The 1994 season in general was just dark for f1, barichello’s crash, Roland and senna’s deaths, wendlinger’s crash that put him in a coma for some time, and the championship being ended in controversial fashion
I think the worst part with the Jules Bianchi incident, was the fact that it was absolutely MONSOONING on track and the drivers did not want to be out there and radioed in many times about how unsafe the conditions were. Jules accident was totally avoidable and a complete failure of race management.
There are other factors as well. The rain was increasing in second half of the race and Bianchi was on heavily worn intermediate tyres. What's more, Dunlop corner at Suzuka is a notorious corner in wet conditions, likely to cause cars to aquaplane. 20 years earlier, at the same corner and in similar conditions, Gianni Morbidelli had a big accident at Dunlop Corner after aquaplaning on standing water. One lap later, while Marshalls were dealing with the crashed car of Morbidelli, Martin Brundle aquaplaned off at the same corner, narrowly missing hitting a recovery vehicle, but did hit a Marshall and broke the leg of the Marshall.
@@pooer382 that's not true. The green flag (light on some) that was seen in the post accident (for Sutil) footage related to the first marshalls post after the crash site. The recovery tractor and the subsequent crash for Bianchi occurred in a yellow flag zone
@@SiVlog1989 Having a green flag at the next marshall post after the crash site is still unsafe when the tractor is out there. Nowadays we would see a VSC in that situation
I feel you should pay a visit to the older days of the sport. Far darker times in general and certainly worse than most listed here - Tom Pryce's accident, Jochen Rindt's, Gilles Villeneuve's, Roger Williamson etc.
@@m1co294 i think there was one driver who was in the title fight but lost it when he died handing the championship to andretti. forgot both of their names
Has to be among the worst days F1 has endured. Just the horror of the actual accident, the marshal couldn't be identified until the organisers could get them all together and work out which one was missing, such were his injuries! Then there was the victory speech from Lauda who thought he'd won with a heavily damaged car, saying it was the greatest victory of his career, only to be told half way through of the two men's deaths, barely able to comprehend why the race was allowed to continue, having had his own brush with death less than a year beforehand. The events that unfolded would have been comical if they were not so tragic.
I would even add Romain Grosjean’s 2020 crash in Bahrain to the list. Although he fortunately got out with a few injuries, the crash really put into perspective the safety improvements F1 and the FIA have put into place, and the long way still to go to make the sport even safer.
I don't know if it would be right for 'darkest days' though. I do agree it was a defining moment for the sport, but would perhaps be better though of in a more positive light? 'Moments that defined F1' would most definately be an interesting series!
Disagree that it was a dark day. It would've been if Grosjean didn't make it. But it's actually somewhat more positive seeing that all the safety measures put in place over the years worked and he walked away fairly unscathed, especially compared to what it could've been.
i look at grosjean's crash as one of f1 greatest days. all the work max mosley and the continuing work done by the fia made it possible for grosjean to survive. horrifying incident but a great outcome.
An honourable mention goes to 2019 Belgian GP. Massive crash at F2 caused Anthoine Hubert to loss his life. The whole paddock and the world was in shock and despair in the tragedy. So the teams put a sticker in the cars in commemoration to Anthoine. Charles Leclerc would get his first win but it’s very hard for him to celebrate the win with the death of one of his friends that he raced and bonded in his racing career
That's the death in formula racing that broke my heart the most. Anthoine was born and lived in the same city as me. It was our local driver. We all wanted him to go in F1. To this day I still think about him. Plus, he has the same name than me, and I wanna become a driver.
correa was also included in the crash as well, he hasnt died but he suffered major injuries and is currently battling walking and is planning to get back to F2. motorsport drivers are a different level
One race I'd use in Part 2 Sam, the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix. Given that Spain was still under the Dictatorship of Fransisco Franco, the human rights aspect of the sport being there was a lingering concern, even when the sport first raced in Spain in 1954. However, this was nothing compared to the heavy atmosphere of the 1975 race weekend. Concerns over safety lingered all weekend, from when the teams noticed that the Armco barriers lining the track were not secured into the tarmac properly. The teams demanded that they wouldn't take to the track if the problems weren't addressed. Although these were addressed, there were drivers who weren't satisfied. The Spanish authorities responded by threatening legal action against anyone who didn't take to the track. Thus blackmailed into taking to the track, those drivers who weren't happy, like reigning champion Emerson Fittipaldi, recorded the minimum number of laps to legally say he had attempted before withdrawing. Long story short, amid more boycotts, the race went ahead but it didn't run to the full distance, as Rolf Stommellen lost his rear wing cresting a rise, clearing the barrier and landing in a spectator enclosure, killing some of the spectators and left the driver severely injured
@@Juanguar no problem, there are two side notes with regards to that race. It was the first and only win for Jochen Mass, who became the last German driver before a certain Michael Schumacher in Belgium 1992 to win a Grand Prix (even though he couldn't enjoy it, it was all he could do to not give one of the organisers who was presenting him with the winner's trophy a knuckle sandwich, given how he felt about the weekend) and Lella Lombardi made history by recording a first (half) points finish for a female F1 driver
@@SiVlog1989 yeah I've seen photos of it he crashed with Carlos Pace and over the barriers. The photos are very nightmare-inducing and I would not recommend you looking them up
@@c1243 it's interesting that you mention Carlos Pace, the grainy footage that I've confirms what I had read about it. Stommelen lost his rear wing as his car crested a rise (coincidentally at the exact same spot where his team boss, Graham Hill and Jochen Rindt experienced rear wing failures in 1969), landing in a spectator enclosure. It's possible that Pace was collected in the accident. It wasn't a great look for the organisers to allow the race to continue for 4 more laps, knowing that fatalities had occurred, before calling a halt to proceedings
I'm surprised you didn't include Gilles Villeneuve's death. His crash was IMO just as horrifying back in '82 at Zolder. His car flipped at high speed and he got severe damage to his back as a result of it.
Aparently its not as dark than a race of 6 car im sure if enzo ferrari lived long enough to see that he would be more traumatized by the 2005 us gp than gilles death
There needs to be a sequel to this as there are far more darker days such as 1961 Italian GP - fatal crash kills 15 spectators 1960 Belgian GP - 2 fatal crashes, and 2 serious injuries 1975 Spanish GP - safety concerns, sketchy race organizers, 4 spectators killed 1977 South African GP - Tom price hits a marshal running across the track, both are killed 1973 Dutch GP - Roger Williamson dies as marshals are helpless 1981 Belgian GP - Mechanic was killed during practice, Protest about dangerous pit conditions, another mechanic nearly killed on race day. The entire 1982 Season - Fisa Foca war, Villeneuve and Paletti killed, Pironi career ending crash
1953 Argentine will always be the worst. Argentine president Juan Peron wanted to turn the race into a Propaganda effort and everyone could just show up to the race, meaning the crowd was just standing at the side of the race track. The inevitable happened, when Giuseppe Farina crashed into the crowd, killing 3 before a mass panic broke out killing at least 15 people
@@Gulag_Express_Racing I think you also forgot the 1978 Ronnie Peterson death, 1953 Argentina Gp where Farina killed 19 people that invaded the circuit, and the 1973-74 deaths at Watkins Glen in the same day and same corner
That Roger Williamson incident is such tragedy, I understand why marshals coudn't be able to help but few more drivers could of have given a hand to flip it over. There´s so many darker days in F1 in any motorsports event. Those you mention, 1955 Le Mans and Speedway 1956 Vienna, Austria, the Zbigniew accident. There's still many more to count in for the darkest days of all time in any motorsport events. But all was scary crashes. so many many have happen to a sport many people love.
Just to add to Imola 1994, there was also a crash on the initial start that sent debris into the grandstands. That and the 1973 Indianapolis 500 are the absolute definition of cursed events.
Plus a tire came loose in the pits late in the race and hit a Ferrari mechanic before bouncing onto the track. I have a photo I took of it and the tire is several meters in the air at that point almost at the end of the pit lane.
I counted 6 entries. The problem with the US 2005 GP was also how differently the 3 remaining teams on the grid performed... no competition at all. I wouldn't say no to a race between Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes in 2022.
I live in Germany where there is a weekly motorsports newspaper which publishes letters and emails sent in by readers. It's incredibly sad to see that one of the regular contributors is Roland Ratzenberger's father. As you can imagine, he is highly critical of decisions made for "the show" rather than for safety endanger the lives of drivers, marshals and spectators. Many of the improvements made after Senna's and Ratzenberger's deaths have without any doubt saved serious injuries and lives but for instance Zhou's accident at Silverstone went to show that sometimes it is pure luck that nothing more serious happened.
The fact that every story is from the past 25 years shows that this has not been researched well enough. The most harrowing years of the sport where safety was an afterthought bred some truly unfortunate moments, that definitely deserve recognition here
This is just 5 from the modern sort of era. I mentioned at the start that this isn’t the definitive list and there could be a part 2 to this video and possibly a part 3
I would love to see a part 2. The horrible crash from Grosjean in 2020, the near death from Lauda at the Green Hell and the 2019 Monaco race where we said goodbye to Niki will always be some of the darkest days in F1 as well.
I would love to see more of this, yes please to a series! And how about a series of 'defining moments'? Moments in time which sparked progress in safety, change of rules, redesign of tracks/barriers. How the HANS device came about, why the Nordschleife was abandoned, why the medical car follows them around the first lap, incidents like Lauda, Grosjean, Massa, Häkkinen, which could have had much worse concequences than they did.
@@404TVfr Yeah exactly. Ferrari was definitely faster than McLaren throughout the season, and deserved the constructor's championship. But what's worse is that Brazil 2008 is the last race Massa ever won in F1. That race, for Massa, must be the biggest slap in the face
I watched the 1994 race in Imola and Senna was my favorite driver. Couldn't believe he died that day. Later on that day I watched my other racing hero Dale Earnhardt win at Talledega. The first thing he did in victory lane was send his condolences to the family and fans of Ayrton Senna. Unfortunately 7 years later I lost my second racing hero at Daytona. RIP Ayrton Senna and Dale Earnhardt ✝️ Both legends in their different racing disciplines.
F1 really should have cancelled the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. The last time one of these weekends was so dangerous was when F1 raced at Nürburgring, for the final time, in 1976. That race would end up in the near death of another F1 legend, Niki Lauda. F1 should’ve looked at that, as an example to not race that weekend, but they chose to continue the weekend, and they lost the greatest F1 driver of all-time. It’s a shame that this could’ve been prevented. Hell, even Roland’s death could’ve been prevented, had they realized the severity of Rubens Barrichello’s crash, and how dangerous it would be to continue the weekend. Aryton was terrified to enter that race, and he had a good reason to be. It’s sad that his life was taken at such a dark time.
Had they realized what an impact it would have on the cars when you remove all assists then this would have been preventable as well. The fia did not listen to the drivers one bit during that year. Everybody said the cars are too fast to drive without assists and it shows. There were many serious accidents in 94. 2 deaths during Imola, 2 near death experiences and other heavy crashes like the Schumacher one.
The most painful thing about the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix is that if Roland Ratzenberger had been declared dead on the scene - which he was - then the circuit would have been closed and the event would have been canceled automatically because a police investigation of the accident scene would have had to have taken place. But instead the default M.O. of F1 is to airlift the driver away and have them declared dead at the hospital or underway to the hospital, because the show must always go on. That weekend though, the show really should not have gone on.
@@Astfgl This isn't unique to F1. At Indianapolis in a private test, Tony Renna was declared dead at the circuit and criticised for it. There's nothing certain on it but we do know that he wasn't in one piece.
the sad thing is that ratzenburger also died but only one person came to his funeral, as the rest had went to sennas. only murraay went to ratzenbergers funeral, so sad
There were so many dark days in the 70s too - Jochen Rindt, Francois Cevert, Tom Pryce and Ronnie Peterson, to name a few. And people ike Roger Williamson and Jo Schlesser burning to death in their cars... absolutely horrific
I'm glad you included marshal Graham Beverage death in 04, I used to marshal on short ovals here in uk and lose wheels are a nightmare. It's sad it took a man losing his life before they made the gap smaller than a tyre
@@julian2626 Yup and The death of Roger Williamson, were David Purley tried to save him from his burning car ruclips.net/video/K1F28gUTnig/видео.html Purley received the George Cross Medal for his efforts to try save Williamson. The footage is heartbreaking
I saw Jules crash live. When it happened... I just knew. Knew he can't survive it. It was harrowing and eye-opening to the fact that nothing is guaranteed in life. He went way too early... Rest in Peace Jules, your sacrifice pushed F1 to improve... May you race on the tracks of heaven eternally...
I remember watching the race that took Jules from us. He went off at the exact same spot as Sutil had the lap before, and I’ll never forget the sickening sight of Bianchi’s car ploughing into the unshielded crane. I’ll also never forget the look on Sutil’s face; the colour visibly drained from his face as he stood helplessly watching the accident unfold. RIP, Jules
South-Africa 1977, a marshall ran across the track and got hit by a car, the marshall got ripped into pieces mid air and the driver hitting him (tom pryce) died because he was hit by the fire extinguisher. Nothing on this list even comes close
@@seaninho3631 essentially, the whole country was incredibly unstable. There were contant protests against the corrupt government, which often escalated into violence. The Bahrain Grand Prix had been cancelled the previous year because of such instability. But, the 2012 Grand Prix stayed in the calendar. Lots of people were mad because they thought the 2012 Bahrain Grand Prix was a way for the government to pretend the country was back up on its feet when it really wasn't
The 2019 season while mostly overlooked for just being a boring season, it was also pretty dark in general. There were just so many deaths during that season. First off with Charlie before the season even began, then Niki during the Monaco week. Last but certainly the most infamous, Anothine from Belgium 2019. It just has a whole sigma to the whole season where it is cursed in one way or another
1961 Belgian was the darkest day in F1, Wolfgang Von Trips was in a battle with Phill Hill, for the WDC, but crashed in the race at Monza, his car being launched through the air, spinning front over rear horizontally in to the side of the track, a track without catchfence, killing 15 spectators, and launching Von Trips from the car on to the track, killing him as well. Other candidates, include: The death Tom Pryce, at Kyalami in 1977, where he struck fire marshal Fredrick Jansen Van Vuuren, at high speed, almost bisecting him, and killing him instantly, only in turn to be struck in the head by the latter's fire extinguisher, with such force that it caused a basal skull fracture, severing the arteries at the base of his skull, though he would have died from blunt force trauma to the head anyway had it not. The death of Roger Williamson in the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix, where his car hit outside of the track, bust in to flames, slid across the track, and landed upside down on the inside edge. Williamson was alive, and David Purley, stopped his car and ran across to try to right his friends car, as he could Williamson was still alive as he was screaming 'David get me out of here'.... but Purley was not strong enough to flip the vehicle alone. Marshals cam running, but none had fireproof gloves, or heat resistant clothing, and could not touch the now engulfed car. Ironically, the first dedicated emergency fire and rescue crew to be used at a Dutch race, was present that day, but basically posted at the furthest part of the track to the accident, and there was no direct service road to the scene. By the time they arrived, Williamson had burned to death. The death of Guilio Cabianca which saw the throttle on his Ferrari stick in testing at the Autodromo Di Modena, at the same time workmen near the racetrack required the gateway to the track to be kept open. His car bounced off a rail, headed towards the gate, hit a spectator, careened out of the paddock, across a public road, and hitting a taxi on route, killing him, and all the passengers in the taxi. That just a few of the dark moment F1 has seen in its 76 years, I could write a dissertation on the subject, there's been so many, but this is YT and I have already written what many younguns reading will call an essay.
also 2000 Italian GP @ Monza....massive opening lap crash. and another marshal was killed. Chilling TV footage at the time, you could see an F1 doc (think it was Prof Watkins), giving CPR at the side of the race track to the marshal.
From this moment on... Jacques Villeneuve was never the same again. The wild bravery and fearless nature that made him one of the very best drivers in the world... was instantly gone and the decline slowly set in.
So with you about your feelings when you think of Imola,still seems unbelievable and brings tears to my eyes and yes that sinking feeling to my gut whenever I think about it 😢
Glad you mentioned the recent Saudi Arabia race. I feel like it's been largely forgotten and is hardly mentioned already. The biggest example in recent years of just how much cold, hard cash rules the sport. Human rights and basic safety be damned.
2015 was the darkest days of motorsports. I call it "The Black Summer". 2 days after Jules Bianchi was buried, Spanish riders Dani Rivas and Bernat Martinez lost their lives during an AMA Superstock 2nd race. 1 month later, Justin Wilson would later passed away after a nose from Sage Karam's car struck Wilson's head knocking him out before succumbing to his injuries. 7 years on and we remember them all 4.
The Tom Pryce and marshall crash at Kyalami 1977. If you think the Jules Bianchi crash was graphic then I STRONGLY recommend against watching Kyalami '77.
In part 2 you should include the 1977 South African Grand Prix where Tom Pryce runs over a track martial killing him in a very brutal way and Tom Pryce would get his head severed by a fire hydrant the martial he runned over was carrying
Francois Cevert in the 1973 US GP and Helmut Koinigg the 1974 US GP one of the most gruesome deaths in F1 history, Francois Cevert was an established F1 driver for Tyrell and was Jackie Stewarts teammate by the time he died, Cevert crashed heavily and went through an armco barrier, his body got cut in half between his neck and hip instantly killing him, he was 29. A year later in the same circuit, a young Austrian by the name of Helmut Koinigg was quickly establishing himself as a prospect in the sport, however a suspension failure ended it all as he also went through an armco barrier, the crash decapitated his head (yes, he lost his head) instantly killing him, he was only 25 and this was only his second F1 race. these things could have happened to Grosjean, Leclerc, Lewis and many more, we should be thankful that the sport is a long way ahead of its time.
Without looking this far i'm gonna guess that Imola weekend of '94 will be the darkest. Rip to everybody who lost their lives mentioned in this video. Never heard about that track marshal before.
The thing that makes me even more bummed about crashgate is Renault won the next race fair and square, so if they really _needed_ that one win, they could have literally just waited a few more days.
I get the same feeling about Rascassegate. Michael finished that race in fifth from a pitlane start. Imagine what he could have done starting further up
About the crashgate one thing that is usually skipped, there was a rule that in case of a safety car, the pits would be closed, kinda like in indycar, meaning that if you pitted the lap before the sc, you would be the race leader since everyone would have to pit after they queue'd behind the sc.
For me it was the 2014 Japanese GP...my favourite upcoming driver,i knew it wasn't good when they didnt show his accident for so long 2020 Grosjean crash,ive never seen anything like that since 2005 when i started watching....it didnt think he survived that 2007 Kubica crash also as a kid was very traumatizing
I really got ptsd from those crashes. Last night I dreamt about a crash similar to Grosjeans and huberts crash, well not similar, but I think my brain made it up from this. It was a race on, I think Bahrain, but my dream randomized the track that you could only regognize it was a desert track. Anyway...the main straight was long and had a more or less 90 degrees turn after it. Suddenly Hamilton hitted the rear of russell which made hamilton spin in the wall before the straight. Russell could continue the straight but got a puncture which made him lose a lot of parts which made russell and norris hit the wall at the end of the straight at full speed. Russell was stuck in the barriers and Norris was sideways. The camera was focussed on them untill suddenly a car flew through the air, couldnt see who it was thanks to the speed, but this car t-boned norris on the side (at least twice the speed of huberts crash) after the impact both cars exploded (while Russell stood there) and the flying car flew 10 meters in the air through a fence and flipped like five times before landing in the desert while burning and being in a million pieces. Then I woke up.
You completely blew the reason why the Saudi Arabian GP was one of the darkest days in F1 history. It had nothing to do with the oil refinery fire. It had to do with gross incompetence of the race director that saw the wrong person winning the championship.
Looking for this one. Normally this is forgotten but I don't know why losing a WDC carlibre driver in Von Tripps and 11 or more people due to a pretty preventable incident is forgettable with time.
Regarding Graham Beveridge's death, it's worth noting that another marshal, Paolo Gislimberti, had been killed in an almost identical accident at the 2000 Italian Grand Prix less than six months previously.
I believe that the 1960 Belgian GP, the 1961 Italian GP, the 1973 and 75 US GP and the 1977 South African GP, could be in this video or in a second part
I would personally add the 1976 German Gran Prix where Niki Laudia’s Nurbüring crash hiting a wall at 170 mph roughly 230kmh putting T 312 in a 800* Fahrenheit Inferno of toxic black smoke
This list could also include the day spygate was brought to the public and every time the championship was won due to an accident: Japan 1989 + 90, Australia 94 and Jerez 94 Is there a possibility for a a sequel of this series👀🤞?
I would've loved to see the Saudi grand prix cancelled permanently along with the Miami Grand Prix, Las Vegas Grand Prix and basically any Asian Grand Prix present or future. Did this guy honestly say that F1 has never been more popular in the States? By the looks of it the sport is still struggling with this extremely stubborn market 😆
I think it is a good video, but with all due respect, these are the controversies or tragedies of modern F1. There were quite many similar or even worse occurences in the first four decades of Formula one as well.
I think this was meant to represent the last 3 decades of F1 as to be more relatable to most viewers and Sam himself. Not a definitive list by any means.
You can't really compare the 50s and 60s, to the 90s and 2000s, for example. F1 was hardly the same sport that it was back in the earlier days, it evolved to the point that they don't seem related in any way
@@soundscape26 Also, just to show that I am trying to provide constructive criticism here, I suggest making a second video on the things that happened before Imola '94. Like when von Trips died, along with 15 spectators, or when Pryce had that horrible accident in Kyalami, etc. Controversies can also be covered, like racing in Apartheid-era South Africa, or the FISA-FOCA war.
Another tragedy which deserves to be mentioned was the death of Jo Siffert at the non-championship World Championship Victory Race at Brands Hatch which was ironically supposed to be a wonderful day celebrating Jackie Stewart's world championship win. I was 14 years old and still remember sitting in the crowd looking at a huge pillar of smoke and the utter silence as the drivers switched off their engines as they stopped on the circuit. Poor Seppi burnt to death because none of the fire extinguishers worked. I've see rumours that he was hardly hurt in the crash but I don't believe it. Firstly we saw the state of the car and I can't believe that anyone could have got out of it even if it hadn't been burnt out, and secondly I saw someone who had found his watch. It was a diver's watch but the thick glass had been smashed to bits and the metal strap was totally mangled.
The in car data form Jule's car was checked, control inputs suggest he had not slowed down for the yellow flags. It was also rumoured they postponed the announcement of Senna's death because he was the second driver killed that weekend and they would have stopped the race. There was also a interview with Charlie Witing where he hinted that Senna actually died track side and not in the hospital. Not to mention in the old chopper footage when senna was taken away, there was a pool of blood where he was laying trackside.
His brain death occured at the time of impact, about 2:17 PM, but he was on life support in the hospital until about 6 or 7 PM. They did a similar thing with Ratzenburger. He was killed on impact, but they airlifted him to the hospital and pronounced him dead there, because if he had been pronounced dead at the race track, Italian law dictated that the race weekend would have to be stopped and a police investigation had to take place.
I love your videos and I watch them all but I feel like a lot of them all have a depressing story in them, would be nice if some of them had a nice twist or story
1973 Dutch Grand Prix, Roger Williamson burned alive in front of the TV cameras while only his fellow racer David Purley did anything to try and save his life.
I was at 2005 USGP. There wasn't any mass garbage throwing toward the race track or even people trying to launch beer cans onto track. I sure there were a few isolated incidents but no riots broke out or anything. Mostly just 5 minutes of booing, disbelief, and probably 75% of the crowd left before the 'race' was 1/3 of the way complete That was the era before iPhones and Andriod phones so most attendees weren't up to speed on the behind-the-scenes stuff. Once you got to the track, you were in an information vacuum cause the PA announcers carried on like it was business as usual and there was zero mention of the issue over PA. A lot of the casual fans probably had no idea the race was under threat till the formation lap.
The 1994 season in general was just dark for f1, barichello’s crash, Roland and senna’s deaths, wendlinger’s crash that put him in a coma for some time, and the championship being ended in controversial fashion
Edit meant barichello not massa lol
@@spiderbhyd3 Why does it still say Massa?
@@still_guns prob bc he doesn't want the heart to go away
And also benetton's illegal car
@@idontexist1681 Traction control, right?
I think the worst part with the Jules Bianchi incident, was the fact that it was absolutely MONSOONING on track and the drivers did not want to be out there and radioed in many times about how unsafe the conditions were. Jules accident was totally avoidable and a complete failure of race management.
There are other factors as well. The rain was increasing in second half of the race and Bianchi was on heavily worn intermediate tyres. What's more, Dunlop corner at Suzuka is a notorious corner in wet conditions, likely to cause cars to aquaplane.
20 years earlier, at the same corner and in similar conditions, Gianni Morbidelli had a big accident at Dunlop Corner after aquaplaning on standing water. One lap later, while Marshalls were dealing with the crashed car of Morbidelli, Martin Brundle aquaplaned off at the same corner, narrowly missing hitting a recovery vehicle, but did hit a Marshall and broke the leg of the Marshall.
even the tractor that was meant to carry sutils car was still there under *green flag* conditions... honestly terribly handled by the fia
@@pooer382 that's not true. The green flag (light on some) that was seen in the post accident (for Sutil) footage related to the first marshalls post after the crash site. The recovery tractor and the subsequent crash for Bianchi occurred in a yellow flag zone
Yeah those conditions were plain unsafe the race should have just been called off
@@SiVlog1989 Having a green flag at the next marshall post after the crash site is still unsafe when the tractor is out there. Nowadays we would see a VSC in that situation
I feel you should pay a visit to the older days of the sport. Far darker times in general and certainly worse than most listed here - Tom Pryce's accident, Jochen Rindt's, Gilles Villeneuve's, Roger Williamson etc.
Rindt's story ended up being pretty bittersweet though cause he won the WDC after his death
@@m1co294 i think there was one driver who was in the title fight but lost it when he died handing the championship to andretti. forgot both of their names
@IIvelocityII zandvoort 73
@@SirHRDking Ronnie Peterson, Monza 1978?
@@Antistar_TV yes that one
I would have added the 1977 South African GP. We lost Tom Pryce and a young marshall Frederik Jansen van Vuuren
That was a tragedy that you couldn't have made up in your wildest dreams. Terrible.
Has to be among the worst days F1 has endured. Just the horror of the actual accident, the marshal couldn't be identified until the organisers could get them all together and work out which one was missing, such were his injuries! Then there was the victory speech from Lauda who thought he'd won with a heavily damaged car, saying it was the greatest victory of his career, only to be told half way through of the two men's deaths, barely able to comprehend why the race was allowed to continue, having had his own brush with death less than a year beforehand. The events that unfolded would have been comical if they were not so tragic.
I would even add Romain Grosjean’s 2020 crash in Bahrain to the list. Although he fortunately got out with a few injuries, the crash really put into perspective the safety improvements F1 and the FIA have put into place, and the long way still to go to make the sport even safer.
Absolutely. It was literally seconds away from taking Grosjean's life. Super chilling.
Yes agreed.
I don't know if it would be right for 'darkest days' though. I do agree it was a defining moment for the sport, but would perhaps be better though of in a more positive light? 'Moments that defined F1' would most definately be an interesting series!
Disagree that it was a dark day. It would've been if Grosjean didn't make it. But it's actually somewhat more positive seeing that all the safety measures put in place over the years worked and he walked away fairly unscathed, especially compared to what it could've been.
i look at grosjean's crash as one of f1 greatest days. all the work max mosley and the continuing work done by the fia made it possible for grosjean to survive. horrifying incident but a great outcome.
An honourable mention goes to 2019 Belgian GP. Massive crash at F2 caused Anthoine Hubert to loss his life. The whole paddock and the world was in shock and despair in the tragedy. So the teams put a sticker in the cars in commemoration to Anthoine. Charles Leclerc would get his first win but it’s very hard for him to celebrate the win with the death of one of his friends that he raced and bonded in his racing career
That's the death in formula racing that broke my heart the most. Anthoine was born and lived in the same city as me. It was our local driver. We all wanted him to go in F1. To this day I still think about him. Plus, he has the same name than me, and I wanna become a driver.
correa was also included in the crash as well, he hasnt died but he suffered major injuries and is currently battling walking and is planning to get back to F2. motorsport drivers are a different level
One race I'd use in Part 2 Sam, the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix. Given that Spain was still under the Dictatorship of Fransisco Franco, the human rights aspect of the sport being there was a lingering concern, even when the sport first raced in Spain in 1954. However, this was nothing compared to the heavy atmosphere of the 1975 race weekend. Concerns over safety lingered all weekend, from when the teams noticed that the Armco barriers lining the track were not secured into the tarmac properly. The teams demanded that they wouldn't take to the track if the problems weren't addressed. Although these were addressed, there were drivers who weren't satisfied. The Spanish authorities responded by threatening legal action against anyone who didn't take to the track.
Thus blackmailed into taking to the track, those drivers who weren't happy, like reigning champion Emerson Fittipaldi, recorded the minimum number of laps to legally say he had attempted before withdrawing. Long story short, amid more boycotts, the race went ahead but it didn't run to the full distance, as Rolf Stommellen lost his rear wing cresting a rise, clearing the barrier and landing in a spectator enclosure, killing some of the spectators and left the driver severely injured
Huh so this crap is nothing new to f1
Thanks for shedding light on it
@@Juanguar no problem, there are two side notes with regards to that race. It was the first and only win for Jochen Mass, who became the last German driver before a certain Michael Schumacher in Belgium 1992 to win a Grand Prix (even though he couldn't enjoy it, it was all he could do to not give one of the organisers who was presenting him with the winner's trophy a knuckle sandwich, given how he felt about the weekend) and Lella Lombardi made history by recording a first (half) points finish for a female F1 driver
@@SiVlog1989 yeah I've seen photos of it he crashed with Carlos Pace and over the barriers. The photos are very nightmare-inducing and I would not recommend you looking them up
@@c1243 it's interesting that you mention Carlos Pace, the grainy footage that I've confirms what I had read about it. Stommelen lost his rear wing as his car crested a rise (coincidentally at the exact same spot where his team boss, Graham Hill and Jochen Rindt experienced rear wing failures in 1969), landing in a spectator enclosure. It's possible that Pace was collected in the accident. It wasn't a great look for the organisers to allow the race to continue for 4 more laps, knowing that fatalities had occurred, before calling a halt to proceedings
I'd probably add the 1961 Italian Grand Prix. Wolfgang von Trips crashed and he along with 15 spectators died as a result.
I'm surprised you didn't include Gilles Villeneuve's death. His crash was IMO just as horrifying back in '82 at Zolder. His car flipped at high speed and he got severe damage to his back as a result of it.
Why not the whole 1982 season from FOCA war and the tragedy of Villeneuve, Pironi and Palletti.
Aparently its not as dark than a race of 6 car im sure if enzo ferrari lived long enough to see that he would be more traumatized by the 2005 us gp than gilles death
Belgian GP 1960...?
2 drivers were killed on that race and multiple spectators were hurt.
@@dustinpohl2483 that is 1960.
@@TherealLorinser you're right
There needs to be a sequel to this as there are far more darker days such as
1961 Italian GP - fatal crash kills 15 spectators
1960 Belgian GP - 2 fatal crashes, and 2 serious injuries
1975 Spanish GP - safety concerns, sketchy race organizers, 4 spectators killed
1977 South African GP - Tom price hits a marshal running across the track, both are killed
1973 Dutch GP - Roger Williamson dies as marshals are helpless
1981 Belgian GP - Mechanic was killed during practice, Protest about dangerous pit conditions, another mechanic nearly killed on race day.
The entire 1982 Season - Fisa Foca war, Villeneuve and Paletti killed, Pironi career ending crash
1953 Argentine will always be the worst. Argentine president Juan Peron wanted to turn the race into a Propaganda effort and everyone could just show up to the race, meaning the crowd was just standing at the side of the race track. The inevitable happened, when Giuseppe Farina crashed into the crowd, killing 3 before a mass panic broke out killing at least 15 people
@@eggselent9814 sweet jesus. And I thought i knew my f1 history
@@Gulag_Express_Racing I think you also forgot the 1978 Ronnie Peterson death, 1953 Argentina Gp where Farina killed 19 people that invaded the circuit, and the 1973-74 deaths at Watkins Glen in the same day and same corner
@@AndrewYac i know about them. I didnt want to list them all
That Roger Williamson incident is such tragedy, I understand why marshals coudn't be able to help but few more drivers could of have given a hand to flip it over. There´s so many darker days in F1 in any motorsports event. Those you mention, 1955 Le Mans and Speedway 1956 Vienna, Austria, the Zbigniew accident. There's still many more to count in for the darkest days of all time in any motorsport events. But all was scary crashes. so many many have happen to a sport many people love.
Can't believe everything that's happened recently in f1, thanks for making a diverse range of videos for us.
Just to add to Imola 1994, there was also a crash on the initial start that sent debris into the grandstands. That and the 1973 Indianapolis 500 are the absolute definition of cursed events.
Plus a tire came loose in the pits late in the race and hit a Ferrari mechanic before bouncing onto the track. I have a photo I took of it and the tire is several meters in the air at that point almost at the end of the pit lane.
Same with jim clarks death during the f2 race at hockenheim, he aswell expressed his doubts over the race but raced anyway and tragically died
He didnt want to race because he wanted to do the 1000 km race at Brands Hatch with Ford but was obligated to do the F2 race by Firestone
I counted 6 entries.
The problem with the US 2005 GP was also how differently the 3 remaining teams on the grid performed... no competition at all. I wouldn't say no to a race between Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes in 2022.
I live in Germany where there is a weekly motorsports newspaper which publishes letters and emails sent in by readers. It's incredibly sad to see that one of the regular contributors is Roland Ratzenberger's father. As you can imagine, he is highly critical of decisions made for "the show" rather than for safety endanger the lives of drivers, marshals and spectators.
Many of the improvements made after Senna's and Ratzenberger's deaths have without any doubt saved serious injuries and lives but for instance Zhou's accident at Silverstone went to show that sometimes it is pure luck that nothing more serious happened.
The fact that every story is from the past 25 years shows that this has not been researched well enough. The most harrowing years of the sport where safety was an afterthought bred some truly unfortunate moments, that definitely deserve recognition here
2014 was 25 years ago?
This is just 5 from the modern sort of era. I mentioned at the start that this isn’t the definitive list and there could be a part 2 to this video and possibly a part 3
agreed
@@Kryptictails every story is within the past 20-25 years, jeez
@@mike04574 every story? bro i would be 50 now
I would love to see a part 2. The horrible crash from Grosjean in 2020, the near death from Lauda at the Green Hell and the 2019 Monaco race where we said goodbye to Niki will always be some of the darkest days in F1 as well.
I would love to see more of this, yes please to a series!
And how about a series of 'defining moments'? Moments in time which sparked progress in safety, change of rules, redesign of tracks/barriers. How the HANS device came about, why the Nordschleife was abandoned, why the medical car follows them around the first lap, incidents like Lauda, Grosjean, Massa, Häkkinen, which could have had much worse concequences than they did.
As a ferrari fan for quiet long, my darkest day is Brazil 2008
I don't even care for Ferarri, I just feel so bad for Massa. So underrated.
@@404TVfr he was so unlucky that he had so many team orders. "Felipe baby, fernando is faster than you"
@@404TVfr Yeah exactly. Ferrari was definitely faster than McLaren throughout the season, and deserved the constructor's championship. But what's worse is that Brazil 2008 is the last race Massa ever won in F1. That race, for Massa, must be the biggest slap in the face
@@riccardozanetti2893 still one of my personal favourite drivers.
The Singapore gp is what fucked massa as well, Hamilton gained 6 points on him and massa dnf'd because of the fixed pitstop
I watched the 1994 race in Imola and Senna was my favorite driver. Couldn't believe he died that day. Later on that day I watched my other racing hero Dale Earnhardt win at Talledega. The first thing he did in victory lane was send his condolences to the family and fans of Ayrton Senna. Unfortunately 7 years later I lost my second racing hero at Daytona. RIP Ayrton Senna and Dale Earnhardt ✝️ Both legends in their different racing disciplines.
This is definitely a video that needs a part 2. I'm sure there are older ones that many of us have never heard of before
F1 really should have cancelled the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. The last time one of these weekends was so dangerous was when F1 raced at Nürburgring, for the final time, in 1976. That race would end up in the near death of another F1 legend, Niki Lauda. F1 should’ve looked at that, as an example to not race that weekend, but they chose to continue the weekend, and they lost the greatest F1 driver of all-time. It’s a shame that this could’ve been prevented. Hell, even Roland’s death could’ve been prevented, had they realized the severity of Rubens Barrichello’s crash, and how dangerous it would be to continue the weekend. Aryton was terrified to enter that race, and he had a good reason to be. It’s sad that his life was taken at such a dark time.
Had they realized what an impact it would have on the cars when you remove all assists then this would have been preventable as well. The fia did not listen to the drivers one bit during that year. Everybody said the cars are too fast to drive without assists and it shows. There were many serious accidents in 94. 2 deaths during Imola, 2 near death experiences and other heavy crashes like the Schumacher one.
The most painful thing about the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix is that if Roland Ratzenberger had been declared dead on the scene - which he was - then the circuit would have been closed and the event would have been canceled automatically because a police investigation of the accident scene would have had to have taken place. But instead the default M.O. of F1 is to airlift the driver away and have them declared dead at the hospital or underway to the hospital, because the show must always go on. That weekend though, the show really should not have gone on.
@@Astfgl This isn't unique to F1. At Indianapolis in a private test, Tony Renna was declared dead at the circuit and criticised for it. There's nothing certain on it but we do know that he wasn't in one piece.
the sad thing is that ratzenburger also died but only one person came to his funeral, as the rest had went to sennas. only murraay went to ratzenbergers funeral, so sad
There were so many dark days in the 70s too - Jochen Rindt, Francois Cevert, Tom Pryce and Ronnie Peterson, to name a few. And people ike Roger Williamson and Jo Schlesser burning to death in their cars... absolutely horrific
I'm glad you included marshal Graham Beverage death in 04, I used to marshal on short ovals here in uk and lose wheels are a nightmare. It's sad it took a man losing his life before they made the gap smaller than a tyre
There have been even darker things happen in F1 than some of these
Tom Pryce's crash for example
@@julian2626 Yup and The death of Roger Williamson, were David Purley tried to save him from his burning car ruclips.net/video/K1F28gUTnig/видео.html Purley received the George Cross Medal for his efforts to try save Williamson. The footage is heartbreaking
Gilles Villeneuve's death.
Roger Williamson
I saw Jules crash live. When it happened... I just knew. Knew he can't survive it. It was harrowing and eye-opening to the fact that nothing is guaranteed in life. He went way too early... Rest in Peace Jules, your sacrifice pushed F1 to improve... May you race on the tracks of heaven eternally...
I remember watching the race that took Jules from us. He went off at the exact same spot as Sutil had the lap before, and I’ll never forget the sickening sight of Bianchi’s car ploughing into the unshielded crane. I’ll also never forget the look on Sutil’s face; the colour visibly drained from his face as he stood helplessly watching the accident unfold. RIP, Jules
South-Africa 1977, a marshall ran across the track and got hit by a car, the marshall got ripped into pieces mid air and the driver hitting him (tom pryce) died because he was hit by the fire extinguisher. Nothing on this list even comes close
i'm hoping for a part 2! your content's quality is awesome
What still amazes me to this day re: Singapore
Is that Grosjean dropped-it in the exact same corner the next year!
great content as usual
Much appreciated!
1994 season was one of the most depressing times to ever exist in this sport. ❤
1973 Formula One season was also the darkest from it's 70 year history.
I definitely wanna see a part 2. I was surprised to see Saudi Arabia 2022 but not Bahrain 2012. That one also deserves a spot on this list I think
Context for Bahrain
@@seaninho3631 essentially, the whole country was incredibly unstable. There were contant protests against the corrupt government, which often escalated into violence. The Bahrain Grand Prix had been cancelled the previous year because of such instability. But, the 2012 Grand Prix stayed in the calendar. Lots of people were mad because they thought the 2012 Bahrain Grand Prix was a way for the government to pretend the country was back up on its feet when it really wasn't
There are a lot darker days than some listed, but again they are very gruesome. Tom Pryce's accident comes to mind, or Wolfgang Von Trips.
i dont like the halo but its moments like these that are a wake up call for its need
The 2019 season while mostly overlooked for just being a boring season, it was also pretty dark in general.
There were just so many deaths during that season. First off with Charlie before the season even began, then Niki during the Monaco week. Last but certainly the most infamous, Anothine from Belgium 2019.
It just has a whole sigma to the whole season where it is cursed in one way or another
1961 Belgian was the darkest day in F1, Wolfgang Von Trips was in a battle with Phill Hill, for the WDC, but crashed in the race at Monza, his car being launched through the air, spinning front over rear horizontally in to the side of the track, a track without catchfence, killing 15 spectators, and launching Von Trips from the car on to the track, killing him as well.
Other candidates, include:
The death Tom Pryce, at Kyalami in 1977, where he struck fire marshal Fredrick Jansen Van Vuuren, at high speed, almost bisecting him, and killing him instantly, only in turn to be struck in the head by the latter's fire extinguisher, with such force that it caused a basal skull fracture, severing the arteries at the base of his skull, though he would have died from blunt force trauma to the head anyway had it not.
The death of Roger Williamson in the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix, where his car hit outside of the track, bust in to flames, slid across the track, and landed upside down on the inside edge. Williamson was alive, and David Purley, stopped his car and ran across to try to right his friends car, as he could Williamson was still alive as he was screaming 'David get me out of here'.... but Purley was not strong enough to flip the vehicle alone. Marshals cam running, but none had fireproof gloves, or heat resistant clothing, and could not touch the now engulfed car. Ironically, the first dedicated emergency fire and rescue crew to be used at a Dutch race, was present that day, but basically posted at the furthest part of the track to the accident, and there was no direct service road to the scene. By the time they arrived, Williamson had burned to death.
The death of Guilio Cabianca which saw the throttle on his Ferrari stick in testing at the Autodromo Di Modena, at the same time workmen near the racetrack required the gateway to the track to be kept open. His car bounced off a rail, headed towards the gate, hit a spectator, careened out of the paddock, across a public road, and hitting a taxi on route, killing him, and all the passengers in the taxi.
That just a few of the dark moment F1 has seen in its 76 years, I could write a dissertation on the subject, there's been so many, but this is YT and I have already written what many younguns reading will call an essay.
Moving slightly away from Formula 1. 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans is truly a dark day in motorsport as a whole
also 2000 Italian GP @ Monza....massive opening lap crash. and another marshal was killed. Chilling TV footage at the time, you could see an F1 doc (think it was Prof Watkins), giving CPR at the side of the race track to the marshal.
FINALLY a video that's not "it's all over for X" with eyes scratched out of their photo in the thumb
on another note, the eerie tv static edit is nice without overbearing
From this moment on... Jacques Villeneuve was never the same again. The wild bravery and fearless nature that made him one of the very best drivers in the world... was instantly gone and the decline slowly set in.
Amazing video as usual, Pers!!!
So with you about your feelings when you think of Imola,still seems unbelievable and brings tears to my eyes and yes that sinking feeling to my gut whenever I think about it 😢
Glad you mentioned the recent Saudi Arabia race. I feel like it's been largely forgotten and is hardly mentioned already. The biggest example in recent years of just how much cold, hard cash rules the sport. Human rights and basic safety be damned.
2015 was the darkest days of motorsports. I call it "The Black Summer". 2 days after Jules Bianchi was buried, Spanish riders Dani Rivas and Bernat Martinez lost their lives during an AMA Superstock 2nd race. 1 month later, Justin Wilson would later passed away after a nose from Sage Karam's car struck Wilson's head knocking him out before succumbing to his injuries. 7 years on and we remember them all 4.
For part 2, dark days in the classic era i.e. 50s-80s.
Argentina 1953, South Africa 1977, Spa 1960, Monza 1961, Spain 1975
"later we would learn that it was an attack from a rebel group"
For some reason I thought you said Red Bull
Helmut you've got some explaining to do
The Tom Pryce and marshall crash at Kyalami 1977.
If you think the Jules Bianchi crash was graphic then I STRONGLY recommend against watching Kyalami '77.
The most graphic would be the 1953 Argentine GP
In part 2 you should include the 1977 South African Grand Prix where Tom Pryce runs over a track martial killing him in a very brutal way and Tom Pryce would get his head severed by a fire hydrant the martial he runned over was carrying
Or the 1953 Argentine GP the WORST F1 race of all time
i have a theory that jules' f1 career is being lived through charles leclerc since charles is his godson
Francois Cevert in the 1973 US GP and Helmut Koinigg the 1974 US GP
one of the most gruesome deaths in F1 history, Francois Cevert was an established F1 driver for Tyrell and was Jackie Stewarts teammate by the time he died, Cevert crashed heavily and went through an armco barrier, his body got cut in half between his neck and hip instantly killing him, he was 29.
A year later in the same circuit, a young Austrian by the name of Helmut Koinigg was quickly establishing himself as a prospect in the sport, however a suspension failure ended it all as he also went through an armco barrier, the crash decapitated his head (yes, he lost his head) instantly killing him, he was only 25 and this was only his second F1 race.
these things could have happened to Grosjean, Leclerc, Lewis and many more, we should be thankful that the sport is a long way ahead of its time.
Without looking this far i'm gonna guess that Imola weekend of '94 will be the darkest. Rip to everybody who lost their lives mentioned in this video. Never heard about that track marshal before.
The thing that makes me even more bummed about crashgate is Renault won the next race fair and square, so if they really _needed_ that one win, they could have literally just waited a few more days.
I get the same feeling about Rascassegate. Michael finished that race in fifth from a pitlane start. Imagine what he could have done starting further up
Love the Texas Chainsaw Massacre sound effect in the background.
About the crashgate one thing that is usually skipped, there was a rule that in case of a safety car, the pits would be closed, kinda like in indycar, meaning that if you pitted the lap before the sc, you would be the race leader since everyone would have to pit after they queue'd behind the sc.
And yet, they disrespect Jules by bringing tractors onto the literal track in 2022...
For me it was the 2014 Japanese GP...my favourite upcoming driver,i knew it wasn't good when they didnt show his accident for so long
2020 Grosjean crash,ive never seen anything like that since 2005 when i started watching....it didnt think he survived that
2007 Kubica crash also as a kid was very traumatizing
I really got ptsd from those crashes. Last night I dreamt about a crash similar to Grosjeans and huberts crash, well not similar, but I think my brain made it up from this. It was a race on, I think Bahrain, but my dream randomized the track that you could only regognize it was a desert track. Anyway...the main straight was long and had a more or less 90 degrees turn after it. Suddenly Hamilton hitted the rear of russell which made hamilton spin in the wall before the straight. Russell could continue the straight but got a puncture which made him lose a lot of parts which made russell and norris hit the wall at the end of the straight at full speed. Russell was stuck in the barriers and Norris was sideways. The camera was focussed on them untill suddenly a car flew through the air, couldnt see who it was thanks to the speed, but this car t-boned norris on the side (at least twice the speed of huberts crash) after the impact both cars exploded (while Russell stood there) and the flying car flew 10 meters in the air through a fence and flipped like five times before landing in the desert while burning and being in a million pieces. Then I woke up.
They’ve never shown the crash on TV. The only clip I’ve seen was from a spectators mobile phone
I watched it live and I'm still convinced that Kubica died in 2007 and his body is just in shock. Incomprehensible that a human could survive that.
For me Massa 2009 Hungary. There where some horrible accidents but thanks to that current era F1 cars saved many lives especially Grosjean
You completely blew the reason why the Saudi Arabian GP was one of the darkest days in F1 history. It had nothing to do with the oil refinery fire. It had to do with gross incompetence of the race director that saw the wrong person winning the championship.
Monza 61 was pretty dark too
Looking for this one. Normally this is forgotten but I don't know why losing a WDC carlibre driver in Von Tripps and 11 or more people due to a pretty preventable incident is forgettable with time.
Regarding Graham Beveridge's death, it's worth noting that another marshal, Paolo Gislimberti, had been killed in an almost identical accident at the 2000 Italian Grand Prix less than six months previously.
Part 2
- Zolder 1982
- Spa 2019
- Spygate
- Monza 2000
- Nurburgring 1976
- Sakhir 2020 (was not a tragedy, but could it be)
Nice video
canada 2013
Zandvoort 1973
Kyalami 1977 Monza 1978
Kyalami 1977, Zandvoort 1973, Montjuic Park 1975, Spa 1960, Argentina 1953, Monza 1961
Good video!
Ps I would add Gilles Villeneuve’s crash…
Rest in peace to all of the pilots who died
I believe that the 1960 Belgian GP, the 1961 Italian GP, the 1973 and 75 US GP and the 1977 South African GP, could be in this video or in a second part
bro sounds like chills lmao
Part 2 would definitely be good.
I would personally add the 1976 German Gran Prix where Niki Laudia’s Nurbüring crash hiting a wall at 170 mph roughly 230kmh putting T 312 in a 800* Fahrenheit Inferno of toxic black smoke
You forgot Nikki Lauda horrific crash of German GP as well as Wolfgang von Trips horrific death crash. Those were the dark days of F1. Never forget it
That day in 94 was the first time I cried because of someone’s death… I was 13…
No Helmuth Koenigg? His death probably the most gruesome in F1 history.
This list could also include the day spygate was brought to the public and every time the championship was won due to an accident: Japan 1989 + 90, Australia 94 and Jerez 94
Is there a possibility for a a sequel of this series👀🤞?
You forgot the darkest moment of all. The moment Kimi drove blindly through smoke without hesitation
nope
I would've loved to see the Saudi grand prix cancelled permanently along with the Miami Grand Prix, Las Vegas Grand Prix and basically any Asian Grand Prix present or future.
Did this guy honestly say that F1 has never been more popular in the States? By the looks of it the sport is still struggling with this extremely stubborn market 😆
Yes part 2 please
I think it is a good video, but with all due respect, these are the controversies or tragedies of modern F1. There were quite many similar or even worse occurences in the first four decades of Formula one as well.
I think this was meant to represent the last 3 decades of F1 as to be more relatable to most viewers and Sam himself. Not a definitive list by any means.
@@soundscape26 that may very well be the case, though then the title needs to be amended
You can't really compare the 50s and 60s, to the 90s and 2000s, for example. F1 was hardly the same sport that it was back in the earlier days, it evolved to the point that they don't seem related in any way
@@bertalann7214 Yes... starting with the fact that he listed 6 events and not 5. But I'm nitpiking.
@@soundscape26 Also, just to show that I am trying to provide constructive criticism here, I suggest making a second video on the things that happened before Imola '94. Like when von Trips died, along with 15 spectators, or when Pryce had that horrible accident in Kyalami, etc. Controversies can also be covered, like racing in Apartheid-era South Africa, or the FISA-FOCA war.
I’m very disappointed that Monza 61 and Spa 60 they where devastating weekends
Or Argentina 1953
imola 94' gives me chilles nearly th- THIRTY YEARS ON???
Can you make a video on the senna assassnation theory and great video
Same i also would like to see that
I think the darkest race week of all time was the Belgian Grand Prix on 1960. Two heavy accidents and two died drivers...
If I had the power I'd dig up imola and turn it into a car park , hate that track with a passion
At least we can say that Good came from most of these events
0:40 yo bro, is that Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Another tragedy which deserves to be mentioned was the death of Jo Siffert at the non-championship World Championship Victory Race at Brands Hatch which was ironically supposed to be a wonderful day celebrating Jackie Stewart's world championship win.
I was 14 years old and still remember sitting in the crowd looking at a huge pillar of smoke and the utter silence as the drivers switched off their engines as they stopped on the circuit. Poor Seppi burnt to death because none of the fire extinguishers worked. I've see rumours that he was hardly hurt in the crash but I don't believe it. Firstly we saw the state of the car and I can't believe that anyone could have got out of it even if it hadn't been burnt out, and secondly I saw someone who had found his watch. It was a diver's watch but the thick glass had been smashed to bits and the metal strap was totally mangled.
The in car data form Jule's car was checked, control inputs suggest he had not slowed down for the yellow flags. It was also rumoured they postponed the announcement of Senna's death because he was the second driver killed that weekend and they would have stopped the race. There was also a interview with Charlie Witing where he hinted that Senna actually died track side and not in the hospital. Not to mention in the old chopper footage when senna was taken away, there was a pool of blood where he was laying trackside.
His brain death occured at the time of impact, about 2:17 PM, but he was on life support in the hospital until about 6 or 7 PM.
They did a similar thing with Ratzenburger. He was killed on impact, but they airlifted him to the hospital and pronounced him dead there, because if he had been pronounced dead at the race track, Italian law dictated that the race weekend would have to be stopped and a police investigation had to take place.
To add to barichello’s crash, the impact was so great that I believe he was clinically dead for around 5 minutes (as in, his heart stopped).
I love your videos and I watch them all but I feel like a lot of them all have a depressing story in them, would be nice if some of them had a nice twist or story
The USA 2005 race made me angry.
Surprised Massa's head injury wasn't mentioned
1973 Dutch Grand Prix, Roger Williamson burned alive in front of the TV cameras while only his fellow racer David Purley did anything to try and save his life.
Some of those aren't "Dark days in F1 history". They are just controversial moments
honorable mention to anthoine hubert even though it was f2 into f1
I think the Roger Williamson and Tom Pryce incidents should be on the list for their circumstances
Yes do part 2
It should include Italy 1961 and South Africa 1977
I was in Indy for tiregate! Thx Michelin for free tix for 06’. Lol
RIP GOAT!!!
I would have included Gilles Villeneuve's crash, considering how horrible it was.
Nice video but needs to go back further for much darker weekends
I was at 2005 USGP. There wasn't any mass garbage throwing toward the race track or even people trying to launch beer cans onto track. I sure there were a few isolated incidents but no riots broke out or anything. Mostly just 5 minutes of booing, disbelief, and probably 75% of the crowd left before the 'race' was 1/3 of the way complete
That was the era before iPhones and Andriod phones so most attendees weren't up to speed on the behind-the-scenes stuff. Once you got to the track, you were in an information vacuum cause the PA announcers carried on like it was business as usual and there was zero mention of the issue over PA. A lot of the casual fans probably had no idea the race was under threat till the formation lap.
The 1977 South African GP was terrible because it was the most gorey incident in F1