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Gilles Villeneuve was leading the Dutch GP in 1979 at the Zandvoort track in his Ferrari 312T-4 in a battle with Alan Jones, when a slow puncture on his left rear tyre caused him to spin on lap 47 at the new chicane. He managed to miss anything solid and set off in second place. It took another lap and a half until the tyre completely gave out on the main straight and Gilles spun the car at Tarzan.

Again he did not hit anything and he was expected to jump out of the car and wander back to the nearby pits. But he didn't, he re-started the Ferrari and stormed off with the rear suspension disintergrating as he made his way to the Ferrari pit for repairs. By the time he got there the car was wrecked, some criticised him for driving the car at speed in the state it was in but others realised Villeneuve only had one speed, flat out.

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The first race for the Ford GT

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....fingers like sausages...

The first Le Mans race for the Ford GT40 in 1964 and the Richard Attwood / Jo Schlesser version retired on lap 58 with an engine fire.

It had been a bad time for Jo who had suffered a very heavy crash in pre-race testing.

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Originally Posted by AlvinKarpis ↗

Wolfgang Von Trips: Monza 1961

Fatal

Ultra Rare Color Footage taken by an injured spectator

Original post from page 182.


A couple of stills from Alvin Karpis fantastic footage and two more black and whites...

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Jeremy Foley launches his Mitsubishi Evo during the 2012 Pikes Peak, rolling down a 100 feet drop, the roll-cage saving the lives of both Jeremy and co-driver Yuri Kouznetsov.

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Three time F1 Champion Ayrton Senna walks away from his McLaren-Ford MP4/8 after a high speed spin during practice at Imola 1993. He went on to qualify fourth but retired with hydraulic suspension failure on lap 42.

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Brett Lunger crashing his Hesketh 308B at Watkins Glen during qualifying for the 1975 United States Grand Prix. This was his last of three races for the team during the year with a best of 10th at Monza.

Brett took place in fourty-two GP's from 1975 to '78, failing to qualify on eight occasions with a best result of 7th at Zolder in 1978.

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I don't think this very sad photo of the aftermath of Senna's fatal accident at Imola 1994 has been posted before....

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Shekhar Mehta's wrecked Datsun 240Z during the Moroccan rally 1972.

Mehta won the Safari rally a record five times, four of them consecutively and was placed fifth in the 1981 World Rally Championship, he won the inaugural African Rally Championship in 1981.

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Mary Cunliffe overturning during a one hundred mile race at Southport Sands in 1928. Her father was killed after being ejected from the car losing his life when an artery in his throat was severed. Mary injured her right arm.