F-1 wreck from inside the car.

[Jims5543]

Crazy!


Not sure its F-1.


http://www.filecabi.net/video/f1-crash-inside-view.html

[TheMentat]

Thats a sports car of some sort... not sure what track that is though. Crazy wreck!

[IROC]

That's not F1 - that's an open cockpit car (ALMS) at Road Atlanta. Yikes.

Mike

[Christien]

Wow! That's nasty.

Isn't one of the first rules of track driving to always look way far ahead of you, and leave the nearby stuff to your peripheral vision? Watching the replay a couple times I can see a fair amount of smoke/dust in front of the yellow car well in advance - that should tip the driver off to avoid it.

I know, I know, it's much easier to see in a replay, on a monitor, sitting in a chair relaxed. Still...

[Jims5543]

Originally posted by Christien
Wow! That's nasty.

Isn't one of the first rules of track driving to always look way far ahead of you, and leave the nearby stuff to your peripheral vision? Watching the replay a couple times I can see a fair amount of smoke/dust in front of the yellow car well in advance - that should tip the driver off to avoid it.

I know, I know, it's much easier to see in a replay, on a monitor, sitting in a chair relaxed. Still...

I do not know anything about this wreck or the skill level of the driver. That said, I have been at plenty of DE's where it is obvious many are not looking much further than 50 feet off the front of their hood.

I cam around a turn to find a Supra facing the wrong way. I let off and moved over only to find a Corvette barreling down on me looing at my rear bumper. I had to get back in it to aviod being rear ended.

[IROC]

I've driven this particular turn many (hundreds?) times. You come down the hill and onto the straight and things happen quickly as it's a fast turn. Really fast in one of those cars.

I don't know that there was much he could do, really.

Mike

[cashflyer]

When I shared this with the club I belong to, this is the response I got. Thought I would share it with you all.

Those guys DIDN'T walk away. The Ferrari, yellow car, was split into two halves. The half with the engine ended up on the outside of the front straight, and the front half in the infield where the new pit wall would be. You can't see it in the in-car video, but there's an old Porsche against the outside wall just past the exit to 12. There's kind of a big splotchey blur where it should be.

Road Atlanta was red flagged for 2.5 hours to clean up the debris. The driver of the yellow Ferrari was LifeFlighted out. And, was in the hospital for some time after the wreck. The driver of the Aurora had two broken legs, and in the video at the point of impact the Olds driver looses consciousness.

How do I know all this? I was there. I watched it happen from the Pirelli Chalet, which overlooked the pits (old pit).

Oh, and at that time those were World Sports Cars. ALMS wasn't around, yet. I think Don Panoz bought the track two years after that incident.

[JFK713]

That crash pretty well powdered the legs and ended the career of the driver, Jeremy Dale, I remember watching that race live. Scary crash.

[rattlsnak]

Yep, i was there too.. Bad day.....

The workers were criticized for not flagging the wreck quickly enough, (the portion that happened first), but rather just kind of stared with the deer in the headlights look, as it happened right beneath the start tower, so when the cars came under the bridge, they werent warned of the accident until it was too late. There were about 6 other cars involved.

[Jims5543]

Originally posted by rattlsnak
Yep, i was there too.. Bad day.....

The workers were criticized for not flagging the wreck quickly enough, (the portion that happened first), but rather just kind of stared with the deer in the headlights look, as it happened right beneath the start tower, so when the cars came under the bridge, they werent warned of the accident until it was too late. There were about 6 other cars involved.

You mean there were more cars piling into that mess? Ouch!!

I just watched it a few more times and honestly, its amazing the driver lived. This obviously is before Hans devices, how his neck didn't snap is beyond me.

It is startling how fast that other car comes up on him before he hits.

Plenty of us do DE's and other track days here. Be careful.