Skip Manning's Death-Defying Darlington Crash
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2023
- I wanted to visit an incident I didn't even know happened. Most of you have probably seen Ryan Preece’s T-bone to Kyle Larson's car at Talladega earlier in 2023. He hit him at 130-140 mph. Look at that damage. Now, imagine if that crash happened in 1976, with the same speed, but the car impacted the driver’s side door instead. That would be impossible to survive, right? Well Skip Manning survived to tell the tale.
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Skip Manning's Death-Defying Darlington Crash
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Skip is my cousin, the kid walking away from his late model @ 11:50 is me. He actually broke his pelvis, not his leg. He was very lucky to survive that crash. He did go back to late model racing after Cup and had a very successful career. He race Jackson International in a few big races with All Pro. He raced at 5 Flags in Pensacola, Fl. most weekends. He finally retired from active driving and worked on setting up a few race cars. He then opened a used car dealership and sold very nice cars. He would work on them in the shop that his father built next to his home. His mother lived there until she passed. Skips father passed from a sudden heart attach when he was 18. Skip and his wife built there home next door to his mother. He ran that car lot for 20 years and is now retired and just enjoying life. I have visited many times over the years and the stories never get old. Maybe I will share the one about his first night in the hospital as told by his wife.
Who ever welded that cage deserved a beer or what ever is there pick. This 1st time I ever seen that wreck.
@@Houndini that car was purchased from A J Foyt Racing.
Probably a Banjo Mathew’s car or maybe Hutchinson Pagan. They did a great job for sure.
Thanks for sharing the interesting details. I always wanted to know more about Skip. Those were real men that raced Modifieds at Jax, Mobile,Pensacola. I remember watching Skip run once at Birmingham & again at Montgomery i think. He really should of got picked up by somebody (Cup) after Hagan let him go.
@@shanew.williams I have talked to Skip about not getting a ride many times. There was one change really and that was his ride. He was offered a couple crew chief jobs but wanted to drive. Moving home and racing late models looked pretty good, had a lot of sponsorship money, got paid to just show up, Bopp Chassis built the chassis, Five Star provided bodies, Bo Laws Automotive sponsored engines. It was a sweet deal, it just wasn't in Charlotte and "out of sight out of mind." He feels like he could have stayed in Charlotte and kept going to races and knocking on doors and landed a ride, but looking back now, it was a great time racing short tracks and making a good living.
I think there are so many untapped racing stories out there that will soon be lost to time. I would love to quit my job and travel around finding racers and just let them share there experiences.
@wadewilliams4887 thank you SO much for the update and so glad to hear that Skip had a great career after disappearing from the national spotlight! Hearing he was still going strong made my day! Would love to hear more stories! Is Skip on social media?
How he survived that back then is crazy.
That was a lot like Bobby Allison's career-ending crash (35 years ago today). Somebody was looking out for Skip that day, no two ways about it.
I have no clue what the odds of surviving this are but skip apparently is an extremely lucky man
Basically those cars were death traps back then. The Good Lord was riding shotgun.
Buren Skeen, in a '64 Ford, did not......look him up😢- Tiny Lund at Talladega , 1975 -
Man, the Skip Manning wreck resembles the Buren Skeen wreck in so many ways but Skeen didnt make it and Manning did. It just shows you how it it doesn't take much to have a different result
Just watching it make myself hurt.
Stronger cars
I love that photo at 0:33. DW, Neil Bonnett, and I believe a very young Ricky Rudd on the wall with Skip. Classic
Could you do a video of the 2001 Steve Park wreck in the xfinity race at Darlington that almost took his life? He got hit right in the drivers door as well.
I think he might’ve made that video already
It really is miraculous that he survived this
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I was there for that event! I was down in the Pitts. I did not see the actual impact, but I heard what sounded like a bomb! After seeing the car, you would have thought he was surely dead. He was lucky!
Man you do a great job on these mini docs. Very interesting well made. Thanks!
Harold Kite, Talmadge Prince, Friday Hassler and many others in other stock car series also died in t-bone crashes as well, so he was indeed very lucky. Back then that hit was an almost guaranteed widow maker.
Thanks for sharing this story
How he survived is beyond me
You wanna see something else that is crazy how someone survived pull up Ohio state trooper hits back of semi it will blow your mind
Great Video Bud!
Great video! definitely one of the scariest crash no one talks about
Nice show,thanks.
One of the crazy things about Skip Manning being t-boned in that race was that it was the second time he was involved in a t-bone crash that year. After all, it was Manning, who was driving Ferrell Harris' #82 car, that t-boned John Ray in that year's Daytona 500 when Ray spun in the oil from Ramo Stott's blown engine just before the 300-mile mark of that year's Daytona 500, a race best known for the Pearson/Petty finish.
Honestly the car that hit him could've actually exploded or catch on fire. That would've tragic.
I was at that race. Come up from Johnsonville to see if. When they towed the car back to the garage, you could see right through it. From side to side.
I was there. My seat was the last one, top row, going into turn 1. Baker actually blew up going into turn 1. Saw the whole incident evolve. I still believe Manning hit some fluid from Baker. He seemed to sit there for an eternity before Frasson hit him. Could actually hear the impact over the am/fm headset I was listening to for the race broadcast. We actually thought he was dead.
Wow that's incredible Glenn. You were there for a big piece of history. How old would you have been then?
@@mattw3103 I was 14. Did not miss a Southern 500 from 70 to 2000 with the exception of 73,74, 87
Plus I've been cursed with a good memory
@@GlennHall-lt8ko that's so awesome to hear my friend. You got to see Darlington in it's glory and I gotta say I'm jealous hahaha. Went In 2001 at 10 years old and it's what I blame for being such a big fan now.
Knowing Darlington why in the hell was Frassen down there so low and why was he going so fast, that far inside has no banking in the corner, was Frassen pitting or something?
Don't know if you have ever looked into the Jimmy Horton but Jimmy had some really bad crashes. He is the reason for the catch fence all the way around Daytona and Talladega because he went out of the park there. He then was in a really bad crash at Atlanta in ARCA series where his car flipped over and was struck from the bottom from a car and flip some more.
Honestly I agree with Skip. I understand Joe was pitting but it seemed like there was ample room above and even further below Skip. And his comment of “he shot down right in front of me” makes no sense either having watched the crash.
I think he was trying to go low(virtually impossible) and save his car, instead of going
high and hit the wall.
@not_an problem was he didn't brake. You heard the quote. He seen the spin. Then he goes on to say we were probably going race speed. Why the hell was he going race speed when he seen the spin. He had ample time to slow down and make a better evasive maneuver. You would think k a guy on the brink of financial ruin would drive more carefully but not this idiot.
Joe was kind of a mess as a driver from everything I’ve read
Johnny Ray survived getting t-boned in the 1976 Daytona 500
A similar hit killed Buren Skeen in 1964, and another one killed Friday Hassler in 1972. And another one ALMOST killed Bobby Allison in 1988.
I heard Barney Hall describe this crash on MRN radio, but this is the first time I have ever seen the footage.
Don't forget Eric Martin at Charlotte. 😢🙏
You should check out Joe Caspolich 1957 reck at Darlington. He too was hit in the drivers door. It’s a good story.
Dude when I saw the thumbnail on the video before I clicked on it I immediately thought of the Larry Pearson Bristol crash
Don MacTavish had worst stock car crash, it was a fatal crash in sportsman race at Daytona
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@@swampcrotchmcgee1728 sorry, I was speaking of NASCAR's major series, wasn't that a lower level series? Anyway MacTavish (who beat Ralph Earnhardt for the 1966 Sportsman Series (what later became the Busch Series, now known as Xfinity series), was at Daytona for the Permatex 300, on lap 10, his car made contact with another car, and the guardrail & a cement block, ripped off the entire front of the car, so it's just him strapped into his seat, nothing of the car was left in front of him, what was left of the vehicle spinning in circles down the speedway, when the the car stopped it was facing oncoming traffic, another car going 170 mph hit him directly head on, severing his legs & killing him instantly, not to diminish the other crash where the guy was decapitated, both are horrific deaths, here's the MacTavish crash if you want to see it
ruclips.net/video/KQVkAxWcCrA/видео.html
I somewhat know what it's like to be hit broadside in a stockcar, I got drilled in the passenger side door by a guy running flat out. Tore my car UP. I walked away a little sore...thank GOD Skip wasn't killed.
5:01 that sounded like a sound effect
Skip is very very very lucky
A note here: I think Jackson International was the last paved oval track in the state of Mississippi. All of the oval tracks in the state are dirt or clay.
God these 1976 cars have more crush saftey zones than the gen 7s
Such a different time of racing; a spotter might have helped out. Too, the driver seat is much closer to the center of the car than it used to be.
2:24 one of the sickest cars ever...holy criminy is that bad ass.
Lucky man 😳
Wow great to know that the only NASCAR guy from Louisiana I have ever heard of got Tboned
Bogalusa is not a very pleasant town. Today it's known as "Bogadishu"
@@danblocker2588 that's pretty much where Jeepers Creepers lives
Nice vid. Did i hear you correctly @2:35 "David Pearson, one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR "at the time." "At the time..." ? NASCAR HOF driver & #2 on the ALL TIME wins list (behind Richard Petty), David Pearson is/was "one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR" at ANY time.
I think the implication was one of the greatest drivers that was actually driving. But yeah, you're not wrong.
0:48 “this is a bad one”
No crap, Sherlock
Why was the impact blocked out ?
To build up the suspense. If you watch later in the video, it is shown
To keep you watching the video. I immediately scanned the video to watch the impact, then went to the comments. Didn't hear a word the narrator said. Didn't like the tactic, so I'm not subscribing.
he was also lucky 8:34
The one time i hear a decently successful Minnesota (homestate) NASCAR driver in a video... sheesh
Skip was like a sitting duck , the other driver wasn't looking ahead or he could have turned a little to the inside, this was Skips free pass
There is a T Bone and there is a T Bone it's a big difference in what people call T Boned
It hit right in front of the door, that’s what saved him.
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Those door bars saved his life. I believe NASCAR mandated those after Tiny Lund's death. The crash that ended Bobby Allison's career was the same kind of hit in the driver's door. NASCAR immediately banned the other driver, Jocko Maggiacomo.
Pretty sure that didn't happen. Maggiacomo suffered injuries that forced him out for several weeks, and his last Cup start was later that year at Watkins Glen (not to mention two other DNQs).
I wouldn't say that it was a sad way to end his career to finish off in short track racing, I'm sure Skip wouldn't have continued racing short tracks I his later years if he wasn't enjoying himself at least a little, look at Kenny Wallace, and Ken Shrader, those guys still seem to be enjoying themselves 😀
Talmadge Prince was killed in a similar fashion during a qualifying race at Daytona in 1970
Like your content but almost clicked out when crash blacked out. I understand some things being censored but crashes? I realize that wasn’t your intention but it seemed to be and probably caused some viewers to exit. Just saying.
The blackout tease at the start is ill-advised. Nobody likes getting jerked around, especially with such a cheap shot. I'm from Darlington, and I was there when the wreck happened. I started to check out after your tease.
Your content is OK, but your comparisons of roll bar technology from different eras is unfair. Roll cage designs haven't changed that much but modern metallurgy simply didn't exist at that time. You also fail to mention Mannings roll cage worked exactly as designed. I suppose you were trying to find something substantial to say about NASCAR that hasn't already been done. I would suggest the Wendell Scott story. If you really want to kick the hornet's nest, Danika Patricks' story, from her point of view, might be interesting
U can't compare today's car to back then even if he got hit on the passenger side even if he got hit on drivers door lol😂 and I can say Winston drivers
I guess he skipped his death
Are we so sensitive anymore (google censors) that showing even nonfatal car crashes is offensive? 😏😏😏
Went to watch the actual crash elsewhere. Yes, driver doors being t-boned is really bad and could be catastrophic, but the driver in the other car also goes thru a huge deceleration. Amazing no one was seriously hurt.
Ps. The continued perpetuation of confederacy mindset including flying the stars and bars at NASCAR races..., when I finally got old enough to see and understand this misguided mentality for what it is, is why I walked away from NASCAR in my late 20s. (Ok and it went mainstream big money too which was also a turnoff.)
I am a rebel (FFS, not like I've ever thought of myself as such bcz I'm pretty sure calling citizens of northern states as rebels is a projection - lol), but I was raised in a family where racing was emphasised. My father was a local circuit NASCAR driver, my stepfather was a knee-dragger. 150 + years later, it's well past time to leave all this North South nonsense. And NASCAR should have never embraced it in the first place, even if it's origins are in the South.
the crash is in the video like 10 times wdym?
@@nascarfan4888JJ
Sorry sir, it seems that people are impatient and very stupid these days. Little hope left for this country.
@@xrisku You should have also left the country when you left NASCAR.
5:31 - 5:33 - This was “LITERALLY” all down to “LUCK AND PRAYING TO GOD”!!!!
Jesus Christ
5:00
I sent you an email to your gmail.
Well that was a waste of time how come you black out the video you got me for a view