SCOTTISH GUY Reacts To The Worst Nascar Crashes of All Time
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Darrell Waltrip (one of the announcers) was a driver for a lot of years, as was his younger brother, Michael. Darrell told a story about watching Michael have a wreck like that. It was so awful he thought his brother was dead, and ran to what was left of the car, crying like a baby. Michael was sitting in basically just the roll cage, with his feet on the track, looked up at his brother and said "What in the world is wrong with you?"
Yeah, that wreck caused me to just freeze. I didn’t even want to watch the aftermath. I doubt you’ll ever see anyone survive a wreck that bad again.
@@buddydeal7695 Mike Harmon did.
@@supertornadogun1690 Harmon's wreck was even worse somehow. The car suffered more damage, and was also hit by another car.
Yeah Johnny Sauter came off of 2 at the same track as Michael’s crash then sees the destroyed car of Harmon and immediately turned the car as hard as he could to the left to avoid hitting Harmon
By avoid hitting him I mean actually hitting him not the car but the driver
I am not a nascar fan, so I agree that "insane" is a good description. But I do have to totally respect the amount of safety features built into the cars and the tracks to allow these drivers to walk away from most of these accidents. The auto industry and every driver in the world has benefited from some of the safety features that racing has invented, tested, and improved on.
NASCAR changed Feb 2001.
Nascar changed the day Dale sr died. He was the 4th driver in 8 months to die in a wreck. That’s when they added a bunch of safety features like helmets that go all the way around the head, harnesses, safer barriers and much more
@@lucasstone2694 Wasn't it after Daytona that proper safety precautions and restrictor plates for super speedways became mandatory? I know that they aren't mandatory anymore, but wasn't it the final straw?
@@Shay_Mendez 1987, Bobby Allison's crash at Talladega was the start of the restrictor plate era in NASCAR. It was more out of fan safety since Bobby's car almost ended up in the stands. And to answer some of the comments above, full face helmets were already popular, but a few of the older guys held out. After Dale's death, they became mandatory. Biggest innovations that affected motorpsorts was nearly every series, including NASCAR, that didn't already require the HANS devices made it mandatory and the innovation of soft wall technology.
There also hasn't been a death since Earnhardt in 2001
The wreck starting at 4:17 is actually from the 2001 Daytona 500, the race that would see NASCARs last fatality in Dale Earnhardt, Sr. Oddly enough he was almost collected in that wreck and on the red flag laps following he told his car owner “Richard if they don’t do something about these cars someone is going to get killed out here”.
Sounds exactly like the intimidator to predict his own death
@David Malinovsky no
@David Malinovsky the difference between Tony and Dale's crashes, Tony yes he was flipping as he was slowing down losing speed. Dale hit a concrete wall and 180mph at the worst angle possible and lost a ton of speed instantly, a sudden stop essentially.
Ever since Dale Earnhardt, Sr. died no one else has died.
I gave up NASCAR the day he died. He was my favorite and no one not even Jr could compare.
He was my dad's favorite too. He could not watch the funeral and didn't watch any races for over a year.
i think a few drivers have died im not sure
@@Rhett_Kierbow not in any of the national series. arca lost blaise alexander, but that was when they were still independent before nascar bought it.
Adam Petty, I thought died at New Hampshire later that year after his throttle hung
A lot of us in the NASCAR community think of it this way Yes there are drivers who have lost their lives but had they not lost their lives we wouldn't have the safety innovations we do today without racing you wouldn't know what you know now so really you should be thinking anybody that supports and/or participate in any kind of racing from the big leagues all the way to the little guy that races a little beater on Friday and Saturday night Believe it or not you're safer on a racetrack than you are on the highway there are very strict rules what you must have in your car
Earnhardt Sr was one of.the tragic losses. However, like you said his loss and others changed NASCAR safety for the better.
I've always thought it was wild that you're safer at 200mph in a racecar than you are at 70mph in your passenger car on the highway, but it is indeed true. Between the safety features, and the fact that everyone on a racetrack is a professional while highways are full of crazy people...
Yep, there's an adage in aviation, but it applies to lots of things, pretty much all sorts of travel are this way, to simplify down your comment:
"Rules are written in blood."
It's kind of dark to hear, but it's true. Majority of the rules/safety features in anything where death is possible aren't precautionary, they're actually reactionary, added after something fatal or near fatal happened and then they realized oh hey, we better change this so it doesn't happen again.
And to anyone else who might get triggered, I wasn't saying that this term was invented by aviation or anything, private pilot ground school was just the first time I ever heard it so to me, it's an aviation thing.
Yep. 2008 Texas wreck is the perfect example. Huge hit to the wall and flipped multiple time and was fine after it. I think he still raced 2 days later
The one at 4:16 always breaks my heart, because although it's the far scarier-looking crash, it's not the worst one of the day. The one shown here happened during the last hour or two of Dale Earnhardt's life.
Always remember, for the intimidators sake-Raise hell, praise Dale
It generally isn't broken bones that hurt the drivers in wrecks but the concussions. It wasn't until Dale, Jr. retired citing the multiple concussions he suffered as the reason that many other drivers that retired came forward about their struggles with them. There is now a protocol in place to insure that drivers aren't coming back too fast from these.
Also, there hasn't been a spectator death at a top series race that I'm aware of since 2001 maybe earlier. There were injuries with those crashes that went into the fence but no deaths.
It's worth noting, however, that multiple spectators die every year at race tracks in the US, usually at sprint car races.
@@SAVikingSA yeah but as far as I know dirt oval racing is world wide… NASCAR is only North America.. Mainly the US and then they have the pinty series which is Canada and the Euro series which is Europe
Ooooh I've been to many races. There is nothing like being there. The saddest one is when Dale Earnhardt died.
Yes my husband and I watch that on TV. The wreck itself didn’t look that bad. I’ve seen a whole lot worse. I think everyone was surprised that he did not walk away from that one. My big strong husband cried that day
@@sharikraft1706 I'll never forget that day. I watched the whole race , then left to pick up my daughter from soccer practice. That evening with my husband , we were at the bar waiting for a table in a restaurant, and on the TV comes the news. I was so upset , we left and went home. I met him once, we shared the same birthday. He signed my t-shirt. It was a sad day for fans .
@@reneehomen2226 my husband and I were not married at the time and I was visiting him. We saw the race. we saw him carried off. we were barbecuing that evening and saw the newscast announcement. We couldn't believe it. And like I said that was probably the first time I ever saw my husband cry
I used to work at Daytona in the suites as a bartender. I met so many drivers, we were cleaning up one night ,the day Dale Earnhardt won. He walked in still in his track gear,with a few other people. I just stood there ,couldn't speak. They just were looking for some cold Gatorades. He was so nice.
I was at Daytona and saw the wreck. I prayed he would survive, but he did not. I remember Dale Jr crossed the finish line stopped his car and ran back to his father’s car. Everyone in the stands were crying no matter what driver they supported.
Fun fact they do have NASCAR in the UK it is called Euro NASCAR
I used to watch streams on shady sites.
I appreciated the commercial breaks that just showed the race. No sound, just the race.
You beat me to it!
@The Real Bob Duncan yeah NASCAR PEAK Mexico Series is still around
Btw, the term "stock car" is often thought (indeed I myself used to think this), to have originated from the fact that the cars were originally required to be factory stock, or as close to it as possible. And indeed, as I understand it, they were. Although the only resemblance to stock cars from Detroit these days is purely superficial, because of all the technology.
But in reality, if what I read years ago is correct, stock car racing originated as races during Prohibition days, between specially modified moonshine stock hauling cars. Cars that were modified to be able to haul as much moonshine as possible, and still be extremely fast and maneuverable in order to win races with the police across the hills and hollers (hollows) of rural, especially the southeastern, Appalachian US.
Moonshine was called "stock", euphemistically I guess. There's more about it online.
Yes, Stock Cars were originally stock off the showroom floor cars which the drivers were alowed to modify. If you look in the early days of NASCAR, you will see the vast difference in the cars because when they drove a Camaro, it was an actual Camaro. When Richard Petty drove a Dodge Charger Super Bee, it was a real Super Bee. The cars would be modified to add the roll cage and remove anything not needed for racing. I don't recall just when NASCAR went to the built cars with all the exact body and roll cages, but now about the only difference between one car and the other is the driver and the setup.
This is still done in amateur racing, it's called Hobby Stock now. I'm on a pit crew for a Late Model team and it's a lot like NASCAR, the cars are built from the ground up, but there's still a lot of differences in cages, engines suspension and other parts. It presents a greater challenge for teams to compete. We're fast, probably faster than most we compete against, but we're having issues dialing in the traction in the corners so we can't compete up front. With no sponsors our team can't afford to hire the pro car builders. But it's hella fun.
And yes, before NASCAR, the races started out as the shine runners competing against each other. Never heard of shine being called "stock", though.
Stock car racing started after the Prohibition era, not during. Once they didn't need to run moonshine anymore, they had basically nothing to do with those souped-up stock cars. One high-chinned statement lead to another, and former moonshine runners wanted to know who really was the best. So, they raced.
NASCAR wasn't founded until some years later, when the main founder kept seeing drivers getting robbed of their winnings by 'managers' who would cut and run. The first NASCAR-sanctioned race took place on Daytona beach. After some years, the first NASCAR-created racetrack was built alongside that very beach, paid for and initiated by Bill France Senior (the main founder). That track is still in use today- Daytona International Speedway.
That is so correct. Growing up in the Southeastern US, and being of a certain age, everybody knows that NASCAR originated with the 'shiners. The cars were modified to outrun the Federal agents, who were trying to seize and tax the '"shine" that they were making. Although this all originated during the Prohibition era, it is still a Federal crime to make "moonshine" without paying the Federal government their share, and there are still people in Appalachia with fast cars to run moonshine.
So anyway, that's where NASCAR started and why.
for those of you that did not know this NASCAR has 3 series Gander (trucks), Xfinity, and cup
also, NASCAR spectators do not die regularly they have catch fences to keep everything on the track including cars
No that's not true, there's the trucks. Cups. Xfinity. Arca menards series and more series divided by region, then there a series for nascar heat
There's Cup, Xfinity, Trucks, ARCA, ARCA East, ARCA West, Peak Mexico and Whelen Euro
We've been to races and we watch them every week on TV. There is so much exciting stuff to see and feel live. You can barely see the cars as they pass, it looks like a color slure, you can feel the rumble of the engines. They fly around the oval and road courses at jet speed. The drivers are incredible athletes. Sometimes the cars are in excess of 120 degrees inside and the drivers are dressed in full cover flame retardant suits for up to three sometimes four hours in that heat. Non race fans don't realize how many years many of these drivers train in lower classes just for the chance to drive the big V8 engine cars. Many start in little dirt go carts at age 6 and 7. Some drivers are second generation drivers. The current NASCAR champ is a second generation driver. These cars are built with so many safety features that you rarely see a driver injured seriously anymore.
That is incredible
@@TheDonsChannel you should watch some stuff on Dale Earnhart sr his death is y we have a lot of the safety stuff they have now for the drivers
I went to Rockingham and Charlotte as a kid beat times of my life
The HANS device is the single most important invention in racing
That and the safer barrier are probably the biggest changes
It is amazing what bad wrecks these guys walk away from. I sent my husband and one of his cousins off to their annual pilgramge to the New Hampshire Speedway this morning.
Dale Earnhardt Sr is the hardest for many, though all were harsh ones. Dale was beloved and respected by many. His son, Dale Jr, had an awesome career as well, and is now an analyst for NBC Sports, Nascar division. Fun fact. NASCAR can be traced back to the 1930s when there were moonshine runners.
Dale Sr and Dan Wheldon in In day was hard for me.
I think if he understood the difference between crashes it would make more sense to him. Just because a crash looks bad, like the flipping and crashing into each other , those ones are not the ones he needs to worry about. It's the 90° angle crashes he doesn't understand. Most people don't. Those are the ones that used to result in an automatic fatal.
Jr had a mediocre career. Awesome is a far stretch.
For those who are unfamiliar, the crash at 6:18 is believed to be one of the hardest crashes of all time, with the 19 flipping and losing all sorts of parts of his car. However, the broadcast completely missed this as they were focused on the 2 spinning into the grass. The most amount of video proof is a recreation made by the nascar website at the time of the race.
The safety equipment and safety crews are much improved since Dale Earnhardt was killed in a crash. The neck is now basically immobilized. Most NASCAR fans go to those events just to see the crashes. Most of the drivers usually end up with broken bones and the safety crews are quick to extinguish any fires.
Thanks David
@@TheDonsChannel almost none of that is true. "Most" of the fans don't go to see crashes, and "most" of the drivers don't end up with broken bones.
They had the HANS device when sr died, he chose not to wear it and also refused to wear a closed helmet
@@erichowell3386 His was broke so he went without
3:45 That's Rusty Wallace at Talladega Alabama. I was at that race in 1993.
Dale Sr getting out of ambulance and back in car was awesome!
When you see a car rolling over and over, that's a good thing, every time it touches the ground, it gives up energy, a little bit at a time, instead of all at once.
DISCLAIMER NONE OF THE WRECKS SHOWN WHERE FATAL AND NO SPECTATORS WHERE KILLED EITHER (in a few though there were spectator injuries
That Austin Dillion crash is a show stopper. It’s one of the craziest things to happen, and it goes to show how much safety equipment is needed.
My Mom dated Jerry Unser. She was watching along with his family when he wrecked and later died. The safety for drivers has improved some but it is still dangerous.
The stock cars now are safer to be in at their speed of 200mph compared to driving on the highway at 70mph.
The wreck at 3:48 was actually a result of NASCAR's rules. The previous season, they'd stripped a win from a driver at a restrictor plate track after he went below the yellow line. He was forced below, which they said before the race, was the one exception to the rule. However, they refused to acknowledge that exception and stripped the win anyway. So, the wreck in the video (the following season) is the result of the 09 car not wanting to go below the yellow line, forced or not, for fear of having the win stripped away and the result was the 99 going airborne into the catchfence. That being said, yes, to a degree, they're allowed to nudge and shove each other on track.
Also, the NASCAR Euro Series just ran at Brands Hatch in the UK. They have their own RUclips channel where they stream the races. Enjoyed the reaction, by the way. Good stuff.
The second wreck, the one with Austin Dillon in the #3 who went airborne over the cars and into the catch fence was 200% scary as hell watching live. Everyone was quiet for a bit. One team of crew members ran out to assist him as he was hit again after coming to a rest. That car today sits in a Bass Pro Shop down in Springfield, MO, and I got to see the car. How someone was inside that thing when I saw what was left was absolutely amazing. Safety has come such a long ways in 20 years.
I was at that race
MIchael McDowell's Texas crash in 2008 was the first proof that the CoT (Car of Tomorrow) was the safest car NASCAR ever made. But the wing on the back reared it ugly head in 2009 when cars started flying while going backwards at 150+mph. Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski started the movement to put a spoiler back on the cars after the next year.
There haven’t been a death of a spectator at a NASCAR race, ever.
Wow. That is surprising
Excellent to know that spectators are not likely to be killed while watching a sport. Still mental! 🤣
Disfigured and maimed for life yes
There has been 2012 Kyle Larson going into the fence
@@thatpaintschemeguy8 no spectator died in that crash
Gotta say... I'll never under the excitement of watching cars go round and 'round AND AROUND.... what was more fun.... watching you turn into an excited 16yr kid! 😂🤣
about the neck injury comment, after the death of Dale Earnhardt Sr in 2001, NASCAR made the Head And Neck Support device (or HANS device) mandatory.
also, regarding the wreck at 5:53, the truck that went into the fence was Geoffrey Bodine. no spectators have been killed by flying debris in those kinds of wrecks (which are not that common, mind you), but several spectators were injured by debris in that one. Bodine, on the other hand, was severely injured, suffering a fractured right wrist, fractured right cheekbone, a fractured vertebrae in his back, a fractured right ankle, and a concussion.
also, regarding the wreck at 8:30, the racer who went into the fence was Davey Allison. this happened in 1987 at Talladega. Allison blew a tire at around 210 MPH ( 338 KPH), and flew into the fence. several spectators were injured, and NASCAR introduced the restrictor plate to limit speeds.
4:00 - Where you said they can nudge each other... That race was at Talladega. It's illegal to go below the double yellow lines, so when the 99 (Carl Edwards) tried to come down in front of the 09 (Brad Keselowski) the 09 didn't want to move out of the way to prevent the accident. While no drivers were hurt, there were some fans that had minor injuries.
You should react to "The day that NASCAR changed forever" where they talk about the crash @8:34
You talked about neck injury unfortunately in 2001 Dale Earnhardt SR. Died in Daytona due to his neck injury he was DOI (dead on impact) #RIPDaleSR :(
His biggest injury was to his chest, the chest impact from the steering wheel stopped his heart. It was like a giant pre cordial thump. Either way, we lost a great racer and he is still missed by many. Remember The Intimidator #3
@@TheWynch totally I was too young to know who he even was but my dad was a big Earnhardt fan
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RIP Dale. Luv u bro. u were the best. All condolences go to you and your family
Darrel? Waltrip?
@@sharolynwells I meant Dale. it auto corrected me
3:14 mike harmon bristol surprisingly survived that wreck with no injury
The day Dale sr passed away in February of 2001 was when a lot of things changed in nascar. He was the last driver to have died in a nascar race. They added safer barriers to tracks, helmets that went all the way around the head, harnesses, hood/roof flaps, and so many more safer things. Multiple drivers since then have been injured like Kyle Busch broke his head in 2015 and Ryan Newman had unconscious in his Daytona 500 last lap wreck in 2020. Nascar is so much safer today though.
4:02 I was 11 years old when I was watching this particular race live on TV. I saw this crash happen.
Much respect to the skill and bravery of these drivers!
Thanks a million Don!
On a side note I believe my wife learned to drive from some of these guys!
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I can at least tell you these days the safety has REMARKABLY IMPROVED so many recent wrecks that make you go how did the driver walk off under their own power ... great video 🤙🏻
Thank you
And you'd be amazed at the amount of drivers who completely walk away from one of those those cars have unbelievably high-tech safety gear including gear specifically designed to prevent neck injuries. I was a little independent track in Tulsa Oklahoma years and years ago and I watched just to start car go end over in 13 times and the driver got up and walked away and strangely enough very few spectators get hurt at these things can't say anything about pit crew cuz they don't qualify a spectators but I know that very few spectators actually suffer severe injuries or death
Thanks very much Jerri
Thank God for the catch fence!
When he said when they are made of tin foil at that speeds they are supposed to be that way, before around 2002 the car would hardly crumble and the driver would have to take the crumble and that causes injuries, now that they crumble so much the car takes the impact with the safer barrier is what takes the impact not the driver
5:55 Fun fact, There has never been a racing related spectator death at any NASCAR sanctioned event, those catch fences around the tracks are honestly incredible
No but their has been full body paralyzing injuries. I'd rather die at that point.
You said "the neck injuries". There is a device called H.A.N.S. device which stands for Head And Neck Support. It was mandatory after the 2001 Daytona 500 when Dale Earnhardt died. So the worst injury since the H.A.N.S. and safer barriers was a concussion. And no spectators have died from what I know of. (If anyone wants to inform me, go ahead) but injuries do occur from spectators too.
Nah the worst injuries were Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin "broken leg," and Aric Almirolas back injury in I think 2017
Spectators are never harmed a majority of the time due to where they sit. Also the Catch Fence has been designed to be EXTREMELY safe.
As a big nascar fan it’s great to see new viewers in the sport (even if it’s highlights)
The catch fence exists to keep the fans safe from the cars, or any parts, during a crash.
20 years since the last driver death. Many still get pretty fucked up, but it's been 20 years.
You'd be surprised at how well built those catch fences are. It's actually pretty rare for spectators to be killed (anymore) since the fences were introduced. I really suggest that you watch/read about the 1955 Le Mans disaster, but be warned it's very graphic. Back then, catch fences weren't really a thing, so when Pierre Levegh crashed and went up into the stand, it killed 84 people including himself. And that death toll is only the official one given, it's pretty widely accepted that up to 100+ were killed in the accident. I don't recall if catch fences are mandatory now, but most NASCAR tracks have them to stop anything like that from happening again. They're built a specific way, that it's nearly impossible for cars to go into the stands. A very well made piece of engineering, I fully believe that EVERY racecar track should have one!
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I grow up with Dario Franchitti a famous indycar driver. He is Scottish, his grandad owed our local wee shop and Dario used to play the old arcade game pole position night and day.
The airborne wrecks look awful, but the car is slowing down and all that force is being dissipated over a wide area. The fatal wrecks, like Earnhardt's, are the ones that don't look bad but they concentrate a tremendous amount of force into one small area centered on the driver's body.
5:50 the Geoff Bodine truck crash is the worst non-fatal crash I've ever seen and I don't hardly ever see anyone mention it. Everyone thought for sure he was dead when it happened. And if Geoff Bodine hadn't been a huge advocate for safety, it would've killed him.
Wish I could sit and have a conversation with you about some of these accidents. Most of the accidents in the video, the drivers walked away. Some of the accidents that you attributed to blown out tires were cars getting hit and turned then the tires blow out in the spin. I posted a link to a website and a quote from that site that says no spectator has ever died as a result of an on track accident at a NASCAR race. These accidents look spectacular and crazy, the accidents that have killed drivers look rather tame in comparison.
Oh man. Just wait til you attend a race in person! I've been to Talledega Superspeedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, and Nashville Superspeedway. I'll take a nascar race over an SEC football game anyday! You gotta check out the Radioactive series!
Got hooked on NASCAR cause my cousin raced Modifieds. The wrecks are so scary- saw a dear friend killed at Pocono Raceway in a Modified. Stopped going for a while- but the excitement is too hard to stay away from. It is a big family- drivers- fans and family. My son met Rusty Wallace and Geoff Bodine and Kenny Schrader on his first birthday in the pits at Martinsville - my favorite track- they use to race Modifieds on Saturday and Winston Cup on Sunday
They now have hans device to prevent head an neck injuries.
Really. That's fantastic. It's incredible hiw anyone could survive these crashes
@@TheDonsChannel Dale Earnhardt, the last racer to die on the track, died due to a neck/head injury called a basal skull fracture. His wreck and death is why they mandate neck restraints in NASCAR; you don't wanna wear your neck restraint, you don't race.
5:52 i agree with "this is gonna hurt"
You are right about the head and neck injuries. Largely due to the death of one of the most popular drivers in NASCAR, a head and neck restraint was developed and eventually made mandatory in the NASCAR rules. Also, tracks were improved with energy absorbing walls, called "safer barriers".
The catch fences keeps most of the debris out of the stands. It have been to a lot of races at Daytona and no one has ever been hurt. I was there the day Dale Earnhardt sr. died
Yes drivers do get hurt but the last NASCAR related death was in 2001
3:35 Rusty Wallace flips into the infield and broke his arm at the checkered flag. I was at that race in Talladega.
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Used to love my nascar, haven't watched since, Dale...R.I.P. #3!!
Scottish guys reactions are so funny. I'm Scottish, Irish, English and French by birth, but this guy is funny.
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Hi Don,
Greetings from the USA and glad you're enjoying our little sport. The car body is actually not metal it's carbon fiber it's designed to crush or fly off so to dissipate energy. It's only the roll cage that is metal as u want that to stay intact.
Head injuries used to be more common than now but like most sports now drivers use the HANS device (head and neck support) to limit movement and minimize traumatic injury.
The newer video are after they made the cars where, when they get upside down and roll, the sheet metal is meant to come apart and away from the car to take away the energy. Lot of science goes into this sport nowadays.
If it puts your mind at ease with the spectators, there is a catchfence to catch debris and cars. There hasn't been a fan death in an incredibly long time if ever in NASCAR. They've gotten hurt but nothing life threatening or changing. Here's some examples of how strong it is. These crashes all had cars hitting the fence at superspeedways and, if I'm remembering right, only Austin Dillon's crash had injuries on the fan side.
2015 Austin Dillon Coke-a-Cola Zero 400
1987 Bobby Allison Winston 500
2013 Kyle Larson Drive4COPD
2019 Kyle Larson Gieco 500
2009 Carl Edwards Aaron's 499
I'm a U.S. kid and I love NASCAR. There are only minor injuries in wreaks today. no spectators die but could get injured if a car hits the fence just right. The latest death was in the early 2000. But only minor injuries in todays racing.
NASCAR actually does have a Euro series!! It's pretty good too
I've actually been to Daytona wayyyyyy back in the mid 90s to watch a race. It's hard to explain the feeling of sheer power as the cars roar by at top speed. There's something visceral to the whole experience with that much energy and the feeling of change in air pressure as those cars pass by.
I seriously felt a sense of dread as I watched them hoping not to see an accident. At that kind of speed a person knows that the drivers aren't going to survive a crash. It's exhilarating and frightening at the same time.
Coolest part about most of these crashes is that most of them, not only did the driver survive, they had no major injuries other than cuts and bruises. The Hahns device is a huge thing. Also I can't recall the last time a spectator had any major injuries either because of the catchfences.
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NASCAR IS MENTAL! 😂🤣😂My limited understanding is that it is rooted in our prohibition days (when alcohol was banned nationwide), so having the fastest car was very important when hauling alcohol (aka 'moonshine' in the south). Then they started competing for who is fastest. IDK if this is true or folklore, but I'm sure one of my southern brethren can enlighten us. ;-)
For a possible change of pace, there’s the LA Speed Check and/or buzzing the tower
Nascar is a lot safer now. There was a pretty big wreck last year but there has not been any deaths since Dale Sr in 2001
The safety these cars have is what is saving these drivers lives
i like how he was pointing at the wrecks trying to show us😂
Nascar is actually surprisingly less dangerous than you would expect. Ever since the death of dale earnhardt sr in 2001, no drivers have been killed in any of nascars top 3 series. Before that driver deaths were fairly common
Ryan Newman came close at Daytona though. That was really scary.
@@thejman3489 yeah. That was one of the scariest moments in nascar in my lifetime. I still find it crazy that the bar newman pushed to be added to the roll cage 10-15 years ago is what ended up saving his life in that wreck
@@RAHNOLD77 For me the two scary ones were Ryan Newman 2020 Daytona 500 and Austin Dillon 2015 Firecracker 400. I still don't know how he came out of that one alive. The car came to a dead stop when it hit the fence.
@@thejman3489 bro Dillon's was scary when you saw the crash but he got out pretty fast so it was pretty easy to breath a sigh of relief. But with Newman's, the way they had all the tarps setup around his car made it really look like he died, or at least came pretty close. But Dillon's was terrifying too. It blows my mind that a 2 ton race car going 200 mph could just stop on a dime like that, and the driver still walked away. Michael McDowell's Texas crash was also a really scary one because up until that crash, if a car hit the wall that hard and at that angle, the drivers normally got a basilar skull fracture and died. Also, btw I love your username because that been my nickname since I was 6 months old and I'm now 18
NASCAR is hyper focused on driver safety. The catch fence is over engineered for its purpose, which protects the audiences. Another external to the cars feature are soft walls. The walls are crush panels, light metal backed by Styrofoam wedges that absorb the impact energy. Also, NASCAR is always researching and making safety advantages.
Love watching that MM&M's car recking
I’ve been watching a few reactors out of the UK and I’ve started saying “It’s mental” 🤣
3:53 I was at that race 7 people in the stands were injured from debris one girl had her jaw broken
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My father raced as a hobby at the Red River Speed Drome, a dirt track when he was stationed at Shepherd Air Force Base in Texas in the sixties. I was young, and I remember him becoming air born during one race. My mother never went to watch again.
It's very rare that spectators lose their lives at professional races. Having said that, I was at the Indy Race held at Charlotte in 1999 where debris from a wreck on the track flew into the grandstand and killed three spectators. It looked like it was a tire from where I was sitting. It was very eerie how silent every single person in the audience went when it happened, because we all knew it was bad, although we didn't know just how bad for several hours. Definitely nauseating knowing someone is badly hurt and you can do nothing to help but stay in your seat.
You probably won’t see this, but from a quick google search, NASCAR has only recorded one hospital trip, and another guy declined a hospital visit, but no deaths have ever been recorded in NASCAR history when looking at spectators
I'm not much of a NASCAR fan I like the NHRA here in the US. NHRA stands for National Hotrod association and is a professional drag racing league here in the US.
watching on video does not do justice to how fast these cars are traveling.......watching trackside in Daytona or Talladega and seeing how fast these cars really go is mind blowing.......they fly by like jets and the rumble from the loud engines rattle your insides .......its so fun lol
Sports bloopers are always fun to watch. Good choice. 😀😀
Near the end he said the head moved a lot, they have a device that connects to the helmet to keep them from moving to much so most of the time the car moves not the driver
Neck injuries are rare in nascar, basilar skull fractures (senna and Earnhardt lost their lives to such trauma) are the real scare. For such reasons they are required to have head and neck safety restraints (basically a u shaped thing around your head so it stays in one place when you hit something)
Nascar has been around for 60+ years, yes there’s been fatalities. But not as many as you think on the track. The safety measures NASCAR takes today are next level. Concussions have all but become a thing of the past. You need to see Ryan Newman’s crash from Daytona in 2020, or Austin Dillion a few years before that where his car gets caught in the catch fence.
As an avid nascar fan, it’s really interesting to see what people that don’t watch regularly think. You’re right, the danger is what makes it so exciting, because we’re defying what should be possible, but the safety advances recently have made fatal accidents all but disappear. I don’t believe anyone (driver or spectator) has been killed in the top series in over 20 years.
There is a wreck cage surrounding the driver and a fire foam feature that is released anytime it detects smoke a lot like the smoke alarm in your house but is also a mini fire Department in the car.
you should do a video on Indy car and F1 crashes. they are almost crazier than this.
Also... No one has died at a NASCAR event since Dale Earnhardt was killed during the Daytona 500 in February 2001.
As bad as those crashes are they help make the sport safer. After Dale Earnhardt was killed they made some big changes that most likely saved many many drivers since his crash.
There have been rare cases where drivers have died like Dale Earnhardt Sr at the Daytona 500 on feb 18 2001 and Adam Petty at the BUSCH 200 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway on May 12th 2000. There where at least two other drivers who died on that same track and on the same spot on the track as Adam Petty within a short period of time.
To the OP: Purpose-built race cars like Indy and F1 are not even capable of running in packs like NASCAR does. So, their safety mechanisms are different. NASCAR, to its credit, has mandated things like the 'safer barrier', 'HANS device', aero features which help eliminate cars (all 3400pounds of them) going over or airborne, and the strongest roll cages you can probably make. And since 2001, there's not been a driver death in the Cup series (the last being, of course, Dale Earnhardt).
That crash you watched with Austin Dillon going in to the catch fence at Daytona was probably the most dangerous crash to happen in 20 years (until, of course, Ryan Newman went over and landed on another car, also at Daytona, at nearly 200mph, roof-first), and he'd almost certainly have survived it if it had been the OTHER way - roof-first.
Those cars are made to protect the driver, if nothing else.
NASCAR sometimes gets a helping of disrespect, but on the issue of safety, they've been dogmatic and successful since at least the Earnhardt tragedy.
(edit) Another notable crash is Jimmie Johnson 2017 at Pocono.
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Okay if hitting rear-first. Old days, if he'd been a half car-turn different and had gone in nose-first, he'd have died. Now, though, I'd expect him to have survived it even going straight in.
Greatest finish in Nascar history by Slapshoes
NASCAR drive's have neck harnesses to protect them Whiplash and neck injuries
2:14 That DEFINITELY would of been fatal without the HANS device.. Scary
4:45 Car #15 driven by Ricky Rudd, At the time of that wreck, I was in the Norfolk, Virginia area and knew Ricky's Dad and older brother who owned a salvage yard west of town. As I recall it wasnt long after that wreck that Ricky retired.
LOL. What? Ricky Rudd ran for like another 15+ years after that. His last win was in 2002. That crash was from the 80s.
In the cars there is a helmet restrant system that keeps the head from going all over the place.
the "hans device"