Martin Brundle Escapes Four Car Pile-up | 1994 Brazilian Grand Prix
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- Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2024
- The Brazilian Grand Prix has seen some serious incidents over the years, but few are as dramatic as the opening race of 1994, when Martin Brundle was miraculously unharmed after a multi-car shunt...
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Man 1994 really was a horror year wasn’t it. Brundle’s narrow escape. Senna and Ratzenberger’s deaths. Jos’ infamous pitfire.
Or the crash in imola training
Barrichello's crash at Imola too
Aaaaand Jean Alesi fracturing his neck in testing and missing two races, several spectators injured by debris from the Imola startline collision, two Minardi mechanics seriously injured by Alboreto hitting them in the pitlane (yet again, at Imola), Montermini breaking his ankle at Spain, Lehto injured at Silverstone...
EDIT: Oh, and Karl Wendlinger in a coma after crashing at Monaco as well. What an incredible season, in all the wrong ways.
dont forget the pit crew at Imola too…
let´s not forget Wendlinger in a coma after crashing in Monaco. Horror year
"One race ban."
"Ohhhhhh but sirrrrrrrrr."
"3 RACES!"
Trippin
Senna warned him back in Japan 93
@@Ahito1984 The irony of Senna complaining about other people causing crashes (especially in Japan)
@@MrSniperfox29 Yeah, still from 90, He became less reckless, Suzuka 90 was the leftover of Suzuka 89. Wish Imola 89 never happened
NO RACE FOR YOU!! 😂
Literally here right now because of Martin Brundle's track side coverage and the fact that he mentioned this crash.The man is such a legend the way he talks with such passion he makes you feel like your in the car.
Ditto
He got smacked on the helmet by Verstappen's rear wheel, but somehow escaped uninjured. Pure luck.
amp888 Halo saved him.
That's why we got the halo now. It's going to prevent a sickening snap of the head like that from ever happening. Damn the "aesthetics". I want our drivers to be safe.
@@TiE23 then they should play F1 2018 or stey at home. open cockpit is open cockpit, if that's not safe enough then drive closed cockpit cars
@@morturiom9651
That's not how it works. You guys sound pretty much like the scumbag people that ridiculed the racing helmet back in the day; you guys have absolutely no regard for safety and life and prioritise worthless aesthetics that will be outdated in a decade anyway. I can't imagine what sort of absolute wanker you had to be to think that racing in those old 50's death machines was "manly". It's just pure stupidity.
I've seen this video so many times, but I've never nocited Brundle's luck. OMG
1994 - man, if you watched that whole season you really felt like you’d lived through a war. It was like all F1’s bad luck of the past five years it managed to dodge hit at once. You had:
- Alesi and Lehto (particularly Lehto) bad neck injuries in pre season.
- This smash in Brazil.
- Barrichello, Ratzenberger, Senna, a policeman, some spectators and several mechanics at Imola.
- Wendlinger at Monaco.
- Montermini at Spain.
- Lamy in testing at Silverstone.
- The huge pile up at the start, then Verstappen at Hockenheim.
- Schumacher’s various dastardly moves and bans.
- The marshal that Brundle hit in Suzuka.
- Schumacher and Hill’s ‘accident’ at the title decider in Adelaide.
Three drivers received race bans in 1994 as well: Irvine, Hakkinen and Schumacher. There’s only been six or seven drivers banned ever and two of those were Mansell!
Add in the whole Benetton cheating fiasco (with honourable mentions going to Ferrari and McLaren here too) and the season was just like nothing else.
I only started watching in 1993 aged ten as well, so 1994 was a bit of a baptism of fire for me...
Also Porsche basically cheated to win Le Mans and Penske basically cheated to win the Indy 500 both via loopholes in the regulations. Was a terrible year for Motorsports in general.
The FIA can be blaimed for the increase in danger. By abruptly banning a bunch of technical things teams relied on for years. Particularly the active suspension.
Tell me you're British without telling me you're British.
so glad he survived! else we would never have the amazing grid walk he does now
I sense sarcasm.
@@FlamingoSheriff ???
@@FlamingoSheriff I really don't think so. Have you watched them?
@@Blast-Forward when was the last time he did a grid walk?
@@timothy790110 About 3 weeks ago.
1:20 Is no one going to point out that this is the best tow car ever
No one cares.
What did you just fucking say, no other tow car is better than our lord Tow Mater, may he forgive your sins.
You just did
That´s a brazilian Ford Verona.
Nothing says 1994 DGAF like that
Sadly this wasn't the worst thing that happened in 94
RIP Senna :(
And RIP Roland Ratzenberger
@@kubhak only Senna?
@@albertoartuso80 Kurt Cobain
We all know that
94.. the black hole of f1
With Ayrton Senna Death 💔
@@ElLoco-cw6uu and ratzenberger's
😔
I remember that race and that in Imola too 😞
and Schumi CHEATED in Adelaide
It’s crazy how much evolution it’s been for f1 between the 1990s and now 2018
True
Martin Brundle is one of the best things that happened to F1. I don't really remember him racing, I was too young, but his work at SkyF1 is invaluable.
Do you work for Sky tv ?
No.
I don't rate brundle as a driver or commentator. Bitter human
@@lastfirst5689 Are you saying he's a bitter human or you are? It definitely sounds like the latter.
@@lastfirst5689 Brundle wouldn't have been hit, had he not been going so slow!
Never realised the wheel hit is head. So lucky not to cause serious injury or worse.
Brundle got hit by the back tyre of Jos's car and walked away unharmed? What a beast
That's what you call a brexit man
Look at the way brundles head is ragdolled around! Different times but still feels like a few years ago
Whatever it is the case i really thank Martin Brundle for all those commentary. You have been a true champ when it comes to commentary and we respect you for that mate :)
Exactly, my all time favorite commentator
Seeing Éric Bernard's reaction as Martin Brundle says all you need to know about the collision. Irvine was lucky he got 3 races.
Brundle was driving very slowly here, so not sure why Irvine got a ban. Sure, the consequences were bad and could be even much worse, but that was pure coincidence.
@@bojandolinar1535 brundle's mclaren had a technical problem
@@dukeofstradone Probably, so? I didn't imply it was Brundle's fault. I implied it was not Irvine's fault.
I don’t think that’s Eric Bernard, I think that’s a track Marshall. The ligier outfit had white from torso upwards and Bernard had more red on the top of his helmet. You can even see at 1:30 how a track Marshall walking out of the tow car is wearing a similar outfit.
Irvine was initially fined $10,000 and banned for 1 race. The fine was subsequently dropped but his ban was extended to 3 races
Bennetton: *hey check this out*
Imagine if Senna would have walked away from his car in Imola like Brundle did😭
I think F1 safety rules would have been different, as it triggered (ofc also with Barrichello's crash and Ratzenberger's death) a major discussion in safety
People would consider Prost the better driver.
Actually he walked away once, when his car flipped upside down in the gravel. That could have been a neck breaker
Different crash unfortunatly..
Senna is overrated
Sadly it was only the beginning
RIP ROLAND RATZENBERGER (Could have been a great driver)
RIP AYRTON SENNA (Personally, best driver ever)
Im sorry, but do you remember every f1 driver that died in history?
@Gabriel Albuquerque Thanks!
The beginning of what? This had literally nothing to do with the San Marino Grand Prix.
@@HelloWorld_42 No, of course not, but Ronalds's case is some what frustrating. I mean imagine that Senne never died. Today he would have been remembered a lot more.
@@vincentbruins8320 The beginning of a season full of fatal and horrible crashes (Imola, Monaco, Adelaide etc)
Brundle was actually slowing as he was about to retire from that race with mechanical problems, at a fast part of the circuit with three cars at racing speed rapidly zooming up on him. If Brundle's car had still been healthy he wouldn't have been involved in that shunt. It would have just been Verstappen, Irvine & Bernard.
He is explain in Working the Wheel excellent and atypic biography. I have finish the book in the next day.
If brundles car had still been healthy there would have been no accident at all.
@@cmarshall4559 ...or just Verstappen & Irvine. Both were battling but they were also novices. Bernard was quite experienced & would have used that to avoid trouble.
0:08 No HANS device...bobbleheads.
No recovery cranes either, just an Opel Vectra and a tow rope...
@@rjfaber1991 I can't help myself, but it's fun only to imagine any Opel as SC...
@@teegee6312 It was the Safety Car that season. And sadly... the fact it was so slow may have played a part in Senna's death, by causing their tyres to be too cold on restart.
Odd thing is HANS could have made things much worse for Brundle. In this unusual situation arresting effect of the device could have meant a lot less of the energy from the impact was dissipated by the movement of the head. The lateral movement, while dangerous in itself, may have saved him in this case.
That is not to say HANS is bad though - Such is the statistical minefield that comes with judging the worth of safety devices.
@@rjfaber1991 Yes, the SC that year was a Vectra. But the tow car in this video looks more like a Ford Orion to me. Vectra's got a third side window behind the rear door.
FIA: 1 race ban
Irvine: Haha thats nothing, EZZZZZZZ
FIA: ok 3 races ban
Irvine didn't act that way tho
Absolutely hate seeing the way their head/necks move around in this crash. When you look at crashes like this you can clearly see why raised cockpit walls, HANS and Halo are such massive improvements in safety.
1994: 10.000$ for almost killing someone
2021: 50.000€ for touching a car
I’d love to heart Martin Brundle commentating on Martin Brundle 😂
0:56 this is why we need the halo
Charles LeClerc, this year at Spa tested that theory, even he admitted he would have been hurt badly had it not been there, and he hates the halo.
@@bingusworshipper The halo may have helped save Jules Bianchi and Leclerc hates it? Conservatives are baffling
@@botigamer9011 halo would not have saved him under and circumstance, Jules was effectively dead when he lost control. Nothing could have saved him aside from himself.
Maybe that's why F1 is showing this video. Clever marketing.
Still looks ugly
Head And Neck Support device - is the best that appeared in F1 in 50 years
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Doesn't really have anything to do with this video though.
@@Catcrumbs the HANS would have attempted to stabilize his head and prevent that neck-snapping jerking motion. Not really sure if it would have helped with the force of a wheel to the noggin
That Bottas Russell crash a month ago showed how the halo would prevent that too
@@paulsd9255 The HANS device is a form of Frontal Head Restraint: its primary job is to limit forward movement of the head. The helmet tethers slide through the device to permit turning the head. Any effect on sideways motion would be incidental at best. Modern F1 cars have high cockpit sides to limit sideways head motion and they would certainly have been of use to Brundle here.
It's a miracle Brundle survived that, oh my god.
Max: "hey! That's my father!"
Brazilian detected??? Rsrsrs. Acho a mesma coisa!
@@maximopacheco8843 hue
@@dacoconutnut9503 Max: I was minus 3
Max, your father almost killed Martin Brundle with his car ;D
Jos literally got flicked by martin’s head
1994 saddest year of F1!
F1 is Passion, not a fatalities wiki list. '94 (probably you were not born yet) Michael The Cheater won the championship; 2 pilots died the same week-end; and one of them was THE Greater Ayrton! Barrichello almost died, Brundle almost died that year, etc etc.. So, TO ME, this was saddest year. Can your mind accept this? Your comment is just useless and terribly pathetic.
@Seniku Moonjewel i understand what he says, 1994 was the worst year for F1 in modern times, i know it's been 27 years, but fatal accidents were very rare since the 1980s and even more since the 1990s, from 1970s and backwards fatalities and serious accidents were almost as common as brushing our teeth, F1 was being fatality free for 12 years and suddenly 2 (almost 3) drivers died in the same weekend. The fact that fatalities were not a common thing by those years's standards made it more shocking that it would have been during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Side note: i sadly have to say that Senna cheated as well as Schumacher did, but i'm not going to compare who cheated more, they both did it at least once in their careers, period
Who’s here after Monza 2021 with Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton
I thought the same thing. Both Verstappen's in a potential British driver decapitation?
Just in front of me, I was there watching my first live GP
Poor brundle minding his own business and nearly gets decapitated
who’s here after Brundle mentioning it on Sky
Me
In 94, Barrichello and Brundle are almost died too, sad year in F1's history but also one of the greatest looking cars ever.
Martin Brundle is a legend
Verstappen’s rear wheel hitting an opponent on the head
Like father like son
Who’s here after verstappen Hamilton 2021?
I remember when kid to reproduce that crash with my toys so many times. I never saw the video. Thank you!
So much crazy stuff was happening in 1994. I almost forgot about this incident. That hit on Brundle's head looked so violent.
0:59
"#NOHALO"... Somehow people still want racers to have chances to be injured...
Just because the halo does its work, *doesn't* mean I have to like it
In some people's eyes people can only be heroes when they risk their lives.
I think it's safe to say that they think the only safety improvement is mindset like "If you got hurt, it's your fault. Fuck off."
Hold on, I am pretty sure Martin himself expressed displeasure on the HALO when it first came about.
Halo is a safety improvement,of course. As everybody likes to say, everything that makes the cars safer is better. But if that really is true, why don't they close the cockpit completely? Cover the wheels? The cars even as they are now are not safe, so if anything that improves safety is better, why not do it properly right away? Why just partly cover he cockpit if driver safety is so much of a concern?
There is no safe way to do motorsports. Probably the safest it gets is NASCAR, though.
please don't crop pixels off of old videos to make them widescreen, they are low resolution already
Like Father, Like Son, Monza 2021...
This is real F1 cars. No DRS no Halo and Good engines
Bullshit. Real F1 cars were front engine rear wheel drive sliding drift monsters. Crash at high speed meant nearly certain death.
and of course good racing
@0:43 that incredible video quality as well as the sound 😵
Imagine how many lives would have been saved had the Halo been there in 1994? Although he was lucky to walk away uninjured despite cracking his helmet, a few more inches and that would have been the third fatality.
As someone that's pretty young and only recently got into F1, I knew Martin raced before but seeing him in a car is strange. I've always known him as the voice behind most races, along with Croft.
Mandez he also won Le Mans in 1990 driving for Jaguar.
The halo saved Brundle's life!
Irvine its K Magnussen from XX century
👍😂
Such beautiful cars back then, both look and sound.
Those cars where the ones that took Ayrton's Senna And Roland's Ratzenberger life and killed for 6 minutes Rubens Barrichello
Just in case we needed one more reason to consider the halo a vital addition to the cars!
Halo was introduced because of Lewroll's crash bang mentality
One thing is a fact that young drivers, nowadays, arrive to F1 much more matured than back then.
Another reason for the halo. Smart move f1🙏🙏🙏
How did brundle survive that clout of an F1 rear tyre?!
Brundle deu muita sorte de não ter se lesionado gravemente com a roda que levou na cabeça, o halo faz cada vez mais sentido pra mim.
Looks like this was the first of SEVERAL serious accidents that occurred that season. I have no other comment on this.
These helmets could take a lot it’s surprising to me how he wasn’t killed but even back then even in that dreadful season safety was improving
I didn't see this race, but somebody at school told me "a car ran over another drivers' head and he died". I felt miserable that day, but I saw the highlights some time later and he was clearly fine.
It"s incredible how much the safety has increased during those years
I've always known about this incident but had no idea Brundle could've died... That wheel hit and whiplash look really bad. Lucky guy, thankfully.
This was the *third* major head impact he took as an F1 driver, not to mention shattering both his lower legs and almost losing his left foot in another wreck. It's astonishing that he's alive at all, let alone compos mentis and walking about unaided.
maybe the halo is good after all
@@PursuingBrilliantSpeed and there are people buying sits instead of earning them with skill
Guilherme Schmidt I assume you know about superlicenses right?
Shut up, the halo is a Shit
@@javiergarrido6088 *facepalm*
It hurts me that people still think this even after the halo has proved it's worth this year.
Dumb fucks are just dumb fucks. They didn't even know what open wheel racing vs open cockpit racing
And there's a perfect example of why the Halo would have been a true life saver. (granted, Brundle walked away, but easily could have been killed). I watched that rear tire hit the helmet...I cringed!
Incredible he lived, all other times I've seen a driver take a direct hit to the helmet were catastrophic; Justin Wilson's fatal collision with a broken front wing, and Cristiano De Matta ended up in a coma after taking direct hit to the helmet with a deer (of all things).
I'm not totally convinced there has been no long term damage, it was a hell of a hit. Nonetheless incredibly lucky to keep his head.
I wish I could remember when, but while commenting a race a few years ago, Brundle said he did NOT get away uninjured, but he didn’t seek treatment. He said he felt confused the rest of the day, and forgot things almost immediately after they happened. Fortunately, mild concussions usually heal themselves without long-term issues.
He still has speech slurring issued today from the crash (you may have heard some slurring during commentary)
That halo saved his life
He was lucky to walk away from this unharmed but overall Brundle must be one of the unluckiest drivers ever. Had it not been for all the accidents he had and the injuries he got from them, he could have been one of F1 greats. Similar to Kubica.
Stupid how we couldn't get a quick interview from today about what Brundle recalls from it...
His head, my god, that looked scary, any more side-on motion and he wouldn’t have been so lucky, the luck came because the car was still flying upwards and the tyre only clipped his helmet off the side as it looks
Is it me or did Brundle always look 60 from the start of his career to now
I remember when that happened and being blown away that Martin hadn't suffered a broken neck, at least.
Jos the boss
Verstappen opens his helmet while crashing. 😂
One of the coolest moves I've ever seen...
One of the coolest guys in f1 back then.
Martin Brundle escapes pretty much sums up his whole career
Senna foresaw Irvine causing trouble when they had their run in in Japan in 1993 - he said as much to him.
Well Senna was the expert for causing issues in Japan
My neck hurts just looking at this.
When I was a child this was one of the first crashes I remember
Martin in his book Working the wheel explain drive slow after he had detected a fatal mechanical problem with the flyware and he slowed and prevent the crew to abandoned in the end on this lap when the three car colide with his car.
This safety car is amazing
Jesus christ his tire hit martins head with such force his car flipped. Look at it in .25 speed
so beautiful machines!
That wasn't a light hit either. Martin has had a couple very scary crashes. One of the best broadcasters too, we are very lucky to have him still.
its crazy how much their head moves without the newer HANS device on their shoulders
Verstappen would have been in the points if not for Irvine.
What were their positions? Barrichello finished 4th, were they ahead of him or behind? Was Brundle (coasting with engine problems) on the same lap as them?
@@alesi257 brundle was in sixth I believe...
One of the greatest talents in f1
Fans: Wow this crash is huge!
Maldonado: pfft hold my beer:
@ObviouslyKieran Ericsson's fault. ''What a mental guy!''
My very first car was a 94 Ford Verona, the same car towing Irvine's.
love the music for this video
Still mind blowing, he git hitted in the head and still could walk away
Isso foi um presságio do que viria a ser aquela terrível temporada.
He didnt even have a halo to protect himself, but somehow his skull kept it together
More vault clips please 🏁💯
I like Eddie Irvine and he was great as Schumachers team mate at Ferrari....But in this phase of his career, Senna summed him up best : "You're not a racing driver, you're a f***ing idiot"
One of the worst accidents I had seen at that time. Brundles head was violently banged. I thought he would die.....but then he walked away. How on earth did he do that
1994 was the last year of beautiful F1 cars
Jos Verstappen was replacing JJ Lehto at Benetton who had a serious accident in winter tests at Silverstone. He debuted first at Imola and stalled his car at the start causing an accident and the race had to be restarted if I remember right. What a year...
That's right
Crastrappons doing what they do best! Crashing!
He got hit on the head by a car..........and people say we dont need the halo.
When Flávio Briatore wasn’t a cheeseburger
Oh, my goodness! I never even heard of this moment! This proves why we need the halo!
As bad as this was for Brundle - it's not even close to what almost happened to Martin at the rain-soaked Japanese GP at the end of the '94 season. Martin aquaplaned off the Suzuka circuit at the Degner Curve on Lap 14...and he *just missed*'going head-first into a 8 ton Komatsu tractor that was moving away the car of Gianni Morbidelli. Brundle was convinced he was about to die - but was fortunate to miss the tractor by less than a foot.