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7:50 Felipe Massa was very VERY lucky to survive that. He missed the rest of 2009 and had tohave a metal plate fitted to repair a fractured skull from the spring hitting him and partially ripping his visor off. And yes he was knocked out by the spring. I remember it when it happened.
Was in a coma for a while to wasn't he ?
@@Alberthoward3right9up yeah he was in a medical educed coma after they operated on him
It also led to the helmet designs being changed to make the chance of debris getting in lower.
@@tigerman1978 and possibly contributed to the halo being introduced.
@@Alberthoward3right9up doubt
You should probably react to Grosjean's 2020 crash. It's probably the most horrific non-fatal crash I have ever seen. I saw it live and it instantly made me sick. I was convinced the guy was dead. The fact they didn't show any replays for probably 20 minutes was a bad sign. That he actually made it out alive and was able to walk to the medical car was unbelievable. If you see the state of the wreck... it's airplane crash levels of damage. Goes to show how far safety has gone in the sport.
Was the same with Zhou Guanyu this year - saw that live, was pretty harrowing when there was nothing for 20-30 minutes while they un-wedged the car to get him out
Check out this F1 Romain Grosjean CRASH from 2020 (the man was over 20 sec in FLAMES): m.ruclips.net/video/zdfkM5p9-Ng/видео.html
Looking forward to your thoughts on Grosjeans fireball. That he survived this is insane.
Not to mention Niki Lauda in 1976
@@karstenbursak8083 Niki Lauda technically died from it in the end...
@@pistonburner6448 tEcHnIcAlLy
The worst ever accident I saw was none of these, check out the 1998 Belgium F1 crash. It is estimated the damage to the cars involved totalled $13 Million back then ( Roughly $24 million today)
Nowhere near being a worse crash than for example Kubica in Canada 2007. That was just a bunch of cars getting wrecked. All the drivers climbed out and walked away, some even taking the restart. Kubica went head on into concrete with no retardation then barrel rolled down the straight. It was a miracle he walked away.
The worst crash by far if you go by the total amount of money lost in the crash. it DWARFS any other crash I've ever seen. In terms of it being the worst crash by any other measurement, it is honestly incredibly tame. It is a similar crash to The Big One that occurs at Daytona, where it's loads of small bumps across an entire field
@@Jb33124 the worst crash on every level is the le mans 55 crash killing 83 people
@@Querientje simply put, yes. It is easily the worst crash to have ever occurred
Spa, wet, T1, crash, name a more iconic combo.
That 2003 Interlagos was more than a bit crazy. All that carnage happened on the main "straight" which in reality is a long sweeping flat left over a crest with a dip in the middle.
Massa 2009: The spring was from a car that had been on the track a bit earlier. The spring actually punctured his helmet so it could've been worse. He was lights out after the hit.
Perez 2011: Karl Wendlinger went *sideways* there in 1994 (soon after Imola, where, you know). There were supposed to be water filled barrels but they were empty, so his head hit the barrier and he was in a coma for weeks.
Ericsson 2018: IIRC his DRS (drag reduction system) stuck open, so he didn't have proper downforce in the rear, so rears didn't bite properly, and we have liftoff!
F1 cars are actually hugely draggy compared to road cars. They will *not* travel far in one piece after an accident.
Gravel pits have their advantages and disadvantages. In case of a car that's already relatively slow it can definitely help slow them down. But if the cars go fast it doesn't really help at all and basically makes the brakes non-functional. It can also result in a car getting launched into the air like what happened to Guanyu Zhou in the British GP a few weeks ago.
You missed the most spectacular scary crash ever in f1 romain grosjeans in bahrain in 2020 how tht man survied is a miracle
There is a documentary called F1: The Killer Years. If you want to learn about how the sport has developed, how bad it was even until very recently, and the big leaps it's made in driver safety, watch that. It's possibly one of the best films on this aspect of F1 made.
you _need_ to see Zhou Guanyu's crash from silverstone this year, one of the scariest we've had in a long, long time.
Zhou Guanyu had a pretty nasty crash not that long ago, car flipped & slid across the road upside down, only thing that saved him was the Halo.
Silverstone 2022
There was an f1 crash in the Australian gp that actually unfortunately took the life of a volunteer even though he was behind the safety fence. A wheel went through an observation opening in the fence and the volunteer was struck by the tyre at around 150 miles an hour
I do a bit of F1 league racing and one thing is, that it doesn't matter where you start it's where you finish, and to finish you have to patient in turn 1, lap 1. Went to every Adelaide F1 race and the first 2 in Melbourne. Standing starts are good, NASCAR and Indy do rolling starts because they're so hard to get off the line...half the grid would probably stall anyway. In yesteryear they used to have a second car they could jump in to but not for the last hmmm 10 years they don't have back up cars, if you're out, you're out.
2:30 When the underside of Ralph S' car hit the top of Rubens' tire it was catapulted into the air and forward.
you know I'm glad that a nascar fan is learning and respecting F1, its nice to hear, good work man :)
Formula cars and Indy cars are mental because the crashes look absolutely insane because of debris and impacts but thankfully they’re also some of the safest to crash it. The cars are designed to break around the driver just like road cars but the drivers 99% of the time walk out with just bruising and a shaken
As a long time American F1 fan it's great to see a fellow American start to appreciate all the complexities of the sport (commenting on all F1 Videos posted). Great Work!
The crash involving Felipe Massa and the spring was very scary. The fact that the impact knocked him unconscious instantly and the engine continued to rev due to him being unconscious and having the throttle depressed (similar to Erik comas in 1992) was hugely dangerous as there was a risk of the engine exploding. Also, the force of the spring of that side hitting his head at that speed was likened to the force of a shot from an AK47 (although I'm not too sure how true that is, so take it with a grain of salt). Sucks that Massa was never quite the same after the crash, considering the talent he'd displayed in 2008
Because of the heaps low center of gravity and how fast they can get in such a short time the crashes that come from open wheelers is either a) a broken wing/wheel or b) absolute destruction, theres no in between with these 😂
in F1 when your car is destroyd, there are no replecement cars, you are out of the reace and your team has to build a new car in 2 weeks our less
It's worth mentioning that the spring that hit Massa went through his helmet and into his skull.
I just heard, that some Monocoques, maybe most, used again. They x-ray them, and if there is no crack visible in the strukture, they just build it up again. Also there is a concept in throwing away all the wheels and other stuff, the car looses that much weigt, that the impact energy is significant lower.
Standing starts are best in my opinion as if you get a bad start you can lose a lot of places or end up out of the race altogether as they don't have back up cars to use
F1 crashes are neither fun nor funny. I’ve seen too many drivers killed for the crashes to ever be entertaining. I hold my breath and pray for their survival!
These days in F1 they usually try to avoid showing the crashes until they know the driver is ok. If the driver is seriously hurt they won't show the crash or a replay unless the cameras picked it up live. People still die from these though. The last F1 driver to die in an F1 crash was in 2014 but another driver died in the F2 junior series as recently as 2019.
crashes are no fun. remember those early years in the sixties und partly the seventies, when it was usual, that drivers died in crashes.
Kubicas crash in Canada was a shock of the decade. I never saw such a inpact like this, of course, 2014 was a bad year to that get me emotional.
F1 cars are just fighter jets mounted upside down on wheels. Spa '98 for a massive pile-up. NASCAR drivers are also shaken up, but we just don't get to see it so clearly, they reach the same speed at some ovals.
2014 Kimi Räikkönen crashed in Silverstone from 150mph... it was a 47 G-force impact when the car hit the wall... he walked away..
F1 cars nowadays a much much more safer than any roadcar. You can see lots and lots of part just flying off. That is by design, to dissipate the energy. Massa did get knocked out by that spring and if I'm not mistaken they banned the use of springs the next year
8:00
Iirc the spring came off the car in front and "Bounced" on the asphalt, slowing down, until the Ferrari, well, caught up to it.
Theres not enough videos on how fast these things are going in real time. Jaw dropping. Also check out Sophia Floersch’s crash, to me its top 3
and this, Gentlemen, is why the HALO was invented...
F1 crashes definitely aren't fun when you know the history and the quest to improve safety
1998 SPA race, soaking wet - David coulthard destroyed entire f1 grid.
8:00 You are right massa did get knocked unconscious by that spring and did also get a skull fracture .. pretty scary
What's interesting is that the main chassis is usually fine
i could be wrong but i think that crash in 2007 broke both of robert kubicas legs and he made a return back in 2016 i believe it was
People who watch F1 on TV don't understand how fast these cars go and how dangerous accidents are, because the TV (the images you see) "slows down" the cars.
Watch (example) here at 12:48 and you can get a real idea of what the actual speed is (sorry for eng).
What's scary and amazing about the modern day F1 car is, that the whole car can crumble up. In absolute terrifying fashion and yet the drive will climb out and still be able to walk to the ambulance
2007, Robert Kubica, Canada; he returned the following year and won the race!
6:10 I believe that is the highest G impact in recorded F1 history
Edit: I believe he pull something like 140G
yeah and he only suffered a sprained ankle.
here he is years after on the nordschleife, this guy knows how to drive
ruclips.net/video/GwCIEjdzvCk/видео.html
and he wanted to start in the next week, but got a nono from the docs :D
Kubica crash was only (saying "only" makes it sound small 😂) 75-G
The highest ever recorded in F1 goes to Jules Bianchi which was 254-G. He sadly passed away 9 months later due to this crash
as far as I'm aware the highest was 170g by David Purley in 1977(?) Broke both his legs and ended his racing career
RE: Backup cars.
Quick answer is no.
A proper explanation would take too long,
e.g. Parc Fermé, so I'm sorry but you'll have to look it up.
You haven't seen any F1 crashes?
They may not all be big multi-car "crashes/shunts" but in every F1 race someone crashes into somebody or something.
Can't believe that Magnussen's Spa 2016 accident was not there
Hey, just came across your channel. Love some of your reactions 👍
I don't know if you've done any videos of summernats here in Australia but I'd love to see your reaction to a video buy the name of... LYNCHY The People's Burnout Champ. This guys a legend down here in Aus.
You can see how much safer the cars have become in this video. also love it or hate it the halo is a life saver as Zhou would defo had died at silverstone last month
they used to have backup cars in F1 but no longer the case
Ian pretty sure there's no backup car, so they build a new car for the next race.
Luckily the fatalities got very rare since the 80s. It was way worse until the 1980s.
Just so you know the 2009 Massa crash did actually almost kill him. When the spring hit him it knocked him unconscious so he didn't brake, just rolled into the wall
next,grosjeans fireball crash and bmw fw26 soundcheck,thanks. you rock!
The best part is that Robert Kubica won the 2008 race in Canada.
there is a myth about f1 cars exiting the monaco tunnel and immediately crashing
Its hard to comprehend the speeds. your own car at 100 kmh ( 60 mph ) travels 28 odd meters in a second, do the maths when its faster than that and try running 28 meters in a second.😁
1:05 well yes but not before the 2018 after the introduction of the halo that saved many MANY lives in the last 5 and half years
3:40 they have replacement parts that can be used for rebuilding the car during the weeks that are between one race and another
4:50 yeah there were some years where they did Indianapolis but not anymore
7:00 yep confirm Kubica this year is in Hypercar (WEC) and after that crash he continued in F1 for years :)
7:50 yeah a spring made him unconscious and that's why he went on and kept the throttle on! After that incident many affirm that he (Massa) wasn't the same anymore (performance speaking)
11:30 F1 or anyother sim online:
😂😂
You completely miss the Groesjean one (the worst one)
I hate big crashes for drivers when watching F1, small shunts are ok bc the saftey car comes out and creates new opportunitieis
lucky the halo is now on f1 cars to protect their heads
As far as backup cars the teams dont have any ready for the weekend races. If u crash out of the main race u are out. Each team have 2 drivers and each 1 have there car, In the event that some1 crash in practice or qualifying the teams have multiple spare parts of everything with them so they can put together a new car. But as u might imagen that takes alot of time so u are not getting back on the track for that qualifying or practise session again. If u never got in a qualifying time u are starting last.
I se ppl mention this and it deserves to be repeated. Look up Grosjean's crash 2020 and u get an ide of the quality of the safety gear the drivers are wearing when even the worst thing happens.
For that Massa incident with the spring it did knock him unconscious. If u notice he never even tried to turn away. He was passed out from that hit untill the medics arrived if i´m not mistaken. Due to this accident they redesigned the helmets lowering the visor abit and reinforced the section just above the visor for added protection.
I was hoping to see you watch Grojean 2020. I still don't know how he got out of that.
The crash cages surrounding the drivers allow a lot of drivers to walk away relatively injury free but there are times when a crash even a minor one will result in a driver's death
There are no "crash cages" in F1. The whole monocoque acts as a survival cell as the car disintegrates and dissipates energy
You definetely NEED to look into Monaco ... because it is on "city streets" and thus includes the tightness of a city.
you missed some crazy one since 18', grosjean fireball crash, verstappen hamilton 2021 silverstone and monza, and the last one which occured a month ago in silverstone with zhou, i suggest you at least watch the end of the video by yourself, they are worth seing
Hello Ian, of course Formula 1 is one of the motor competitions that currently and for years has been assumed to be the safest for its members, specifically the FIA since the fatal accidents of Senna and Roland Ratzenberger in 1994 began to suggest that safety should be looked at, from there many new safety measures were born, all the accidents exposed in this video are obviously spectacular due to the speeds at which the vehicles go, the most brutal due to impact speed was that of Robert Kubica already that the impact against the protection was above 300 kilometers per hour and thanks to the shape and materials of the cockpit structure and the use of the hans el it was saved, since then I only remember two f1 drivers who died , Jules Bianchi in 2014 in Suzuka for crashing into a machine that was removing another vehicle and Maria de Villota, daughter of the Spanish driver in 2012 while doing some tests for her team in u n aerodrome when crashing into the loading ramp of one of the team's trucks, apart from those cases in f1 there were no more deaths, in f2 in 2019 another driver died at the Spa circuit, Anthoine Hubert, as it is said in the comments people Perhaps the most spectacular accident was that of Romain Grosjean in 2021, who was saved by the materials of the suit and by the protection of the halo, if it were not for this new measure and the shape of the accident today it would be remembered as the tragic accident of Helmuth Koinigg in 1974 at the US Grand Prix, there are images but they are extremely hard, well a big greeting
You misse the big fire at the end.....
The most horrific F1 crash I know is the one that killed Tom Pryce and track marshal Frederik Janse Van Vuuren. A car had stopped by the side of the track, and some marshals with fire extinguishers run across the track. One of them gets hit and nearly pulverized by Tom Pryces car. The fire extinguisher the marshal was carrying hit Pryce straight in the head and killed him instantly. The remains of the marshal were so unrecognizable that they afterwards had to figure out who he was by checking who was missing. ruclips.net/video/Ge-1qKP-w6M/видео.html
The biggest game changer when it comes to F1 security was likely the carbon fiber monocoque. Introduced in the early 80s, they suddenly made it possible to design a car that basically had an indestructible cockpit, and design the rest of the car so it would dissipate energy by breaking apart. Before that, F1 cars were flimsy aluminum things that barely did anything to protect the driver in a crash. Before the carbon fiber cars, there was roughly one fatal accident per year. After, 12 years passed without a fatality in a race. There was a fatality during testing in -86 which was basically due to safety being a lot less during test than during races. In total, only four drivers have died since the Mc Laren MP4/1, the first Carbon fiber monocoque, was introduced.
Hey man can you react to worst crashes at the Nurburgring?? The amateur ones, please!!
I’d love to!!!! Great idea
The Red Car ☠
U must watch ken block gymkhana pikes peak with the hoonicorn 1400hp v8 twin turbo
well you are somewhat safe now but that was not always the case.
In the 60s, 70s and 80s or even before a fatal Crash was not that uncommon.
Some like Niki Lauda were very lucky to survive such a Crash.
The List of fatal Crashes in F1 is long
Once it gets in a wreck they have a spare or rebuild it for next race
No spare cars allowed in F1
2014's worst accident was actually Jules Bianchi hitting a recovery crane and while it was not immediately fatal, he died from his injuries 9 months later. It is F1's only death since Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna died at Imola in 1994. (Although Antoine Hubert died in an F2 crash at Spa in 2019)
2018 is the same Marcus Ericsson that won this year's Indy 500.
Nah. He was pretty much gone the second it happened .. they kept him alive by machine. Massive head trauma like that isn't survivable.
@@wilkowilkins363Yeah artificially alive in a coma
I wish you had gone onto 2021, Grosjean's crash last season was a fireball and the technology for him to survive the fire was just incredible. The full video seems not to be available now, dunno why.
that was 2020
I just watched the original video without an issue
He’s done a reaction to that video I’m 99% sure
@@archieeast1477 Damn, was it that long ago? I suppose it was in November 2020, but I stand corrected. Damn... 2020, what happened to 2021, lol.
ruclips.net/video/ZQ7_En2xEm4/видео.html - Here’s a link to one, if you can view it in your country without a vpn.
Can't believe you ended the reaction right before Grosjean's 2020 horrific fireball crash. (Although that would worth a video on its own.) I was unfortunate to see that on live television. I felt sick, because for like 20 minutes they didn't show any replays..... tha usually means the driver is badly injured or dead. It was a freak of an accident but fortunately he was okay. That crash demonstrates how far F1 safety improved.
Yeah that one I missed the race on the day and I skipped out seeing the crash for a year from how bad it was. Even knowing Grojean was fine in the end....when I did see it I was like "He is dead...." even knowing 100% he is fine...it is just so horrific with that pause from impact to coming out of the fire it feels so long.
@@jimwatson1013 He suffered burns on his hands and feet, especially one of the hands. i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/01/12/15/37913812-0-image-a-9_1610465388007.jpg
A year after the crash, the right hand had clearly recovered but the left hand was still badly burned.
Will he/ has he race again? I don't know, but not in F1.
BTW, that crash showed the value of both the halo and the fire suit. Without them both, he would be dead.
@@ChrisJones-hv7mo Romain is currently racing in IndyCar Series. I saw a video where he says that his left hand still hurts when weather change or when there's a lot of heat, like during hot weather.
@@phaenius that's typical for deep burns. They'll probably try to remove some scar tissue hoping improves the situation, but if the issue doesn't come from scar tissue being rigid and pressing on places it shouldn't, it's likely nerve damage and to get rid of that is more difficult.
But these guys have serious health insurance on top of what their home countries already provide, so he'll be fine.
Notice the difference between pre 2010 and a bit later? The wheels, they stay on alot better even if the entire suspension is destroyed while before they usually popped off and went rogue as they had been injuries to not only drivers due to wheels but also to the crowds. A very important safety feature.
Tethers were a thing even before that, since the 90s. They did uprate the strength of the tethers though.
The cars breaking up during a crash are a design feature (thats not a joke either). The parts they shed disapate energy away from the crash cell reducing the impact on the driver.
I think that's why most people like them, because they look incredible and exciting, but we know that is all the "Carnage" designed to protect the driver.
Also, when you want to minimize weight aero bits tend to be thin.
Hey Ian, "backup cars" used to exist, but now teams are limited to a spare chassis/monocoque, only one per team. So if there's a big crash during practice/qualy that compromises the monocoque, they can rebuild a car for the race or rest of the weekend. Sidenote, in Supercars, and most Aussie motorsport, the only part you can't replace during a weekend is the chassis.
The video says it goes to 2021, which means it would probably include Grosjean's monster fire ball crash at Bahrain in 2020, probably one of the scariest F1 crashes I've watched.
There's been some monster crashes at the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne, both F1, and support races. Brundle's crash in 1996, Alonso's crash which is in your video, Percat (supercars) had a big one a few years back. And I can't recall which driver, but a Williams driver had a big one out of turn 6. And a few others.
The worst weekend in motorsport was surely May 1994, when the F1 lost Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna, the footage of both crashes is horrifying.
Safety in F1 has come so far, and the introduction of the 'halo' has already proven itself at least twice that I can recall.
And yes, open-wheelers are inherently dangerous when the interlock wheels.
Ratzenberger is that the one that got
Cut in half
Nevermind that never happend i think
Kubica 2007 Canada crash @5.55 resulted in nothing worse than a concussion and a sprained ankle. He skipped one race and came back after that, but was seriously injured in an off season rallying crash which effectively ended his F1 career.
Also indirectly started the career of F1 4 time WC Seb Vettel
It was so sad he had that rally crash, he really could have gone far without those injuries. To be able to get back into F1 with effectively 1 arm is an incredible feat in itself.
Michael Schumaker participated in 306 races with no injuries, was taken out by a tree several years after his retirement.
To the previous commenter,you are actually wrong since Michael Schumacher did break his legs in a crash at the 1999 British Grand Prix and missed 6 races as a result.
Fun fact the Robert Kubica Impact at Montreal were 75g Just for Imagination how hard they hit
Also you can actually see his feet hanging out the front of the safety cell as the frontal crash structure has been completely obliterated. Once his eyeballs had stopped spinning, he was fine.
Concerning the 2007 crash, Robert Kubica: "Reports from late evening on race day, directly from the hospital, confirmed that Kubica had suffered a light concussion alongside a sprained ankle. After being kept in overnight for observation, Kubica left hospital the following day."
...and then, the next year, he won at the same venue.
Still, despite the minor injuries he suffered in that crash, Kubica wasn't allowed to race in Indy and made his return in France.
11:05 You're not wrong that was a scary accident. Alonso (in the red Ferrari) essentially had Grosjean drive straight over the top of his car. F1 missed a death by inches. This is one of the crashes which caused the FIA to start thinking about improved head protection for the drivers and led to the introduction of the halo the cars now have.
Which has resulted in some significant lives being saved, if not then major injuries. The Halo as funky as it is cannot argue with the good it has done.
5:55 - this guy, year later (2008)- won that GP in Canda - Robert Kubica.
4:40 that’s the rear-left tire failure happened to Ralf Schumacher during practice session that made every team with Michelin tires withdrew from the race in 2005 Indianapolis Grand Prix. Only 6 car with Bridgestone tires started the race.
It turned into an absolute farce of a race
5:54 - Kubica is - in my opinion - one of the most wasted talent in F1 history. He could achieve a lot in this sport, but he sufferd a major injuries in rally crash. He get back to F1 after 8 years, but in a very uncompetitive car.
Unfortunately there's not much video on RUclips about Kubica's story. I think this one is pretty good, so if you want you can react to it too: ruclips.net/video/zI15almq9Xo/видео.html
You will notice almost can't see the drivers helmet they raised the sides of car and wheels are made to detach when hit to take impact out but teacher to the vehicle these days for safety and larger side pods on them the latest improvement is called the halo the have a hoop around the top of drivers head with bar in middle to prevent larger items hitting and killing drivers and roll overs it takes most of impact
In 2018 there was a similar crash to the 2012 shown in that video. 2018 saw the introduction of the Halo, the roll hoop thing over he cockpit. It quite possibly save Charles Leclerc's life.
ruclips.net/video/fuRRLkc4qUo/видео.html
The Halo did save Grosjean's life in his 2020 crash.
The guy in the crash for 2018 was Marcus Ericsson, the 2022 Indy 500 winner.
‘Went up that red car” 😂 tell me you don’t watch F1 without telling me you don’t watch F1🤣.
The worst crash is 2014 in Sazuka where F1 driver Jules Bianchi made contact with tractor that was removing another crashed car…sadly Jules passed away from brain injury
That Massa accident was bad to the point where he had to basically learn how to drive again, as his sense of distance got messed up. This affected his breaking a lot, because he couldn't know exactly where the breaking points were. It took a while for him to get used to how his vision became, as even after he got "fully recovered", his vision never went back to the way it was before the accident.
You have to watch a full video of Romain Grosjean's 2020 crash. The fact that he is still around and racing in Indy Car is a testament to the safety features of modern race cars.
In quite a few of these the loss of downforce when being close behind an other car is the reason they crash... When braking with 50% less downforce you can't brake as hard as the car in front of you... Also all the start crashes are with maximum fuel-loads. That's also a factor to take into consideration when applying the brakes...
Regarding F1 there are two movies you simply MUST watch: Senna and Rush. The first is, of course, about Ayrton Senna and the second is about Niki Lauda vs James Hunt, a classic rivalry.
Wow you definitely missed the scariest accident I've ever seen. Grosjean in 2020 was heart stopping
The massa crash at Hungary was crazy. Dude was an extremely fast driver, but was never the same after that wreck
You experience something like 3g just lifting off the throttle in these cars, as a result of the extreme down force.
The 2007 one with Kubica was scary, but you saw whats going on the whole time.
The 2016 one with Gutierrez and Alonso was completly different. The TV broadcast followed to other cars, when they cut back to this, you only saw Gutierrez car in the sand and was like "yeah he lost it" But thn...the frame opend up and behind him in the wall you saw that small compresse piced of metal and you suddenly realized thats a car or whats left of it and moments later Alonso stood next to him asking if he was alright....thats was scary
so in the early 2000s they had actual backup cars in F1 that where ready to race immediatly.
this is not allowed anymore.
Now teams just have spare parts basicly and important, they have 1 spare chassis at each race to build a replacement car if a crash happens on friday or saturday. engine, gearbox and all the rest they have anyway multiple units at each race if something happens.
maybe a interesting thing is also. If the Chassis does not get destroyed over the season. its standart to only use 2 over the whole year.
so most of the time around the halfway point of the season teams take a new chassis.
but its important to state that they take this cars ompletely apart after each race anyway so, technicly its always a new built car just with "used" parts if they dont have damaged it or built new once that are different.
here's a summary of what happens after an F1 crash:
it's either a virtual safety car (every one slow down to 40% race pace), Safety car (Pace Car), or red flag. this allows the marshalls to clean the debris and get the cars on the cranes
then the teams have to repair the same car before the next race, which sometimes has to be done within a few days, while the car is being transported thousands of miles in those same few days
the shortest time required to repair it and get it to the next track is sometimes just monday - thursday
Amazing fact about the R. Schumacher crash. His brother was in that race as well. He had to pas his brothers crashed car every single lap behind the savetycar. He was (understandebly) worried about his younger brother. It was the first time 2 different teams shared information over the radio. His brothers team kept him updated on his health/progress the intire race. It was bonechilling to see and hear. I remember it so well even if tho I was verry young at the time. Regard from the Netherlands!
Gladly they left out the Most devastating ones
Like
Jim Clark at Hockenheim 1968
Jochen Rindt at Monza 1970
François Cevert and Helmut Koinigg at Watkins Glen in 1973 and 1974
And Most famously Niki Lauda at the Nürburgring-Nordschleife in 1976 and Ayrton Senna in Imola 1994
2007 Canadian Grand Prix. I was watching that one live, Thank God Kubica survived.