So crazy how cars can flip dozens of times and nothing is left of the car and the drivers walks away. You see a minor mishap and think nothing of it, but driver was taken. RIP Allan Simonsen, you were one hell of a racer as well as a human being.
Rollover crashes aren’t that bad because all the forces are being taken out of the car gradually, they look bad but they’re better then going straight into the barrier at 100+ mph
@@dandahl5964 Stroll just did the same today in F1 and it was even faster. result? nothing. what killed Simonsen is the bad seat they had in this car. broke his neck because of lack of support for the head on the seat. even with the HANS device that was already mandatory in Lemans at this period.
@@jiboo6850Bingo, much the same way Dale Earnhardt would’ve been saved by the S.A.F.E.R. barrier, Simonsen would still be here without that death bucket.
@@maxwellhesher1790 exactly. Dale was known to be a hothead. For him the HANS device was more dangerous than really safe. He also hadbthe Bad habit to put his belt in a non allowed way during the race. He started normally and once on the track he moved it to the spot he liked. Which also contributed to his death. He move way much out of his Seat because of that.
Watching it live on TV it didn´t look too bad, especially with those massive crashs of McNish and later Rockenfeller in the previous year. Even more stunned we were when they announced that he died.....
the worst ones are the ones that aren't dramatic, because less drama = more force into the driver. Especially when you hit something hard like the tree...
What you do not grasp is the fact that what usually saves you in a car impact is the force absorption of the engine and the front of the car, in this case he hit a tree at a shallow angle on the side of the car. He did not die instantly and was conscious until his heart stopped on the way to the hospital.
Indeed. It is better to flip over 7 times then to come to a sudden stop. In the first case the energy is absorbed in 7 times, in the last case all energy is released at once and if the car (or tire wall or so) does not absorb that, then the driver does. Unfortunately...
Smooth painted surface mixed with damp conditions and a large tree trunk - the rear left tire lost grip and at that speed Allan was a passenger. Terrible accident. RIP Allan Simonsen.
Obviously, the human body is tough and resilient - sometimes fragile and unrepairable. I have seen men killed in combat with what appear to be just minor injuries and I have watched men live with unbelievable amounts of damage. I have seen friends ripped apart in motorcycle accidents that didn't see too bad and another survive horrific a crash where I was convinced there was no way he could have lived. I didn't seem possible- I don't know if it part luck/fate or simply a fraction of an inch or millimeter difference in direction of force or foreign objection like shrapnel or a bullet. It seems as though we are born as miracles where a mothers body sustains us and we are born and from that moment forward forces of nature, man, time and machine are looking to create havoc.
good examples for this are the two bristol nascar crashes (michael waltrip and mike harmon) where the cars were just torn apart and everybody thought the drivers died instantly.. and then they just walk away with minor bruises.
That isn't sympathy. That's the oldest cliche' in the book and has no meaning what so ever. Dead is dead. I would hate to die doing anything, whether I loved it or hated it. Who in hell is consoled when they hear that often repeated, but mindless phrase? It does the dead no good, and it sure as heck does nothing for the mourning family members or friends. I think the only person that finds it useful is the fool who utters it.
The barrier has been moved in for this year, so there is now a gao between the barrier and the trees. The armco used to rest against the tree trunks for no better reason than that it was considered too difficult to make holes in the public road to take the vertical supports for the armco barrier, so the barrier had to go at the side of the public road, leaving no space between the barrier and the trees, and putting the barrier at a less favourable angle to the race traffic than if it was flush with the circuit.
Wow, that was pretty hard to watch. The second view from the corvette reall sheds light on what happened. I remember watching the actual event, and there was no depiction or commentary from the announcers as to what happened to the car, in terms of an accident. Watching the car violently swerve off the track towards the wall really sheds light on how burtal of a crash it was, and what we can do in the future to stop things like this from happening. R.I.P. Allen
People cry for bigger sand zones at parts like this on the track but the truth is that the part where he crashed here was just so damn unlikely to be a crash zone at all. Like this is a zone in which the drivers usually go straight up, it wasn't in the turn but about 50 meters behind where he lost control and he crashed about 50 meters down from that point. The track safety specialists don't assume someone just loses control over his car on a straight. And while the impact might not have been huge you can always just be unlucky which in that case he definitely was.
@T3KKANッ safety measures are bad indeed. If you aren't blaming the car's roll cage for breaking here, you will have to blame the combination of the fence and trees just behind it. There is always a reason for a crash to be fatal, nobody should deny that extra measures could have avoided this death.
@@kaspernystrom3818 no I agree with him. If there is anything to be learned from countless of previous fatal accidents is that there is and always will be room for improving safity measures. Safety also should be prioritu nr1 at all times. If we start looking the other way now (doesn't matter which accident we're talking about). We might as well start from 0 again and relive the horrors of 1955. Talking about that, the race didn't even stop when nearly 90 people were decapitated. Anyways the point I want to make is we are only where we are on safety measures because every crash has been analyzed thoroughly, there is definitely still improvements to be made as I explained in my previous comment as well.
Mike Morris it was a minor hit. The gforce was less than dangerous. Yet he had bad lock because even that lower gforce can be lethal in the right place. Just read about his injurys that killed him.
Actually you are more likely to survive a head on collision more than a side shot. He had all that g-force hit the side of his head like an MMA fighter would land a kick to the side of his opponent...
Christos Segkounas Dale Earnhardt died because he loosened his harness. When he hit the wall, the result was whiplash that snapped his neck. If he would've kept his harness tight ,like it was a supposed to be, he would be with us
I dont understand why they don't move the barriers way back in the first place.. why does a driver have to die before they realise such a simple thing. there should be enough sand besides the track to stop a car at 300kmh before you put a barrier there
Although he was driving nowhere near 300kmh in that turn. Even a F1 wouldnt make that possible, definitely not an anston martin. Sadly it IS tragic, and if you look in the racing simulators (gran turismo for example) you see there's nothing to stop the car from slamming, even with 60-100kmh it would be fatal pretty much.
It isnt about the trap jackass. That is the edge of a public road and there were trees right behind the barrier. They could not have moved it any further back. They could and did move it closr and on a much better line with the track so it now catches and guides cars on the corner rather than stop them dead.
Kevin Pedersen Way way outside the racing line. A few tires deep and there would be no death. Very cheap and easy to remove after the race. I am not sure why all walls, that are set way back like this one, are not layered with a few rows of tires.
The tree trunk that intruded on the interior car space is what killed him. I know a race track is not very pretty to look at, but trying to cover them up by planting trees and building walls is not worth someone's life.
Yeah if you hook the inside of the tyre on the outside of that kerb you are going to spin. It's times like those when you wish someone would have been taken out as a result of him over correcting. I say this because, if someone was to his inside and he spun and took out the person that was to his inside, it would have slowed down the car and made the impact less severe and possibly changed the direction of Simonsen's car and both drivers would have walked away unharmed.
some people say that aston had a new technology on the car that could help on the driving line or something and that was what caused the over correction
Extract from his French Wikipedia page: "According to the investigation, the driver would have changed his trajectory to avoid a car in distress on the right of the track (image from the on-board camera of Corvette # 74 following it closely) sliding on vibrators made dangerous by the light rain that fell a few minutes before. Following this oversteer, the driver reverse-steered at high speed to restore balance to his car, but the latter suddenly regained grip , projecting the Aston Martin V8 Vantage GTE to the left of the track, although the pilot braked in an attempt to slow down his car, a drift of the vehicle began to bounce against the safety rails."
The impact had unknowns to Allen torn his aorta when help arrived he was conscious and talking but almost immediately the catastrophic internal blood loss rendered him unconcious and quickly proved fatal RIP 🙏
guards rails are used at the Circuit Of The Americas, the indy road course and others. The problem is not necessary guard rails but the proximity of the guard rail to the trees, a tire barrier or tecpro barrier may be needed in that area as well.
Damn that looks like an absolutely minor crash. Guess the lateral G was too much if the car hit the barrier completely on its side. That's where there's less crumpling zones or none at all
Ein kleiner verdammter Fehler..... mehr als traurig. Habs live gesehen und in dem Moment denkt man noch "sieht ja nicht so schlimm aus" aber dann kam leider die bittere Erkentniss.
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The nightmare of Slick Tires... When the tires lose traction, then you spin to the right and then you counter steer left and then suddenly the tires stick like a superglue onto the track and then the car turns hard left. RIP may you race in heaven Simonsen.
So it's the curve that had small bumps or was the track a bit wet? Many are saying it was wet a bit. And yeah all the area where the car started to turn right and left, it has some hard curve, bumps whatever they call it.
Snap oversteer. The red car up ahead got a bit out of shape - you can see the tyre smoke - and Simonsen would have reflexively lifted off the throttle. That's all it takes on a high speed corner, on damp painted lines: the slightest change of wheel speed and it slips, and the driver tries to catch the slide, and then the rear grips again, the car snaps back the other way and it's straight into a barrier at full speed.
Is it just me or is that car (seen from onboard the car behind it) nervous and twitchy in the corners before the crash? Like the bodywork is moving too much (or maybe the ARB's are simply set rather soft)?
Late response, but to inform you that if some driver is seriously injured in a crash and there are possibilities that he would die, TV stations don't show the replay of the crash until the driver is in a stable condition. Otherwise they will never show it even if they have it
After 9 years I still intrigued how a visually random spin crash turned to a fatal one. I mean, how many times we have seen worst impacts and drivers went out the car without any injury. Allan McNish's crash was way more scarier, at higher speed and ended up almost over the the fence and photographers and yet nothing happened to him. Sadly Allan Simonsen passed away by internal injuries, the most silent and deadly ones. I believe he suffered a brain hemorrhage or something like that, am I correct? This car still so present in my mind, it's June 7th, 2022 with LeMans around the corner. RIP ALLAN!
That car following Allan's Aston Martin was pushing hard and was catching him quite fast. Allan must of push the car to its limit and that slight mistake slide him out of the track losing traction on the blue pad and completely lost control. Both cars were speeding around 160-170km/h (~100 MPH), it was a hard hit on the driver side...RIP Allan!
Timestamp 0:34/0:35 - as far as I can read in some comments the car went into the Armco fence hitting a tree which was possibly too close to the fence 0:57/0:58 -.
check out some footage of LeMans track in higher quality, you will see that after the ``main`` curb on this corner there are lots of small bumps... thats why he spun out... very sad indeed....
Very sad. I wonder why they said he was awake and talking I dont think he was but I may be mistaken and of he was what happened for him to pass away? Either way very sad rip Allan and my condolences to his family and friends
he hits it straight on with the wall, and the car is perfectly sideways. thats why its so bad. no deflection hardly, as he is basically bouncing back the way he came.. he upsets the suspension on the ribs and when he corrects is right at the polar moment and the car grips perfectly to throw itself at the most unfortunate angle. you see it thinks the road goes that way. far too much correction.
This looked so minor yet he died…. And then we see cars tumbling 10x + and the driver often walks away completely fine…. Am I missing something? How does this happen?
Rolling dissipates a lot of energy so while it looks spectacular the instant G forces the drivers face is far less. In these crashes the forces are a lot more violent as it happens all at once.
Its possible that the blue paint was the reason of the lost of traction... if you watch carefully when the blue paint is over the car got tons of grip to the left
it seems to me that his left tires clearly were touching that BLUE paint or whatever that is on the ground and thats where things went completely wrong, now i do not know what speed the GT cars are carrying through that corner but i do not think that anyone could have gone out of that spin, further you see a red car on the right that is also driving much slower than the rest of the cars, so that is weird aswell, anyhow it is an amazing crash not often seen on Le Mans these past years
+Scooterfox That red car also spun out in the same place, just before Allan crashed. Actually quite a few cars spun out there that day because tracks surface was dump.
The AF Corse Ferrari that you mentioned going slow also span out moments before but managed to recover. It looks like Simonsen's car was fine until the rear left tyre hit the blue painted area, that likely caused the wheel to spin and then subsequently cause the car to spin as well. A very unlucky crash...........
The real problem was when he corrected the spin, then all tires got grip again, shooting the car in the direction of the correction. Certainly not an error you can really blame the driver for. Tragic racing situation in tough conditions. That was one hell of a hard hit, the chassis was twisted severely, doors blown open and boot lid off. Even HANS couldn't save him. RIP Allan.
The car broke through the guardrail and impacted the tree. Hell they need to remove some of them trees. He had no chance. Tire barriers need to be there. Very bizarre incidents at this years 24 hrs.
It was the trees fault!! It's the safety of the track!! Guard rails?! We haven't used those in America since the early 80s!! Get your safety together!!
Very odd to see a car grab like that and go so hard left but not unheard of with hard curbs and wet track and big horsepower. I wonder if something broke on the Aston Martin. I am Very sad that Allan lost his life and my thoughts are with his family and friends. May he rest in racing heaven .
Innocuous enough looking but at the same time all signs of a really bad one: Drivers side, nothing to dissipate the energy of impact. Great driver too. RIP Simonsen.
For the imagem it just sem that he had something before the crash. An arrhythmya could be the cause of the accident, so it could be dead b4 the accident
saw another angle and a few cars spun there just before Allen, could have been oil from another car spinning though the other two cars got away clean.. dirt on the track, certainly moisture, and paint.. poor guy, rip.. and condolences to aston martin guys.. you gentleman make a very safe car, this accident will have to be examined..though making a race course the size of lemans 100 percent safe.. ? it aint F1..
There were trees directly behind the Armco barrier that he hit. Unfortunately, he hit right where one of the trees was, so there was no "give" to the barrier. I remember reading an article 40 years ago where the writer list the first three rules for racetrack safety: 1. Keep the driver in the car 2. Keep the car in the racetrack 3. Don't give the two a head-on shot at anything that won't move when hit. They violated rule #3, and Simonsen died as a result.
Oducks58 Agreed it was unlikely, but if a car can get there, eventually one will. We've already seen a couple of accidents this year in NASCAR where cars have hit bare concrete at acute angles in places they "weren't likely" to be.
So crazy how cars can flip dozens of times and nothing is left of the car and the drivers walks away. You see a minor mishap and think nothing of it, but driver was taken. RIP Allan Simonsen, you were one hell of a racer as well as a human being.
Minor mishap? He went straight into a wall at well over 100mph
Rollover crashes aren’t that bad because all the forces are being taken out of the car gradually, they look bad but they’re better then going straight into the barrier at 100+ mph
@@dandahl5964 Stroll just did the same today in F1 and it was even faster. result? nothing. what killed Simonsen is the bad seat they had in this car. broke his neck because of lack of support for the head on the seat. even with the HANS device that was already mandatory in Lemans at this period.
@@jiboo6850Bingo, much the same way Dale Earnhardt would’ve been saved by the S.A.F.E.R. barrier, Simonsen would still be here without that death bucket.
@@maxwellhesher1790 exactly. Dale was known to be a hothead. For him the HANS device was more dangerous than really safe. He also hadbthe Bad habit to put his belt in a non allowed way during the race. He started normally and once on the track he moved it to the spot he liked. Which also contributed to his death. He move way much out of his Seat because of that.
A very talented racer, and a REALLY nice guy, the world is a poorer place without you Alan. Rest in peace.
Watching it live on TV it didn´t look too bad, especially with those massive crashs of McNish and later Rockenfeller in the previous year. Even more stunned we were when they announced that he died.....
+signorpippistrello not too bad???? dude that Aston Martin was totally destroyed
There have been FAR worse looking wrecks than that. Many of those, were non-fatal.
the worst ones are the ones that aren't dramatic, because less drama = more force into the driver. Especially when you hit something hard like the tree...
What you do not grasp is the fact that what usually saves you in a car impact is the force absorption of the engine and the front of the car, in this case he hit a tree at a shallow angle on the side of the car.
He did not die instantly and was conscious until his heart stopped on the way to the hospital.
Indeed. It is better to flip over 7 times then to come to a sudden stop. In the first case the energy is absorbed in 7 times, in the last case all energy is released at once and if the car (or tire wall or so) does not absorb that, then the driver does. Unfortunately...
RIP. I have never seen this clip. Thanks to Tom K. to dedicate his 9th victory to Allan
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he was my gokart instructor, you can tell he is still kind of shaken by it when he talks about it.
@@pancake5830 he died in that accident
@@NikkaLaurilainen i was talking about christoffer nygaard
Smooth painted surface mixed with damp conditions and a large tree trunk - the rear left tire lost grip and at that speed Allan was a passenger. Terrible accident. RIP Allan Simonsen.
RIP Allan. Thanks for everything even though it's been several years. Sad
He will be missed
Obviously, the human body is tough and resilient - sometimes fragile and unrepairable. I have seen men killed in combat with what appear to be just minor injuries and I have watched men live with unbelievable amounts of damage. I have seen friends ripped apart in motorcycle accidents that didn't see too bad and another survive horrific a crash where I was convinced there was no way he could have lived. I didn't seem possible- I don't know if it part luck/fate or simply a fraction of an inch or millimeter difference in direction of force or foreign objection like shrapnel or a bullet.
It seems as though we are born as miracles where a mothers body sustains us and we are born and from that moment forward forces of nature, man, time and machine are looking to create havoc.
Did you take all that time JUST to write a poem on RUclips?
tanner why u salty?
+g hov 😂😂😂😂
Simply put, the external condition of the body may not reflect the fact that there is major damage of vital organs.
good examples for this are the two bristol nascar crashes (michael waltrip and mike harmon) where the cars were just torn apart and everybody thought the drivers died instantly.. and then they just walk away with minor bruises.
At least he died doing what he loved.... R. I. P.
I'm sure that is a comfort to his kids... fuck off.
+apburner1 how about you fuck off. I'm showing sympathy here.
apburner1 why u so mad?
That isn't sympathy. That's the oldest cliche' in the book and has no meaning what so ever. Dead is dead. I would hate to die doing anything, whether I loved it or hated it. Who in hell is consoled when they hear that often repeated, but mindless phrase? It does the dead no good, and it sure as heck does nothing for the mourning family members or friends. I think the only person that finds it useful is the fool who utters it.
To be honest the last thing i want to happen while doing something i love is to die doing it. Thats just an idiotic phrase
used to watch Allan race in Australia at Bathurst, was Australia GT champion at one stage too, knew him well down here
I was watching this live in Denmark 😔😔 RIP Danish Allan Simonsen
En rigtig lorte dag 😔 resten af løbet føltes tomt og ligegyldigt
The barrier has been moved in for this year, so there is now a gao between the barrier and the trees. The armco used to rest against the tree trunks for no better reason than that it was considered too difficult to make holes in the public road to take the vertical supports for the armco barrier, so the barrier had to go at the side of the public road, leaving no space between the barrier and the trees, and putting the barrier at a less favourable angle to the race traffic than if it was flush with the circuit.
Wow, that was pretty hard to watch. The second view from the corvette reall sheds light on what happened. I remember watching the actual event, and there was no depiction or commentary from the announcers as to what happened to the car, in terms of an accident. Watching the car violently swerve off the track towards the wall really sheds light on how burtal of a crash it was, and what we can do in the future to stop things like this from happening.
R.I.P. Allen
People cry for bigger sand zones at parts like this on the track but the truth is that the part where he crashed here was just so damn unlikely to be a crash zone at all.
Like this is a zone in which the drivers usually go straight up, it wasn't in the turn but about 50 meters behind where he lost control and he crashed about 50 meters down from that point. The track safety specialists don't assume someone just loses control over his car on a straight.
And while the impact might not have been huge you can always just be unlucky which in that case he definitely was.
@T3KKANッ it wasn't like that. You know nothing about motorsports it seems.
@T3KKANッ safety measures are bad indeed. If you aren't blaming the car's roll cage for breaking here, you will have to blame the combination of the fence and trees just behind it. There is always a reason for a crash to be fatal, nobody should deny that extra measures could have avoided this death.
@@kaspernystrom3818 no I agree with him. If there is anything to be learned from countless of previous fatal accidents is that there is and always will be room for improving safity measures. Safety also should be prioritu nr1 at all times. If we start looking the other way now (doesn't matter which accident we're talking about). We might as well start from 0 again and relive the horrors of 1955. Talking about that, the race didn't even stop when nearly 90 people were decapitated. Anyways the point I want to make is we are only where we are on safety measures because every crash has been analyzed thoroughly, there is definitely still improvements to be made as I explained in my previous comment as well.
@@itsshowtime6412 yes, but it isn’t made dangerous “on purpose”. That’s for sure.
It's a Samurai's death. Honor in battle. RIP.
I'm so confused at how non race car drivers seem to think this is some "minor hit".. maybe schooling for some G force lessons?
It's a matter of perspective. Compared to some of the more grandiose crashes in Motorsports that were survivable, it doesn't *look* like much.
Mike Morris it was a minor hit. The gforce was less than dangerous. Yet he had bad lock because even that lower gforce can be lethal in the right place. Just read about his injurys that killed him.
Actually you are more likely to survive a head on collision more than a side shot. He had all that g-force hit the side of his head like an MMA fighter would land a kick to the side of his opponent...
Maybe.
Look at Dale Earnhard's accident though, another case of a non spectacular accident in a tin top leading to death and it was head on.
Christos Segkounas Dale Earnhardt died because he loosened his harness. When he hit the wall, the result was whiplash that snapped his neck. If he would've kept his harness tight ,like it was a supposed to be, he would be with us
Allan, what a great driver and awesome person to be around. Wish you where here.
may god for believers or nature for non believers rest his soul
Which God gave us soulds?
There is probably no god but definitely non of the ones we have come up with over the past 4000 years.
Saw it live, didn't look like a horrible crash on the replays. These views shed light on it
I dont understand why they don't move the barriers way back in the first place.. why does a driver have to die before they realise such a simple thing. there should be enough sand besides the track to stop a car at 300kmh before you put a barrier there
Although he was driving nowhere near 300kmh in that turn. Even a F1 wouldnt make that possible, definitely not an anston martin. Sadly it IS tragic, and if you look in the racing simulators (gran turismo for example) you see there's nothing to stop the car from slamming, even with 60-100kmh it would be fatal pretty much.
It isnt about the trap jackass. That is the edge of a public road and there were trees right behind the barrier. They could not have moved it any further back. They could and did move it closr and on a much better line with the track so it now catches and guides cars on the corner rather than stop them dead.
Kevin Pedersen Way way outside the racing line. A few tires deep and there would be no death. Very cheap and easy to remove after the race. I am not sure why all walls, that are set way back like this one, are not layered with a few rows of tires.
The tree trunk that intruded on the interior car space is what killed him. I know a race track is not very pretty to look at, but trying to cover them up by planting trees and building walls is not worth someone's life.
Ayo MazRotti This circuit is not a racetrack.
This is a public road they are racing on, hence the trees.
no you choose to enlist, they chose if you deploy or not.
Looks like he got loose on the wet painted curbing and over corrected....damn shame.
Yeah if you hook the inside of the tyre on the outside of that kerb you are going to spin. It's times like those when you wish someone would have been taken out as a result of him over correcting. I say this because, if someone was to his inside and he spun and took out the person that was to his inside, it would have slowed down the car and made the impact less severe and possibly changed the direction of Simonsen's car and both drivers would have walked away unharmed.
Grant Williams
He didnt hook the tire he merely got onto the blue paint and it was damp so it caused the loss of traction.
Its looks like a very simple mistake, its so tragic that something so simple and easy to do killed him. RIP
some people say that aston had a new technology on the car that could help on the driving line or something and that was what caused the over correction
Extract from his French Wikipedia page: "According to the investigation, the driver would have changed his trajectory to avoid a car in distress on the right of the track (image from the on-board camera of Corvette # 74 following it closely) sliding on vibrators made dangerous by the light rain that fell a few minutes before. Following this oversteer, the driver reverse-steered at high speed to restore balance to his car, but the latter suddenly regained grip , projecting the Aston Martin V8 Vantage GTE to the left of the track, although the pilot braked in an attempt to slow down his car, a drift of the vehicle began to bounce against the safety rails."
The impact had unknowns to Allen torn his aorta when help arrived he was conscious and talking but almost immediately the catastrophic internal blood loss rendered him unconcious and quickly proved fatal RIP 🙏
RIP, The worst crash always happens were you least expect it. Allan Simonsen great danish driver
R.I.P
Paix à son âme 😞😢
guards rails are used at the Circuit Of The Americas, the indy road course and others. The problem is not necessary guard rails but the proximity of the guard rail to the trees, a tire barrier or tecpro barrier may be needed in that area as well.
RIP Allan.
Rest in piece :(
I was watching a different video and you could see the car hop a foot or so vertically. It must have been horrible for him. R.I.P.
Was there any maflunction on the car?
Condolences to his young family. Very sad.
Very sad. Condolences to the family. At least he died doing something he was passionate about
Damn that looks like an absolutely minor crash. Guess the lateral G was too much if the car hit the barrier completely on its side. That's where there's less crumpling zones or none at all
Aero loose or did something break?
Ein kleiner verdammter Fehler.....
mehr als traurig.
Habs live gesehen und in dem Moment denkt man noch "sieht ja nicht so schlimm aus" aber dann kam leider die bittere Erkentniss.
The nightmare of Slick Tires... When the tires lose traction, then you spin to the right and then you counter steer left and then suddenly the tires stick like a superglue onto the track and then the car turns hard left. RIP may you race in heaven Simonsen.
He hit the barriers not front first. But at which speed? It does not look like a ‘killer accident’
2 cams?
reminds me of Denny Hulme at Bathurst
Denny had a heart attack at the wheel, coming down Conrod Straight in the 1992 Bathurst 1000.
I don't think there was a problem on the car, it's just unbelievable that those curves caught the car into a spining.
So it's the curve that had small bumps or was the track a bit wet? Many are saying it was wet a bit. And yeah all the area where the car started to turn right and left, it has some hard curve, bumps whatever they call it.
Snap oversteer. The red car up ahead got a bit out of shape - you can see the tyre smoke - and Simonsen would have reflexively lifted off the throttle. That's all it takes on a high speed corner, on damp painted lines: the slightest change of wheel speed and it slips, and the driver tries to catch the slide, and then the rear grips again, the car snaps back the other way and it's straight into a barrier at full speed.
Is it just me or is that car (seen from onboard the car behind it) nervous and twitchy in the corners before the crash? Like the bodywork is moving too much (or maybe the ARB's are simply set rather soft)?
Wheel locking? What happened?
the tv station doesnt want to show the footage?
Late response, but to inform you that if some driver is seriously injured in a crash and there are possibilities that he would die, TV stations don't show the replay of the crash until the driver is in a stable condition. Otherwise they will never show it even if they have it
After 9 years I still intrigued how a visually random spin crash turned to a fatal one.
I mean, how many times we have seen worst impacts and drivers went out the car without any injury. Allan McNish's crash was way more scarier, at higher speed and ended up almost over the the fence and photographers and yet nothing happened to him.
Sadly Allan Simonsen passed away by internal injuries, the most silent and deadly ones. I believe he suffered a brain hemorrhage or something like that, am I correct?
This car still so present in my mind, it's June 7th, 2022 with LeMans around the corner.
RIP ALLAN!
What a shame, after getting into track racing seeing fatal accidents is like seeing your commrades get shot at in war.
That car following Allan's Aston Martin was pushing hard and was catching him quite fast. Allan must of push the car to its limit and that slight mistake slide him out of the track losing traction on the blue pad and completely lost control. Both cars were speeding around 160-170km/h (~100 MPH), it was a hard hit on the driver side...RIP Allan!
03Cobra exactly...
R.I.P Allan
Is the aston martin a right handed car?
3 cars spun out on the same corner
Rip :(
May our Dane rest in peace.
Seems like there was oil or something on that part of the track. Three cars spinning out on the same area of the track.
Timestamp 0:34/0:35 - as far as I can read in some comments the car went into the Armco fence hitting a tree which was possibly too close to the fence 0:57/0:58 -.
check out some footage of LeMans track in higher quality, you will see that after the ``main`` curb on this corner there are lots of small bumps... thats why he spun out... very sad indeed....
is aston martin a right handed?
Aston Martin is made in the UK so yea it's right handed.
this year they are left handed drive.
RIP to a talented racer.
So if he dies at an accident like this, you know how Senna felt when his crash happened
RIP
Poor guy. My thoughts are with his loved ones.
r.i.p.
No, when he went over the curve, half of the car lost traction. Then he over-corrected it, and went into the wall.
um...so. please explain why his car turn left hard...
Very sad. I wonder why they said he was awake and talking I dont think he was but I may be mistaken and of he was what happened for him to pass away? Either way very sad rip Allan and my condolences to his family and friends
he hits it straight on with the wall, and the car is perfectly sideways. thats why its so bad. no deflection hardly, as he is basically bouncing back the way he came.. he upsets the suspension on the ribs and when he corrects is right at the polar moment and the car grips perfectly to throw itself at the most unfortunate angle. you see it thinks the road goes that way. far too much correction.
This looked so minor yet he died…. And then we see cars tumbling 10x + and the driver often walks away completely fine…. Am I missing something? How does this happen?
Rolling dissipates a lot of energy so while it looks spectacular the instant G forces the drivers face is far less. In these crashes the forces are a lot more violent as it happens all at once.
Rapid deceleration, no real deformation of the car. That accident had a lot of impact force.
Rest easy Allan
Its possible that the blue paint was the reason of the lost of traction... if you watch carefully when the blue paint is over the car got tons of grip to the left
he gone straight into the tree, rip
The car looked a bit unstable a few corners before the crash.
***** ahh that explains it then.
it seems to me that his left tires clearly were touching that BLUE paint or whatever that is on the ground and thats where things went completely wrong, now i do not know what speed the GT cars are carrying through that corner but i do not think that anyone could have gone out of that spin, further you see a red car on the right that is also driving much slower than the rest of the cars, so that is weird aswell, anyhow it is an amazing crash not often seen on Le Mans these past years
+Scooterfox That red car also spun out in the same place, just before Allan crashed. Actually quite a few cars spun out there that day because tracks surface was dump.
The AF Corse Ferrari that you mentioned going slow also span out moments before but managed to recover. It looks like Simonsen's car was fine until the rear left tyre hit the blue painted area, that likely caused the wheel to spin and then subsequently cause the car to spin as well. A very unlucky crash...........
The real problem was when he corrected the spin, then all tires got grip again, shooting the car in the direction of the correction. Certainly not an error you can really blame the driver for. Tragic racing situation in tough conditions. That was one hell of a hard hit, the chassis was twisted severely, doors blown open and boot lid off. Even HANS couldn't save him. RIP Allan.
+flugplatz21
Yes, He'd got snap oversteer ;/
How many gforces hit him
The car broke through the guardrail and impacted the tree. Hell they need to remove some of them trees. He had no chance. Tire barriers need to be there. Very bizarre incidents at this years 24 hrs.
He has a small daughter who was born in 2012....!!!
So sad.
It was the trees fault!! It's the safety of the track!! Guard rails?! We haven't used those in America since the early 80s!! Get your safety together!!
The car was looking unstable before the crash.RIP
The car is looking unstable because they're racing in wet and rainy conditions :/
Very odd to see a car grab like that and go so hard left but not unheard of with hard curbs and wet track and big horsepower.
I wonder if something broke on the Aston Martin.
I am Very sad that Allan lost his life and my thoughts are with his family and friends.
May he rest in racing heaven .
That bump is there in Forza 7
WHAT A MISTAKE !
no ASR system to Aston Martin to the rear wheels
Asr had nothing to do with it. He got onto the blue strip and lost traction. They need to do away with those damn things.
Rip
Innocuous enough looking but at the same time all signs of a really bad one:
Drivers side, nothing to dissipate the energy of impact. Great driver too. RIP Simonsen.
Poor guy! Rip
What if he didnt tried to control the car?... Rip Allan
Some of you guys just dont have respect. Be nice or get lost......for ever!
Dang...
I was standing right next the the turn when he crashed I knew it was going to be bad but not that bad RIP
Not in World Wars...
For the imagem it just sem that he had something before the crash. An arrhythmya could be the cause of the accident, so it could be dead b4 the accident
not really, you chose to race.
saw another angle and a few cars spun there just before Allen, could have been oil from another car spinning though the other two cars got away clean.. dirt on the track, certainly moisture, and paint.. poor guy, rip.. and condolences to aston martin guys.. you gentleman make a very safe car, this accident will have to be examined..though making a race course the size of lemans 100 percent safe.. ? it aint F1..
damn curbs
We all know if it was a France man who died it would have been a retake
Amazing how a race track full of cameras can fuck up on the money shot
Why he died?? It doesn't look like a big crash...
RIP
There were trees directly behind the Armco barrier that he hit. Unfortunately, he hit right where one of the trees was, so there was no "give" to the barrier.
I remember reading an article 40 years ago where the writer list the first three rules for racetrack safety:
1. Keep the driver in the car
2. Keep the car in the racetrack
3. Don't give the two a head-on shot at anything that won't move when hit.
They violated rule #3, and Simonsen died as a result.
Will for rule number three the chance to hit that head on is very unlikely.
Oducks58 Agreed it was unlikely, but if a car can get there, eventually one will.
We've already seen a couple of accidents this year in NASCAR where cars have hit bare concrete at acute angles in places they "weren't likely" to be.
Daniel Andrés Sanoguera I believe he died from a impact that was so hard that it ruptured his aorta.
Daniel Andrés Sanoguera it looked like he hit from the side and there's very little "crush" the car can do to lower the force of the crash.
wait.... he ded?
Yes
Horrible hit, Sad that he died. My prayers go to his family.
:(
not dead