STW 1995. Round 7 - AVUS. Race 2 (Deutsche sprache/German language) 

Stimmt, Biela hatte absolut keine Chance auszuweichen

@@hallo_welt_ag Klar,wäre er Links dran vorbei gefahren wäre alles gut gewesen.Zu Blöd der Biela.!!!

Das stimmt nicht. Die Maßnahmen waren sehr gut. Von den drei Streckenposten ist einer ein Arzt. Wenn der Fahrer Atemprobleme hat, wäre es möglich, dass er Rippenbrüche hat. Dann muss der sitzen bleiben. Sobald man den bewegt, könnten die gebrochenen Rippen in sein Herz stoßen. So einen Fall kenn ich. Es wurde genau RICHTIG gehandelt!

@@topforce5298 korrekte Antwort. Solange keine akute Gefahr durch z.B. Feuer oder auslaufendes Benzin besteht -> sitzen lassen.

@@oliverpohlmann1521 Dieser tragische Unfall hat zwei Ursachen. Die eine war, dass vom Reglement her kein ABS gefahren werden durfte. Damit wäre der Audi auf der Bremse nicht geradeaus gerutscht. Die zweite Ursache war die in die Gerade eingebaute Schikane. Diese hat den Fahrzeugen zu sehr zugesetzt, da sie sehr eng war und die Fahrer da ziemlich hart über die Curbs sind. Ohne die Schikane wäre zwar die Geschwindigkeit höher gewesen, aber die Strecke trotzdem sicherer.

Very odd. It literally just turns dead left into the wall. Must have been a sudden tie rod breakage or something

@@thiscocks yeah.. He took the wide line for sure, but something must've broke. Back then, there wasn't HANS device or much of anything, to safeguard drivers neck and/or brain. It might've actually been immensely severe impact, to cause brain hemorrhage. Just like Allan Simonsen succumbed to at Le Mans 2013.. even with all the safety gear, it can still happen. An idea to install in all sportscars could be Nascar-like seat, with big head rests

Also.. I cannot even imagine the peril, when coming back the straight, and into the corner leading to the north curve/nordkurve.. which was much much longer. Just over 19 km, 8 km straights. No chicane.. A record 284 km/h was clocked then. Madness. And they also held a race on bikes. However the length had been cut to 8,3 km then. But still 4 km and no chicane. Bonkers Edit*- it's written in a way, that it can be mistaken. As if the curve was that long. But it's the track that was 19 km

And again it was cut to suit the cars and audience in the 1980's.. down to around 5 km and then just 3.. So the track we see here has just about a kilometre straights. Still enough for the cars to reach well over 200 km/h

Maybe the FIRST hit may have killed him

Biela reacts late and in addition to the moment he realizes he cannot stop his car, he should have taken evasive action. It's incomprehensible. One death could have been avoided.

@@Eben-Victorious HE should have started to brake when he saw the other cars avoiding the car in the middle of the track. Does he not realize a yellow is going to come out anyway? What a fucking idiot

He said he came around the fast right-hand corner and thought, Kieth would keep moving to the right. However, he came back to the track and Biela couldn't do anything, despite hitting the brakes.

@federico.supertouring Actually he had time to react but his reaction was wrong. Instead of braking he should try to avoid the car, like the others did. In the interview at the end he said he thought the car of O'dor was still moving to the right and he realized to late that it wasn't so.

Biela would have had to do just a tiny correction to avoid full impact. Probably wasn't looking at the track ahead. Maybe eyes focused too far, tunnel vision, you never know. If he thought the car was moving to the right; there was plenty of space on the left. What is done, is done. Now he cannot do anything about it.

Nah. Safety crews were there pretty quickly. The ambulance arrived 5 minutes later.

@@apexkilla I stand by my statement. Would rather have a member of medical staff, than a bouncer/flagman attend a accident. Well both should be at the scene, but if injured

Open your eyes, you can clearly see the tire smoke from his braking attempt coming up before the crash. No ABS involved here, as we see obvious tire-lock. When the wheels lock at 120 to 130 mph, you ain´t going nowhere but straight on. There is debris of the size of a full bumper or rear wing sitting on the left lane, so Biela had to calculate the consequences of running over it vs. going between this thing and the backward-rolling car of Odor within the fraction of a second. The broken wheel suspension that caused Odor´s car to come back to the center of the track at this exact angle and point of time was on the rear left side, which Biela couldn´t see, at all - the Nissan had been rolling to the opposite side, just before. Disgusting comment, in every respect. "Murderer" sure is more than a hard word to say, under these circumstances. RIP Kieth Odor

@@terenceskill9526 He had so much time so slow down, but he was greedy and kept his speed and was planning on avoiding. If he went for the brake first, and then went around, Kieth would still be alive. That's just the facts. I know racing. I know what it feels like when someone spins in front and you want to try to keep your speed and avoid, but this time it was a fatal error.

@@ezpz4659 You don’t know jack shit at all.

@@ezpz4659 You're a complete idiot.

@@Zero_Ninety Why? The guy was going full throttle with a car in the middle of the track sideways. That's an idiot.

Selbstverständlich hat der Kommentator völlig recht, es dauert alles viel zu lange. Die Streckenposten reagieren nicht, es dauert endlose Minuten, bis endlich ein Rettungswagen eintrifft. Es war alles unglaublich schlecht organisiert. Dass Unfälle dazugehören ist klar, schlechte Organisation aber nicht!