BRITISH GUY Reacts to SCARY NASCAR CRASHES.. 

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The Ryan Newman crash at 9:00, he had been strong advocate for car safety before this, and got nascar to add an additional support bar to the roll cage designed to protect the driver from a highspeed impact to the driver's side roof. They even call it the Newman bar. That bar with his name on it saved his life in that crash...the safety crews had to cut him out of the car, and he went straight to the hospital, but 2 days later he WALKED OUT of the hospital holding hands with his kids, and was back racing just a few weeks later. If he hadn't have fought to get that extra bit of safety in the car he would have almost certainly been killed in that crash.

The last fatal crash in NASCAR was on the final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500, when Dale Earnhardt Sr hit the wall at nearly 200mph, breaking his neck and killing him instantly. After this crash, NASCAR made a lot of significant changes, including the mandatory use of the HANS (Head And Neck Support) device, and full-face helmets.

6:10 Rusty Wallace (Retired in 2005) suffered a concussion and a broken wrist(This was the 2nd time this kind of crash happened to him in the span of 5 months) 8:50 Ryan Newman (Retired 2023) Was knocked out and suffered a Concussion and a small fracture in his back, walked out of the hospital a couple days later holding the hands of his two daughters 9:35 Geoff Bodine (Retired 2011) suffered a concussion, fractured right cheek bone, fractured right wrist, fractured vertebra in the middle of his back, fractured right ankle and burns. Some fans were treated for burns and scrapes everyone else was fine

"he landed it does he get points for that" my favorite quote now from someone watching nascar lol

The "BIG ONE" happens at Daytona and in Talladega every year. They have restrictor plates on them that will not allow them to run any faster than 190 or so.

In the past 20 years, racing as a whole skyrocketed with interest in safety. Other series have been investing in safety for the past 40 years. The last death in the top 3 series was in 2001 with Blaise Alexander Jr. in the NASCAR (then called) Busch Series, which is the 2nd highest series for NASCAR. From 1991 to 2001, NASCAR had 9 deaths, including Neil Bonnett, Dale Earnhardt Sr, Adam Petty, and Kenny Irwin Jr., in the top 3 NASCAR series.

They survive those crashes because the roll cages are impossible to crush, and the drivers are so tightly strapped into their seats that the only part of their bodies that can move is their forearms and legs. Their heads can only move ever-so slightly, to allow their eyes to see the different mirrors. They are so safe in there that only one of the drivers, in those wrecks, had injuries that needed treatment, other than bruises.

Those are NOT standard cars. They have heavily reinforced roll cages inside. The bodies are simply fiberglass and plastic shells for aerodynamic streamlining. Inside Story: Touring the Interior of a NASCAR Stock Car

I grew up near Charlotte Motor Speedway and all the race teams are local to that area as well. The wreck wasn't in this compilation but it is similar to that Rusty Wallace crash at 8:10 where the car rolls over about a dozen times but a driver named Darrell Waltrip had a nearly identical crash. We used to go visit the different race shops in the area and at Darrell Waltrip's shop they had the wreckage from the car that he rolled and it was so bad. It's one thing to see the wreck/car on video, it's another thing to see the result in person. It's a miracle that the drivers are able to survive the wrecks but there have been several deaths especially in the early 2000s that made NASCAR drastically re-evaluate their safety protocols.

The last death in Nascar America was on my birthday. Number 3, the Intimidator Dale Earnhardt Sr. At the Daytona 500 . February 18, 2001. He was holding off the pack for his son to win the race and went into the wall. My dad was watching the race. We couldnt cut my cake until it was over. Needless to say....my cake didnt get cut that day.

67 yr old Vet here Adam. I'm disabled, finally subscribed, TY.

There have been quite a few fatalities in NASCAR races. The cars have roll cages and the drivers wear fire retardant suits to protect them, but there's only so much protection they provide.

The worse part of these crashes is how badly they mess up the finely manicured grass and landscaping. I bet the groundskeeping crew get pissed.

I don't believe anyone has died since Dale Earnhardt. I'm not a Nascar fan but, my ex was and we were watching the race when it happened. So incredibly sad.

When you spoke about "the sound" of them it made me think that if you get a chance you should go see a race live. They are so loud it is unbelieveable. It is amazing how much you feel them when they go by

When they say the flipping isn't that bad, what they mean is that it's the LANDING you have to worry about. For example, in 2011, Justin Wilson, a former IndyCar driver who was tragically killed in an accident in 2015, was driving in practice for a race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course when he got off-track and ran over a bump that caused his car to leap a foot or two off the ground. It landed on all-fours, and overall the incident didn't look like much. But the force of the landing actually caused him to suffer a fracture in his back that sidelined him for the rest of the season. When you see a car barrel-rolling like in this video, what's happening is the car is absorbing most of the force of the impact, dissipating the energy from the crash. The worst wrecks you could possibly see are ones where the car bounces off of something and comes to an almost dead stop immediately, because in those situations, the driver is absorbing more of the force from the impact. You want a car to keep moving after a crash so it dissipates as much of the energy from the crash as possible

I'm not even a NASCAR fan and my family and I were given tickets to the Daytona 500, It Was AMAZING!

Going to a NASCAR race live especially Bristol you can feel the engines and the power of the cars come through the stands. It's crazy!

Rip Earnhardt. His accident happened when I was a kid and to this day still think about that.

love your channel man!! and you !! Alabama here, we absolutely love love our nascar and football!

To answer your question about these crashes happening regularly, no they don’t but it’s more frequent at bigger high speed tracks like Daytona and Talladega. But I will tell you it’s one thing to watch it through a screen but it’s a whole different experience to watch it in person. If and when you come to the US, I’d definitely would recommend seeing a nascar race in person. Also keep up the good work!

I mean when Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt was first driving, it was just getting into a standard car no safety equipment or anything except for a helmet. And yet they could win races. Now when those two great drivers first started driving that's when NASCAR was really really dangerous. Back then it was extremely easy for a car to flip really bad and in fact sometimes the cars would end up flipping into the stands where the people were watching the race. But if you want to really watch something that's crazy there's a car thing called demolition derby "" OMG ""😱😱🤣🤣 now that is crazy.

All survived all the crashes, some of course with injuries though Last 2 specifically. Newman in the blue and white 6 was hit on the drivers side and he was rushed to the hospital and was released a couple days later with a brain bruise. He was back racing a few months later after racing resumed from covid The last clip is Geoffrey Bodine. He had a slue of injuries, but survived and iirc, never lost consciousness. He was back driving later in the year.

Crashes like this mainly happen at Daytona and Talladega. Most tracks don't have crashes like these, and some races have zero crashes.

The last time a driver in Nascar died was in February of 2001 when we lost Dale Earnhardt Sr. However even that death could have possibly been avoided since there was safety equipment that drivers could wear but were not required to by the rules and Dale Earnhardt Sr. was very much an old school driver that didn't want to wear any of that stuff. Needless to say after that death (Dale Earnhardt Sr. was a living legend in the Nascar world) rules were changed an that equipment became mandatory.

It's amazing how talented these drivers are, 2 of them landed kickflips and even saw a couple of kickflip+primo+darkslide combos landed successfully.

1:15 Clint Boyer was driving the 15 car that flipped. When it landed, he continued to drive it to his pit stall. 🤣

Adam, the last time a driver in the top 3 tiers of Nascar died from a crash was in 2001. To my knowledge Nascar is the only major racing organization that can make that clam. Nascar is literally one of the safest, if not the safest places for racing.

Man oh man, I was so scared for these men. I couldn't take what happens during the crash! I'm like you & would love to know how banged up they were, except then I would bawl like a baby. Not just for them but also for their families that live this. I do know that the inside/outside of these cars are stripped to the bone. It helps the vehicle move faster but those crashes are horrible. Thanks for sharing, stay

August 24 (Saturday night 2024) is the next Daytona race. It's not the 500, but it's the same style racing. Always a "Big One" but rarely is anyone severely hurt. If you don't count concussions. See if you can find it online. Pick a driver you like, invite the boys over for some beer, and watch NASCAR. (Though being a night race here might mean you'd have to watch a re-run the next day, or stay up REALLY late).

Chase Elliott is our hometown boy here in Dawsonville Ga. When he wins we blare the tornado siren. NASCAR was born here in our area with moonshiners making their cars really fast to evade the law. My grandfather was part of it. He ended up going to prison for shining. He never stopped though. Made wine and moonshine till the cancer took him. It's a crazy sport. The cars are very safe. The restraints, roll cages, and harnesses make the wrecks survivable.

Some of the wrecks happen because the driver behind them intentionally knocks them out of the way to get a head. The Big tracks, like Daytona and Talladega, the cars get into a cluster which can cause the "Big One" and it's hard to see who all was involved until the smoke clears. One thing that helps them get out of the car easier is that the steering wheel comes off. They don't have to struggle as much to climb out. There's so little room inside the car that everytime the driver gets in or out the steering wheel has to be removed. After Dale Earnhardt, Sr. died in the Daytona 500 in February of 2001, the first race of the season ( which is February through November), the HANS devise became mandatory for all drivers. I think that's what it's called. Please correct me if I'm wrong. HANS prevents the driver's head from moving to, hopefully, keep them from dying. Had Earhardt, Sr have been wearing one he would be alive today. And, yes, there is POV in the cars and they do show what they see, especially when there's a wreck. ( I've never been a fan of NASCAR I just watched it with my husband before he passed away. He taught me a lot about NASCAR. I haven't watched it since 2013 so I've forgotten a lot about it. ) The NASCAR Hall of Fame is in Charlotte, NC.

It’s one of the most amazing things, being in the infield during one of these races. The sound hypes you like nothing else. I have been in the field many times at the Texas Motor speedway.

I was at a race in Dover Delaware 1981. Our seats were 4 rows off the track coming out of turn four. It took three tries to get a clean first lap. The issue was a 1-inch drop from the new pavement to the old right at the exit of turn four.

You mentioned the sound of the cars, I had a chance to go to the Sonoma race about a month ago. We sat near the start/finish line and the sounds was amazing. You could feel the power of the cars in the grandstands, truly amazing. I think it would be great if NASCAR could set up a race in Europe.

The Ryan Newman crash towards the end. When he got hit upside down it was drivers side. He made a full recovery but was in the hospital for 3-5 days and went on record saying he had no recollection of the accident happening. He has since retired from full time NASCAR racing and does part time races for smaller teams and does small scale short track racing 👍🏻👍🏻🔥

7:40 he was gonna say "the flipping aint that bad its the landing that hurts

When Dale Earnhardt died, NASCAR died for me. If memory serves me, NASCAR came about due to the good ole days of running moonshine. The moonshiners had to outrun the law. Thus, NASCAR was born. Also, when accidents happen on the track, each team has several "spotters" in the stands to tell the driver to go high or to go low. In an attempt to steer the driver through any accident, so they don't get caught up in it. When the field comes around to take the green, it's crazy. You can fill the vibrations going through your body as the cars pass so fast. It's amazing. Usually, they start with about 40 cars and end up with maybe 30 of them left by the end of the race.

Have you ever watched NHRA Top Fuel Dragsters? Not the crashes, just the racing is thrilling enough. 0 to 335mph in 3.6 seconds is a site to behold LOL

What the announcer was trying to say was "The flipping isn't all that bad, but it's the hard landing that hurts the most."

You need to go to a live nascar race, you can feel every time they pass you, and the sound is even crazier

the quote was "The flipping isn't that bad, it's the landing." and that's absolutely right. especially when it lands on the roof. everytime it hits the ground is an impact through the body. But thankfully that kind of flipping takes energy away without a huge, single deceleration.

Hey, Adam! My husband used to race on dirt tracks (before I met him, thank the Lord) and told me so many crazy stories! Believe it or not, the cages in these cars are extremely safe for the drivers. Of course, anything can and does happen from time to time. My husband is now building a gasser in our shop to race and hopefully to sell to someone watching the race. It's a 1955 Chevy drag car that he'll race against another car to see who gets the best time....I think! Lol!! I don't know a whole lot about these but he's pretty excited and even told me I'm going to do some of the racing! (uh, I don't know about that but we'll see)! At the track, the two cars line up and usually use a light system that goes from red, to yellow, to green and when you see green, you hit the gas!! LOL!!! And it's normally a 1/4 mile heads up race! I am pretty excited to just be able to watch him but to also try it myself....and at my age, it will definitely be something to see... or laugh at!! Anyway, when the ol' man watches NASCAR, I have to put my headphones on and click onto one of your videos because I can't stand to see how fast they're going and of course the crashes....it terrifies me....and well, you always make me laugh, so there's that! Great reaction and can't wait to see the next one! Thanks for all the laughs and when you do it, the singing as well! God bless!!!

When the cars flip it looks bad but they are bleeding off energy. Straight into the wall is where most drivers get hurt.

These cars are incredibly safe. There hasn't been a death in the top three NASCAR series in twenty-three years. And, actually, not that many serious injuries. Those rollovers (other than Ryan Newman''s) don't tend to be the worst wrecks. The ones that cause the worst injuries are the sudden stops into the wall or if a car lifts up into the catch fence and gets cheese-gratered. It's worth noting that despite how terrifying it looked, Ryan Preece climbed out of his car after that wreck at 7:40. He had two black eyes the next day but no serious injuries despite rolling 12 or 13 times. The last three wrecks (Rusty Wallace, Ryan Newman 2020, and Geoffrey Bodine 2000) were the only ones that had broken bones or serious injuries. And all three were back racing in weeks to months.

We had season tickets to the Daytona 500 for many years, it was a blast to be there with all the crazy fans! It's a real experience 😉

I remember from when I was a kid in the 80s I believe it was Bobby Allison who barrel rolled in the air along the fence between the track and the spectators tearing it down as his car rolled.

My aunt used to own a bussiness selling used nascar parts, they would buy wrecked cars salvage what they could and resell it , alot of times it was to armature leagues because those cars are extremely expensive. but they actually got to meet alot of the drivers and crews and had the hood of some drivers car with a bunch of signatures on it

"crashing at 190mph... is like crashing at 190mph" that really put it into perspective for me 🤯

You'll notice in one of the POV videos that those cars are build with reinforced crash cages inside to help in case of something like this to strengthen the frame of the car and to protect the driver. Without those extra features in those cars they would have crumpled like tin cans from the impacts instead of being mostly intact.

The number 6 was smashed in the drivers door. He was knocked unconscious and suffered a concussion but he did survive and had a full recovery.

I remember a quote from Karsyn Ellidge, Dale Earnhardt JR's neice, about a flip she had racing midgets, "All I saw was earth, sky, earth, sky, earth,sky"

Dale Earnhardt died at Daytona. I remembered watching it on TV

Big crashes sometimes small ones every race. Big crashes happen at Daytona, Talladega, Atlanta , Texas. No one has died in Nascar since Dale Earnhardt in 2001.

#43 A.J. Allmendinger is a distant relative of mine, met him once as a kid in the pits near his trailer. Didn't get to talk to the guy though. My uncle and grandpa both talked to him and they got into an argument and haven't seen eachother since. Also RIP grandpa.

I'm from Orlando and used to drive to Daytona often. You run right into the Speedway as soon as you enter the city. I have riden past several times during a race and the noise of the cars on the track is soo loud. You can hear it miles down the road. Almost as far as to the beach. Pretty cool

The safety features implemented now cause the cars to basically come apart in a crash. So the car takes the brunt of the power when it self destructs. Before this, the cars were more solid metal, and the driver got more of the impact. Plus, the newer safety features in roll cages and safety harness "seatbelts" have made it possible for there to be fewer injuries!

Just subbed, watched a ton of your videos. Sorry thought I already was subbed. Your killing me with the fire going in the background. It's June 😅

If this blew your mind, you need to check out NASCARs greatest saves next.

No one was killed in any of those wrecks! I’m 39 and I remember Jeoff Bodines truck crash at there inaugural Daytona race in 2000! Had a half day of school got off the bus ran home dying to catch what I could of that race and as soon as I got into the house they went back to green after a small crash and my mom was getting ready for work, she had just come out to see what was going on when he went right into the fence! We had surround sound that grinding of the fence was crazy!

The driver in the last wreck is Geoff Bodine. Although he survived, he suffered a few broken bones and missed ten races.

Lol that scream at 9:35

Keep in mind most of NASCAR's race track are short tracks of 1.5 mile ovals or less with less than 25 degree bankings. Daytona and Talladega are 2.5 mile tri-ovals with 33 degree bankings. The drivers put the pedal to the metal on the two Superspeedways not even bothering to tap the brakes going through the corners, unlike Formula One. Nearly 200 mph, or nearly 320 km/ph. Most of these massive crashes with cars flying through the air occur on the two Superspeedways. With Formula One road courses instead of ovals they brake hard into the turns at a much slower speed...

Between this reaction (and your other NASCAR videos) and your gaming streams, I feel like you’d enjoy giving iRacing a try! In recent years, there have been a few examples of drivers making the jump from iRacing to the real thing and being competitive, and it’s cool to see that progression

These crashes are nothing like the crashes Adam gets in while driving on stream 😂

IVE BEEN WAITIMG MONTHS FOR HIM TO REACT TO RYAN PREECE'S FLIP AND I FINALLY SAW HIM REACT TO IT!!

WE need a part 2!

These days they have safety built in. There are flaps on top of the car that open when the car is out of control. It prevent flips by creating resistance. It has saved many lives as people did die in nascar decades ago

The really big crashes are fairly common on the big super speedways like Daytona & Talladega. Those are over 2 mile tracks. Those are pretty much foot to the floorboard all the way around.

Everyone was ok, the drivers in the last two crashes did end up being in the hospital for a little bit, but they did recover to full health

I’ve been to a bunch of NASCAR races and I’ve only been to one race without any crashes. It broke a lot of records for fastest average speed because there were no caution flags.

Fatalities are very rare in NASCAR. They have worked a lot to make sure that the cars are safe. Flipping(barrell rolling) is not very bad because as they are flipping, the energy is being dissipated throughout the crash. There is no sudden stop, or change in speed, which is the worst. Sudden stops are the worst kinds of accidents, not flipping. It just looks terrible.

Adam never fails to entertain when he reacts to these types of videos. 💚💚💚💚

That last crash was Geoff Bodine. If you Google images of that crash, you'll see that the entire roll cage, save for the rear hoop, was sheared off by the impact with the fence. That whole crash where he's flipping, getting hit by other trucks, all of it happened with most of the roll cage gone. Somehow he lived. He then went on to design bobsleds for the American Olympic team, and they won their first medals in decades using his designs.

Watching NASCAR on video doesn't even com close to seeing it in person. You should try to plan a trip if you can. I've only been to New Hampshire and Pocono (Being the only two races near me). Going from seeing races on a mile oval (NH) to a two and a half mile triangle (Pocono) was a shock, just seeing the size difference of the tracks, let alone the speed.

Nothing like being at a NASCAR race. SuperSpeedways (Daytona, Talladega, Texas) are where the bad (aerodynamic) wreck happen

I do wonder why Steve Grissom's 1997 Atlanta crash never gets included in these types of compilations. That was a hard, hard crash.

I was at Bud at the Glen (Watkins Glen - road course) in a Budweiser suite with closed circuit TV when JD McDuffy died. Horrible.

Operation yellow ribbon is a good one when the United States closed air traffic during 9/11 and Canada helped land all planes coming from Europe really good story

I cant remember if it was the crash at 9:58 or one of the others where the car got into the safety fence protecting the fans, but one of those instances I was watching live ended up with severely injured if not killed fans in the stadium seating. The driver survived.

190 mph is standard for NASCAR they've been going that fast for 55 years

Great video Adam. I love your content. Keep up the good work young man.

I used to be a NASCAR fan, until Earnhardt SR died in a crash. He was my favorite driver. BUT better safety features added to make sure it didn’t happen again. 😢

9:25 Yes Adam … yeah that guy went right into the door of the driver side. Was inches from death mark martin was on that hit. Roll cage stood up just enough to keep from caving that entire side in.

I have been at Daytona for years and have seen some crazy crashes. I was there when Dale Earnhardt died and it wasn’t even a bad one.

@3:30 Yes if you are wrecking, flipped upside down or what ever, if you cross the finish line before everyone else you are still the winner. Also no you shouldn't expect wrecks like this in every nascar race. there are only three tracks right now that could produce this type of racing. Daytona, Talladega and Atlanta. Doesn't mean flipping can't happen at other tracks, but its less likely because of the speeds are lower and/or their isn't a "pack" of cars as they get spread out.

I understand that this is gonna sound very strange, but i was never scared for my entire racing career from 12yrs old, my grandfather started me racing an old 14' kneeler hydro with a big Merc, was my first gas powered racing. Then, I stopped racing mostly when I became disabled in a workplace injury, at 31 years old. I still rode at the snowmobile hillclimb in Jackson Hole! A few times as a gimp!.. Not once did I think I wasn't invincible, when I started the engine! Now it's been over 20yrs since my life changed. But it turned out for the better! I was soooo selfish, I never cared if i left my lovely wife and children without a father. My friends had bets on how long i was gonna live, crude, but, eh, military humor..lol! Now i know what love is! I've got grandson's that i sing to sleep. I'm in permanent pain, but its penance for my past failures! God bless you and yours!...from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸 👋🤠

Those car are so loud that you can feel it as they pass

To answer your question at 3:29, if one were to slide across the finish line on the roof while In first, they would be counted as the winner pending the official results.

They were all good crashes, because the guys for the most part walked away from them, and no one died. I remember that last truck crash, you do hold your breath until either the driver gets out or the safety crew gets him out.

I have a NASCAR track in my city in Tennessee ... the wrecks were crazy and the tempers flared 😂

It's like I say, always always always CHECK a Nascar when you're buying it, even if it says it's LOW miles and ONLY driven on weekends, CHECK for signs of collision damage. LOL

A few things i thing is important to know. #1 most of these tracks is steep. The videos look flat but some are so steep you cant really even walk up them. #2 the flaps on top is suppose to help but it seems like alot of the time. The air catches them flaps and cause them to flip more. #3 the inside view is hard to see in a crash except for seeing them let go of rhe steering wheel. Apparently it jerks so bad itll break your wrist if you hold on. You may have already seen it but "the day" about dale Earnhardt is pretty interesting. **side note im no expert but oddly it seems like the bad accidents arent as bad for the person but the ones that seem like its minor is deadly.

Luckily there's only been just a few deaths on the track in NASCAR, more recently has been Dale Earnhardt Sr and Adam Petty

"The flipp'n isn't that bad, It's the landing.." is a more full version of that quote for ya. It's the landing that hurts and gets ya the most.

Hoped you would watch that last one. That's one of the craziest wrecks ever in trucks. Geoff Bodine the driver was a friend and lived about 10 miles from me. He survived that crash and continued on in trucks and nascar. I have been to his house and sat in his trucks before as wll.

They're saying flipping is not that bad because it releases energy over a distance, it's better than smacking the wall and coming to a stop right away and releasing that energy all at once

Most of these crashes happen at either Talladega or Daytona where the cars are running tighter to each other and faster. Not every race has good crashes. Most dont actually.

If you have not watched any races lately the races have been amazing. There has been multiple photo finishes this year alone. 2 in the Cup series 1 in the Xfinity