The 'How the hell did they survive that ?' thread

[NSWCROW]

Legit? That's unbelievable.

No i don't think so.
I'm going with " mechanical failure "
Can't understand the speed AFTER the " race " had finished

 

[JUBJUB]

faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark




Failed suicide attempt

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs...-horrific-ferrari-crash-suzuka-115825523.html

Wow,I thought the track marshall was a goner.He looked to be laying on the ground not moving and only one person checking on him.

 

[hey shorty]

Thats just insanely scary. How badly hurt was the driver

 

[Klyntonius]

According to the story link that JubJub posted the driver was in a serious condition but pulled through.

 

[hey shorty]

Yeah read that. Absolutely incredible

 

[AdelaideFan14]

For a sprintcar crash, it may look like a 7-8 on the severity scale. What the video doesn't clearly show however is the hard contact the top of the sprintcar chassis makes on the concrete wall. Sprintcars, if they were to have an achilles heel would be the top of the chassis above the drivers head. The driver should be thankful he had an additional "Halo" above the top of the frame, as you will see what it stopped from happening in the below video... There is a pretty visible pole imprint right behind where the driver's head would be. It should be noted that very few winged sprintcar drivers run Halo's. It was also lucky that no drivers slid into the scene either, as the high rail could've made quite a mess. I've never seen a high rail straighten out before.

 

[Smoooothy]

dario franchitti in the indycars overnight. horrific crash! he should recover, but he has a fractures spine and ankle from it

 

[Klyntonius]

That was truly frightening.

This gave me a scare watching the superbikes last night.

 

[JUBJUB]

WANTED : A new pair of tidy whities for this lucky cameraman

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Is it just me, or did it look like the marshalls to a while to notice the accident happening? It also a reminder to me to be aware when I go to races.

 

[JUBJUB]

Is it just me, or did it look like the marshalls to a while to notice the accident happening? It also a reminder to me to be aware when I go to races.

Yeah the cars are off on the grass and 2 of them are just standing there watching the blue & red car go off to their left and the female has her back to it

 

[CURVE]

I "obtained" a doco the other day called Grand Prix - The Killer Years (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00z8v18)



Some very graphic scenes (bodies burned alive etc) and really does open up your eyes just to how dangerous the sport was, and sometimes, still is.

OneHD showed this documentary late one night during the Australian Grand Prix. I watched it again a few nights ago. It's quite a difficult doco to watch, especially as a long time fan of F1 who has read or seen footage of a lot of these great drivers. And decades after the tragedies, Jackie Stewart was still quite animated in his interview. It's pretty intense viewing, but is a wonderfully made documentary.

A lot of the footage will stick with me for a long time, but that final footage of the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort will stay forever. That was one of the most harrowing things I've ever seen.

 

[JUBJUB]

The Russian judge gave him 9.5
A point for each roll

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

They have had some bad crashes in Aussie Cars of late

 

[JUBJUB]

Time to BUMP the thread

Defending Le Man winner Loic Duval has destroyed his Audi in Le Man practice.Have a look at the video at the bottom of this link and see him in the car and you have to ask "How the hell did he survive that ?"
Not just that,all he got were some minor grazes to the skin.

http://www.speedcafe.com/2014/06/12/defending-le-mans-winner-massive-crash/

 

[Smoooothy]

ffaaarrrrrrkkkkkk!

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

Lucky to have minor cuts

 

[ManWithNoName]

 

[NotAMagpieBogan]

Jesus, haven't seen that photo yet. Such a strange looking crash, going by the limited photos we have.

Scary to be able to see him in the car in the video.

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

Always looks worst in pics

 

[AdelaideFan14]

Starts at 1.37.

Raced the next night and won.

 

[darth_timon]

Starts at 1.37.

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Raced the next night and won.

This sort of racing (along with anything on dirt-tracks really) always looks so terrifying to me. That sort of car is not designed to withstand a serious impact so to crash in one... 'shudders'.

 

[NotAMagpieBogan]

I think that flag marshal needs to go buy a tattslotto ticket.

 

[NitroFan]

not really 'how did he survive that' territory (although it obviously could have been a lot worse) but this was certainly a unique situation

guy crashes top fuel bike and ends up riding on the wheelie bars of the other bike



series of photos

https://www.facebook.com/pudgeyspic...89318887284.1073741883.100000686709090&type=1

 

[JUBJUB]

not really 'how did he survive that' territory (although it obviously could have been a lot worse) but this was certainly a unique situation

guy crashes top fuel bike and ends up riding on the wheelie bars of the other bike



series of photos

https://www.facebook.com/pudgeyspictures97/media_set?set=a.844789318887284.1073741883.100000686709090&type=1

Saw that on the net this morning.It's a bit like the jockey a couple of years ago in a race in QLD [?] that fell off his horse in a race and land on another horse.