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We've had a few photo's of Pat Bedard's huge crash at Indy 1984 but I dont think this exact one has been posted...

Pat was a writer for Car and driver and took place in the '500 in '83 and '84, qualifying 17th and 19th. He suffered concussion and a broken jaw when his March-Buick hit the 4th wall hard on lap 55.

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Bill Whittington crashing out hard at Indy 1985.

Bill won Le Mans in 1979, finished 8th on his Nascar debut, took part at Indy from 1980 to '85, qualifying 6th in 1982 with a best result of 14th in 1985.

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A startline crash at the French GP 1974 at Dijon when James Hunt's Hesketh went off after contact between Carlos Reutemann and Tom Pryce.

James would win the Dutch GP, Hesketh's first and last GP win the following year, before going to McLaren in '76 and pipping Niki Lauda to the Championship.

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Greg Weld spinning at Indy 1970 during what appears to be a practice session on the way to 28th on the grid in a 1968 Vollstedt-Ford. This was the only '500 that Greg would qualify for from 1965 to 1973. He retired on lap 12 with a damaged piston.

Greg took part in 36 starts in the series from 1965 to '72, with 11 top ten finishes and a best result of 4th at Sacramento in 1970.

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The ugliest F1 car ever.....?

The Eifelland F1 team were from Germany and named after the owners caravan company. The car was based on a March 721 with a new body designed by Luigi Colani. The car had various issues with over-heating a lack of downforce, and the fact it just wasn't very quick. The best result for the one car team was 10th at Monaco for Rolf Stommelen.

The team only lasted the one year in F1 (1972), eight races with two retirements before disapearing from the scene.

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The first image is of Lloyd Ruby crashing out of practice for the Dover Delaware Indycar race of 1969, he would fail to qualify. Lloyd finished 10th in the championship with best results of two 2nd place finishes.

The second is Wally Dallenbach during the race, hitting the wall on lap 106. Wally finished 6th in that years championship with best results also of two 2nd places.

[jeremycrpntr]

Originally Posted by windowlicker ↗

Bob Sweikert's fatal wreck at Salem 1955. His sprint car left the track and caught fire 100 feet down an embankment.

Bob had won Indy in 1956, the year that Bill Vukovich lost his life, as well as the National Championship.

They actually found a tire from his car 40+ years later, when they were clearing trees from the area of the crash. They couldn't find the tire and wheel, and gave up. lol True Story. I was just at Salem a cpl months ago, and we were talking about this.

[jeremycrpntr]

Originally Posted by windowlicker ↗

Danny Drinan crashes his 1991 Lola Buick at turn one during practice for the Indy 500 in 1996 sustaining concussion, a broken left hip and foot and a bruised lung. Danny attempted three times to qualify for the 500 but never quite made it.

Danny was a successful USAC midget car racer.

Have you ever seen Drinan's crash in a midget from 1992??? WOW!!! Don't know how he survived. One of the most vicious dirt crashes I have EVER seen. There were also some really great photos of it that made Open Wheel Magazine, that my buddy's Gpa actually took. YouTube and google this...

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Originally Posted by jeremycrpntr ↗

Have you ever seen Drinan's crash in a midget from 1992??? WOW!!! Don't know how he survived. One of the most vicious dirt crashes I have EVER seen. There were also some really great photos of it that made Open Wheel Magazine, that my buddy's Gpa actually took. YouTube and google this...

Hurt just watching it...

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Dinho Bonotti's crash during the 1963 500 Miles of Interlagos. His Chevrolet V8 engined creation left the road at speed killing three spectators and turning over throwing Dinho out of the cockpit and inflicting fatal injuries.