The 'How the hell did they survive that ?' thread
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Yer, that sheila who froze, was she lucky. I would never give her a car license.
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saw that on the news last night and it mentioned the only injury was one of the spectators fainted.Not hard to guess which one it would've been.
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It's quite funny to see the "won't somebody think of the children?" crowd from the Bianchi thread in here looking at the videos and pictures.
Anyway, you'd have to be brain dead to sit on the outside of a high speed corner at a rally. I'm guessing they won't be doing that again.
Anyway, you'd have to be brain dead to sit on the outside of a high speed corner at a rally. I'm guessing they won't be doing that again.
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Been looking for this for 30 years.
Remember seeing it on the news that night.
Coupla broken legs
^^ i remember a pic of him mid-air in the 84 Australian Motorsport annual
uploader has stuff i haven't seen before
( still never found the 88 saturday AGP v8 race or the 98 V8SC from mallala though
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Remember seeing it on the news that night.
Coupla broken legs
^^ i remember a pic of him mid-air in the 84 Australian Motorsport annual
uploader has stuff i haven't seen before
( still never found the 88 saturday AGP v8 race or the 98 V8SC from mallala though
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Been looking for this for 30 years.
Remember seeing it on the news that night.
Coupla broken legs
^^ i remember a pic of him mid-air in the 84 Australian Motorsport annual
uploader has stuff i haven't seen before
( still never found the 88 saturday AGP v8 race or the 98 V8SC from mallala though
Don't remember that one
Loving that youtube channel though - so many memories.
Back on topic, a couple more pics of the aftermath of classic Bathurst crashes:
John Keran 1970 (never raced again):
Rod McRae 1974 (after aquaplaning in the wet and hitting a tree. Survived with minor injuries):
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Markus Niemela at the PAS. Snapped the RR axle on throwing the car into the corner, like Tim McCreadie did at the Chili Bowl going back a few years. Two angles, 2nd more frightening. The top of a Sprintcar chassis, above the drivers head, is a weakspot. Luckily for Niemela, it held together pretty well. The fence held together well. He got cut from the wreckage, taken to hospital and released later that night.
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shiiiiiiit...
the first video didn't look too bad. the second one was shocking!
the first video didn't look too bad. the second one was shocking!
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Not only how did Mark Webber survive this,how is it that it looks like he's escaped any injury ?
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Looks like everything crumbled except the survival cell. Strong testament to the safety these days.
He's also familiar with that wall. I'm sure he hasn't forgotten the 2003 Brazillian GP.
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They don't stretcher you out if you've escaped injury.
He only got bruises out of it.
2003 crash was worst
2003 crash was worst
To prang massively at the same corner of the same track in two different formulas must unlock a special achievement on Xbox?
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Webber: Go on then Pastor, do THAT
Pastor could wipe out half an Indycar field in one go if he ever went over there.
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Pastor would probably say "Done it already"
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I picture him hitting the wall and somehow keeping the car going so as to take out the entire field all around the track.
If you were giving out an award for this thread I reckon Webber would be pretty hard to beat with some of the incidents he has been involved in throughout his career. Amazing to think that he has probably suffered more damage from bicycling than motor racing despite the amount of times he has flipped a car or crashed into a wall at high speed.
