Dario never really got along with the DW12, but if that Sato crash didn't end his career, another big crash would have. As much as I hate to say it, Dario's time was near, but at least he gets to enjoy retirement. I do still hope he gets to try LeMans just one with Marino.
What I remember from that is how big of a di*k Chip was when Dario announced that he wouldn't be back. He was still under contract, and Chip has proven how he feels about drivers skipping out on contracts
I was at the Lauzitsring track that day in 2001. The Zanardi crash happened right in front of me. It's just so much more horribel to see it in real life. It was a shock. Poor Zanardi. Since then I have been praying that I will never witness a fatal accident at a racetrack. Kenny Brack won the race by the way. I was 34.
It wasn't quite as smooth sailing. He broke his sternum, femur, both ankles, and burst a vertibra. Took him 18 weeks to recover. Then he goes nuts running X Games and Rally Car driving and for a time in 2017 has the Nurburgring record for road legal cars at 6:43.2 in a McLaren P1 LM. The man's nuts.
As a NASCAR fan in addition to Indycar, Kenny Brack's wreck from 2003 at 12:08 reminds me a lot of the wreck Geoff Bodine had in the Truck Series 3 years earlier at Daytona in terms of the car or in this case truck being completely destroyed. Luckily both men survived their respective wrecks & would race again.
Yeah I've been binging these videos recently and just saw Bodine's wreck last night. Nearly the same exact situation here. Shit can get dangerous in a hurry
That Dixon crash in 2017 was absolutely crazy. Thankfully he came out of ot unharmed but if he hit the wall and fence at a bad angle i fear it would of been much worse
“Dixon remarkably avoided serious injury from the crash and made his way to Belle Isle with a fractured ankle”, from an article from the Detroit news going into the 2018 Indy 500
Given you were avoiding fatalities and life-altering injuries, the top 9 were prime stuff. I would personally put Sebastien Bourdais' 2017 Indy 500 qualifying crash ahead of the Hinchcliffe crash, though. And, an honorable mention to Spencer Pigot's 2020 race-ending Indy 500 crash.
Thank you. Bourdais and Pigot's crashes will most likely be in the next one. I added Dario's crash because he is perfectly well after the accident, it was a doctor's recommendation to not continue to race and he took his advice.
Some of the most brutal crashes at indy I remember are from the 60's and 70's. You should dive into them to see why they have the safety measures they use now.
Regarding Sato's incident at Pocono, his onboard camera later showed that he kept his line and never went off of it. Rather it was Ryan Hunter-Rey who drove up from inside, hitting Rossi in the middle who in turn ended up hitting Sato who was on the outside. Dario Franchitti was the first one, even before Sato's onboard camera footage was shown, to come out and said Sato wasn't at fault, and he was right. Too bad none of the commentators never apologized to Sato for automatically deciding him as the cause of the accident and strongly criticizing him for being reckless. This was particularly true with Paul Tracy who never seems to have kind words for the Japanese driver. We all know Sato and his kamikaze driving style, which makes him both dangerous and exciting at the same time, and he's been criticized in the past for it. With that said, this kind of unprofessional rush judgements are unfair to Sato and only hurt his reputation more than he deserves. Give the man a little more respect. After all, he is the two-time Indy 500 champion.
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I've didn't watched that race, just watched this video, and I was pretty sure that wasn't Sato that made the move. After watched that again, but using the slow-mo RU-vid config, you can see the input of the middle driver on the steering wheel, but that was because of the inner pilot moving up (probably he was unaware that was a third pilot, and forced/pressed the middle to get up, because of the turn ahead).
notice how the middle driver never moved away from the inner driver. Satos fault. Also they were already moving tward the outside when Sato decided to make his outside dart.
Its Sato’s “kamikaze style of driving” that created this incident in the first place. Three wide into a turn that can only hold two and we haven’t even completed one lap…??? A good racer exercises patience and avoids putting himself in precarious situations in the first place. I was never a fan of this kind of all or nothing driving style and the pile of “wadded up” Indy cars Sato has accumulated speaks for itself. Patience is a virtue. Ask 4 time Indy 500 winners such as Rick Mears. You need to know when to “whoo” and when to go and you don’t do that with your foot, you do that with your head.🏁
@@jackburton7062And for good reason. For most of his career he was an uncontrolled missile. However, for Pocono, it really wasn't his fault as Rossi and Hunter-Reay squeezed him while on the straight with Sato pointing the same direction the entire straight. It's also one of the many reasons I love how Rossi's career has imploded as he's wrecked his fair share of people.
If I remember correctly, #3 was the highest G-force recorded that a human survived? 214G's was what Kenny Brack (sp?) went through? Someone, please correct me if I am wrong.
I saw Servia's crash from across the track.(turn9) A big cloud of dust, and out of that comes a car doing a one and a half with a twist. After the dust cleared, it was gratifying to see (through binoculars) that the car had landed upright.
Don’t forget drivers like Patrick Bedard, who survived a horrific crash during the Indy 500 in 1984, and Kevin Cogan who survived a horrific crash in the Indy 500 in 1989, there are many other incidents and accidents I don’t remember right now.
I was only 2 when I was with my dad watching that 89 Indy 500, and he recorded Cogan & Little Al's crashes for me to watch when I got older. In retrospect, he told me he recorded the latter because he thought Jr. was going to win; didn't matter to me cuz I can recite Paul Page's commentary of that last lap from memory 30 years later.
I took my son to that race at Mid Ohio, that crash was unbelievably violent live. It was also the last season Bobby Rahal raced. I have several souvenirs from it, including a scale model car autographed by Bobby himself and the race program book.
This popped up in my recommendations, looked interesting and it was! I saw all of these as they happened on TV starting when I was kid. You gave me pause and replay, which for a few of these, wasn’t available for the average home. I totally enjoyed watching this.
Kenny Bräck admitted in a swedish interview that during the first few days in hostpital his heart stoped several times and he was lucky to just be alive and the injuries he got he still feels to this day...
@@imaridfields7259 North chute at the Indy 500 between turns 3 & 4. As I recall it was the 2010 race. That brought out the yellow flag and Dario Franchitti cruised home to Indy 500 win number 2 of his 3 career 500 Victories.
I’m so glad people acknowledge number 6 idk if it’s because it was a rain plagued race so not many people where watching or maybe because it’s not as spectacular as Dixon crash or Sebastian bourdais crash at Indy but that crash legit made me scared seeing how the car was pushed drivers head first into the wall like that
It never ceases to amaze me how anyone can survive these kinds of 200mph plus crashes, let alone how some folks can come back the very next race like it's nothing.
I was debating on that or the one I put. I opted for the 2019 wreck because it had a more positive outcome. The 2018 accident will be in a future instalment of this for sure.
I kept waiting for the Katherine Legge Road America crash in 2006, but then I realized that was the Champ Car series and not IndyCar. Great compilation!
I’m not a huge Indy car fan but I remember watching the race at the 1 spot and watching this accident. I was bewildered at how everyone survived, also thank goodness for the halo device.
Worst Indy crash: Gordon Smiley, 1982. Comment by Dr Steve Olvey, who attended to Smiley on the track: _"During an attempt to qualify for the Indy 500, Gordon Smiley, a cocky young driver from Texas, was determined to break 200mph or die trying. Several veteran drivers ... had warned him that he was in way over his head, driving all wrong for the Speedway. Smiley was a road racer and was used to counter-steering his car to avoid a crash if the rear wheels broke traction. While rushing to the car, I noticed small splotches of a peculiar gray substance marking a trail on the asphalt leading up to the driver. When I reached the car, I was shocked to see that Smiley's helmet was gone, along with the top of his skull. He had essentially been scalped by the debris fence. The material on the race track was most of his brain. His helmet, due to massive centrifugal force, was literally pulled from his head on impact ... I rode to the care center with the body. On the way in I performed a cursory examination and realized that nearly every bone in his body was shattered. He had a gaping wound in his side that looked as if he had been attacked by a large shark. I had never seen such trauma."_
Not only did Michael Andretti race the next day after that qualifying crash, he actually got out of the medical truck and straight into his backup car and put it on the pole right at the end of the session.
Wow, some of these actually looked worse than the crash that killed Dan Wheldon. I guess dan was unlucky and some of these extremely lucky. Nice collection. Happy New Year.
Dan went roll hoop first into the catch fence, sheering it away and leading to massive head trauma. I believe the words used at the time were "un-survivable head trauma", meaning even with the Halo it probably still would have been too much. Very sad.
@@CamelSmokes23 Indy doesnt have a HALO but they have a windscreen, which couldve deflected alot of the fence up and over Dans head. Hard to know for sure but it wouldve made some sort of difference
@@imetzl9340 No, they effectively have a HALO system. It's the same concept, thick bars encapsulating the drivers head, the only difference is Indy runs a windshield. Even with Indy's version, (which is supposedly stronger) that hit wasn't survivable. The fence pole would have shredded the HALO and roll hope all the same, giving us the same result.
I was at the 2017 Indy 500, seated in the main straightaway. Once I saw the yellow flag, I took one look at the big screen and was in shock. I honestly didn’t know if Scott Dixon was alive. I don’t think anyone in my section breathed until Scott got out.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how fast the safety crew showed up. At 8:17 the car starts to spin out, then at 8:34 the safety crew is on scene and deployed. That's 17 seconds!
In the no.1 clip, to whomever was running the camera in the fence that Dario hit. You didn't run for your life and you still had the presence of mind to pan across and catch everything as a bomb goes off around you! YOU are Camera Person of the CENTURY!
IndyCar machines fly high very often whenever they collide and lose good ground effect... those vids remind me Jeff Krosnoff, at Toronto, rolled on the fence to end up with the streetlight pole
Kenny Brack's accident i watched live and couldn't believe the guy survived. I mean,the car disintegrated in a fraction of a second while spinning violently. One of the most oh wow moment crashes i saw in Indycar. Was IRL then still,but,it's Indy. All of us here in Europe,majority at least,agree that Indycar is way better than F1 for a long time now. For me 1997 was the last real F1 cars season,but that's just me. You know,in '98 they cut the tyres,narrowed the cars,just trashed the soul of a great motorsport.
Nice job, Demise90, per usual!! Nice pace in your commentating and a really balanced backstory to each event. You should seriously think of pursuing a career in broadcasting. Honestly, you should at least consider it. Keep up the quality work you continue to generate. Fan 4 life.🏁
I was in the north chute grandstands at the 2010 Indy 500. I forget what row my dad and I sat in. However we were not in the rows in which fans were injured. As we drove home, we listened to the race coverage following the post race. The radio station reported there were no injuries. We quickly called into the radio station and corrected them . At least a dozen people had slight injuries. 1 man required stitches, maybe even staples to close a head wound from a piece of debris that hit him.
Yes the dixon indy wreck worst I’ve seen live was right in front of us we were in south vista in front of tv & we got to see whole thing it seems like he flew forever & watching & hearing the hit & flips my heart sank I was fan of the goat & I thought we lost Dixie for sure it was devastating live🙏
When I think bad crashes, usually one of the first ones I think of is Ryan Briscoe at Chicago in 06 and now nonchalant the announcers were about it lol Briscoe's crash at Fontana was pretty brutal as well....saw that first hand along with #4 here.
I was watching for most of these, but the Dario accident was what hurt most! I have been to every Formula E race except the last two years. The last year I was there they finally decided to not let spectators sit or stand in high speed areas. I remember telling my partner, geez these cars are really fast, close to a really slow corner.
Fun fact: Kenny Brack is the owner of the Guinness World Record for highest amount of G-forces survived. On his “shopping list of injuries” was the fact that his neck and spine were stretched because of the G-forces
I was right there for Dario's wreck.. I didn't get hit by any debris put a lady maybe 6 people down was all bloody from a head would. Yeah those catch fences were close to worthless. Sad that it was his last race but glad he came out of it alive...I've never been that close to a catch fence wreck... It was a truly unique "sounds" to my ears.. Anyway... New to the channel.. Subscribed, liked and here's the comment... ;) I like your knowledge and understand and how you put your videos together! Thanks!
I was track manager for this race and helped with this accident. A piece of the catch fence went into one of the stands and landed on a group. Luckily no one was hurt
Behold: Dallara Space Planes Incorporated! The way Dallara makes cars that are capable of taking off, catching air, and flying like a frisbee, spinning in air... never saw a Lola or Reynard do that. Hmm... Like, they'd get up, but they always wanted to come right back down, like Servia in this clip. That car didn't want to spend any mroe time in the air than it had to. Also, Dallara STILL HAS NOT put in an anti-intrusion rod to the front wishbones. Decades-old, low-tech safety feature from CART that prevents a single piece of suspension from penetrating the driver like what happened to Hinchcliffe... they still haven't added it to the Dallaras. Speaking of Servia, he was pretty dang vocal about the lack of that rod after the Hinchcliffe accident. Dallara does 90 out of 100 things right. It's just frustrating because that extra 10 could kill someone still, and you can see it coming.
dan wheldons crash where like 3 cars flew into the fence shouldve been on here despite him dying. it still was brutal watching it live and for me, seeing it in person
Man, I've been trying to find that Mid-Ohio Andretti wreck!... First big open wheel wreck I saw as a kid (I was watching that race live at 5 years old) and was rooting for Michael back then
the most brutal ever for a guy who raced after is Zanardi 2001 crash when he lost his leg.... I don't kkno how he survived with 75% blood loss, 7 heart stopping moments and came back racing in touring cars and then became 3 time paralympic gold medalist !
I like your videos, but it's FranchiTTi, not FranchiNNi. Also, you missed out Katherine Legge's crash at Road America, which was horrific. Maybe do another one with more crashes?
Thanks Mike. I only wanted to do 10 so the video wasn't overly long. There will be a follow up video with 10 more for sure. That Katherine Legge crash was considered for this one, but it will most definitely make the next one.
I think the worst 3 crashes are Gordon Smiley, Russell Phillips, and Tony Renna. In all 3 cases, their bodies got torn into many many pieces and scattered all over the racing facility. In Russell's crash, his hand was found in the catch fence, his head (in his helmet) rolled and rolled and rolled way down pit road, and his bowels got entangled in the grill-work of another race car and that car made several laps with all of Russell's intestines splattered and tangled all over the grill as people fainted left and right in the audience. It took a team of 19 catastrophe workers over 45 minutes with surgical gloves to locate and collect all the pieces of Russell's body that had gotten smashes and dragged around the racetrack by various cars.
