Fatal Crash at Brooklands (Dunfee) 

_giant crash, person dies_ **music plays**

The size difference between those cars is ridiculous.

Such jolly music.

I'm surprised the overalls and polo helmet didn't save him there.

"Fatal Crash today. 1 person dies." **Happy music intesifies**

Trees for a catch fence , great idea.

Horrible death: That's all folks!

Crash: *dead body slides to center of track* *happy funny Looney Tunes music*

1:35 Really dangerous allowing kids in go-carts on the track during a race.

Freeze frame at 1:36 and the Bentley passes a midget sized bloke in a midget sized car.

Seeing his copse slide down the tack to such happy music.

Jack complained that the steering was stiff . It was found that the off side kingpin on the steering was too tight , maybe getting hot as Brooklands surface wasn't smooth . In the pit lane the kingpin was drifted out because it was very tight and a reamer run down the steering and suspension carriers , but they reamed it out when it was very hot . After replacing the kingpin and the rest of the equipment cooled down the steering was much better but the off side wheel shook at high speed due to the kingpin being slack in the now cooled down housing . When Clive was on the banking where the car was heavier due to centrifugal force , the off side front ' dug in under load ,and because the tracking was way out as the looseness toe out pulled the car over the banking .

The difference between Dunfee's car and everybody else's is like driving a pickup truck at a go-kart race.

For decades it was thought that the heavier the metal the safer you were. Also even when I was young I remember many refused seatbelts as they felt it was better to be thrown from the vehicle. One vintage racing interview I saw said you could hear these cars hitting concrete walls from miles away.

Dead body sliding down the track alert!

“Hey boss, shall we put a fence round here?” “Nah, the trees will save anyone who crashes son”

0:31 That looks so off. The guy in the small car is small too?

You can see him slide down the track after the crash 😢. Those racers had gigantic balls

The huge bonnet wasn’t for the engine it was space for the drivers massive balls to go

Crazy how back in the day a driver’s death was just a fact of life

Ah, when men were men, and men routinely died, accompanied by the most inappropriate music they had back then.

1:56 the way it gets super happy all of a sudden lol

1:50 The guy fell crawling on the floor, he looks like a doll. This song has nothing to do with the video's theme. What a tragedy, my God!

Did you see his body sliding down the track??

Back in the days where they would show a fatal crash with a body sliding across the track in a cinema... and nobody got triggered about it and needed a safe space afterwards.

Zoidberg: "It's toe-tappingly tragic"

This was September 24, 1932. Clive was one of the "Bentley Boys" who dominated sports car racing in that era.

1.35 Let this be a lesson to you all.It's very dangerous to have little kids racing with their daddy.Especially when he has a huge Bentley and you have a little biscuit tin on wheels.

Big Bentley was an understatement.

Coffins with wheels

I didn't know back in the day the mice were allowed in motor racing. Then we can see a corpse sliding across the track with funny Looney Tunes cartoon music right after that. I was expecting Porky Pig at the end saying "That's all folks!"

0:46 It's like being overtaken by a bus

I'm amazed he didn't survive that.

*car crashes with person flying out and dying* *happy music starts playing*

Why would they race garden gnomes in tiny cars ?

At 1:37 it looks like he overtakes a model car .

Only thing missing in those racing days would have been to include bicycles and motorcycles ....

Hot Wheels versus real cars?

1:35 It's like they decided to have an F1 Grand Prix and the karting championship on the same track at the same time.

0:31 me getting the mega mushroom in Mario Kart Wii

1:36 Dunfee passing Jerry Mouse.

Video: _Racing driver killed in catastrophic car crash_ Music: 💃🕺🎉🎊🎈🥳👯‍♂️🤡🤡👯‍♂️🥳🎉🎊💃🕺🎉

My dad in the 1960’s had 8mm cine films of Brooklands racing from this time. (1930s) once seen never forgotten. Amazing how lumpy the circuit was even when newish. It appeared to be cast concrete sections. Those racers were so exposed in the event of a crash.

By the look of the road surface, Brooklands should hire a different contractor . Look at the way the cars bounce.

he was passing everybody in his giant racecar, but his car was too fast for the track and he was no more. He was ejected from the giant car which was the norm in those times. It was thought that it was safer to be thrown clear of the wreck.

That's definitely the music I want played at my funeral.

I like the part when the Escalade passed the Mini Cooper!

“Folks, he’s alright!”

I have ciné film of this and other Brooklands races and as. Child always thought the track looked ridiculously bumpy and in poor condition. Anybody who has visited and walked the remaining banking as recently as 2020 (the last time Members were permitted) will know that it’s dreadfully poor now but in fact it appears it was just as bad when these brave racers (of both sexes) were reaching incredible speeds back then.

Lol the music at the end. "That's all folks!"

I feel like I just watched Land of the Giants. RIP

This is how console gamers see their racing games

He was trying to avoid all of those children on the track in their pedal cars.

Used to see part of this circuit everyday from my train journey to work. Strange to see these old cars racing on it. Looks really bumpy.

Im sure all these guys had a suit and tie on under their overalls.

1:43 WTF look the size comparsion of these men

“FATAL CRASH” - cue kooky music.

Back in the day without speed limits, engineering regulations or security barriers. Just men wanting to go fast!

Lord.....the crashes were pretty brutal. It wasn't "did he survive" it was "is he still in one piece."

Was expecting someone to speak in the queens english.

I live near there. There’s only a section of that track left and believe me those tracks were steep and bigger than you think. The section is behind the park in brook lands near the Mercedes race track

In 1996 I was invited by the then curator Mr Roger Rammage to drive my British Special 'The Bellini Special' on what is left of the banking. My car was based on a Ford Popular so it was twin-axle, so quite a light skippy car, but it did have modern dampers etc, like a D**k I took a run up and caned it under the bridge un the banking and I left the road at under 60. I know the track is degraded now but Brooklands is deceptively steep, how you did over 120? Maybe the heavier the car the better? On the photo-shoot I was asked to park my car close to the top of the banking and do the standard foot on the wheel pose, but my car slid slowly sideways down towards the photographer, so I had to quickly jump in and turn the wheel in case it snagged ad flipped over. A truly incredible place, if you haven't been you must go just to soak it up and put these breathtaking clips into perspective.. RIP Brave Mr Dunfee. I always did wonder, what did happen to his car, is it or at least its motor still breathing? I did ask Mr Rammage back in the day but he didn't know.

A stunning case of Zero Fucks Given at the end.

Is it just me or are all the other racers dwarves?

There’s definitely something wrong with the video the cars and the drivers are so disproportionate.

You see his body sliding down the oval at 1.51very sad.

Did they only have circus music back then?

1:41 Tom and Jerry in real world.

the funny size difference between the cars and the bizarre music after the fatal crash makes this video unintentionally hilarious

Balls of vibranium to not wear a helmet...

Imagine going a buck 30 on wire spoke wheels?

Wow this made me laugh {I'm not disrespecting anything}

Were adults with supercars and children with mini-cars together?

They only needed to add Mickey Mouse there to fulfill that lack of respect for a driver who died.

If you watch closely you can see the drivers body sliding down the track ....... horrible

1:24 They had dogs in the pits back then?

Video says clearly 130 mph, your description says 150 mph. Get your shit together, this ain't rocket science. Thumbs down. God damn!

Zoom zoom ca-rassshhhhh! 🚗🚑🚒⚡🔥 Tooodle oodle rum pum pum, tada dada dah dah dah..... 🎵🎶🎺📯🎷🥁

ISSO SIM ERA UM SUICÍDIO COLETIVO.

Body slides down the hill in clear view of the camera... jaunty music to lead us into the next item. Absolutely brilliant.

Look how thin those tires were. 150mph...these people were absolute maniacs

It was like a Big car , overtaking mini toy cars!!!!

1:36 looks so photoshopped with the size difference in cars

Man you've gotta have some balls to drive those things at that speed

1:35 Is that a midget mobile?

I thougt i saw an old lady pushing a shopping cart.

Serious road rash for the poor guy as he scrapes downward after crashing...he must have looked like Hillary Clinton afterward. RIP

0:31 its like the big bmw meme

And what of Clive? Immediately plays loud lively music, followed by the shipping forecast

It must have been both exhilarating and frightening to drive that fast in an open cockpit racer.

You can see the body sliding down the track after the crash. Then upbeat stock music plays. This crash was witnessed by Dunfee's wife of two years, actress Jane Baxter. She remarried and later died of cancer in September 1996.

This is horrible, sad and terrifying! Poor man!

Brits have always been big on pomp and circumstance. Germans were too. Here, these drivers were authentic dare devils. To drive these unstable huge "Soapbox Derby cars" on bias ply tires at 130mph is beyond the limits.

My only question is was the car in the crash super gigantic or were the other cars in the race tiny?

some of those cars are huge,would love to know the weight of that bentley.mustve been like racing a dump truck at 130 mph.

That music at beginning, like it was victory over ww i

The surface of that track looks really uneven....the cars are bouncing all over the place.

those guy's where brave

Wow. Just watching the poor bloke sliding down the track.

“No air bags, we die like real men.”