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Originally Posted by windowlicker ↗

Jacky Ickx suffered broken ankles and burns after this huge crash at Watkins Glen in the US Grand Prix 1976 after something broke.

Jacky added another three Le Mans wins to the three he had prior to this accident and won the 1985 Sportcar Championship.

Jacky was runner up in the 1968 and 1970 F1 Championships.

Original post from page 56.

A few more of Jacky's huge crash...

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Innes Ireland crashes out heavily during practice for the 1964 Monaco GP in a privately entered Lotus-BRM.

Ireland took part in 53 GP's starting 50 races between 1959 and 1966, scoring 47 points, four podiums and one win which was also Team Lotus first win, in 1961. He finished 6th at Le Mans in 1964.

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A couple more photo's of the aftermath of Gilles Villeneuve's fatal crash at Zolder in 1982 and a small image of the Ferrari shortly after becoming airbourne over Jochen Mass' March.

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Andrea de Cesaris goes off at Suzuka during practice for the Japaneese GP 1988. His best best of the year was 4th at the US GP.

This was the first year of competition for Rial, a German alloy wheel manufacturer and took six points in the thirty-two GP they took part in during 1988 to '89.

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A large qualifying crash for Michael Schumacher at the final round of the 1994 Australian GP. He went on to qualify second but collided with his championship challenger Damon Hill on lap thirty five, both retired and Michael won by one point...

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Originally Posted by windowlicker ↗

Arturo Merzario spun off on lap 37 of the 1974 Spanish GP held at the Jarama Curcuit while in his Iso Marlboro and some how vaulted the barrier ploughing into, and landing on top of, a group of photographers. Suprisingly no one was badly injured in this nasty looking crash. Arturo had been running in 4th place at the time.

Arturo made is F1 debut in 1972 for Ferrari finishing 6th and continued with them into 1973 collecting two 4th places. He was a very successful Sportscar driver winning the Targa Florio twice and many major races outright.

Original post from page 83.

The last photo is a very rare image of a photographer trapped under Arturo's ISO.

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Ayrton Senna was hot property after winning the 1983 British F3 Championship and F1 teams were tripping over themselves to get him in one of their cars.

The first set of photo's are Senna's first F1 test with Williams at the Donnington track in the UK. Ayrton beat the time laid down by test driver Jonathan Palmer by over a second during his twenty laps.

His second test was with McLaren at Silverstone where he was quicker than 1983 team regular John Watson and two other young hopefuls, Martin Brundle and Stefan Bellof. He also tested for Toleman, the team he decided on for 1984, beating the qualifying time of regular driver Derek Warwick set during the British GP.

Senna also tested the Brabham BMW BT52B at Paul Ricard where he was slower than number one driver, Nelson Piquet, who would block the hiring of Ayrton as his number two for '84. Ayrton tested with Mauro Baldi, Roberto Guerrero and Pierluigi Martini and was equal fastest with Baldi with 1'07.90".

McLaren wanted Senna to test for them for them during 1984 as they had Prost and Lauda signed up. Bernie Ecclestone wanted him but his number one Piquet was not happy and main sponsor Italian company Parmalat wanted an Italian driver. Williams had no room for him as they had Rosberg and Jacques Laffite, while it was Toleman who offered Ayrton a two year deal.

The rest as they say is history...

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"I give myself a huge .. for my sloppy ass".

You must be giving yourself something huge to have a sloppy ass.

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Mark Donohue crashing his Lola T70 at Watkins Glen in 1966.

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best thread ever and by a country mile