[rustymustangs]

That is one excellent picture!

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Fernando Alonso's shunt on lap 55 of the 2003 Brazilian GP at the Interlagos track.

This was one of the most confused endings of any race, after Alonso crashed into wreckage of Mark Webber's off a lap earlier and the race was red flagged. Initially McLaren driver Kimi Räikkönen was declared the winner, five days later this was overturned and initial runner-up Giancarlo Fisichella in a Jordan-Ford was handed his first GP win.

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Diumar Bueno lost his brakes at around 120mph during practice for a Brazilian truck race at the Guaporé Circuit in 2013. A little speed was shed by straight lining over the grass but the concrete barrier was no match for the Volvo truck which crashed through it then down a 50 foot bank.

The driver suffered two broken legs and an arm.

[fortythree]

The first turn crash at Montreal in '80. Bent tyrrell could be Thackwell's, they ran three cars, two of which got tangled up in it.

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And one of the lotus drivers heads back to the pits, not sure if it's Elio or Mario

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Driver Pietro Scavone and co-driver Diego D'Herin crash at the Italian Rally Valle d'Aosta 2014, amazingly no-one was injured, although I'm sure fresh underwear was required all round.

[fortythree]

Originally Posted by TheFallOfTroyML ↗

cant watch the videos ..

yeah sorry for the weird format, i dont have the tech to capture so i'm just filming my old vhs with an i pad.
If you click on the file details bottom left of the vid it should download, open and play in windows mplayer.
Here's a super rare fatal; as far as i know this does not exist anywhere else online. Kenny Irons , Cadwell Park 1988

[fortythree]

Irons was a rising star in the uk scene and had the potential to go all the way. Keith Huewen's Bimota Yamaha suddenly misfired on the warm up lap, Kenny couldn't avoid him and was unlucky enough to get collected, just one of those racing things. I'd be grateful if we could keep this footage DR.

[TheFallOfTroyML]

Originally Posted by fortythree ↗

yeah sorry for the weird format, i dont have the tech to capture so i'm just filming my old vhs with an i pad.
If you click on the file details bottom left of the vid it should download, open and play in windows mplayer.
Here's a super rare fatal; as far as i know this does not exist anywhere else online. Kenny Irons , Cadwell Park 1988

watched them all now. great stuff, never seen that footage before

[Buford61]

Who's is the tumbling roadster at the end?

That was Jack Turner in 1963, the third flip on the main straight he had in 3 straight years. In those years I used to hang around at the track with a group of early teenagers including some of the drivers sons and daughters. A couple days after the accident we decided we would go down to Methodist Hospital to visit Jack Turner. Of course none of us were old enough to drive but we talked somebody into driving us down there, there were six or seven of us. When we got to the desk they said we could not see him. For one thing he was not allowed visitors and for another thing we were a bunch of rowdy children. Not to be denied, his room number had been in the newspaper, we left and came back in the back and went up the service elevator. We walked down the hall giggling and pushing each other and walked into his room. There he was covered with bandages and was much more banged up than had been reported in the newspaper.

He brightened right up when he saw us and we had about a five minute chat before a nurse arrived and threw our butts out. He thanked us over and over for coming. The other thing I recall was on the ride up in the elevator, a crusty old nurse came on at one of the floors pushing a cart filled with pills. One of the guys said "Are those pills for me?" She raised one eyebrow and in the most classic deadpan manner responded "They are if you breast-feed." We all cracked up and were still laughing about it when we got to Jack Turner's room and we told him and he had a good laugh too. She said 'BREAST!!!"

Years later I read an article about his third flip in three years and he said he was in pretty bad shape until a group of teenagers came to cheer him up in the hospital and it made all of the difference in the world. But if I recall that crash ended his career.