Top 10 Moments of Sportsmanship in Formula 1 

Same... and the one about Purley & Williamson too. That broke me also.

Yeah me too

I'd imagine Purley & Williamson that Chi mentioned is a lot worse. Senna was beyond anyone's saving, but luckily for him.. the crash had knocked him out instantly, so he probably didn't suffer. Roger on the other hand was alive, concious and screaming (at Purley) for help. I can't even begin to imagine how horrifying that must have been for Purley.

I tried to not cry

same

When his car shows up at the scene I couldn’t hold my tears.

I hate to be that guy but- Comas was let out onto the circuit by his team by mistake.

@@Bennyboy1985 he’s also on record as saying that he went to find senna on track and that he knew of his injury when he left the pit lane, so I mean I think it’s pretty clear what his intentions were.

too

Yeah tragic

No disrespect to senna, but carrying a flag for a driver who passed away is very common in f1. Although Senna was a very kind and caring man.

💔

Stuff like that and him saving Comas is what makes Senna a legend. Not just a great driver but also a great person.

@@senor.waffle8448 Thing is Senna was also offered a chance to step away from the race but chose to go out anyway, despite being incredibly weighed down by the event. So it was almost like a bad omen.

@@senor.waffle8448 like who? I Don’t remember another driver who did that.

To lose someone who saved your life is a story that saddens me

agree. I think they are trying not to end the video on a sad note... i also cried for the Senna Comas story

wouldnt say so

Yeah, the lower numbers on this list are very, VERY different definitions of "sportsmanship" compared to the top ones.

I mean I think when you stop to get someone out of a burning vehicle and save their life it’s not really “sportsmanship” imo. It’s just “not being a malevolent psychopath”

@@toodsf1 I don't know. You could think that the marshalls are there to do this instead of the drivers. You don't really have to stop, but they do it anyway

The guy that save Erik comas is the same guy that deliberately crash into his Championship Rival

You have to remember that they have no idea what s happening inside the cockpit. They could be conscious and getting out. Regardless, they still stop and help, loosing their chance of winning the race, or in Ayrtons case, the championship. Thats the sportsmanship. They thought about the worst scenario, instead of the best one, and went past that "someone else will help" mentality.

IM ROYALE yeah same here

I didn't know he stopped after that race and because he wasn't able to return the save to Senna

I was so close to tears :( was so sad :'(

yeah me too... (Or almost made me cry)

Yeah man. RIP senna

haha,

Yeah that was really weird lol

People in power do not like having their rules flaunted in their face

@@timgimmy609true they like to break their own rules

i hope they have a big lunch

The drivers of today are still prepared for the worst every time they enter the car even if it is less likely. Just last year Hubert died racing in Formula 2, and there is nothing to suggest that the F1-cars are safer than the F2-cars.

Ken Lykkeslett I agree with you

@@kenlykkeslett7501 they surely are, but just comparing the numbers is mind boggling. Up until the 80's deadly accidents where almost a yearly returning thing. The years in the beginning of F1 often having 3 or even 4 deaths. I can only imagine that it was more on their mind back then than it is now.

That's how it always goes. The heroic pioneers risk or even sacrifice their lives, just for their successors to find an open road. That happened to F1. That also happened with the first pilots to fly over the Atlantic. And again to the astronauts of the Apollo missions.

@@XenophonSoulis Risk wil always stay with humanity. As far we go to explore the world around us the risks get bigger

ezay watching that almost brings me to tears, ever time I see that clip.

Actually, Purley and Williamson weren't close friends. They didn't even really know each other. Which makes Purley's actions all the more heroic...

Agreed

Forget sportsmanship, it's one of the bravest things anyone ever could do in that situation. The outcome is a tragedy.

Absolutely - the full video is on here and it's devastating to watch. Incidentally, between Zandvoort '73 and his own death in '85, Purley also set a record for the highest G-Force crash ever survived in an F1 car, registering a 179G impact at Silverstone in 1977 (for context, Kubica's Canada crash in 2007 peaked at 75G). Racing drivers are superhuman.

How Purley's actions are not #1 on this list, I will never know!

And it was Lauda at that time who answered the question of why he refused to stop with "I am not paid to park".

@@evotec4375 I can't speak for Lauda but I remember Jackie Stewart explaining his - if you want to call it - inaction by saying that he didn't register seeing Purley's car parked on the far side of the track; he saw one car, on fire, and he saw one driver, running about outside of it, so didn't think anything more of it. I'd like to think more drivers would have stopped if they fully realised what was happening, and between them they might well have been able to right the car and drag Williamson out alive, but we'll never know, and it just adds to the horrific tragedy of it all.

@@ZedderZulu Actually, a lot of drivers said that they thought it was Purley's car.

@@dccoulthard I still have trouble believing it. And it is a known fact that the common denominator of the drivers were that were highly egoistic assholes. This is also why I regard Lauda's save ... well, they couldn't physically drive past because the road was blocked by the wreckage. It would have been interesting whether all those "heroes" then would have acted the same, or if they would state again "oh we saw guy xyz and thought that was his car." Cynical, but to me, not out of the question. Senna and Purley should have been number one, because they actually went out of their way when they could have just ignored it. Senna really impressed me, he really did pay attention there.

yea, heartbreaking. Still he is a legend for his thoughts of even going there and trying anything at all, not many people on this whole earth would do that in such conditions

He heard Williamson screaming in the car as well. Absolutely horrible.

Purley lived quite the life, he survived a parachute not opening when training in the army and survived a 179G deceleration in a crash at Silverstone. I think in many ways including this, the Comas incident and Lauda's crash, and then trying to compare them to Schumacher lending a helmet to someone... 🤔

Never knew that hamilton gave his win to bottas before !🦆

@@notyou6515 It was 3rd place not win, fair play to Hamilton nevertheless

as sad as that was, the Williamson one was far worse, he was screaming in the car and the marshalls did nothing to help. heartbreaking :(

Me too

@@8-bitsteve500 I remember watching that when I was a bit too young for my own good. It's painful to watch in his desperation to save his friend

@@8-bitsteve500 "The marshalls did nothing to help" Correction: They _couldn't_ do anything to help. The had no fireproof clothing, if they tried to help him they'd get burned.

@@8-bitsteve500 unlike the drivers, the marshals had no fireproof clothes. Seems ridiculous nowadays, especially because back then cars were much more likely to burn than today, but that's what it was like So they pretty much couldn't help

I know...Geez...

Me too. Incredibly moving.

It was a practice. Hard to know if he would stop during a race. But he save one life...thats one more than me, so...

It is not a matter if it is a practice or a race, Senna stoped the car knowing that he could die trying to save him.

R.I.P Ayrton Senna 😭😭😭

I'm from the Netherlands. that race was a disgrace. and should never have gone on

I know, right? T..T

It was a pit error not a try by comas. His team didn't know the flags (Red) were out so they sent him out. But comas told in an interview that the Senna he saw when he was being airlifted was a different person from the one who saved his life in '92 😣😣

@@leonard3374 but when the car is fucking burning, you cant do things worse

@@leonard3374 oh yeah. just let a man with an already painful injury burn to fucking death.

@Maz 111 u had me on the 1st half ngl

@@leonard3374 yeah and let the driver burn to death?

@@leonard3374 im a paramedic, and there are priorities in an accident. You are right about moving a person after a crash, howeveer, if it is in fucking fire, you must take him out!

Speed, i am speed!

Ka chow

You know this is actually happen. Search it Peter Collins. He would have been a world champion if he didn't give his car to Fangio.

bUt ThAt’S nOt fOrMuLa OnE iDiOt ~ Idiots

You did what in your cup?

For all of us Senna was a hero but for comas senna was a hero in a greater level

Comas deserves to be in 2021.

Iirc, the ambulance wanted to drive over the entire track to get off the track at the start finish zone. Stuck ordered him to drive back and take the Breitscheid exit just 2 turns away from the accident site.

One correction though, Stuck is from Bavaria, not from the Nürburgring region. But he knows the area like his living room as he is so often there and raced so many times on the track.

@@lieblingsleguan1591 the Breitscheid exit remains today, only maybe a 15 minute walk from the site of the crash. To get to the paddock would have been minimum 10 minutes' drive.

thats not really sportsmanship, thats more of heroism

Wow! There are always many unsung heroes in all these incidents.

Jake Fisher Onions, gotta remember that one.

... I'm making a lasagna.... For one...

me too... damn these legendary onions🥺

Nice joke man..

Damn ninjas cutting onions...

I had forgotten that was even part of the same video

yeah what a joke of video

Thats why that is on top of the list instead, its a top 10 list video. Schumacher trying to tie on a race is also on the same video and nobody was trying to save anyones life there

you don’t deserve the internet

Yes mate its a top 10 Video. Do you know what top 10 means?

I really didn't come to this video expecting to leave bawling

The Senna and Comas story had me in tears

Me:? What did u said?

@@ERTChimpanzee It's a meme conversation meaning it's a boy showing her this video about sportsmanship moments which is sometimes heartbreaking (so if a girl says something like that, boys would show her this video).

@@azkaraditya8509 lol I'm sorry! I'm not really into memes :)

It was part of his contract 🤦🏾‍♂️

patrick star and who signs that contract again?

Not sure about his other teams, but he wasn't too happy with that situation at Brawn

@@jorritvanderkooi939 of course it was rubens' choice, but who would decline to race for the best team in f1 back in the days?

@@TheShelli321 No, it wasn't, he already said that his first contract with Ferrari didn't had terms of 1st and 2nd driver

One of the greatest 100%, but Fangio is the greatest

@@amroge8703 Not according to Fangio, or Senna. According to both of them it's Clark. And I'm not going to argue about F1 with Fangio and Senna.

@@jackodees1765 i still have fangio.

@@sportsnerd100 How can you say that a man in his 40's, in a niche sport was the best? He was clearly the best of his era, but the best of all time? No chance. Clark was better, Senna, Prost, Schumacher, Hamilton, Alonso, all better.

@@amroge8703 no

I would say the most tragic was imola 1994 when comas trued to save senna a

Carlos F they're all tragic, it's not a competition

@@carlosf7187 I watched that live and I don't remember that. All I remember is him sitting in his car and NOBODY coming to his aid like typical europeans. The closest anyone got was when the cameras zoomed in so the television audience got to witness what a fucking death rattle looks like. Edit: when I say typical europeans, I am referring to the marshalling and crash systems they've seemed to have in place forever. If I were to have done my racing in Europe instead of here in America, it would've been in Rallying. The salt of the earth europeans got your back in that sport and are on the scene in SECONDS.

yeah that wasnt a fun watch. saw it as part of a tribute :(

@@carlosf7187 Not even close.

Amazing that they would only bring out yellow flags for someone dying and a car exploding on track, but now a car breaking down 10 metres from the track causes a safety car.

@@markhenley3097 Yeah, precisely because we don't want that to happen again

@@markhenley3097 because 2014 japan to

@@sandordomonkos8351 2015*

fax

What sort of girls are you talking to?

@@acreativename7999 none

Not all girls

@@shinesara226 g o. w i t h. t h e. j o k e

He says "Yes! "so he's happy I think

The German way of being happy… looking angry

@@dodoontherocks true

He is Austrian, not German.

Watching the first part about Hamilton giving Bottas a podium did not prepare me for the respect I now have for the drivers in the second half of the video.

Just imagine the terribleness in him until now. You cant return a favor. thats what hurts so much.

I think he just got waved out of the pits by accident tbh, I don't mean to be callous but what could comas do that the neurosurgeon sid Watkins and his medical team couldn't

@@neillp3827 that’s not the point at all, imagine a friend saves your life, theyd become like a brother to you, you see that they’ve crashed and you try to go return the favor but you cannot, I can’t imagine how horrible he felt.

@@razzberry4756 no I totally agree with you but people turn things into myths and urban legend. I am sure that crash was devastating to witness for comas.

I agree, but it’s still really funny to watch Toto get furious and turn to Niki who’s like “What’s wrong?”

Yeolde GamerSteve and afternoon that race Stewart taped a spanner to he’s steering wheel, just Incase it happed again.

@@lordjoemott1683 yes!

@@lordjoemott1683that's something you don't see often, is it..

Samarth Dalvi certainly not now, with how the steering wheels are fitted. Quick release.

Looks like they forgot...

you havent watched enought then....

@@kartdriver92 well said my man

kartdriver92 It’s just all of them together

i almost cried when Cumas tried to save Senna but he died

Except his best friend

Ofcourse they couldn't stop, why risk another crash if there were marshalls on the track that should be doing that ? Sometimes being heroic is the worst thing you could do

@@xXSgtJackXx just stop on the side ez

THE BRAIN SPECIALIST Most of the drivers hadn't seen the accident occur, so when they came upon the scene, most thought Purley was trying to put out his own flaming car. It wasn't uncommon back then to see a driver try and save an expensive car from going up in flames, since few fire marshals were present.

Nki Lauda said he couldn't see that there was a driver already helping. If he had seen that, he would have stopped.

Amen

He accidentally left the pits

It says he gave up his career, but after this he won Japanese SuperGT championship twice and came second at Le Mans in 2005

ok

ok

Thomas McNamara have you even listened to the other stories told in this video? There are also other people that saved somebody and you don‘t even mention them.

@@Paul-kr2ko I was about to say that put you beat me to it

Its definitely a great move, but its just as heroic as hunt's and purley's actions, as well as niki laudas save. Why would you only mention ayrton? Its kind of disrespectful.

it's frankly astonishing that the top step swap cost Ferrari a million dollars

@@harigovindsarath5023 only a million dollars !!! Its like pouring a cup of water into the ocean 🤌🏻

Maybe he hopes that he can pass Lewis again😂

🤣😂

Number 10 is silly, He let him pass, because when they let them through, they said to Hamilton, that he should his Position back, if he don’t overtake Kimi or Seb

@@kanolightracer5 that is true. 10th place should have been given to bottas for giving Hamilton the chance to chase the ferraris

@@hlfdjv well if the media wasn't run by Brits than well maybe

There haven't been many incidents where drivers get a chance to save another's life, as when you crash fatally, you usually are just dead. They have to fill a top 10 somehow

They did? its called Senna

@@shamgli7199 And they totally neglected the Comas part...

Mike O'Brien He didn’t do it to go save his friend as the commentator says. He was accidentally allowed to leave the pits so he could rejoin the grid due to the confusion at the pitlane exit. Comas was stopped on the track because the helicopter was parked on the middle of the circuit.

I agree with Michael and the commentator for this video has it wrong. The race had been red flagged and I think Comes who had been in the pits was allowed to leave the pits. I was sitting at Tamburello for the race. It was a bad weekend for F1 with the death of Roland Ratzenbergr on Saturday and Reubens big accident on the Friday.

@@michelboisvert9547 Here in Brazil , some years ago, he was interviewed by the media that transmits f1 ever since to a documentary that tells about this story and he told that yes , he left the pit to save Ayrton

@@UltimateWolf900 In a French interview about 10 years later, he said he “felt terrible that he couldn’t save the man who had saved him 2 years earlier”.

@@UltimateWolf900 Yes... actually he said that he felt he should do something to help the person who saved his life

Devastating man

Yep

🤣

I love his name

YOU CANNOT BREAK THE WINKELROCK!

@@afrozen10-02 its NOONECANBREAKTHEWINKELROCK

Please, no silly memes on this video. It's not the one for that.

But nothing he can do :(. I felt sorry about him

@@mohamadfarhan1398 exactly, the marshals didn't allow him

@@vyasponnuri3375 Even if they did, there was nothing he could have done. At worst, he would have hindered the rescue workers, so it was the completely right decision of the marshals. Senna was doomed the moment he hit that wall, period.

@@givmi_more_w9251 Ya, feel so bad

Vyas Ponnuri Me too

That's not completetely true. There were a lot of TV shows in german and austrian TV everytime there was an anniversary of that crash where they brought in Merzario and of course Lauda always thanked him at all of those oocasions. On a side node: the other drivers weren't able to get Lauda out of the car because at that time Ferrari used a different belt lock mechanism than all other teams. Only when Merzario came to help he was immediately able to open it because he was driving for Ferrari earlier in his career.

@@mojoblues66 Holy shit, that's amazing trivia. I love it. Grab your deserved upvote mate

@@lalxl this ain't reddit

Damn right!

Not really sportsmanship if it was ordered by the team. Just obeying the order

Not if one fights for the championship

In the contracts of F1 drivers there is an agreement that the driver only have to obey team orders in favor of the team, not for teammates. Letting lewis pass to catch Raikkonen was a chance to get more constructor points for Mercedes, thus in favor of the team. Lewis giving the position back to Valtteri was in favor of the driver, not the team. It's why Seb got away with ignoring the multi2-1 order.

Not really, you just want a reason to devalue what Hamilton did (which seems a bit unnecessary as its not like he did anything incredible), or don't know how these things work in f1.

RU-vid knows

They're like Chase Carey's ones

Not until we can appreciate Arturo Merzario's cowboy hat.

@@Abbaschand Now we need both of them in one person

No other moustache will ever be as mighty as Nigel Mansell's

@Ako Lawrence in my opinion (ntbr) the Lauda story is deserving the #1 spot.

@@tHutchings oh yes totally. Just stating how sportsmanship is number in 1 in general in all sports. Lauda for sure is an inspiring story.

Classic Toto banging of the table

He said, 'Yes!'

I'm confused. Was he satisfied or not. Lewis' dad looked happy and so did an engineer , but Toto looked pissed when he looked at Lauda

but he did say yes so I guess he was happy

Toto care about results only, not empathy lol

He's French...

Baguette*

@@Jejking I was referring to his ties with Ferrari

Flavio: Nah, hold my baguette.

@@klaasklapsigaar1081Nice cover lol

I may be a bit late but if u give up ur life to save someone else's life than u have no self love

Comas was accidentally sent out on the track. He didn't do it deliberately. The team were busy fixing damage from the start crash, they hadn't realised there was a red flag

@@JamieDwyer93 That is the story I remember hearing as well. It was seen as ludicrous because he flew up on that corner at full quali pace. It does still seem a bit like fate in retrospect for him to be there?

I remember the live broadcast and Murray Walker went absolutely nuts when Comas came around the corner.

@@JamieDwyer93 If that team didn't realize that there was a red flag by that point (for God sakes there was a helicopter on the track), then they were collectively brain dead. Did they not wonder why no other cars had gone past the start-finish line for several minutes? Geez...

He had a bet with Lauda

@@vasishtvasudevan4059 looking at his reaction towards lauda, it may be true.

@@supersaiyanshantanu He did. Toto has already spoken about this.

@@supersaiyanshantanu it is true. Lauda bet that Lewis wouldn't give back the place. Toto said he would and they had a bet. Hence Toto turns with elation towards Lauda

Lauda and Toto showing the real sportsmanship here 😂

Where did you hear that nonsense

^ Yep, Clark indeed had a puncture but no evidence whatsoever that Brabham had to inform him of this.

@@cam_121 there is a video called Jim Clark's greatest race, click on it and go to 2:07, there is the photo

Clark would've definitely felt a puncture. He felt everything that happened with his car.

Go help them...Help the Toro Rosso with the fans

Really more sad than a guy burning alive in a car screaming for help? Look I get you like senna but don't make everything about him

@@jamesfeguson3445 wasn't taking about Senna man, can you read it well? I'm talking about Comas, that's the beginning of his depression. And being depressed looks just like burning alive as well mate.

@@viajandoando362 It's Érik by the way, not Marc. It's eerie how it was him that came flying towards Senna after it was Ayrton that had saved him two years before...

@@peterdaviesracing Coincidence.

I agree. Sportsmanship is different being a hero.

Yeah it probably should have been titled as '10 moments of sportsmanship in f1' or something similar instead. Giving up a podium or championship to a rival and helping a fellow competitor in an accident are both acts of sportsmanship, but can't be measured against each other

I was tearing up before then know what was coming