Experience Bubba Wallace's fiery Daytona 500 crash, amazing near miss of Joey Logano's flying car at Talladega, and many other's close calls and hard hits from the first person point of view helmet-mounted on board camera!
Watching these, and watching iRacing vids, makes you truly understand how little someone can do to avoid a wreck, especially on superspeedways. You're just along for the ride, and you either get lucky, or you're done.
@@AMoronInVR I was watching it again and like, all I could think was, dang, that looks like that guys mom, all gigantic and tumbling and whatnot, you know
No comments on how well built these cars are?! That’s insane that these people are getting in wrecks well over 100mph and their bodies don’t move but a few inches on impact and are completely okay to race in another car tomorrow.
Part of what helps is that they're not crashing into barriers that stop them dead. There's usually several collisions accompanied by the high friction of the tires from spinning out, so the force needed to stop is more distributed over several seconds.
@@chadrat39 You're thinking all sophisticated, British, and not the NASCAR, country type? Well, we (F!) might not have "Crank It UP," but we do have "Audio Up,' whatever that is lmao
I really didn't think it would be that heard to avoid a wreck, you can't even see the others cars from a short range as the smoke and sparks fill the path ahead.
My gosh that second clip was wild!!! Seeing a car in the air flying and nearly wrecking more cars! I’d of made a mess in my race suit from seeing that!!!
Surprises me in these videos he still holds on to the steering wheel even when he knows he’s lost it, usually in INDYCAR and F1 they let go because it can break you hands.
NASCAR wheels don't typically jerk around as hard when they wreck so it's usually fine to grip and brace for impact. Indycars however don't have any power steering so yeah those will break your hands and wrists
@@Toxic2T TBH I doubt it makes that much of a difference. Most power steering setups still have a direct mechanical link from the steering wheel to the front wheels. Having to push fluid out of the way (or move electronic motors) may slow it down a little bit, but I highly doubt it's 90%. F1 cars have power steering and you still see them let go of the wheel in a crash. Most of the difference we're seeing is probably due to open-wheel cars vs closed-wheel. Big difference between the wheel taking all the impact vs the chassis taking most of it. Plus these cars are tough. Way tougher than, say, a GT3 car, and there's much more of a benefit from continuing to have some modicum of control after impact on a superspeedway than a regular circuit. I'm no expert, and I'm really just speculating so take what I say with a grain of salt. But I do know that 90% crap is bs and there's something else going on here.
@@sntslilhlpr6601 Nono, f1 and Stock cars do have power steering so you don't need to let go, f1 they let go but they do really need to, Indy cars do not have power steering so they should let go of the wheel to avoid broken fingers/wrist
This really shows how well built these cars are. These guys are getting crashing at almost 200mph and it their bodies move like it's a minor rear end collision.
I've never taken into consideration how terrifying it must be to suddenly lose the ability to see because of all the smoke and debry flying around when youre going 200 mph.
When you watch this compared to the external it really shows how fast it happens and how little you can see. Most of the time from the external it appears that someone spins then everyone else piles in. I know that’s an oversimplification but it’s all I got 😂
@@Green_Bullet The drivers actually do get to decide. He also plays football with the crowd during rain delays and does other stuff that makes me think he's a generally nice guy. Also, can't think of any bad on-track incidents that he's caused.
How the fire from the other wreck cars lights the inside of the car with a bright orange and violent sounds everywhere is truly terrifying. Really cool to see the pov of a racer.
Then you would need to wear helmets, racing seats with 5 point harnesses and a HANS device every time you drive your car. That is why regular cars dont have rollcages
I think modern cars are doing pretty darned well for themselves on the crash safety front as it is, without needing a full roll cage. Especially compared to how vehicles performed just 20 or 30 years ago. Sure, there's always more improvements to be made - I'll give you that. But considering you can even survive a crash at 60 or 70mph with relatively few injuries these days, when the first vehicle I was in when I was little - a little 1985 Austin Metro - you'd probably die in a 40 or 50mph crash, I'd say things have already come a very long way indeed. That car didn't even have decent seatbelts, nevermind airbags or crumple zones (heck, I think the entire car _was_ the crumple zone lol)
People say NASCAR is boring, completely forgetting that these legends are controlling an 800+hp monster at over 180mph on a tight track, all while being bumper to bumper with loads of other cars doing the same thing. Just like any Motorsport, one mistake could be your last.
Yea. The teams can fully customize them with software rearrange/size/analog or digital etc... If you want something similar, you'd have to use 3rd party software like SimHub with an external screen.
U can change the dash theres the default one, actual gauges and then a third one, you can change it in the garage or while in the car in one of the Black Box menus. It’s also a control option to bind a button to change the dash display that also works with most cars that have digital displays
What’s the most amazing to me is how calm it looks inside of the car when they hit something. Like in the first clip of Bubba. For how hard he hit it was remarkably calm inside that car. Shows you how damn safe these things are now
Its not really... hard per se. Just takes a certain kind of nerve. The third clip i think, where the car was mostly ok after an almost incredible save was the scariest. I cannot imagine looking out the window and just seeing a 2 ton lump of metal barreling towards me at 340 kmh.
Just like in the street, you'll NEVER know when a crash will occur, and Nascar had it in steroids. The drivers are so lucky they had so much safety features put into the cars such as the roll cage and the HANS set to protect them at 170+ mph speeds.
El saber que le jodiste la carrera a alguien y que creaste un accidente tiene que ser una sensación horrible, las carreras son un desgaste emocional y físico muy grande
People who say “They just race in Circles” piss me off. I love F1 but tune in on a couple cup races a year and I can see how hard it actually is to be racing at a constant 180-200 mph all bunched up together with 0 errors. I know damm well they would be scared in that same position as the driver.
Tony Stewart and Lewis Hamilton did a seat swap special once, where Tony got to drive Lewis' F1 car and Lewis drove Tony's Sprint Cup stock car around the same track. Lewis liked it so much he refused to pit when they told him to, and took another lap.
Well Bubba does wreck a lot. That's because he run's middle of the pack and that's where everyone gets caught in these wrecks. This guy probably picked Bubba because he's one of the few that runs several in-car cams. You could pick a dozen others you could fill in for Bubba in the video but they don't have the camara shots/angles Bubba does.
Wow it's almost like he gets chosen all the time for the onboard camera...... It's simple math my friend. You get the onboard camera more, you get more footage.
That's what you're supposed to do after a wreck. Take the window net down and unattach the steering wheel so the safety trucks can tow your car away and let NASCAR know that you're all good.
I think NASCAR really does their sport a disservice by focusing so much on overhead coverage. The sport is so intense and an overhead camera just reduces it to “driving in circles” when it’s really so much more than just that.
I truly believe the impact isn't the scaries part of these crashes. Its the fact that crashed cars come to a halt in the smoke and you just don't know if someone is coming or not to plow into you
Aw, come on now. We all know that little Bubba has a great personality and has NEVER been given every opportunity under the sun time and time again. It's not like he has been groomed by NASCAR since he was a kid to be the poster child for their "diversity" program. Nope! He's earned his way by consistently finishing middle of the pack in good equipment while blaming his failures on better drivers around him. It's hard work I tell you... HARD WORK!
Love this. I wish NASCAR had a heartrate graph or something available for all drivers online so you could see what they did during the crash. I bet Bubba's got real high there lol
