[Buford61]

I was there that day but on the other side of the track. We knew nothing about it until we found out in the newspaper.

[Buford61]

I was referring to the Wayne Kelly accident.

[Buford61]

During the 7th hour of the the 1973 Spa 24 Hours Hans-Peter Joisten spun his BMW 3.0 CSL and was sitting sideways in the track when he was slammed into by Roger Dubos driving an Alfa GTV. Both drivers were killed instantly.

[Buford61]

Gary Hocking was killed during practice for the 1962 Natal Grand Prix at the Westmead circuit in South Africa. His car, a Rob Walker entered Lotus 24, ran off the edge of the track at the end of the long right hand corner & somersaulted end over end twice. Gary's head struck the roll hoop & he died some hours later in the Addlington hospital in Durban. It is possible that the car suffered a front nearside suspension failure & this cased the car to veer sharply to the left & somersault. He was 25 years old.

[windowlicker]

Originally Posted by fortythree ↗

Close up.

An amazing image, horrific and very sad...

[windowlicker]

A photo of marshal Jansen van Vuuren seconds after impact with Tom Pryce's Shadow at the 1977 South African GP at Kyalami.

The eventual race winner Niki Lauda, 'In the race a crazy accident - because of a marshal, who ran across the track. The misery over the deaths and the joy over my victory mingled to something indescribable.'

The Shadow team manager Alan Rees, 'As Tom was coming through the field there was only one more in that pack that he had to overtake, and that was Hans Stuck. Stuck was the one who avoided the guy who ran across the road, and he did it so quickly that Tom was left out there. He wouldn't even have known about it. He wouldn't have known anything about it, I'm sure of that. Stuck obviously saw the guy at the last moment and just swerved, and Tom was right in his slipstream and couldn't avoid the marshal.'

Journalist Alan Henry, ' I was down at Crowthorne corner and saw it all, although it didn't register with me what was happening at the time. I just saw a car out of control and slamming into the barriers. I walked up the left-hand side of the track after it was over in a fairly zonked frame of mind because there was no doubt about poor Tom. Surtees popped out of one of those little caravans the team had, took me in, sat me down and gave me a whisky, which I always thought was a nice gesture. Tom was certainly quick enough to go all the way in the sport.'

James Hunt, ' The system let Tom down, and it is time something was done to prevent the possibility of a recurrence. I strongly believe that creating a squad of professional marshals, who travel to each and every Grand Prix, is the only sensible way to go in the future.'

Frank Keating journalist writing in the Guardian, 'Tom Pryce had asked me not to forget to give him the full report of the England versus Wales rugby international when he arrived back home today from the South African Grand Prix. But now he's not coming back. He is just another tear-stained wall in the tragic litany of lives and loves lost in the name of his sport.'

James Hunt, 'It makes me extremely angry when we lose drivers of the calibre of Tom. People do not listen enough to the drivers, yet we are the ones who take the greatest risk.'

[windowlicker]

Swedish driver Torsten Palm making an expensive looking mess of his Hesketh 308 during practice for the 1975 Swedish F1 GP at Anderstorp. This would be his one and only GP start after failing to qualify at Monaco. He finished 10th.

Palm had been the Swedish F3 Champion in 1970 and 1971.

[The Dark]

That photo at Kyalami is phenomenal timing, almost makes me think it's actually likely to be one of a set.

Awesome find WL.

[windowlicker]

Originally Posted by windowlicker ↗

It's Monza again but this crash during the 1928 Italian GP resulted in the greatest loss of life during any Grand Prix and second only to the 1955 Le Mans race for fatalities during a motor race.

On the 17th lap Emilio Materassi lost control of his Talbot 700 when he tried to overtake Giulio Foresti’s Bugatti T35C on the main straight at over 200 kmh. The Talbot swerved to the left, jumped over a three meter deep and four meter wide protection ditch through a fence and crashed into the packed grandstand.

Materassi was killed instantly along with at least twenty spectators and a large number of people were injured. A number of the badly injured died later and as many as 27 people are said to have perished.

These are some of Emilio Materassi's biggest victories,

Coppa Perugina : 1924, 1926, 1927
Grand Prix of Mugello : 1925, 1926, 1928
Coppa Montenero : 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928
Tripoli Grand Prix : 1927
Targa Florio : 1927
Bologna Grand Prix : 1927
San Sebastian Grand Prix : 1927

Original post from page 81.

A couple of new photos...

[windowlicker]

The 1986 1000 km of Nürburgring and the works Rothmans Porsches of Hans Stuck and Jochen Mass collide on the main straight during a safety car period in nasty weather conditions.