refasten his belts and when the rear tyre exploded he was thrown from the car badly breaking both legs.

Hill made a recovery and went on to drive for Rob Walker and then Brabham with limited success before creating his own team. He won Le Mans in a Matra in 1972. Hill crashed his light aircraft with members of his race team on board, all losing their lifes in November 1975.

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Dale Earnhardt, Jr., ALMS Sonoma 2004....

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Csaba Kesjár...German F3 Norisring 1988...

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Olivier Panis broke both his legs in this heavy crash at the Canadian GP 1997 in his Prost-Mugen Honda.

Panis won the Monaco GP in 1996 and was F3000 Champion in 1993.

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Testing prior to the Ivory Coast rally 1985 and the Audi Sport Quattro E2 of Michelle Mouton had a heavy crash and was withdrawn.

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Jolly Club Lancia driver Adartiko Vudaferi at the rally Sanremo 1983.

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Originally Posted by windowlicker ↗

This is the accident that killed Group B rallying.

Joaquim Santos and co-driver Miguel Oliveira left the road on the first stage of the 1986 Rallye de Portugal ploughing into the crowd, killing three and injuring dozens more.

This rally always had a very bad reputation for crowd control with hundreds of spectators lining the route just inches away from the cars and sometimes running out in front of them.

Santos had lost control of his works entered Ford RS200 when driving flat-out over a crest and suddenly finding spectators across the road. A hundred metres further on he was still off line for a left hander and the car spun off into the crowd on the right. The organiser's did not stop the stage straight away and rally cars were still going through the stage. Some drivers simply cruised through the stage when they saw the hellish aftermath others were attacked by the crowd as they past the site unaware of the disaster, spectators believing the drivers were unconcerned.

All of the works cars withdrew and Group B was banned for 1987, replaced by Group A cars.

Certainly the clearest photo of the fatal crash that I have seen ...

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Marc Surer's heavy practice crash at the South African GP 1980 in his ATS broke both of his legs.

Marc was seriously injured in a rally crash during the 1986 ADAC Hessen-Rallye in his Ford RS200 which killed his co-driver and friend Michel Wyder.

Marc won the 1979 European Formula Two Championship and contested 88 races scoring 17 points with a best result of 4th at the Brazilian GP 1981, when he also took fastest lap. He was also lucky enough to have been married twice to previous Playboy models...

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Originally Posted by windowlicker ↗

In relation the The Dark's last post, a few pictures of the Regazzoni / Hailwood crash, South African GP 1973.

Dave Charlton had crashed, taking out Hailwood, Clay Regazzoni and Jacky Ickx. Mike was able to trigger his onboard fire extinguisher, but Regazzoni was unconscious and strapped into a fireball. Hailwood tried to drag Regazzoni out but his own hands, feet and legs had caught fire. Hailwood had to run away briefly and smother the flames. The marshals had covered the car in foam and were trying to drag Regazzoni out when the car burst into flames again. Hailwood plunged into the flames again and this time dragged Regazzoni clear.

From page 36.

Great quality photo of the aftermath of the inferno...

You can see from the amount of damage to the BRM just how lucky Clay was.