[fortythree]

Good detective work! Panorama Curve according to Wiki who have an amusing entry on the DeCesaris crash. Looks like Elio could've gone the same way but got lucky.

[fortythree]

From wiki. Sounds like a naughty kid who's stacked his old mans car

On lap 13 Andrea de Cesaris survived one of the biggest crashes ever seen in Formula One when his Ligier-Renault got sideways at the left hand Panorama Curve and slid onto the outside grass at high speed. The grass, wet from overnight rain caused the Ligier to initially slide sideways before his right rear hit a slight bank launching the car into a series of rolls with de Cesaris's head bouncing around freely in the cockpit. Somehow as soon as the Ligier came to a rest (thankfully the right way up), de Cesaris undid his seat belts and walked away with nothing more than a mud-splattered helmet and driving suit. The crash was the end for de Cesaris at Ligier, with team owner Guy Ligier firing the Italian after he saw a replay of the crash stating "I can no longer afford to keep employing this man" referring to the constant repair bills from de Cesaris's crashes since he joined the team in 1984.[1] When he returned to the pits, de Cesaris told the team that the reason for his DNF was that the car had stalled and wouldn't restart. It was reported at that point that the Ligier team had not seen a replay of the accident.

[fortythree]

Another from the scrapbook, a track worker is killed at a national meet at Paddock Hill bend Brands Hatch in the early eighties.

[fortythree]

No1 in the sequence

[fortythree]

Lucky driver, unlucky track worker.

[The Dark]

http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/fo...p?db=ct&n=7201
has some information on the crash above

[Morbid75]

Thank you for the interesting posts. I did not really know about the Gordon Smiley wreck. After watching the crash video several times I think I saw where his head (or what was left of it) hits the track and sprays blood and brain. This would be after the vehicle hits the fence and the March chassis is obliterated, his helmet flies off and he is scalped by the fence. Once the debris is rolling many feet down the track. It is very horrible.

[Boomking]

Once you figure it out, you can't unsee it.

[FavaBeans]

We clearly see him become one with the car here

[FavaBeans]

...and obviously these fuckers have a death wish so...........