14:38 "Is this guy still alive?" He is, and he won that exact race the next year. Another fun fact: He had to sit out the next race, and in his place, future four-times world Champion Sebastian Vettel made his debut. The driver, Kubica, sadly had an accident in a rally-race a few years later, dropped out of motorsport for a while, before making a comeback for the then worst team in the F1, add a singular point to his talley, before getting dropped again. Now he's a reserve driver.
I think it merits mentioning that in the Montréal crash in '07, Kubica's injury list was: 1. A mild concussion. 2. A sprained ankle. As Jack mentioned, he did miss the following race at Indianapolis, as a precaution.
Yup probably the scariest crash in the last 20years of f1 I think at least that I can remember. Was one where all rivalry and team stuff went out the window and all everyone wanted was for grosjean to be ok.
I was watching too. And the longer they took to say/show what had happened, the more that sickening feeling grew. To me that wasn't a spectacular crash, not like Alonso's airborne trip over Leclerc at Spa a couple of years ago. Grosjean's accident was just a sickening, then miraculous....event.
@@neiltitmus9744 she/he is referring that in nascar is like normal to see a beer can on track, in F1 it's difficult to see other things rather than car parts on the track
@@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791 Pretty ignorant comment considering NASCAR literally raced at that track and has consistently raced at road courses for decades.
As someone who struggles with sector one constantly, they aint wrong. But even in general, SIlverstone is all grit. Flat out for so much of the lap and great mix of low, medium and high speed corners. Dont knock the old girl
18:15 Jules Bianchi didn't pass away in this accident, he was involved in an accident at the Japanese GP in October of that year and passed away from injuries 9 months later. RIP Jules Bianchi
@@leonie364. well yes the pictures are from Suzuka, but the clip right before is from Circuit Gilles Villenueve, and if you didn't know its different crashes (as the dudes in the video) it gives the impression that he died from his injuries during the canadian gp
You should have a look at romain Grosjeans f1 crash from last year. I won't spoil it but it was horrendous, I was watching it live on TV and I genuinely thought I'd just watched some die live. Thankfully he walked away with minor burns to his hands and feet
He now races in indycar and has in his contract that he won't race on oval tracks as they have similar barriers to the one in the f1 accident, I can't say I blame him at all really.
During the 60s and 70s these drivers were getting killed on a weekly basis. F1 legend Jackie Stewart, who had 27 wins during those times, has been a major campaigner for safety in the sport and has been instrumental in how far safety developments have come.
In his push for safety in F1, he even ended his career one race sooner, deciding not to hit the 100 race mark after he lost his teammate (Cevert) in the quali. Tyrrell being devastated and withdrawing completely from that race was fully understandable and probably was a step towards improving the safety of the sport.
European GP 2007 The victim of that crash was Robert Kubica of Poland. Thankfully because of the monocoque design he escaped with very minor injuries. Later in a press conference, he was asked 'have you seen the crash?', to which 'Yes I saw it, I was there!' He had an unfortunate rallying accident a long time ago, but returned to F1 for two seasons a couple of years ago.
@@LeandroGomes-zv2dm I stand corrected sir. I was still thinking of Spa European GP 2012. Fernando Alonso got very lucky that day. I know people don't like them, but thank God for the halo devices!
And still, few years later (2018-19 don't remember exactly) was able to drive a F1 again in the championship. Was not the best car, but still : He drive a F with "one" hand.
Watch the Grojean crash at the end of last season... absolutely spectacular that he got out. All the latest safety precautions showed their worth, especially the halo head protection and fire proof clothing. Amazing, so good that it had a happy out come! Now he's in Indy
15:05 - “That would have to break your head if a wheel hit you in the head” R.I.P Ayrton Senna. That is exactly how this legend died in the sport of Formula 1.
In the 70's the weekend between two GP's was regularly used by the drivers to attend a collegue's funeral. F1 has come a long way since but with these speeds you can never guarantee no one will ever die again.
In his autobiography, Jackie Stewart wrote that if in his era you wanted to be an F1 driver for 5 years, there was a 60% chance you would be dead before the 5 years were up. Frightening
Jep. San Marino 1994 with the deaths of Ratzenberger and Senna was the wake-up-call. Since then only one driver died because of injuries resulting from an accident during a F1 race - Jules Bianchi.
15:05 This actually happened back in '94, when Ayrton Senna crashed into a barrier and the front right wheel ricocheted back off the barrier and hit him in the head, which unfortunately killed him. One of the GOATs of F1!
Was it not a suspension arm or linkage that pierced his helmet killing him? There was a big cover up with Williams because they could have been found liable, they held onto his helmet or would not release it to his family??
@@gbarnewall1 The suspension arm partially penetrated the helmet, so it caused some trauma, but the main thing would've been the blunt force of the wheel striking his head. Also there was some assembly piece that pierced his visor too. To be honest, any of the 3 could have been the thing that proved fatal, all 3 definitely played a cause for sure
Neither of you are wrong, but you’re forgetting the impact at around 300 kph. At least that’s how fast he approached the corner according to the news broadcaster back in 94. Combine all the injuries with a high impact and chances of living just drop further. If memory serves me correct, Senna was brain dead but his heart kept pumping before the Italian authorities finally pronounced him dead. The racers didn’t know what happened until after race.
Wrong. I managed to find the coroners report for Senna and it included a detailed report of injury findings as well as 3 pictures.. 1 of Senna lying on the table shot from the waist up, side on angle, which showed the right side of his head highly inflated, the second of the inside of his helmet (which was almost half stained with a deep red with touches of pinky/grey above where the right eyebrow would have been), the last picture is a medical sketch showing the impact area, depth and pieces of bone displaced in the impact. The report and post mortem images prove the official cause of death, and it was an upper suspension rod to the right eyebrow causing almost instant total brain death. There were also no rubber markings on his helmet or mentioned in the report, so no, wasn't the tyre. RIP Ayrton
So in the earlier races the big first lap pile ups resulted in a complete restart and all the teams had a spare car available to them, so the montreal and belgium races were restarted with much larger grids than would be the case now where each drivers car is locked down from qualifying onwards. In the spa crashes they also missed the point where Schumacher was trying to lap Coulthard while in the lead and ran into him losing a wheel. The European gp where they had the sheets and things up Diniz I think was the driver and he was OK the neck brace was more a precaution, that Grand Prix is one of them most epic races ever. Montreal 07 was a guy by the name of Robert Kubica, he missed the next race as a precaution for concussion, he hit the wall at over 300kmh (about 186mph), the next year he took his first F1 win at the same track as this accident. He had a big accident in pre season of 2011 competing in a rally car where an armco barrier went through the front of the car and partially severed his right arm, before this he was thought of as a possible future world champion, after he thought the lack of use of his right hand would make driving an F1 car again almost impossible. He managed one more season racing for Williams in 2019. Hungary 2009 was Fillipe Massa who almost lost an eye after a spring fell out of or was possibly flicked up by the car he was following and bounced up off the track and hit him. He competed until a couple of years ago. The footage from Spa 2012 is probably the worst angle Romain Grosjean in the black and gold car you see for a few frames just destroyed a heap of cars and went over the top of Fernando Alonso and Alonso had a tyre mark on his helmet I believe where the other car went over the top of him. They didnt actually show the Jules Bianchi crash just where his car came to rest, the crash before it was in Canada and Jules crashed in Japan, in the rain, going a bit fast when there were yellow flags waving and slid off the track into a tractor that was trying to recover another car from the sand trap. The Tractor should have never been on any part of the track but Jules had also not slowed for yellow flags as he should have. A tragic avoidable accident. The guy they pushed is at a demonstration event in some city in Europe where they basically drive around and do a few donuts for the crowd and that is super embarrassing. Where the Alonso crash happens there is a bigger pileup in 1997 with a car doing a very similar thing and unfortunately a wheel goes through the fence and a marshal ended up dying. Alonso walking away from that crash is testament to the safety of the modern F1 car. They missed Melbourne 2002 off this list for sure. As to F1 versus Indy, the modern F1 cars top speed is around 350kph at Monza so I would assume they could give an Indycar a run for its money on an oval for a very short time however they are not built for sustained running at that sort of speed or constant G force in one direction for an oval race. F1 only runs on what you would call 'road' courses, both purpose built tracks and street tracks made out of closed public roads. In this environment an F1 car would leave and Indycar in its dust. Circuit of the Americas in Texas is probably the best comparison and its about 14 seconds per lap difference. Sorry for the wall of text
I'm actually surprised that in Belgium '98, Schumacher restrained himself enough to just accuse DC of trying to kill him instead of straight out beating him down, he was clearly fuming after that incident. If Kubica actually managed to drive for Ferrari since 2012, he probably would've had at least one title to his name. He's pretty much always been friends with Alonso, so they would have probably been the tifosi's "Dream Team", just like Leclerc and Sainz recently. The spring that knocked out Massa in Hungary '09, from what I remember, came from Barrichello's Brawn. It was dramatic and sad that he had to sit out the rest of the season (replaced by heavily underwhelming Badoer - like, idk why Ferrari gave him the wheel after about a 10-year break - and then the fairly decent Fisichella), never to return to his 2008 level 😢 Now, after a spectacular season, who would have thought that the guy who embarrassed himself this badly during that PR event would eventually become World Champion... 🤔 I can agree that while F1 cars can be similar to IndyCar performance-wise, they definitely can't withstand the pretty much constant G-forces of the ovals (unlike the cars from the first years of the championship, when Indy 500 was also a part of the F1 calendar), as it could be seen when F1 raced at Indianapolis in the early 2000s, especially at the infamous 2005 US GP, when Michelin tires (better overall when it came to performance while withstanding a whole race distance - banning tire changes was probably the dumbest regulation of that season - but ill-prepared for the banking of the circuit's last corner combined with more abrasive tarmac surface) were considered too dangerous to run unless teams running their rubber stopped every 10 laps while Bridgestone was well informed as they got data from Firestone (used in IndyCar).
Those pictures where from the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix. near the end of the race, which ended after being Red Flagged. Adrian Sutil spun his #99 Sauber and ended up in the in field just off line. A couple laps later Jules Biachi in his #17 Marussia-Manor aquaplaned at the same corner and hit the recovery tractor so hard it caused the tractor to jump and land on his car. Jules passed away from the injuries sustained from that crash on July 17 2015 in a hospital in Nice, France. Since then the #17 has been retired by the FIA and no driver can run under that number again.
15.19 Canada 2008 "Bone-headed move" Ironically, that was 7-time world champion Lewis Hamilton rear-ending the then reigning world champion in only his 2nd year of racing. He hadn't realized that the pit lane exit was closed, so he barrelled into the back of Raikkonnen and ruined both of their races. Hamilton had been leading the race from pole up until that point but a crash on track meant lots of cars went for a pit stop. Presumably, because of the location of the accident, the pit lane exit was closed.
Ok, let's clear some misunderstandings: - Back then Hamilton (as you mentioned later) was in his second year in F1, so he was the FUTURE 7-time WC - The SC under which that crash occurred wasn't due to a crash, it was Sutil's Force India failing and being left in a spot too dangerous to be collected by the marshals without the SC coming out - The spot, at which the Force India pulled over, was nowhere near the pit lane, its exit was closed to let the one-stopping pack safely through, without any collisions with two-stoppers (Kubica, Hamilton, Raikkonen, but also Alonso and Rosberg); Fun Fact: the year before, during one of the SCs, the pit lane exit was also closed, but Massa and Fisichella missed the red light and got black-flagged
That was actually a software issue that caused the car to go into "anti-stall" only found out recently myself, but this essentially means the car was in limp home mode
You two guys are hillarious! I‘m very into F1 (living in Germany, I have to 😂) and listening to the thoughts of two guys who are into racing but not F1 is great entertainement! Keep it up 👍🏻😁
I only truly appreciated the power of f1 when I saw Lewis Hamilton stood on a front wing and it didn’t even flex. The smallest contact from these cars and carbon fibre is flying all over the place.
Carbon fiber is a marvelously strong material. But its marvelously strong in one direction. That front wing that supported Hamilton would snap if you applied the same amount of weight to the leading edge. F1 suspensions are mostly made of carbon fiber, and can take the pounding of going over the curbs at speed for hours. But if another car bumps tire to tire, or they sidewall a wall, they'll break like a twig.
@@jamiemidge4983 one thing I neglected to say.... If you think of a sheet of carbon fiber as having a grain to it, like a piece of lumber, you're not far off. Because F1 teams are stupidly rich... you used to be able to run an IndyCar season on the combined *catering budget* of the F1 teams... they've got more experience with carbon fiber than just about anybody. To make their suspension pieces as strong as possible, they'll "weave" the grain of sheets of carbon fiber. Like, the first sheet's grain goes left-right, the second sheet will be at a 90° angle to that. Obviously it's more complicated than that... I'm no F1 carbon fiber fabricator, I'm basically repeating what I've heard on the "tech talk" parts of race coverage... but it's the general idea. Its all well above my pay grade.
I don’t know if Spencer and Daniel will read this but if you want to get a little more familiar with F1 Netflix has a great documentary series named Dive to Survive that they have been doing since 2018. It’s bringing a lot of new fans in especially from America and will help you get more familiar with the cars , drivers, and politics that go on in the Formula One Paddock.
Oh! It’s awesome you saw this. Also wanted to say, I grew up in Howard county and it’s great to see some other people repping the Maryland flag well :)
Robert Kubica at 14:40 survived. I don't think he was badly injured there. He did get injured years later in a rally car during the F1 off season. Massa, hit by the spring, recovered, raced, fought for a championship. The pics at 18:15 the only fatality in this. He hit and went under a recover truck that was recovering another car. He died months later.
Regarding Kubica, he was knocked unconscious for a short time by the collision. The front of the monocoque had sheared off leaving his feet completely exposed (you can see this on some camera angles). He regained consciousness at the track and was removed to a hospital. In total he suffered a mild concussion, and a sprained ankle. As a precaution, Kubica sat out the next race (Indianapolis) which gave a young rookie by the name of Sebastian Vettel his first F1 race. A few people have heard of him... Did okay with a couple of teams owned by an energy drinks company. Anyhow, that weekend he finished in 8th, scoring 1 point.
Even if you are leading the race in the wet, inevitably you will start catching the cars in the back, and you will have to lap them. Drivers say that they listen to the engine of the car in front, when it starts downshifting, they start slowing down too. You can't really see anything from the spray
The Romain Grosjean crash at the Bahrain GP Nov. 2020 . His whole car disintegrated, split in 2 and got wedged in the protective barrier. It caught fire, he said he accepted he was going to die but then he stood up and escaped just in time as a fireball engulfed his cockpit.
In formula one on the first lap they always have a car following the race cars. In that car they have the race doctor. It’s so he can be immediately on hand in case anything happens such as the case you saw in the clips. The race doctor used to be a guy called Sid Watkins, known as the Prof., who was a neurosurgeon. He started off giving medical support in America but quickly took over medical safety for F1. The number of advancements in car racing safety are numerous and are spread over all types of car racing.
@@Simarino54 I know what you're saying, but before Imola 94, people were thinking F1 has become safe. There hadn't been deaths for some time. And then it all came like a punch in the face.
The first corner is always the most spectacular to watch in every race, sometimes it goes without a hitch but mostly someone always gets sandwiched. I love f1 I'm a huge huge fan love the whole weekend from start to finish
Yep. I agree. The craziest race start ever. Best was it was when each team had a spare car, so whoever raced back to the pits the fastest got to get to the restart grid.
@@KathleenMc73 It wasn't the case with a lot of teams that the first there got the spare car. Usually it would be the teams no1. driver meaning Schumacher, Hakkinen etc got the car. I can't speak for the lower teams like Tyrrell and Minardi at the time though. You could be right in those cases.
Jules Bianci’s death was perhaps the most senseless and saddest death ever in the history of motorsports. He skidded off in the wet and collided with the side of a tractor/loadall that was on the edge of the track removing a car that had crashed a few laps previously. At relatively slow speed, his car slid halfway under the tractor and his head struck the vehicle’s counterweight side on.
Montreal 07 " is this guy still alive" was Kubica. He missed the following race (US GP at Indianapolis) with concussion but was back the race after. 4 time world F1 champion replaced Kubica at Indy for his first F1 race
Jules Bianchi wasn't actually in that crash. There was a problem with the flags, because of which he went off while the other car was transported away by the tractor and he went under the tractor and passed away from his injuries a few months later. His death was a big reason why halos were put on F1 cars, which saved multiple drivers lives by now. At the top of my head I can think of Leclerc (Australia?) 2017, and Grosjean Bahrain 2020
These F1 cars weigh approx 1500lb compared to a NASCAR's 3200lbs. F1 cars make 1000hp+ from a 1.6 litre engine, NASCAR engines make approx 800bhp from 5.9 litres on the fastest unrestricted tracks. The difference in power to weight ratios is huge.
Thats why Michael Schuhmacher was called the rain magician... Everytime it rained and he was on the track, you knew he would perform outstanding in 99% of all cases.
Good video guys :) but Spencer, F1 takes things to a new level, I bet you’d be impressed by the measures taken for safety...but going round corners as fast as these cars can compared to NASCAR, it’s not an easy translation of safety in approach
The @18.40 was Max Verstappen in the toro rosso. Demo in Rotterdam city. That was his first time driving an F1 car. At the time he was 16/17 years old. The antistall system pushed the car in the armco.
Never really the same again though, in part team orders to get the other guy to a first so could not win when he deserved to , but it took the edge off him for when he did have a small chance not to see it through, Was that the same year Surtees in F2 got taken fatally by a detached wheel from a competitor car
15:35 so here, Massa got hit by a spring from another car. It hit him on the helmet which caused him to get knocked out. His foot was stuck on the throttle and he hit the wall hard. He didn’t race for the second half of the season
It didn't just hit him on the helmet - it happened to hit one of the very few structural weak points of the helmet, and he suffered a serious head injury due to that.
This cars are insane in the corners. Cornering speed is off the scale, because they have very little weight (900 kilos) and about 1000HP, plus the aero, they can go from 180 to 0 mph in 120 meters, and back to 180 in 7 seconds. Absolute monsters. Safety in this cars is paramount, thats why they have this wrecks and they (most of the time) walk away without any injuries.
Don't forget "inertial-tranference", it's not that the cars are weak per se, but if you're moving at that speed and suddenly stop, the whole mass of your forward velocity tries to equalise with whatever you hit. To stop the driver turning into jelly, the cars have impact-zones to split the damage across the vehicle in less than a second. The car gets shredded, so you don't have to.
14:40 incredible to think he had his almost certainly last 2 f1 races this year 14 years after the accident and only missed out on a le man class win due to a last lap retirement. it’s honestly incredible!
In 1976 Niki Lauda had a crash where he was stuck in his burning car at 800°C (about 1400°F) for some time . In the Hospital they gave him his last rites. 42 days later he got back into his car and finished the season in fourth place and becoming world champion next. One tough sob!
A few clips you should look for... Starting of Belgium 2018 (Alonso, Hulkenburg, Leclerc) Mugello 2020 Safety Car restart Europe 2010 (Webber) Italy 2018 (Ericsson in Practice)
You see these, and you have a much better understanding of why F1 and IndyCar have evolved to having the halo bar over the open cockpit; IndyCar currently also has a windshield. As others here have mentioned, the halo saved Sebastien Grosjean's life during his horrific fiery crash at the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix. You should definitely react to that crash!
F1 is one of the safest motorsports.. there is major safety for the drivers now, particularly above the cockpit to protect the drivers head, and also medics are on scene in minutes since the death of senna..
In 2018 F1 introduced the halo and this protects the driver from get hit by tyres, other cars and have saved a lot of lives but it can't prevent the driver from getting hit by smaller things like the one the video shows.
Formel 1 cars are extremely safe. Since 2018 the have Halo-System (secondary roll structure). Before that, since 2003 they get Hans-System (Head and Neck Support) . 14:25 it was Robert Kubica in BMW. He survived this crash without any problems. 15:18 GP 2008 Canada - on the right side, only car was not damaged there, was also Robert Kubica - he won this race, becouse the leaders was involved in this silly crash on the pit lane 15:28 That spring was an part of the other car suspension...this spring bounced a while on the track till Massa hit it by about 270kmh/ 170mph. He was immediately KO, and was longer in hospital. 16:47 it was a failure becouse of huge down force at high speed.
Used to be able to repair cars or swap to a backup car on restarts, thats rarely allowed now other than some repairs if time on a halted for weather race.
The one with the spring was Felipe Massa. The spring was 800 gram and he hit it at about 150 mph. He survived and raced againg a year later. Best advertising for schuberth (helmet brand) ever.
17:40 (Canadian GP) Jules Bianchi did not die here, this is one dubious information. Jules Bianchi passed away in an accident during the Japanese GP 2014 held in Suzuka Circuit. RIP Jules.....
15:50 Not a beer can, it was a suspension spring that had fallen off a car in front, caused Reubens Barichello a serious head injury and is the reason F1 helmets now have a reinforced top half of the visor.
15:03 the tyre hitting somebody in the head thing has happened in F2. Henry Surtees was hit in the head during a race and was later pronounced brain-dead in the hospital. Felipe Massa got off luckier, he also was hit in the head but by a suspension part in an F1 race but was rushed to a hospital and after emergency surgery he recovered back to racing form to continue driving in Formula 1. He currently is driving in Formule E.
The third crash, Germany 1999, was Mika Hakkinen's left rear tire failing right at the end of that straight. You can see it going pop just as he hits the brakes. At that point of the racetrack they were doing nearly 210mph. Scary one...
Formula One safety is the pinnacle of auto sports. The roll frame is embedded into that central air duct and the safety structure of the carbon monocoque is crash safety rated as well as the nose structure. Formula One had the Hanns neck restraint device well before even NASCAR. That Fernando crash you saw last is one of the reasons they now drive with a cockpit halo much like how Indy has a driver wind shield apparatus. You guys should review more F1 races I think you would enjoy the F1 format. You might particularly love the street circuits like Monaco or Baku. Lastly driving in the rain is wildly entertaining and plenty of race drama comes from those rain races.
Interview at that time with Alexander Wurz. "What did you think when you rolled over three times and were upside down in gravel?" "Hopefully they'll have my spare car ready when they restart." Another interview back then with Alexander Wurz in Monaco. "What was going on?" "I didn't get the chicane at the tunnel exit and crashed into the barrier at over 200 km/h. Luckily there was a concrete flower pot there, which prevented worse things from happening."
THE HORROR clip was Robert Kubica, polish, criminally underrated driver in both f1, Rally & World Endurance Racing. The man has survived atleast 3 death defying crashes & still has a lot of his pace today. amazing bloke
We have Sir Jackie Stewart to thank for most of the driver safety improvements that are used for most of the different racing organizations in motosports today. He finally got the drivers union to boycot or stop a race when the safety of the tracks was non-existent, pressuring the promoters to make improvements. He was tired of attending so many funerals traceable to conditions they were forced to race under.
15:05 the debris to the head comment, the last IndyCar fatality (Justin Wilson, 2015) was caused by exactly that. They now have the aero screen which is meant to prevent that happening again. And in fact the F1 legend Ayrton Senna was killed when hit in the head with his own right front wheel.
Quite a few missing from this time frame. I feel like i could sit and chat about Nascar/Indycar/F1 with spencer for hours. He mentions the indy500. It's this weekend as well as the Coke 600 in nascar
15:29 Hungary 2009, Felipe Massa, the pilot who got struck by a spring, was both accelerating and breaking after the hit, which indicated a potential loss of consciousness. That's what I got from the French commentary on the video analysis. He missed the rest of the season that year after that crash and injury to recover from it.
Brazil 2003 was more to that, a following car found the debris and tire in the track, their car was totalled with other cars taking evasive action to avoid the 2 crashed cars.
18:08 Jules Bianchi, deceased in Japan GP. Under the rain, crashed under the forklift that was removing a car that crashed just before. also, about Spa, in F2, Antoine Hubert, dead T-boned, his car was obliterated... Jules was the godfather for Charles Leclerc. Antoine was a very close friend. And Grosjean, the phoenix is another very close friend... so when Grosjean had his big accident and stunt in the fire, he was really worried... race god almost killed a 3rd French driver in 5 year
14:45 yes he (Robert Kubica) is still alive a year later he won Montreal , he had some years later had he a rally crash and now one of his hands doenst work good, but in 2019 after 8 years of having no seat in f1 he made his comeback, noww days he is reserve for alfa romeo
14:38 "Is this guy still alive?"
He is, and he won that exact race the next year. Another fun fact: He had to sit out the next race, and in his place, future four-times world Champion Sebastian Vettel made his debut. The driver, Kubica, sadly had an accident in a rally-race a few years later, dropped out of motorsport for a while, before making a comeback for the then worst team in the F1, add a singular point to his talley, before getting dropped again. Now he's a reserve driver.
That rally crash was horrendous
Not to mention he kept up the pace with younger drivers after hit rally-race crash with technacly 1 hand since his other hand is kinda fucked
ALL HAIL TO GIGAKUBICA
I think it merits mentioning that in the Montréal crash in '07, Kubica's injury list was:
1. A mild concussion.
2. A sprained ankle.
As Jack mentioned, he did miss the following race at Indianapolis, as a precaution.
The legend!
Check out Grosjeans crash from last year. You'll be shocked he walked away and shows the amazing safety features of the cars.
I still can't wrap my head around how he didn't die. That was a legit miracle.
Same
Yup probably the scariest crash in the last 20years of f1 I think at least that I can remember. Was one where all rivalry and team stuff went out the window and all everyone wanted was for grosjean to be ok.
I was watching too. And the longer they took to say/show what had happened, the more that sickening feeling grew. To me that wasn't a spectacular crash, not like Alonso's airborne trip over Leclerc at Spa a couple of years ago. Grosjean's accident was just a sickening, then miraculous....event.
@@peterwale6821 halo device saved his life.
"Ouh that's the big one!"..."Is that a beer can?" Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Nascar.
It was a suspention part from the car in front
It was serious but he raced again and was ok
@@neiltitmus9744 she/he is referring that in nascar is like normal to see a beer can on track, in F1 it's difficult to see other things rather than car parts on the track
@@chapo7074 maybe because the track isn't just in front of the people
@@chapo7074 Just goes to show which series is majestic! lol
"Wow the first corner?"
Yeah...that happens alot
First corner is the most dangerous lol.
Hungary 2021😂
Being NASCAR fans, I like to imagine they were surprised by the corner itself, not the accident that happened.
@@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791 Pretty ignorant comment considering NASCAR literally raced at that track and has consistently raced at road courses for decades.
Australia 97
"Silverstone is a hardcore course"
- yeah, those guys are really NASCAR fans
imagine they tried portimao
Imagine if they saw Baku, Macau, or Zandvoort they would go crazy. If they saw the Nurburg Nordscheife though they would go insane.
As someone who struggles with sector one constantly, they aint wrong. But even in general, SIlverstone is all grit. Flat out for so much of the lap and great mix of low, medium and high speed corners. Dont knock the old girl
Came looking for your comment at that part😅
old silverstone was intense. hell even the new version is pretty relentless.
18:15 Jules Bianchi didn't pass away in this accident, he was involved in an accident at the Japanese GP in October of that year and passed away from injuries 9 months later. RIP Jules Bianchi
The pictures were from the accident during the japanese grand prix
@@leonie364. actually they were not from that accident.
@@somerandom2343 they are
@@leonie364. well yes the pictures are from Suzuka, but the clip right before is from Circuit Gilles Villenueve, and if you didn't know its different crashes (as the dudes in the video) it gives the impression that he died from his injuries during the canadian gp
@@justanotherbob69 well, I said the pictures were from the Japanese GP, not the video, didn't I?
14:12
What if we told you this was only the second worst crash Robert Kubica had in his racing career?
Some wouldn't believe it but some just know it's true
You know what's surprising? I'm not sure I saw any Mark Webber crash in this.
Whats #1?
@@Wombat44ooo the one that ruined his career
In his worst crash he almost lose nim arm
You should have a look at romain Grosjeans f1 crash from last year. I won't spoil it but it was horrendous, I was watching it live on TV and I genuinely thought I'd just watched some die live. Thankfully he walked away with minor burns to his hands and feet
agreed
Yes!
This one is a good pick!
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You just spoiled it
He now races in indycar and has in his contract that he won't race on oval tracks as they have similar barriers to the one in the f1 accident, I can't say I blame him at all really.
@@bionicgeekgrrl He's racing the full schedule next year including the ovals.
During the 60s and 70s these drivers were getting killed on a weekly basis. F1 legend Jackie Stewart, who had 27 wins during those times, has been a major campaigner for safety in the sport and has been instrumental in how far safety developments have come.
Yeah
It was drive to survive literally before the 80s
In his push for safety in F1, he even ended his career one race sooner, deciding not to hit the 100 race mark after he lost his teammate (Cevert) in the quali. Tyrrell being devastated and withdrawing completely from that race was fully understandable and probably was a step towards improving the safety of the sport.
European GP 2007
The victim of that crash was Robert Kubica of Poland.
Thankfully because of the monocoque design he escaped with very minor injuries.
Later in a press conference, he was asked 'have you seen the crash?', to which 'Yes I saw it, I was there!'
He had an unfortunate rallying accident a long time ago, but returned to F1 for two seasons a couple of years ago.
Canadian GP 2007*
@@LeandroGomes-zv2dm I stand corrected sir. I was still thinking of Spa European GP 2012.
Fernando Alonso got very lucky that day. I know people don't like them, but thank God for the halo devices!
@@philoates851 Still not European GP, that was at Valencia
canada 07 was kubica, he survived, then went and had a big rally crash a couple of years later which messed his hand up.
And still, few years later (2018-19 don't remember exactly) was able to drive a F1 again in the championship. Was not the best car, but still : He drive a F with "one" hand.
@@TheRaphael58 Yeah it was a Williams, extremely slow.
He's a test driver still for Alfa Romeo tho
Still managed to race in F1 again though with one arm
Makes you wonder what he would’ve been able to do with two like everyone else
"only people that win that, are those in the front"
*laughs in 1984 monaco GP Ayrton Senna*
Or Vettel Canada 2019
Vera tapped in the wet in Brazil also. That was killer to watch
F1 cars now have halos around the driver, indy cars also have these underneath the windshield. F1 cars are 1000bhp 1.6 litre engines
Watch the Grojean crash at the end of last season... absolutely spectacular that he got out. All the latest safety precautions showed their worth, especially the halo head protection and fire proof clothing. Amazing, so good that it had a happy out come! Now he's in Indy
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Now Silverstone 2021 and Monza 2021 on top😜 of that
@@jonasgraumans2034 Silverstone 22 as well.
15:05 - “That would have to break your head if a wheel hit you in the head” R.I.P Ayrton Senna. That is exactly how this legend died in the sport of Formula 1.
In the 70's the weekend between two GP's was regularly used by the drivers to attend a collegue's funeral. F1 has come a long way since but with these speeds you can never guarantee no one will ever die again.
In his autobiography, Jackie Stewart wrote that if in his era you wanted to be an F1 driver for 5 years, there was a 60% chance you would be dead before the 5 years were up. Frightening
Jep. San Marino 1994 with the deaths of Ratzenberger and Senna was the wake-up-call. Since then only one driver died because of injuries resulting from an accident during a F1 race - Jules Bianchi.
1950s statistics was the worst for deaths per season there is a great dvd film about Ferrari and dangers of racing in that era
15:05 This actually happened back in '94, when Ayrton Senna crashed into a barrier and the front right wheel ricocheted back off the barrier and hit him in the head, which unfortunately killed him. One of the GOATs of F1!
Was it not a suspension arm or linkage that pierced his helmet killing him? There was a big cover up with Williams because they could have been found liable, they held onto his helmet or would not release it to his family??
@@gbarnewall1 The suspension arm partially penetrated the helmet, so it caused some trauma, but the main thing would've been the blunt force of the wheel striking his head. Also there was some assembly piece that pierced his visor too. To be honest, any of the 3 could have been the thing that proved fatal, all 3 definitely played a cause for sure
Neither of you are wrong, but you’re forgetting the impact at around 300 kph. At least that’s how fast he approached the corner according to the news broadcaster back in 94. Combine all the injuries with a high impact and chances of living just drop further.
If memory serves me correct, Senna was brain dead but his heart kept pumping before the Italian authorities finally pronounced him dead.
The racers didn’t know what happened until after race.
Wrong. I managed to find the coroners report for Senna and it included a detailed report of injury findings as well as 3 pictures.. 1 of Senna lying on the table shot from the waist up, side on angle, which showed the right side of his head highly inflated, the second of the inside of his helmet (which was almost half stained with a deep red with touches of pinky/grey above where the right eyebrow would have been), the last picture is a medical sketch showing the impact area, depth and pieces of bone displaced in the impact. The report and post mortem images prove the official cause of death, and it was an upper suspension rod to the right eyebrow causing almost instant total brain death. There were also no rubber markings on his helmet or mentioned in the report, so no, wasn't the tyre. RIP Ayrton
Group b rally, the spectators stand in the road to get a better view it was nuts
I heard sometimes they'd find a finger or two on the car after a stage
@@ebob4177 yep your right because the crazy people actually tried grabbing the cars as they went past
So in the earlier races the big first lap pile ups resulted in a complete restart and all the teams had a spare car available to them, so the montreal and belgium races were restarted with much larger grids than would be the case now where each drivers car is locked down from qualifying onwards. In the spa crashes they also missed the point where Schumacher was trying to lap Coulthard while in the lead and ran into him losing a wheel.
The European gp where they had the sheets and things up Diniz I think was the driver and he was OK the neck brace was more a precaution, that Grand Prix is one of them most epic races ever.
Montreal 07 was a guy by the name of Robert Kubica, he missed the next race as a precaution for concussion, he hit the wall at over 300kmh (about 186mph), the next year he took his first F1 win at the same track as this accident. He had a big accident in pre season of 2011 competing in a rally car where an armco barrier went through the front of the car and partially severed his right arm, before this he was thought of as a possible future world champion, after he thought the lack of use of his right hand would make driving an F1 car again almost impossible. He managed one more season racing for Williams in 2019.
Hungary 2009 was Fillipe Massa who almost lost an eye after a spring fell out of or was possibly flicked up by the car he was following and bounced up off the track and hit him. He competed until a couple of years ago.
The footage from Spa 2012 is probably the worst angle Romain Grosjean in the black and gold car you see for a few frames just destroyed a heap of cars and went over the top of Fernando Alonso and Alonso had a tyre mark on his helmet I believe where the other car went over the top of him.
They didnt actually show the Jules Bianchi crash just where his car came to rest, the crash before it was in Canada and Jules crashed in Japan, in the rain, going a bit fast when there were yellow flags waving and slid off the track into a tractor that was trying to recover another car from the sand trap. The Tractor should have never been on any part of the track but Jules had also not slowed for yellow flags as he should have. A tragic avoidable accident.
The guy they pushed is at a demonstration event in some city in Europe where they basically drive around and do a few donuts for the crowd and that is super embarrassing.
Where the Alonso crash happens there is a bigger pileup in 1997 with a car doing a very similar thing and unfortunately a wheel goes through the fence and a marshal ended up dying. Alonso walking away from that crash is testament to the safety of the modern F1 car.
They missed Melbourne 2002 off this list for sure.
As to F1 versus Indy, the modern F1 cars top speed is around 350kph at Monza so I would assume they could give an Indycar a run for its money on an oval for a very short time however they are not built for sustained running at that sort of speed or constant G force in one direction for an oval race. F1 only runs on what you would call 'road' courses, both purpose built tracks and street tracks made out of closed public roads. In this environment an F1 car would leave and Indycar in its dust. Circuit of the Americas in Texas is probably the best comparison and its about 14 seconds per lap difference.
Sorry for the wall of text
I'm actually surprised that in Belgium '98, Schumacher restrained himself enough to just accuse DC of trying to kill him instead of straight out beating him down, he was clearly fuming after that incident.
If Kubica actually managed to drive for Ferrari since 2012, he probably would've had at least one title to his name. He's pretty much always been friends with Alonso, so they would have probably been the tifosi's "Dream Team", just like Leclerc and Sainz recently.
The spring that knocked out Massa in Hungary '09, from what I remember, came from Barrichello's Brawn. It was dramatic and sad that he had to sit out the rest of the season (replaced by heavily underwhelming Badoer - like, idk why Ferrari gave him the wheel after about a 10-year break - and then the fairly decent Fisichella), never to return to his 2008 level 😢
Now, after a spectacular season, who would have thought that the guy who embarrassed himself this badly during that PR event would eventually become World Champion... 🤔
I can agree that while F1 cars can be similar to IndyCar performance-wise, they definitely can't withstand the pretty much constant G-forces of the ovals (unlike the cars from the first years of the championship, when Indy 500 was also a part of the F1 calendar), as it could be seen when F1 raced at Indianapolis in the early 2000s, especially at the infamous 2005 US GP, when Michelin tires (better overall when it came to performance while withstanding a whole race distance - banning tire changes was probably the dumbest regulation of that season - but ill-prepared for the banking of the circuit's last corner combined with more abrasive tarmac surface) were considered too dangerous to run unless teams running their rubber stopped every 10 laps while Bridgestone was well informed as they got data from Firestone (used in IndyCar).
Those pictures where from the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix. near the end of the race, which ended after being Red Flagged. Adrian Sutil spun his #99 Sauber and ended up in the in field just off line. A couple laps later Jules Biachi in his #17 Marussia-Manor aquaplaned at the same corner and hit the recovery tractor so hard it caused the tractor to jump and land on his car. Jules passed away from the injuries sustained from that crash on July 17 2015 in a hospital in Nice, France. Since then the #17 has been retired by the FIA and no driver can run under that number again.
15.19 Canada 2008
"Bone-headed move"
Ironically, that was 7-time world champion Lewis Hamilton rear-ending the then reigning world champion in only his 2nd year of racing. He hadn't realized that the pit lane exit was closed, so he barrelled into the back of Raikkonnen and ruined both of their races.
Hamilton had been leading the race from pole up until that point but a crash on track meant lots of cars went for a pit stop. Presumably, because of the location of the accident, the pit lane exit was closed.
Ok, let's clear some misunderstandings:
- Back then Hamilton (as you mentioned later) was in his second year in F1, so he was the FUTURE 7-time WC
- The SC under which that crash occurred wasn't due to a crash, it was Sutil's Force India failing and being left in a spot too dangerous to be collected by the marshals without the SC coming out
- The spot, at which the Force India pulled over, was nowhere near the pit lane, its exit was closed to let the one-stopping pack safely through, without any collisions with two-stoppers (Kubica, Hamilton, Raikkonen, but also Alonso and Rosberg); Fun Fact: the year before, during one of the SCs, the pit lane exit was also closed, but Massa and Fisichella missed the red light and got black-flagged
Take it easy on Max in the Reb bull demo, he was only 15 or 16 when he did that
That was actually a software issue that caused the car to go into "anti-stall" only found out recently myself, but this essentially means the car was in limp home mode
Who cares? Dumb crashes is dumb crashes, no matter the age.
@@Johan91NL I'm just pointing out max was demoing F1 cars at 15, which is way better than anything you or I were doing
@@callmeshaggy5166 *17
I mean now he is probably the best driver if not one of the best drivers on the grid
You two guys are hillarious! I‘m very into F1 (living in Germany, I have to 😂) and listening to the thoughts of two guys who are into racing but not F1 is great entertainement!
Keep it up 👍🏻😁
I only truly appreciated the power of f1 when I saw Lewis Hamilton stood on a front wing and it didn’t even flex. The smallest contact from these cars and carbon fibre is flying all over the place.
Shows how high speed everything is and the forces involved
Carbon fiber is a marvelously strong material. But its marvelously strong in one direction. That front wing that supported Hamilton would snap if you applied the same amount of weight to the leading edge.
F1 suspensions are mostly made of carbon fiber, and can take the pounding of going over the curbs at speed for hours. But if another car bumps tire to tire, or they sidewall a wall, they'll break like a twig.
Wonderduck1 Cool man! Thanks for educating!
@@jamiemidge4983 one thing I neglected to say.... If you think of a sheet of carbon fiber as having a grain to it, like a piece of lumber, you're not far off. Because F1 teams are stupidly rich... you used to be able to run an IndyCar season on the combined *catering budget* of the F1 teams... they've got more experience with carbon fiber than just about anybody. To make their suspension pieces as strong as possible, they'll "weave" the grain of sheets of carbon fiber. Like, the first sheet's grain goes left-right, the second sheet will be at a 90° angle to that.
Obviously it's more complicated than that... I'm no F1 carbon fiber fabricator, I'm basically repeating what I've heard on the "tech talk" parts of race coverage... but it's the general idea. Its all well above my pay grade.
I don’t know if Spencer and Daniel will read this but if you want to get a little more familiar with F1 Netflix has a great documentary series named Dive to Survive that they have been doing since 2018. It’s bringing a lot of new fans in especially from America and will help you get more familiar with the cars , drivers, and politics that go on in the Formula One Paddock.
Oh! It’s awesome you saw this. Also wanted to say, I grew up in Howard county and it’s great to see some other people repping the Maryland flag well :)
Drive to survive isn't that great. Its good for starters, though quite a few things differ from reality.
Robert Kubica at 14:40 survived. I don't think he was badly injured there. He did get injured years later in a rally car during the F1 off season. Massa, hit by the spring, recovered, raced, fought for a championship.
The pics at 18:15 the only fatality in this. He hit and went under a recover truck that was recovering another car. He died months later.
Bianchi officially died almost a year after the accident, but he was brain dead from quite likely the moment of impact.
Regarding Kubica, he was knocked unconscious for a short time by the collision. The front of the monocoque had sheared off leaving his feet completely exposed (you can see this on some camera angles). He regained consciousness at the track and was removed to a hospital.
In total he suffered a mild concussion, and a sprained ankle.
As a precaution, Kubica sat out the next race (Indianapolis) which gave a young rookie by the name of Sebastian Vettel his first F1 race. A few people have heard of him... Did okay with a couple of teams owned by an energy drinks company. Anyhow, that weekend he finished in 8th, scoring 1 point.
Even if you are leading the race in the wet, inevitably you will start catching the cars in the back, and you will have to lap them. Drivers say that they listen to the engine of the car in front, when it starts downshifting, they start slowing down too. You can't really see anything from the spray
"why race in the rain!" it's it's international series, it rains a lot in different hemispheres then just the USA
The Romain Grosjean crash at the Bahrain GP Nov. 2020 . His whole car disintegrated, split in 2 and got wedged in the protective barrier. It caught fire, he said he accepted he was going to die but then he stood up and escaped just in time as a fireball engulfed his cockpit.
In formula one on the first lap they always have a car following the race cars. In that car they have the race doctor. It’s so he can be immediately on hand in case anything happens such as the case you saw in the clips. The race doctor used to be a guy called Sid Watkins, known as the Prof., who was a neurosurgeon. He started off giving medical support in America but quickly took over medical safety for F1. The number of advancements in car racing safety are numerous and are spread over all types of car racing.
70's f1 and into the 80's were lethal.
You mean 50s-80s
@@ebob4177 50s-mid-90s*
@@Simarino54 I know what you're saying, but before Imola 94, people were thinking F1 has become safe. There hadn't been deaths for some time. And then it all came like a punch in the face.
The first corner is always the most spectacular to watch in every race, sometimes it goes without a hitch but mostly someone always gets sandwiched. I love f1 I'm a huge huge fan love the whole weekend from start to finish
Watching this as an f1 fan and right at the start I know the biggest reaction will probably be the crash at the Spa circuit in 98.
Yep. I agree. The craziest race start ever. Best was it was when each team had a spare car, so whoever raced back to the pits the fastest got to get to the restart grid.
@@KathleenMc73 It wasn't the case with a lot of teams that the first there got the spare car. Usually it would be the teams no1. driver meaning Schumacher, Hakkinen etc got the car. I can't speak for the lower teams like Tyrrell and Minardi at the time though. You could be right in those cases.
Jules Bianci’s death was perhaps the most senseless and saddest death ever in the history of motorsports. He skidded off in the wet and collided with the side of a tractor/loadall that was on the edge of the track removing a car that had crashed a few laps previously. At relatively slow speed, his car slid halfway under the tractor and his head struck the vehicle’s counterweight side on.
These aren't so bad. There are way worse crashes than this. Check out Grosjeans crash. He survived somehow
I just re-watched it - how he survived is still beyond me.
@@niallrussell7184 everyone thought for sure he was dead. The fire resistant suit was something else
@Alan ALI 12 halo*
No Webber in Valencia either.
Montreal 07 " is this guy still alive" was Kubica. He missed the following race (US GP at Indianapolis) with concussion but was back the race after. 4 time world F1 champion replaced Kubica at Indy for his first F1 race
5:20
That glare to the side after making the comment was priceless....
Daniel was waiting for a reaction. 🤣
You guys need to check out some Group B rally videos,crazy driving,but even crazier spectators
Especially the Portuguese Rally in the late 80s-early 90s.
Yeah these guys will like rally
They were beautiful cars, the crowd just wanted to touch them.
14:37 Yes he is, and in 2008 he won the race on this track. His name is Robert Kubica.
It's not F1, but check out Sophia Floersch Crash at the 2018 F3 Macau GP. More horrific than anything you'll see on here!
You STILL need to watch the BTCC from the 80's and 90's.
So glad I checked the comments before I posted
OH! OH! OFF! IT'S TARQUINI! WHAT HAPPENED?!?!?!
Yes yes yes BTCC for sure
Jules Bianchi wasn't actually in that crash. There was a problem with the flags, because of which he went off while the other car was transported away by the tractor and he went under the tractor and passed away from his injuries a few months later. His death was a big reason why halos were put on F1 cars, which saved multiple drivers lives by now. At the top of my head I can think of Leclerc (Australia?) 2017, and Grosjean Bahrain 2020
2:00 First corner incidents are very common because people are trying to grab easy positions before people settle into their race pace.
I was at Silverstone in 2011 on practice day when Kobayashi crashed into the stand where I was sitting.
These F1 cars weigh approx 1500lb compared to a NASCAR's 3200lbs. F1 cars make 1000hp+ from a 1.6 litre engine, NASCAR engines make approx 800bhp from 5.9 litres on the fastest unrestricted tracks. The difference in power to weight ratios is huge.
Thats why Michael Schuhmacher was called the rain magician... Everytime it rained and he was on the track, you knew he would perform outstanding in 99% of all cases.
@20:56 Yes, that spring was around 2Kg (4 freedom-units)
The driver got in a coma from it, but returned to racing after a long recovery.
Good video guys :) but Spencer, F1 takes things to a new level, I bet you’d be impressed by the measures taken for safety...but going round corners as fast as these cars can compared to NASCAR, it’s not an easy translation of safety in approach
Montreal 2007 the driver was Polish Robert KUbica 2008 he was won his first NO.1 Podium
Polish polish polish 🤡🤡 None Cares that Hes polish lmao
The @18.40 was Max Verstappen in the toro rosso. Demo in Rotterdam city. That was his first time driving an F1 car. At the time he was 16/17 years old.
The antistall system pushed the car in the armco.
15:40 Respect for Felipe Massa, returning after taking a spring to the head and holding down a legit career - in the old school Brazilian style.
Never really the same again though, in part team orders to get the other guy to a first so could not win when he deserved to , but it took the edge off him for when he did have a small chance not to see it through, Was that the same year Surtees in F2 got taken fatally by a detached wheel from a competitor car
15:35 so here, Massa got hit by a spring from another car. It hit him on the helmet which caused him to get knocked out. His foot was stuck on the throttle and he hit the wall hard. He didn’t race for the second half of the season
It didn't just hit him on the helmet - it happened to hit one of the very few structural weak points of the helmet, and he suffered a serious head injury due to that.
the guy that hit the car then the wall is Robert Kubica, he was back and racing 2 or 3 races later:P
And he redeemed himself by winning the following year
This cars are insane in the corners.
Cornering speed is off the scale, because they have very little weight (900 kilos) and about 1000HP, plus the aero, they can go from 180 to 0 mph in 120 meters, and back to 180 in 7 seconds.
Absolute monsters.
Safety in this cars is paramount, thats why they have this wrecks and they (most of the time) walk away without any injuries.
Don't forget "inertial-tranference", it's not that the cars are weak per se, but if you're moving at that speed and suddenly stop, the whole mass of your forward velocity tries to equalise with whatever you hit. To stop the driver turning into jelly, the cars have impact-zones to split the damage across the vehicle in less than a second. The car gets shredded, so you don't have to.
The hungary 09 was a spring off the car in front. It hit the driver Felipe Masa in the head qnd knocked him out.
I wonder how many after first few crashes was like: "Oh, just wait for -07 Montreal"
14:40 incredible to think he had his almost certainly last 2 f1 races this year 14 years after the accident and only missed out on a le man class win due to a last lap retirement. it’s honestly incredible!
he wasnt really injured in that incident, only a minor concussion and a sprained ankle. The crash that fucked his arm was a rally one in 2011
Schumacher was never sponsored by marlboro. Ferrari was. (or is. there a bit cheeky about these sponsorships)
In 1976 Niki Lauda had a crash where he was stuck in his burning car at 800°C (about 1400°F) for some time . In the Hospital they gave him his last rites. 42 days later he got back into his car and finished the season in fourth place and becoming world champion next. One tough sob!
A few clips you should look for...
Starting of Belgium 2018 (Alonso, Hulkenburg, Leclerc)
Mugello 2020 Safety Car restart
Europe 2010 (Webber)
Italy 2018 (Ericsson in Practice)
The F3 Macao GP 2018 Sophia Floersch crash is one of the most scary crashes I've ever seen, closely followed by the Grosjean 2020 fireball of course.
The one at around 6:50
Gotta remember with it being upside down, they did not even have a halo back then.
If you want to know why f1 is driving in the rain. Chech out Max Verstappen, GP Brazil 2016. A epic drive, from P16 to P3 within 18 laps.
Rally racing is fun to watch. The older car & bike races are even better
You see these, and you have a much better understanding of why F1 and IndyCar have evolved to having the halo bar over the open cockpit; IndyCar currently also has a windshield. As others here have mentioned, the halo saved Sebastien Grosjean's life during his horrific fiery crash at the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix. You should definitely react to that crash!
"It's WET?!?!" hahah that was a perfect first reaction lol
I like how disgusted the guy in the right is when he sees rain :D
„Red Flag the race there is a puddle in Turn 2!“
Foumla 1 is the best sport on the planet
Agreed!
F1 is one of the safest motorsports.. there is major safety for the drivers now, particularly above the cockpit to protect the drivers head, and also medics are on scene in minutes since the death of senna..
I can't believe they didn't show Mark Webber's flying crash
A full wet tire of today is capable of moving over 80 liters of Water per second
when it rains, it sorts out the men from the boys and demonstrates the reall racing tallent.
In 2018 F1 introduced the halo and this protects the driver from get hit by tyres, other cars and have saved a lot of lives but it can't prevent the driver from getting hit by smaller things like the one the video shows.
F1 cars do have roll protection. The roll hoop (where the air intake it) and the front of the monocoque provide roll protection.
Formel 1 cars are extremely safe. Since 2018 the have Halo-System (secondary roll structure). Before that, since 2003 they get Hans-System (Head and Neck Support) .
14:25 it was Robert Kubica in BMW. He survived this crash without any problems.
15:18 GP 2008 Canada - on the right side, only car was not damaged there, was also Robert Kubica - he won this race, becouse the leaders was involved in this silly crash on the pit lane
15:28 That spring was an part of the other car suspension...this spring bounced a while on the track till Massa hit it by about 270kmh/ 170mph.
He was immediately KO, and was longer in hospital.
16:47 it was a failure becouse of huge down force at high speed.
I saw Spa 98 live, it was really absolute chaos, one accident after another.
First corner crashes are a norm in F1
Hamilton/Rosberg
Used to be able to repair cars or swap to a backup car on restarts, thats rarely allowed now other than some repairs if time on a halted for weather race.
The one with the spring was Felipe Massa. The spring was 800 gram and he hit it at about 150 mph. He survived and raced againg a year later. Best advertising for schuberth (helmet brand) ever.
17:40 (Canadian GP) Jules Bianchi did not die here, this is one dubious information. Jules Bianchi passed away in an accident during the Japanese GP 2014 held in Suzuka Circuit. RIP Jules.....
There is no motor-racing in Switzerland as it was banned after an horrific crash which saw spectators being killed by flying wreckage.
15:50 Not a beer can, it was a suspension spring that had fallen off a car in front, caused Reubens Barichello a serious head injury and is the reason F1 helmets now have a reinforced top half of the visor.
It hit massa, the spring came off of Barichello’s car though
15:03 the tyre hitting somebody in the head thing has happened in F2. Henry Surtees was hit in the head during a race and was later pronounced brain-dead in the hospital.
Felipe Massa got off luckier, he also was hit in the head but by a suspension part in an F1 race but was rushed to a hospital and after emergency surgery he recovered back to racing form to continue driving in Formula 1. He currently is driving in Formule E.
Montreal 2007 is Robert Kubica, he survived, returns the next year and won the race.
Dale Ernhart died because he didn't think the head arrester was for men, 2 years after F1 brought it infor all racing
The third crash, Germany 1999, was Mika Hakkinen's left rear tire failing right at the end of that straight. You can see it going pop just as he hits the brakes. At that point of the racetrack they were doing nearly 210mph. Scary one...
Formula One safety is the pinnacle of auto sports. The roll frame is embedded into that central air duct and the safety structure of the carbon monocoque is crash safety rated as well as the nose structure. Formula One had the Hanns neck restraint device well before even NASCAR. That Fernando crash you saw last is one of the reasons they now drive with a cockpit halo much like how Indy has a driver wind shield apparatus.
You guys should review more F1 races I think you would enjoy the F1 format. You might particularly love the street circuits like Monaco or Baku. Lastly driving in the rain is wildly entertaining and plenty of race drama comes from those rain races.
i always watch f1 fans react to nascar, never knew it would go the other way around
Interview at that time with Alexander Wurz.
"What did you think when you rolled over three times and were upside down in gravel?"
"Hopefully they'll have my spare car ready when they restart."
Another interview back then with Alexander Wurz in Monaco.
"What was going on?"
"I didn't get the chicane at the tunnel exit and crashed into the barrier at over 200 km/h. Luckily there was a concrete flower pot there, which prevented worse things from happening."
THE HORROR clip was Robert Kubica, polish, criminally underrated driver in both f1, Rally & World Endurance Racing. The man has survived atleast 3 death defying crashes & still has a lot of his pace today. amazing bloke
We have Sir Jackie Stewart to thank for most of the driver safety improvements that are used for most of the different racing organizations in motosports today. He finally got the drivers union to boycot or stop a race when the safety of the tracks was non-existent, pressuring the promoters to make improvements. He was tired of attending so many funerals traceable to conditions they were forced to race under.
15:05 the debris to the head comment, the last IndyCar fatality (Justin Wilson, 2015) was caused by exactly that. They now have the aero screen which is meant to prevent that happening again. And in fact the F1 legend Ayrton Senna was killed when hit in the head with his own right front wheel.
Quite a few missing from this time frame. I feel like i could sit and chat about Nascar/Indycar/F1 with spencer for hours. He mentions the indy500. It's this weekend as well as the Coke 600 in nascar
Love to see more f1 reactions
15:29 Hungary 2009, Felipe Massa, the pilot who got struck by a spring, was both accelerating and breaking after the hit, which indicated a potential loss of consciousness. That's what I got from the French commentary on the video analysis. He missed the rest of the season that year after that crash and injury to recover from it.
The amount of water that is displaced by those rain tires is turely mind blowing.
Brazil 2003 was more to that, a following car found the debris and tire in the track, their car was totalled with other cars taking evasive action to avoid the 2 crashed cars.
18:08 Jules Bianchi, deceased in Japan GP. Under the rain, crashed under the forklift that was removing a car that crashed just before.
also, about Spa, in F2, Antoine Hubert, dead T-boned, his car was obliterated...
Jules was the godfather for Charles Leclerc. Antoine was a very close friend. And Grosjean, the phoenix is another very close friend... so when Grosjean had his big accident and stunt in the fire, he was really worried...
race god almost killed a 3rd French driver in 5 year
18:46 the person who drove was 15 then and is now in one of the closest championship battles ever
14:45 yes he (Robert Kubica) is still alive a year later he won Montreal , he had some years later had he a rally crash and now one of his hands doenst work good, but in 2019 after 8 years of having no seat in f1 he made his comeback, noww days he is reserve for alfa romeo