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Can you believe AJ ran the whole race on the same tires? Old school racing.

I was there that day with my parents. We were high up in a grandstand on the other side of the track (inside). The cars went by and quite a few of them never came back around. We weren't seeing any cars coming around or hearing much engine noise. We turned around and look west toward the other side of the tracks and saw what looked like a bomb had gone off. Billowing black smoke. They stopped the race. Eventually they announced that Sach had died in the accident and McDonald had been transported to the hospital (later died). They eventually restarted the race. We stayed for a while and left long before the end of the race. None of us had the heart for it after that.

I like hearing about Eddie and Dave's lives. A person should be known for there life, not just their deaths.

You read that radio copy at the end. Then ponder that Mr. Collins spoke these words on live air, on the fly. This was no pre-written script copy, this was live on-air speaking, from his mind. He may have had a moment to jot down a few bits, but I don't know that he even had that long. Journalism is dead.

Sims. Take the computer out of it and go by feel. Or, just give us the early 00s wedge 900hp monsters and let god sort them out

This was my dad’s first Indy 500. Great seats on the front stretch. Got to watch his favorite driver (Eddie Sachs) die right in front of him.

NASCAR has all but killed innovation, and they are slowly killing their Series by doing it.

Sad story but I don’t think this is the worlds greatest race track , Le Mans is

I just don’t understand what was so wrong with the old car?

It's bad everywhere. They go to ads during free throws now.

I watched this race at a party at Harvey Aluminum in Torrance, Ca. where my dad worked. with my dad, mom, brother and sister. I actually got sick to my stomach when this accident occurred

73 was pretty bad too. An ambulance going the wrong way on Pit Road killed a crew member on their way to a fatal accident at the start of the Pits. They didn't show the man being hit on Tv but you could plainly hear the crowd gasp when it happened.

Lots of good oval racers are not particularly fast on a road course. Takes special talent to do both well.

Wow, Dave could drive anything on any track and drive it well.

Watched this race with my Dad on closed circuit at the packed Royal Theater in Detroit.

I was 14 and attendint my first 500. Eddie was my favorite driver at the time. We left after the accident.

The only race my Dad and uncle ever went to. Said they would never go again.

We watched this race ĺive at the academy theater in Pasadena ca. Really sad. I was 16 at the time. We were all rooting Davy to win.

I remember playing Indy 500 Legends and hearing about this wreck. This was a sad moment for racing, and there was even a Jim Clark mission based around this wreck.

Indy 2023 was the most insulting. They should not allow betting on any auto racing.

I had met Eddie Sachs when my Dad took me to Kiwanis event at which Sachs was the speaker. I still have his autograph. Dad took me to the 500 for the first time in 1963. I really wanted to go again in 1964, but Dad had only two tickets and Mom finally agreed to go to the race after Dad asking her to go with him for years. Just before they left for the 60 mile drive to IMS, they said I could go and sit in the car. I declined that offer. Their seats were in the outside grandstands not many rows from the front, right where Sachs hit McDonald's flaming car. Mom got our of her seat and walked back to the car and sat there until Dad arrived after the completion of the race. Mom reported that the pre-race buildup and the beginning were the most thrilling things she had ever experienced, and informed us that the race was never to me mentioned in front of her ever again. In 1970 I was a spectator for the sixth time and was second row from the top of the bleachers inside the track, behind the concrete wall that angled from the infield to the inside pit wall. At least three or four disabled race cars, including Mark Donohue's, had been parked next to that wall. Mike Mosely and Bobby Unser collided exiting Turn 4, and I jumped up to take a photo with my Dad's Retina Automatic III camera, as Mosely slid across the track toward those parked cars. I tripped the shutter then fell back into the next row as the heat from the ensuing fireball hit me. I still have a piece of Donohue's car that also hit me. It was several days later before that slide film was processed so that I could see what I had recorded. I had captured the fireball at the moment Mosely's car his Donohue's. Wheels were just appearing from the glow, and photographers who had been stationed at the wall were running for their lives. After covering the 500 for the next three years as a sports writer, I arrived at IMS on opening day with no credentials or media connections. I did have a couple of 35MM SLR cameras and a few lenses, and a box of photos. I paid my way in and went to the Associated Press Darkroom/office and asked to see the photographer in charge. I told him I was a free lance photographer and would like to shoot for A.P. for the month. He told me he had all the photographers he needed. I opened the box and showed him the 8x10 color print of that photo and he pulled a couple documents out of a drawer and said, "Sign here and here." I covered the 500, and many other races and events for AP through 1992, before moving over to Reuters for the next three years. Mom did eventually relent to her edict of not mentioned the race, and became quite proud of seeing her oldest son's photos from the race published all over the world. I have no idea how many race crashes I photographed over the years, including some of the most dramatic accidents ever recorded, but I was fortunate to never photograph a fatal wreck. Mom saw three laps of racing and saw two drivers killed, I covered races for more than a quarter century and never saw one killed.

i dont understand why they dont do more pip commercials if they must be having 1000 commercials

A Good Video & Tribute To Two Racers Of The Past. Sounded Like A Real Person Narrating, Too. That's Always A Plus. Thank You. (Like #445)

The day I was born RIP MacDonald and Sachs.

Darkest moment... 1964 or 1973?

Black Noon

My dad and grandfather were at the race that day. He told me how bad it was. Rip

Our next door neighbor Mr . hedback built Eddie Sach's car. They had a big party for him before the race. We were all devastated.

Don't like the body of these cars. I prefer 2001 bodys

I was stunned when that photo of the smoke and fire on the Speedway's front straight didn't become the most famous sports photos of the 20th century. In my mind there was no comparison. I remember the ad from Marathon Oil, Eddie Sachs' sponsor, "I've got six fuel tanks in my car and they are all full of Marathon Gas!". A common error about the rules, gas was not banned. Several cars ran it in 1965 but it was not spoken of very much. Ford had debuted their new 4 cam Indy engine in 1964 and had insisted that gasoline be used in the race so all the Ford powered cars were except for Roger Ward's who switched to alcohol behind Ford's back and then ran out of fuel several times which cost him the race win as he made 3 extra pit stops on his way to a second place finish.

A man like Alan kulwicki couldn't do it today! That's ridiculous

I was an 18 yr old sitting 33 rows up just past finish line and felt the heat For everyone that goes to races to watch wrecks they need to watch this

My mom and dad were on the inside of Turn 4 that year and saw the whole thing. My dad was a Speedway native and a sportswriter as well, but this shook him up. It was a sad day all around.

A friend of mine told me a story of that day............every year his father would take his sons to the race but there was on rule and that was you had to wait until you were 9 years old until you could got with the rest of the brothers...............he told me that his youngest brother couldn't wait to go with his older brothers and dad to the 500 but wasn't old enough and stayed home year after year...............finally the year came that he was old enough to go with everyone.........that was in 1964. So they sat in the infield seats out of turn 4 very close to where McDonald crashed on the inside retaining wall. At the festivities leading up to the race he told me his younger brother wanted to eat something so dad bought him two hot dogs loaded up with mustard, ketchup and relish...........and was back to his seat holding the hot dogs as the cars were being pushed off to start the pace laps. While mesmerized by the whole affair his younger brother just held the hot dogs one in each hand waiting for the start of the race........at the green flag with eyes glued to the sights and sounds of it all then soon enough comes McDonald's crash right in front of them..........and then Sach's slamming into the cars and wreckage all over the place......my friend told me he never saw such panic at a race track as to whose car to go to (Ronnie Duman was presumed dead and officials threw a sheet over the car which came to rest right in front of them......then all of a sudden the sheet started to moving around and they realized he was alive) for the next 40 mins in all the mass confusion another driver was administered a tractotomy right in front of them to open up an airway.. While this was going on his younger brother at 9 years old just stood and stared in disbelief...........then he told me something that he said was an image that had stayed with him all his life..............when in the middle of all this panic he turned and finally looked at his younger brother and saw him still in a trance over everything that happened but that in the tension of all this he had squeezed tightly the hot dogs in each hand and it squeezed all the mustard, ketchup and relish all over his hands down his arms and just was dripping off his elbows and was completely unaware of what he did...........my friend said he never forgot that image of that 9 year old younger brother frozen in a stare completely unaware that he crushed the hot dogs and they ware in pieces and dripping all down his arms all over the place.......at 9 years old things like fire engines dinosaurs and race cars are larger than life and he had an overload in that experience that day that my friend never forgot.

Great video, a touching tribute to both. Today I was listening to the 1960 Indy 500, where Sachs led for a bit before dropping out due to mechanical issues. He determinedly in an interview after that he would win the 500 one day, and that any man capable of leading the race is capable of winning. God speed Dave and Eddie

lll be watching this year from Turn 4 and will think of them on Lap 2, on this the 60th yr anniversary of the tragedy.

I heard mickey thompson villified for years nobody ever blamed usac for forcing the tire size change thankyou.

My father was seated in the Tower Terrace just south of where the cars came to rest. He has told me many times how silent the crowd was when the race was stopped. Thank you for remembering Dave and Eddie.

Dad was a tech inspector and was done with his duties when walking to meet mom who was sitting in the inside stands to watch the race until he had to go back to his assigned car. He hadnt reached the bleachers yet when the crash occurred. Mom said she could hear the screams of the drivers(I'm assuming it would have been Dave). I remember my dad telling me about this when I was a kid as I wasnt born until 1966, but Dad was friends with Eddie and spoke highly of him. They would hang out together at the track and during dinners. I know this was a dark day in Indy history, but it is also a personal one for me as well. Thank you for such a wonderful tribute!

"Race drivers are courageous Men who try to conquer life and death and they calculate their risks. And with talking with them over the years I think we know their inner thoughts in regards to racing. They take it as part of living." That quote hits hard. These athletes are superhuman, both the Men and the Women, and they live with every risk not because it's their job, but because it's their passion. I always push for Motorsports to be as safe as it can be because while these drivers say they'll happily have a race car be their coffin, none of them should experience their passion turn into tragedy. My heart hurts for drivers like Dave and Eddie, as well as others that died living their dream in Motorsports; may they all rest in peace ❤

Thank you that speedway is hallowed ground

That was my 6th indy. We had seats on the inside of turn 4. MacDonald hit the wall about 40 feet upstream of us. Never forget the heat from the fireball. Next year, at moms "request" we sat in the paddock penthouse.

Wow a bunch of complainers. Fine don’t watch it, I still love nascar. The racing is closer than ever what more can you complain about?

True tragedy. Very respectfully done video.

A tragic irony is that, just six days earlier, Fireball Roberts had suffered the crash in the World 600 that would eventually take his life (he was to pass away on July 2 from burns suffered in that crash), so there was already a pall cast on the 1964 Indianapolis 500 before it even began. And Dave MacDonald was one of the drivers Roberts had been mentoring after Roberts had joined the Ford camp in 1963. In fact, they had paired up in a number of sports car races in 1963, and in another tragic irony, MacDonald was the runner-up in the final NASCAR wins for both Joe Weatherly, who'd been killed at Riverside in January of '64, and Roberts. In addition, one of the other drivers involved in the Sachs/MacDonald crash, Ronnie Duman, who suffered serious burns in that crash, would be burned to death just after the race at Milwaukee began in 1968 (and just days after finishing sixth at that year's Indianapolis 500). In addition to that, as he was leaving his pit area after his first pit stop, the on-board fuel tank in the car driven by Parnelli Jones exploded, and he had to dive out of his car to avoid a similar fate, though he also suffered burns in that incident. It was a tragic week, both at Charlotte and at Indianapolis.

Eddie and Joe Weatherly would have been great together

Great job with this video

Don't think that the tank ruptured on first impact, that was what was shot out from the fill tube. Not that it matters. BTW, thanks for not pushing that idea that it had 100 gals of fuel in that car.

Good video, keep it up. Sub'd.

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