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....and some smaller photos taken seconds after the accident, again by Roy Hopper.....

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Italian ex-Grand Prix driver Gabriele Tarquini joined the works Alfa Corse team in the British Touring Car Championship in 1994 driving the Alfa Romeo 155 TS and he walked away with the Championship winning eight races.

These photos are from the race at the Knockhill track in Scotland, when Gabriele was taken off by Tim Harvey and flipped over, rolling multiple times with no injury.

Tarquini's best result in F1 was 6th at Mexico 1989. He won the European Touring Car Championship in 2003 and the World Touring Car Championship in 2009.

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Talladega Speedway 2009 and the collision between Carl Edwards and Ryan Newman.

Edwards was battling with Brad Keselowski for the win on the final lap of the race when their cars made contact. Carl spun and was hit by Newman, his car was flung into the catch-fencing part of which injuried a number of spectators.

Edwards finished the race by jogging over the line.

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David 'Dink' Widenhouse's crash at the Southern 500 at the Darlington Raceway 1956. As he attempted to get out of the window of his badly damaged B-29 Ford he passed out due to a very nasty arm injury. This would be Widenhouse's last race as he never made a return to racing.

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Some top photos there, many thanks!

Odd points that I know about some of them:
The 73 Spa 24 hours saw a 3rd death as Massimo Larini - uncle of sometime F1 driver, Nicola Larini (best result 2nd in the San Marino GP of 94 where Senna was killed), died in an accident a few hours after Dubois/Joisten. For such a death toll, that race slides under a lot of radars.... the pictures shown are the 1st ones I've ever seen involving that race.

The Riverside crash is immensely spectacular if you go searching for a video, you'll have to watch it a few times just to see the path each car takes. From memory I seem to recall there's a car cruising down pit lane as one of the three cars rolls along the pit barrier, bet that driver wondered "WTF???!!!!".

Mansell in Indycar 93 was amazingly good at the ovals, in complete reverse of how he was expected to run. I don't think he was the easiest man to like (putting it mildly) but Andretti was on a "retirement" cruise throughout 94 and I consider that the team weren't quite as focused as they needed to be. However, Mansell had his head turned by the F1 return after Senna's death and he probably wasn't as driven as he needed to be either.

Carl Edwards crash was potentially horrific but it was NASCAR (sanctioning body) fault as they had a No-Pass line which meant you couldn't overtake below that line. The crash simply occurred because Edwards tried to force Keselowski below that line and got turned sideways when K justifiably held his line, once turned the air lifted Edwards up, but it was the impact from Newman which flipped him into the fence. (Newman managed to finish 3rd by the way as Kesolowski won his 1st race).

The "Ricky Bobby" stunt by Edwards was all good fun, but didn't get him much, he was classified way back in about 20th... 1 lap down. It did get quite high up in the "Top 10 Wildest Nascar finishes" though!

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Originally Posted by AlvinKarpis ↗

Thanks for the info, looking at the video I didnt think his helmet contained his head as you see a track worker pick it up with ease like a regular helmet laying on the ground, plus when looking down at it he dosnt freak out or drop it or look away in shock

You cant really see Vogler's body inside the wreckage at all, so I can see how a myth of decapitation could be started

Like myself my contact is NOT a Sprint/Midget Car fan and im sure he was going off whatever info he was given about the Vogler clip from the source

And I have no idea who the source is, it very well could be the fat drunk wifebeating husband who worked nightshift and had his wife tape the race that I picture in my head

He could have told my contact anything, head in helmet, body cut in half, 8 track workers killed in a conspiracy coverup

Any more info you have to share please do

I would hate to be peddling false info

Plus if he was decapitated, then back in the day im sure I would have heard alot more talk and gossip about it (like Konnig decapitated, or Van Vurren cut in half, etc) and a huge search effort to find any video/pictures to see what really happened

I dont remember any of that, just that the video was rare

I DO know that basically, there was VERY little holding his head on to his body. Possibly why you can't see his head/body in the cockpit in the video. His death, like many others in racing have saved countless other lives. I don't know if u know this but his head came out of the right side of the rollcage and made contact with fenceposts, when he hit the wall. After this, many midget/sprint car/silver crown drivers started using a Y shaped window "net" to contain their head within the rollcage in an accident such as this. Nowadays, EVERYONE uses them. Sad he had to go, but it saved many more lives and drivers from injury.

I live in Indiana, pretty much racing and especially sprint car capital of the world, and as a young fan, will never forget Rich Voglers death. I was 10, but remember it like it was yesterday. The next day my mom broke the news very softly to me, as I had met him numerous times and was a HUGE fan of his... To this day there has only been one other death in racing that has almost brought me to sobbing and that was Robbie Stanley. That kid was talent at its purest, and just a week or 2 before his death I talked to him at length (20-25 minutes) at a local dirt track... I had met him before, but after this meeting and seeing what a great guy he wwas, I was a HUGE fan of his as well. No kidding... It wasn't 2 weeks after that he was killed at Winchester Speedway.

Thanks so much for sharing the video Alvin, and I just wanted to share a small personal story about Vogler! Many drivers didn't like him, cuz he never quit, never feared, and NEVER let off the gas. Ultimately this same attitude and driving style took his life. Coming to the white flag, over half a lap lead and pushes the issue with a lapped car. He could have slowed and followed the car he was lapping for the last lap and still won the race by a straightaway, but that wasn't Vogler!

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Some more Midget Car action...

1. Peter Cunneen at the Sidney Showground 1961.
2. Shane Hammond at the Thompson International Speedway 2008, fatal.
3. A crash at the Kalmazou Speedway 1983.
4. Henry Miller.
5. Lou Cicconi 1987.

Looks like this last one might be at THAT as well (Terre Haute Action Track). Wanna see the craziest and scariest shit ever on dirt??? Just come to Indiana and watch USAC Sprint Cars, Silver Crown or Midgets qualify here. Shaane Hmiel had an angel riding with him a few years ago and never should have survived his encounter with the concrete wall. No way he SHOULD have...

I gotta say, this is the MOST kick ass awesome thread ever!!! Been going to races sinces I was in diapers, working on race cars since I was old enough to operate a wrench, and race on dirt now myself. Go to Indy 500 every year, and actually am lucky enough to get Garage Passes every year, good for any day BUT RACE DAY! I love it, and I thaqnk all u guys who share SO MUCH!!! Just WISH I had more I could share myself. I have very little. I have acquired quite a bit of knowledge of dirt track, all sprint car, midget, silver crown, NASCAR and IndyCar racing though, so if I can ever help... Also being a driver gives someone a different perspective. My gf is astonished when I start talking racing... I have memories from a VERY young age. She always laughs and says she can't believe someone could know so much. lol But it's limited to only some types of racing. If u got country music or Indiana type racing questions, I'm da man! lol

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Giulio Masetti was an Italian nobleman and racing driver, known as 'the lion of Madonie' from his dominating performances on the Targa Florio road race in the early 1920s. He won the race in 1921 and '22 and was second in 1924.

He died in a crash at Sclafani Bagni, Sicily, his car leaving the road and landing upside down during the 1926 race in a Delage 2L CV.

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The aftermath of Belgian part-time racer Francis van Lysbeth's crash at the Spa 500 Km in 1964 in his Ferrari 250 GTO swb. He was lucky to walk away from this one with very minor injuries.

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A very rare picture of Jerry Titus huge practice crash at Road America, Wisconsin in 1970. It appears that Jerry lost the steering on his Pontiac Firebird and crashed into a concrete bridge abutment at high speed causing huge damage to the car and a skull fracture and left arm injuries to Jerry. This article was from a contemporary magazine and gives a lot of info. Tragically it states that Titus was making a recovery but sadly he died just prior to its publication.