This is an amazing view of a car coming straight at you at 200 MPH. The video is from the July 2015 Daytona race. These are the final two laps of the race, with a spectacular finish.
@@emmjea6913 well actually they are built for both, in formula 1, those cars rarely hit catch fences so they are built for mainly debris,, but in NASCAR where the cars go air born in almost every super speedway race they need to design them more for cars
Who Am You Cars dont just go flying into fences. The only reason the guy holding that camera didnt die was because the car clipped the inside wall redirecting it sideways along the fence. You look at the aftermath of that and tell me that would a 1.5 ton car flying towards it at 190mph.
Yes..when first saw it..it happen so fast the 2nd camera was forcing on the cars spinning and wiping out forgot that a car which is #3 went into the catch fance.
Only a debris fence? Well, obviously it did change the trajectory of the car, and quickly. So it seems to be massively overbuilt, and that's not a bad thing.
Not so. Camera man Joe Rooks die at a drag race Sept. 9th 1979. Hit by a blower after a wreck.... www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Watchf-Associated-Press-Sports-Auto-Racing-Indi-/a47b8bf429d44ea49c82a80fc28ab8e0
I remember an incident in the late '70s when a wheel came off of a top fuel straight track car. The cameraman was recording the race, looking into the viewfinder, when the tumbling wheel struck him in the back, killing him. I believe this happened in Indianapolis.
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i am a f1 fan too but love these oval races. and safety increased since dale sr his crash because of that alsof F1 got better safety but think about Senna's crash for example that made also every motorsport increase safety. the safety nowaday's is so much better then it was. i think 10 years prior this crash would have claimed lives.
Yea, everyone underestimates just how much precision is needed to race these things, let alone in the pack racing they always do at tracks like Daytona.
I have to grown to like F1 but the lack of any kind of passing or even racing like in this video is non existent. A lot of races a guy like Verstappen or Hamilton gets out front there are no lead changes, it's just laps.
@@jerryferrell517 If you can provide evidence that links that fact you just told to the unknown screaming woman outside of the camera shot then I will be truly impressed.
Jesus is still a better driver than some people I know, especially my landlady. I pray really hard any time I have to get in her car. Anyone who takes 15 minutes to back out of the driveway and make over 100 jerky stop-and-go's in that time before they even get into traffic is a disaster waiting to happen. And she tries to be a back-seat driver while riding with other people. She wanted to drive Uber for extra money, but I advised against it by saying "Your car is too old." I wasn't lying, but still... Scary. Very very scary.
Jokes aside we see two great feats of engineering displayed during this crash. 1: the ability for this fence to keep a car going 200mph into a crowd of people 2: and its ability combined with the safty features of hte car to keep the driver from being injured as well.
It’s the smaller pieces from the crash can also injure or even kill someone. But yes it’s amazing how strong the fences are to help protect the whole car itself
@@nathanwahl9224 I'm aware of that, having studied physics myself. It still awes me how well they work. Driver and crowd both safe, yet the fence has a gaping hole. The engineering could not be more perfect :D It is actually quite satisfying... They could do with debris nets though for the small parts liberated in a crash.
The chances of two cars hitting the same spot is very unlikely. If the race wasn’t over they would of ended it anyway they wouldn’t continue with a hole in the fence.
10 years prior to this in some high school there was a kid sitting in a classroom dreaming of being a race car driver. In that same class there was another kid dreaming of being an engineer. Neither knew who the other was until one day that kid doing what he dreamed of hit that fence the other kid engineered, saving everyone’s life.
Austin Dillon was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He never had to "dream" of being a racecar driver it was always going to be handed to him by his grandpa Richard Childress
Imagine waiting 15 seconds after the actual accident to scream and then wait another 15 to scream again for no reason. People like this are the reason any type of public show isn’t fun
Current football player here. I find it really annoying that when a teammate of mine or even me at times make a big hit the whole crowd goes “ooooh” but the random lady 30 seconds later is acting fanatic screaming about how he could have died. Maybe don’t come to a football game?
Because they never imagine anything bad happening so when it does they freak since their fake little word is broken, it’s never a dude because we love that shit, this makes me want to go to a race lol. The other day I watched a vid where a bunch of sport bike riders where goin 150 ish down the basically empty highway and the Karen recording is screaming “somebody gonna die! Somebody gonna die!” And freakin out, dudes just are more ok with risk.
This is far and away the scariest NASCAR crash I've seen. The moment it happened I thought Austin was gone. It's incredible that he came out fine, and especially incredible that no fans were seriously injured. I mean just look at the aftermath of that catch fence. Unbelievable
Super late to the party here but your comment stood out to me because I think about that shit way too often. Not just Austin's wreck and others similar, it bothers me to think what would happen if another would ever go over the fence. NASCAR, or open wheel. For many years I've feared that day may come. I just hope to hell I'm wrong
Despite all the risks and how closely NASCAR came to forever ending, and a possible repeat of the Le Mans disaster, every time I watch this video I can’t help but think... the camera work is just incredible. He stood in front of a car flying at him at 160 miles an hour. Only a fence in the way. Kept recording steadily and never turned it off. Barely hesitated. It’s seriously impressive.
Wasnt it around 80 people? Also learned that the race kept going because if the race stopped and everyone left there would be no room for ambulances on the road. So they kept racing, driving right past the spot where dozens of people had just died.
@@aidancrawford9364 from what I've read about it, it was just a nasty crash. This kind of stuff is what made motorsports kinda unique. That variable of hou may not come home
Actually, they had to reinforce the fences at the speedways even more after Allison nearly died in 1987 at Talladega when his car launched itself to the fence, macing it and nearly shredding a couple of fans as well
I just can't believe he wasn't sprayed with hot oil, gas and water from that car disintegrating 20 feet away from him. Says a lot for the safety Nascar has in these cars and catch fences to stop a 200 mph car instantly like that!
@@wheeln24-79 The car is design and engineered so both audience and the drivers are safe from just the car and also the fence was well engineered, stopping a 3,400 pounds car lunching 180+MPH in the air.
@@wheeln24-79 The gasoline wouldn't be hot(if anything it'll be slightly cold because of air rushing over the fuel tank at 200 mph), and the oil and coolant would have likely given off most of their heat to the air when it disperses due to going through the air at a high velocity. Shrapnel is really the only worry for an audience member in an accident like this.
That camera man lost both his eyebrows in the fireball and didn't even flinch. Then, he lost his hearing from the screaming lady and STILL didn't flinch. Great job
BigHunter 20 but fans were injured because of debris, and the catch fence flexed inward, and at the distance he was standing, he would have been hit by the car, and would have most certainly died or been horrible mutilated.
I watch this every few months and it always makes my mouth drop no matter what. Truly amazing engineering in the fence, it literally corkscrewed straight into the fence
I watched that race live on tv. Been a fan of nascar since I was 6 in 1975 but that video is the most violent shot into the fence ever. Can't breathe rite now. Wow
Now I’m not sure if this camera man has nerves of steel or a disease that affects his reflexes or survival instincts. But I am sure this is the best camera shot in the midst of chaos I’ve ever seen.
Wow!!!! That is why the Marshals there at these high speed tracks tell you not to stand next to the track fence. You never know when this kind of accident will happen. Never was at Daytona, but was at several Michigan high speed Oval races. Thanks for this video.
See ya in a couple years when this pops on your recommended, besides that this was a very horrifying crash Edit: I literally got this recommended again a couple years later
Well I'm never going to sit in the front when I go to a NASCAR race. Forget that I'll sit in the middle or the back. Good Job on catching that on camera. I would've hit the floor.
Just because of that?!? That was only once. Now not even another accident like that even happened. So yeah not another one will happen in like years or so.
Well NASCAR ain’t stupid so they obviously have to have a catchfence there lol. The cars are 3400 lbs and the occasionally get airborne or flip on big tracks like these that have lines of cars. It would be somewhat epic I guess but also a major catastrophe if there was no fence there.
They need to give a job to whoever filmed this as a cameraman..amazing to be able to not only keep filming, but keep that camera steady after that monumental crash..glad no one got hurt.
@@dextagamez449 People were a lot more scared at bodines. Bodine got into the catch fence and caught on fire worse than Austin. The he got T boned as hard as Newman twice when the roll cage was already compromised. He then rolled 10+ times.
First, why would death be unscrewing the catch fence bolts? Did everyone in there skip deaths design earlier? And a track would be kept in top condition for a race if you’re gonna have many people in attendance. In the part after they get out of the track, how would a tire reach the speed and angle to hit anyone outside the track? A woman gets crushed by a flying engine in another scene. What could possibly remove the engine from the car at such a speed? Anyways that’s just a few ramblings I’m not really debunking it
@@bluecherry5517 that's a good point I hadn't considered. Why the hell would Death be unscrewing bolts for funsies? That's against the rules. Also, what on earth do you need a manual screwdriver for when working in a pit crew? We have pneumatic bolts for a reason.
Ive been to more than 60 Nascar races and its always a great time. I recommend Darlington, Talladega, Martinsville, Daytona. I have some videos i shot at some races, check them out. Ive been also fortunate to watch a few from the pit box.
wow thanks for this great footage. I remember watching this live on tv. I got up and walked out the room as soon as I seen Dillion's car. I was certain that he was dead. Glad everyone was ok fans and drivers included
Interesting. If I think there's a possible fatality, I'm glued to the TV. Not that I'm wishing for it, but I want to see movement, jaws of life, commentator reactions, etc
I can't sit and watch a whole nascar race, but I've got a lot of respect for those drivers No idea how no one was really injured in this, that's amazing.
there were people who needed medical attention, also in the stands. is what i heard. but nothing serious and that is thanks to the safety that increased a lot over the years