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Brings us nicely to Mike Harmon at the Bristol Motor Speedway in August 2002...how on earth did he walk away from this one?

He crashed in the entry gate at turn two which was incorrectly secured and sheered off half the car on the wall and the half he wasn't sitting in was hit by Johnny Sauter car.

Harmon had nothing more than brusing and probably needed a change of underwear.

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The aftermath of José Guillermo "Memo" Gidley's 'big one' at Road America 2001 when his Chip Ganassi Racing car hit the wall underneath the Billy Mitchell Bridge.

In the first photo you can clearly see Memo totally exposed in whats left of the cockpit.

He had some good results in 2001 after this crash, with a 2nd and two 3rd place finishes. He has also raced in the American Le Mans Series and failed to qualify three times for the Indy 500.

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This is Michael McDowell during a qualifying attempt for the 2008 Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on April 4th 2008.

The right front sway bar broke on the car causing a head-on crash with the wall, data showed the car decelerated from 165mph to zero in one foot before rolling off in the other direction...

McDowell walked away from the wreck.

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Ricardo Zonta's massive testing crash in his BAR F1 car while testing at the Silverstone track in the UK in 2000 when the front suspension broke and the car vaulted the barriers.

Zonta was F3000 Champion in 1997 with three wins and finished sixth three times in 2000 in his F1 Honda powered BAR.

His last F1 race was in 2004, and he has raced in the GT1 World Championship winning three races in 2010, 3rd at Le Mans in 2008 and now races in the Brazilian Stock Car Championship.

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Danish driver John Nielsen flipping his Sauber C8 at Le Mans 1985.
John would go on to win this race in 1990 in a Jaguar XJR-12.

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The Australian Touring Car race at Bathurst 1981...

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Bathurst again and Dick Johnson's massive practice crash in 1981, the Ford ****** left the track and hit the trees at Forrest’s Elbow.

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Gerhard Berger (Ferrari) and Michael Andretti (McLaren) come together at the first corner of the Brazilian GP in 1993.

This was Michael's first and last year in F1 as he returned to IndyCar the following year. After finishing 3rd at the Italian GP he called it quits, it had been a year littered with collisions, spins and mechanical problems.

Andretti is now a team owner after winning the IndyCar Championship in 1991 and 41 races but never won the Indy 500.

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Oscar Larrauri flips his Brun Porsche 962C at Le Mans 1987.
He has driven sportcars all over the World and took part in seven GP in 1988, he was European F3 champion in 1982.

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These are rare photos from the disastrous F3 race in Italy at Caserta on 18th June 1967.

Having been involved in a multiple pile-up the Swiss driver Fehr Beat, jumped from his stricken car and ran back along the track to warn the leading bunch, which included 'Geki', who was tragically unable to avoid striking and killing him. The Italian's Matra then ploughed into a concrete wall and he died when the car burst into flames.

The initial accident was between - Perdomi, Manfredini, Regazzoni, Dubler and Ernesto Brambilla tangling at the end of a straight, just as it led into a blind right hander. Beat Fehr stopped and ran back down the track to warn the oncoming drivers and was struck by Giacomo Russo whose Matra struck a wall. Russo and Fehr were killed instantly. Perdomi died soon afterwards.

This in an account from the time,
'In the Formula Three race at Caserta in 1967 trouble began on the seventh lap when a young Swiss driver called Fehr Beat was involved in a relatively minor accident with another car on a very fast, twisty section of the circuit where stone walls on each side of the road impose a severe limit on visibility. Both cars were damaged, their wreckage partially blocking the road, but neither driver was hurt. One of them, Beat, apparently took it upon himself to run back down the road to warn oncoming drivers of the impending obstruction, and while doing so he was knocked down and killed by a car driven by Giaccomo Russo. Russo himself, out of control after the impact, was immediately killed when his car struck a wall. Moments later, a fourth car collided with the debris of Russo's machine and the driver, Giusseppe Perdoni, was trapped, seriously injured, in the wreckage.

While all of this was taking place very little help was being provided by the race authorities. Some soldiers, whose job it was to keep spectators under control, proffered assistance and were instructed by one of the drivers to telephone for ambulances and rescue equipment. One of the soldiers explained that they would have to use a coin-operated public telephone for this purpose and, as they had no money, it was not until the appropriate coins had been produced that the so-called rescue operation could get under way. When, eventually, assistance in the shape of the local fire brigade arrived on the scene, it was clear that their equipment was inadequate to procure the release of Perdoni from his battered car; he was eventually extricated by his own mechanics using equipment that they had carried from their pit, some distance away. He died in hospital before the day was out. '

This is Clay Regazzoni's recollections of the race,
"Finally, everything ended in tragedy. Tino Brambilla, a brother of Vittorio's, had a lead of fifty metres on a chasing group that included myself. In the last two positions were Swiss driver Fehr, and Seltari. Those two touched right after one of the three corners, the view being impeded by the corner of a house. Fehr's car came to rest in the middle of the track, the pursuers closing in at 200 km/h (125 mph) down the straight. Fehr immediately realised that the other drivers would be unsighted by the corner of the house, and ran around it to warn the others of the danger (there were no marshals in those days!). He was run over. I was in fourth place and could only see a cloud of dust in front of me. I braked immediately. All I remember is hits and bumps left and right. I had come to a halt in a pile of ten or twelve cars. I got out of my battered car, and walked towards Romano Perdomi's car. He was trapped in the cockpit, but was conscious. Just as I noticed that the rev counter had penetrated his knee and stuck in it, I heard the sound of a rapidly approaching car. It was Brambilla, leading, unaware of all this. I could hear his gearchange, and then saw him come round the corner at speed. A terrifying feeling. I pressed myself against the wall of the house, motionless. After a first impact, Tino's car flew over all the others and landed close to mine.
It was total chaos. Spectators and fire marshals were close to panic. It was us drivers who remained calmest of all. We started to extract Perdomi. Although badly hurt, he was conscious and remained calm, even though his hours were numbered. In all the anxiety, nobody had looked after Geki. His car had hit a lamp post and was split in half, the engine separated from the seat. It was too late to rescue him. By now, smoke was coming from his car. I feared that a fire would break out while he was still trapped in the cockpit. I yelled at a fire marshal to go and get some water, and he came back with a bottle. This was still the stone age of rescue services."