De Angelis could have lived, had assistance come faster. He only broke his collar bone, but it was smoke inhalation that killed him. How the fuck could they conduct the test without marshals being present?!
@@tiadaid without meaning to sound unkind or anything, it was just the way F1 was back then, although circuit safety started to improve somewhat during race weekends from around the late 70s, testing was still often carried out with minimal saftey procedures in place up until around the early 90s would you believe.
De Angelis was the most tragic for me, dying of smoke inhalation a day after the actual incident for which he wasn't too badly injured. He also had nothing to do with his crash, the rear wing just flew off. Watching that footage is heartbreaking. At least for Villeneuve it was over suddenly.
Everything was bad that day: The track had no helicopter, nor many marshals. The wing went off on the very fast section. He went over the barrier and ended up on the top. The fire broke. There were no people there immediately, the only people there were HAAS mechanics. The fire marshals were directing the powder in the wrong direction, directly at the head of Elio depriving him of oxygen. The helicopter came after some 45 minutes, even though the circuit is next to an airport. If any of the things happened differently, Elio would live.
@@stefanoceruolo3551 Elio's crash was like Roger Williamson's all over again... In both cases the driver was alive and just couldn't get out, but marshals didn't do a thing even after fires broke out... Sad :(
Hi Connor, no need to apologise. I was a boy who idolised Gilles Villeneuve (still do) when he died, I cried then and still brings a lump to my throat when I see that clip
@@outhdare it was a racing incident, it wasnt Mass's fault. Villeneuve moved right to overtake, just as Mass was moving right at the same time to let him by on the left, it was just a terribly tragic racing incident
@@outhdare i think you meant to say "if only gilles wasn't still going flat out on his in lap" he wasn't on a qualifier, but as usual, he kept his foot down, when it should have come up
Actually, after the 1982 French GP one shown here, he decided he had had enough and retired from F1 on the spot. Can't say I disagree with him tbh... :(
I never watched F1 my whole life but I once saw Mass won 24 hours of Lemans on ESPN. I always remembered his name but I had no idea he was a famous F1 driver.
Every time I see the De Cesaris crash, I think he got insanely lucky that he got out of it uninjured. Almost feels like he escaped death by a very narrow margin.
The downpour the night before certainly helped soften the soil which was a major help. Still is one of the scarier (non-fatal) incidents any of us are likely to see.
@@alexclement7221 Respect for Andrea De Cesaris! He got two enormous balls. It's true he often crashed, but it was for his courage and because he always tried to take the maximum by his car!
3:15 Fun fact, after that flip, when de Cesaris returned to the pits, he tried to talk in French (which he could, despite his accent and bad pronounciation, being Italian) to Guy Ligier to explain him what had happened. He just said he did a "têtacou" (for "tête à queue" which means spinning around in French). When the team found that he had in fact suffered a quadruple roll over and ruined the car, Guy Ligier fired de Cesaris on the spot, being famously quoted as saying "I can no longer afford to employ this man" XD (he had previous history for often crashing, which earned him the nickname "de Crasharis"). De Cesaris was killed in October 2014 at the age of 55...due to a motorcycle crash on Roma's ring road in which his body ended up impacting the barriers. :(
There’s an old interview where James Hunt discusses A de C’s accidents, and he thought that his facial twitch or ‘tick’ may have caused him to occasionally lose control of the car. Definitely not a good thing to suffer from in motor racing.
did his helmet come off from forces when he was ejected from the car? I hadn't seen the footage of him laying there against the fence but it wasn't clear, it didn't look like he had a helmet on.
@@craiglizt8074 I Think that Tom Pryce and Gilles Villeneuve died in a second just like to turn the light out.I think if a docktor tell a human you have not more to live than one year its much harder!
When Andrea de Cesaris got back to the pits in Austria, he told the Ligier team that he went off, stalled and couldn't re-start it. At that point, the team had not seen the television replay. You can imagine their surprise when they finally saw it. Not surprisingly, volatile former French rugby player and team owner Guy Ligier fired de Cesaris after this claiming that he could no longer afford to employ him. Funny thing about that. de Cesaris was sponsored by and had most of his retainer paid for by Marlboro who are Philip Morris International. Ligier's long time major sponsor of the time was French cigarette brand Gitanes who are owned by Philip Morris's tobacco empire rival Imperial Tobacco.
03:05 And that was the final straw for Guy Ligier; he stated that "I can no longer afford to employ this man". Some horrible crashes, more and worse than I remember. Others have correctly pointed out how much safer cars and circuits are these days, the 1980's were still much safer than the 1960's and 70's.
@@stefanaretz8136 No, it's not respectless. It adds a huge element of truth to just how dangerous the sport was (and still is). It's part of telling the truth.
The thing that shock me the most is how much unsafe the traks were… barrier too close, no fences, people all over standing by the course without any kind of protection or fences ahead of them, NO pit speed limit, I started following F1 in 89, most of the thing that were considered normal there, today are completely unthinkable (thank God)…😳
I'm not sure if we watched the same video, some barriers were definetly too close, but fencing is everywhere, everyone is standing behind fencing but yes there was no pit speed limit.
@@R9naldo really?!? Did you see the monaco 1986 incident at the mirabeau? It is the 4th or 5th… Did you see how many people are standing behind the guard rail with parts of the car literally passing by… do you see any nets above the guard rail to protect people outside the track??? Yeah, maybe we saw different videos… Do you konw that in that years marshall intervened on the cars without any kind of neutralization of the race, just yellow flags…? Search on google how many died because of tires flying by (last two were just in 2000 and 2001) or spectators were hurted by parts of crashed cars (last episode, Imola 94, start of the race) because barrier fences and nets where lacking all around…
@@kapitumbulu Oh so just one clip, in 1982. Okay. Last marshall death was in Canada 2013 aswell, then the year after Bianchi died... and at Monaco 2012 a fan had a critical back injury because a grandstand collapsed, they can't build grandstands?
@@h5skb4ru41 same thing happened to Clay Regazzoni a few years ago... Escaped with his life driving F1s in one of the most dangerous eras of the sport, and yet he died while casually driving his Chrysler Voyager on the highway... And also to De Cesaris, who survived many gnarly F1 shunts and then lost his life riding his motorcycle in Roma... Sometimes, fate is so...cruel, as you said. :(
@2:22 So close to going over the barrier straight into the photographers. Soooooo many lives were at risk in the first century of motor racing compared to what we have now generally.
When a Formula one and Indycar crash it isn't like a car crashing it's more like a jet crashing due to the high velocity that they travel. Good example of this is Dan Weldon in 2011 going in excess of 220 mph when he died.
While not fatal, Pironi's accident was so similar to Villeneuves. Apparently Piquet stopped after Pironi's accident took one look and imdediately threw up. After that accident Prost hated driving in very wet conditions, all he used to see in his mind was Pironi crashing into him.
Quite a few testing crashes, One of our V8 supercar drivers James Courtney was a Jaguar F1 test driver back in 2002 and he had a rear suspension failure at over 300 kmh he was hurt real bad and put an end to his F1 hopes
I started watching F1 Grand Prix in 1981 . An amazing era for pilots but also the russian roulette for every competitor . Andrea de Cesaris gave us many "Benny Hill" footage moments every time he changed his car into a flying carpet ... with no steering wheel of course . He survived so many crashes that for me he's the most lucky F1 pilot ever seen .
Wow, having started watching F1 around 1984/85, I didn't realise how bad the early 80s had been. No wonder Prost was always so cautious in the wet, having started in 1980, and having been involved in Pironi's 1982 Hockenheim crash, which ended his career.. 🥺
Villeneuves accident was unreal quick. The car just came apart at the cockpit and threw him across the track. Ferrari made these cockpits in two sections, they bolted together when the car got to the track. Just a crazy way to make a cockpit for a driver to sit in. I do not miss seeing drivers die in any form of motorsports.Thank you to every man and woman who sat at their drawing boards and who did repeated testing and who developed the fantastically much safer equipment and tracks these racers have today. Death is not necessary to have great racing.
Yes, and if that wasn't enough he then suffered the huge crash at Paul Ricard only two months later, which resulted in him retiring from F1 immediately.
I recently saw a documentary, from a while back, but they interviewed Jochen Mass and they asked about the Villeneuve crash and the look of pain that crossed his features was very sad. I don’t think he ever fully absolved himself of guilt for the accident. It’s one thing to know, in your head, that you weren’t to blame, but it’s another thing to truly believe it and tbh, a man he knew well, that he competed against many times, DIED after hitting his car…….how do you deal with that?
It probably contributted to the crash. He was extremely angry beeind the wheel at the time, and many said he was an accident waiting to happen in that testing session. I read a book few years ago about the 1982 F1 season and it goes into this in great depth. Excellent book by the way; highly recommended
Despite Villeneuve's anger, resulting in his own death, Pironi and his family maintained great respect towards him though... Pironi's wife was pregnant with twin boys when he himself died a few years later; as a mark of respect to Villeneuve, and as a tribute to the rivalry between the two, she named them Gilles and Didier Jr... Gilles Pironi also made it to F1, but not as a driver - he has been one of Mercedes' crew members and then moved to Ferrari's WEC Hypercars team.
What got me about Brundle's Monaco crash was the car was upside down and the marshals just flipped it back on to its wheels with Brundle inside! That must have hurt more than the crash!
Funnily, that was exactly what de Cesaris replied to Ligier back in the pits when asked about the crash - he just said that he had spun out while in fact the car was ruined ! The team then fired him immediately, with Guy Ligier giving the famous line "I can no longer afford to employ that man" - and that was despite Marlboro paying most of his salary XD
First time i've ever seen the full Mass crash at Paul Ricard. Can't blame Mass for deciding to quit afterwards especially as he was involved in at least 3 crashes on this video
The crash of Andre DeCrashorus was the last time he crashed in F1 car. He told the team something broke on the car which caused it to crash, but the team later on saw the video that he just simply ran wider the track and got his right side tires on the wet grass. He was subsequently fired. Some years ago I saw a video about old Andre. Between all the teams that he drove for, and all the accidents that he caused, he cost the teams he was the driver for over $14 million yesteryears dollars. There's also Jaques Villeneuve who when he left F1 to drive over in the US for the CART series. Forget what track it was, but apparently Jaq had a reputation for this one corner that he would every time he race there, he would hit the Armco barriers. That particular section of Armco the other CART drivers jokingly called the Jaq absorber as reported by the bi-weekly magazine publication ON TRACK.
I'd not seen the de Angelis footage before, just heart breaking how that unfolded and was not a fatal accident initally had there been proper safety equipment there.
Like flying, racing regulations are written in blood. Go back another decade or so and you had Jackie Stewart crashing in Belgium and being trapped in the car by the steering wheel. Someone had to borrow a spanner from someone in the crowd who got it from his car tool kit so they could unbolt the steering wheel and let Jackie out.
@@karlbassett8485 Yes I remember reading about that. Good analogy that, racing regs a written in blood like flying. It's very true. Look at the halo and Henry Surtees.
It's so weird to see the heads of the drivers bob and wobble around during a crash in old footage. Thankfully, HANS and dozen other improvements have increased F1's safety so much. No disrespect to our current fine roster of F1 drivers, I love and adore all of them, but the guts it took to drive back in the 80s (let alone before!) can't be compared with today. Sure, all drivers put their life on the line every time they set foot in the pitlane, but 40+ years ago, you had to be a complete daredevil to take your chances for more than 3 seasons, meanwhile we have drivers that casually drive for a decade or more.
Oooh my God. I'm now 42... and now, watching that, just sooo punched me back to where I was a Boy.... watching with my Dad F1. All the Names are so just *booom*... back in my memories... Brundle De Cesaris Berger Mansell LIGIER-RENAULT.....
That first clip, when the commentator says (as the lights go out): _"Let's listen"_ is something that awful Croft character has been making impossible for years now, screaming his freakin' lungs out in such an annoying manner that one needs to turn the volume way down to bare watching an F1 start.
and yet he could have survived without paralysis, had the Brazilian marshals and "rescue" medics not treated him and pulled him out like a sack of potatoes... What a shame. :(
Villeneuve's neck was 7 centimeters longer after the crash....he was dead on impact. Depailler was driving a very dangerous car, Elio de Angelis was driving a Lotus...always dangerous car...Jim Clark, Jochen Rindt...suspension failure, both of them...
It's amazing they used to show how the driver was being resuscitated 😯 Also, they didn't use to throw a red flag unless there was a nuclear attack from the Soviets.
Elio's death led to a complete overhaul of testing conditions and introduced marshals had to be in sufficent numbers and trained. A safety helicopter had to be present and medical staff. He was a gentleman and I still remember when it happened. Villeneuve and Depailler as well.
5:32 I was watching from Pilgrim's Drop at Brands Hatch '82 and saw Chico Serra's accident at Hawthorn. The TV cameras missed it totally. Unfortunately so did my 8mm camera, which would otherwise be the only known footage of the incident.
That Tambay-crash has always appeared to me to be a relatively undramatic incident, but look how Brundles helmet is hit by the wheel, and just think what would have happened if the car flew over the barrier.
You see Nigel Mansell driving past as Villeneuve's accident happens. I never heard him mention this until a recent interview... he saw Villeneuve flung out of the car and could see his head/neck stretched 7 inches or so away as he tumbled through the air before hitting the fence.
I've read Nigel's comments about this, but his Lotus is not visible in the clip and besides Mass the next car to pass is either a Toleman or Ligier, not a black Lotus. Also at this point point the crash has already concluded. Something doesn't add up about it.
Man track workers are something else especially at 2:58. Basically putting faith in flag to keep another driver from plowing through that corner and taking you out.
no footage from Pironi`s accident. it could be the highest flip from all of them. he flipped over Alain Prost`s car. later he said he saw the crowns of the trees there. in Hockenheim some trees were 20 meters high...
Fatal:
1:52 Elio de Angelis -Testing 1986
5:48 Gilles Villeneuve - Belgium 1982
6:15 Patrick Depailler - Testing 1980
I Was
Pq estes três pilotos perderam a vida depois de sofrerem acidentes graves e que foram fatais?
@@josealexandre8666
This is a dumb question.
De Angelis could have lived, had assistance come faster. He only broke his collar bone, but it was smoke inhalation that killed him.
How the fuck could they conduct the test without marshals being present?!
@@tiadaid without meaning to sound unkind or anything, it was just the way F1 was back then, although circuit safety started to improve somewhat during race weekends from around the late 70s, testing was still often carried out with minimal saftey procedures in place up until around the early 90s would you believe.
80's was something else motorsport wise.
De Angelis was the most tragic for me, dying of smoke inhalation a day after the actual incident for which he wasn't too badly injured. He also had nothing to do with his crash, the rear wing just flew off. Watching that footage is heartbreaking.
At least for Villeneuve it was over suddenly.
Elio was totally unnecessary you are right even in the video when his car catches alight they the marshals don't panic - absolutely pathetic
Everything was bad that day: The track had no helicopter, nor many marshals. The wing went off on the very fast section. He went over the barrier and ended up on the top. The fire broke. There were no people there immediately, the only people there were HAAS mechanics. The fire marshals were directing the powder in the wrong direction, directly at the head of Elio depriving him of oxygen. The helicopter came after some 45 minutes, even though the circuit is next to an airport. If any of the things happened differently, Elio would live.
@@outhdarethe fricking cheese holes model
Virtually no-one had a bad word to say about Elio de Angelis
@@stefanoceruolo3551 Elio's crash was like Roger Williamson's all over again... In both cases the driver was alive and just couldn't get out, but marshals didn't do a thing even after fires broke out... Sad :(
I think that’s actually the first time I’ve seen the Gilles vilinauve crash it’s absolutely horrible. apologies for the butchery of the spelling.
If you have time to realise and apologise for your spelling, you have time to copy paste the correct spelling.
Why has this not been fixed!!! ARGHHHHHHH
Seen the crash many time but never the attempt at CPR. RIP Gilles. #legend
Hi Connor, no need to apologise. I was a boy who idolised Gilles Villeneuve (still do) when he died, I cried then and still brings a lump to my throat when I see that clip
@@Alext165 I have now seen that footage three times. I don't want to ever see it again.
You can see Martin Brundle take a wheel across his helmet in the slow mo footage at 2:48
In 1994 in Brazil was more brutal and without injury, soo i think in monza last yer Halo didnt save Hamilton live in monza
And he was never the same since😂
That's happened to Brundle twice lol
Thanks Halo, no wait a second.....
Another one saved by the Halo
Villeneuve's accident is still one the most horrific as he was ejected completely and flew through the air at high speed into the catch fencing.
still puts a lump in my throat. RIP Gilles
How fast it just happened, in less than two seconds he was dead. Tragic and very avoidable, if Mass just let him have the racing line.
@@outhdare it was a racing incident, it wasnt Mass's fault. Villeneuve moved right to overtake, just as Mass was moving right at the same time to let him by on the left, it was just a terribly tragic racing incident
@@outhdare
i think you meant to say "if only gilles wasn't still going flat out on his in lap"
he wasn't on a qualifier, but as usual, he kept his foot down, when it should have come up
@@nelsonschumacher7956Actually he was.
The fortitude it took to drive a formula car back then was beyond admirable,
5:55 The way you can see him flying here if you pause it... RIP Gilles
Damn Jochen Mass was a flip magnet!
Actually, after the 1982 French GP one shown here, he decided he had had enough and retired from F1 on the spot. Can't say I disagree with him tbh... :(
I never watched F1 my whole life but I once saw Mass won 24 hours of Lemans on ESPN. I always remembered his name but I had no idea he was a famous F1 driver.
@@yankees29 He was famous for all the bad reasons.
Every time I see the De Cesaris crash, I think he got insanely lucky that he got out of it uninjured. Almost feels like he escaped death by a very narrow margin.
The downpour the night before certainly helped soften the soil which was a major help. Still is one of the scarier (non-fatal) incidents any of us are likely to see.
Team Principal Guy Ligier was certainly not impressed with the accident and immediately fired Andrea from the team.
One thing De Cesaris knew how to do right was to crash his car. That's how he got the nickname "De Crasharis"....
@@alexclement7221
Respect for Andrea De Cesaris!
He got two enormous balls. It's true he often crashed, but it was for his courage and because he always tried to take the maximum by his car!
The pushing over of Brundles car
Not a thought for a spinal injury by those Marshalls was there!
Then apparently trying to yank his helmet off
3:15 Fun fact, after that flip, when de Cesaris returned to the pits, he tried to talk in French (which he could, despite his accent and bad pronounciation, being Italian) to Guy Ligier to explain him what had happened. He just said he did a "têtacou" (for "tête à queue" which means spinning around in French).
When the team found that he had in fact suffered a quadruple roll over and ruined the car, Guy Ligier fired de Cesaris on the spot, being famously quoted as saying "I can no longer afford to employ this man" XD (he had previous history for often crashing, which earned him the nickname "de Crasharis").
De Cesaris was killed in October 2014 at the age of 55...due to a motorcycle crash on Roma's ring road in which his body ended up impacting the barriers. :(
There’s an old interview where James Hunt discusses A de C’s accidents, and he thought that his facial twitch or ‘tick’ may have caused him to occasionally lose control of the car. Definitely not a good thing to suffer from in motor racing.
@@H71BCD - he had calmed down considerably by the end of his career - and rarely crashed in his last few seasons. But before that, well....
Sum's up his F1 career doesn't it
RIP Gilles Villeneuve. What a horrible way to go. RIP to all drivers who die on the race track.
By all accounts he was gone pretty fast.
VERY likely he didn't feel a thing.
And why are you too lazy to write Rest in peace?
@@azynkron Relax. We all know what it means. Don't get your panties in a bunch by a universally known acronym.
did his helmet come off from forces when he was ejected from the car? I hadn't seen the footage of him laying there against the fence but it wasn't clear, it didn't look like he had a helmet on.
I always enjoy the expert medical commentary, “he is walking away, perfectly ok”.
I've never seen Villeneuve's crash until today. So violent.
Look the death of the formula driver Tom Pryce than you know what violent is!
@@andreebohme3825 yes, I've seen that one accident before and it's quite tragic. Both are brutally violent and saddening.
@@craiglizt8074 I Think that Tom Pryce and Gilles Villeneuve died in a second just like to turn the light out.I think if a docktor tell a human you have not more to live than one year its much harder!
Price’s crash was brutal considering the end of that boy who crossing the track.
not to forget Helmut Koinigg, very tragic
mass' 1982 paul ricard crash is so violent
Looks a lot like Zhou in Silverstone
Amazing nobody got seriously hurt!
1982 had so many brutal crashes, two fatalities… what a cursed year.
It caused Mass to retire from F1 on the spot, even though he was only slightly injured. :(
When Andrea de Cesaris got back to the pits in Austria, he told the Ligier team that he went off, stalled and couldn't re-start it. At that point, the team had not seen the television replay. You can imagine their surprise when they finally saw it. Not surprisingly, volatile former French rugby player and team owner Guy Ligier fired de Cesaris after this claiming that he could no longer afford to employ him.
Funny thing about that. de Cesaris was sponsored by and had most of his retainer paid for by Marlboro who are Philip Morris International. Ligier's long time major sponsor of the time was French cigarette brand Gitanes who are owned by Philip Morris's tobacco empire rival Imperial Tobacco.
03:05 And that was the final straw for Guy Ligier; he stated that "I can no longer afford to employ this man".
Some horrible crashes, more and worse than I remember. Others have correctly pointed out how much safer cars and circuits are these days, the 1980's were still much safer than the 1960's and 70's.
For Jacques to drive in and win a WF1 championship after father Gilles tragic end is also amazing, kudos to his uncle who was there for
support.
Seing Villneuve body's being ejected from the car,just gives me shivers down my spine.
RIP Gilles
Those scenes must not be shown
@@stefanaretz8136 why not?
To future drivers dont Make the same mistakes,and dealing better with very dificult situations.
@@jpmtlhead39 Showing a pilot at the moment when he gets killed is damn respectless
@@stefanaretz8136 its a very dangerous profession.
They have to be prepared for everything,afterall its their own choice.
@@stefanaretz8136 No, it's not respectless. It adds a huge element of truth to just how dangerous the sport was (and still is). It's part of telling the truth.
The thing that shock me the most is how much unsafe the traks were… barrier too close, no fences, people all over standing by the course without any kind of protection or fences ahead of them, NO pit speed limit, I started following F1 in 89, most of the thing that were considered normal there, today are completely unthinkable (thank God)…😳
OK KAREN!
@@karlmtinsley8297 said the useless fatass who broke his bumper trying parking his suburban backward, spilling his coffee on his nuts……
I'm not sure if we watched the same video, some barriers were definetly too close, but fencing is everywhere, everyone is standing behind fencing but yes there was no pit speed limit.
@@R9naldo really?!? Did you see the monaco 1986 incident at the mirabeau? It is the 4th or 5th…
Did you see how many people are standing behind the guard rail with parts of the car literally passing by… do you see any nets above the guard rail to protect people outside the track???
Yeah, maybe we saw different videos…
Do you konw that in that years marshall intervened on the cars without any kind of neutralization of the race, just yellow flags…? Search on google how many died because of tires flying by (last two were just in 2000 and 2001) or spectators were hurted by parts of crashed cars (last episode, Imola 94, start of the race) because barrier fences and nets where lacking all around…
@@kapitumbulu Oh so just one clip, in 1982. Okay. Last marshall death was in Canada 2013 aswell, then the year after Bianchi died... and at Monaco 2012 a fan had a critical back injury because a grandstand collapsed, they can't build grandstands?
I wanted to find out more about Philippe Streiffs accident and found out that he died today in a car accident. Rest in peace
Funny... He's been driving at incredibly fast speeds and now a slower crash killed him. Life's pretty cruel
No he didn’t! He passed away from natural causes.
@@h5skb4ru41 same thing happened to Clay Regazzoni a few years ago... Escaped with his life driving F1s in one of the most dangerous eras of the sport, and yet he died while casually driving his Chrysler Voyager on the highway...
And also to De Cesaris, who survived many gnarly F1 shunts and then lost his life riding his motorcycle in Roma...
Sometimes, fate is so...cruel, as you said. :(
@@h5skb4ru41 He became a quadraplegic from his testing crash in 1989.
@2:22 So close to going over the barrier straight into the photographers. Soooooo many lives were at risk in the first century of motor racing compared to what we have now generally.
R. I. P. Elio de Angelis, Gilles Villeneuve, & Patrick Depailler. 😇🥀🎗🇮🇹🇨🇦🇫🇷
15/12/2022 20:42
When a Formula one and Indycar crash it isn't like a car crashing it's more like a jet crashing due to the high velocity that they travel. Good example of this is Dan Weldon in 2011 going in excess of 220 mph when he died.
How is the Mass crash at 5:16 not a fatal? Miraculous...... 😯
For real, this could easily be one of biggest tragedies in motorsport history
@@scouser5039 yeah, the more I see it the worse it looks.... 😧. Could easily have been dozens of spectator casualties too. Wow! 🥶
2:47 Brundle again getting clipped by a wheel like Brazil 1994.
Incredible.
Jesus did not know Derek Daly got *that* high off the ground. Wow
He wasn't nicknamed Air Daly for nothing!
@@heliumtrophy ROFL XD didn't know that one ^^
Since Jesus is God. I'm sure He knew exactly how high Derek Daly got off the ground.
I had never seen the images for VIL. Very sad
Yeah. I hadn't either. I knew he was thrown out the car, but had never seen the images.
First time I seen the footage of the medics trying to revive him, geez. RIP
Would like to point out that DeCesaris was NOT unhurt. He injured his hand (torn sinewy bits) and was troubled with it slightly ever after.
That's twice Brundle has had his head nearly knocked off by a flying car - other being Interlagos 94. Lucky man
While not fatal, Pironi's accident was so similar to Villeneuves. Apparently Piquet stopped after Pironi's accident took one look and imdediately threw up. After that accident Prost hated driving in very wet conditions, all he used to see in his mind was Pironi crashing into him.
Hopefully this won't pose as 'out of touch', but De Cesaris' Ligier crash is so 'artistic' in a way that sticks in teh mind
It was on the BBC Grandstand titles for literally years after that. So I get what you mean
Quite a few testing crashes, One of our V8 supercar drivers James Courtney was a Jaguar F1 test driver back in 2002 and he had a rear suspension failure at over 300 kmh he was hurt real bad and put an end to his F1 hopes
I started watching F1 Grand Prix in 1981 . An amazing era for pilots but also the russian roulette for every competitor . Andrea de Cesaris gave us many "Benny Hill" footage moments every time he changed his car into a flying carpet ... with no steering wheel of course . He survived so many crashes that for me he's the most lucky F1 pilot ever seen .
Niki Lauda said " a great driver" at his funeral.I was a supporter and i can say he has never had a reliable car
@@bufalobill19 Well he's not going to say he's a s**t driver at his funeral...
@@ZippyZapBike He was serious and sincere, he wasn’t obliged to speak about him.
Wow, having started watching F1 around 1984/85, I didn't realise how bad the early 80s had been. No wonder Prost was always so cautious in the wet, having started in 1980, and having been involved in Pironi's 1982 Hockenheim crash, which ended his career.. 🥺
The 80s were safer than the 70s and 60s. Back then it was total mayhem.
One day, as a journalist asked him why Senna was so fast in the wet and not him, Prost answered: "Ayrton believes in God. Not me".
@ 3:10/4:27
The REAL reason why former F1 driver Andrea DeCesaris was known as #DeCrasheris. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Elio’s will always make me cry.
I love how in the 80s there were bid accidents and they barely put the yellow flag , nowadays the smallest fender bender and red flag for a long time
There should be a middle ground!
RIP Philippe Streiff
Man this takes me back to my scalextric set as a kid in the eighties had a few of the cars on here
1:22 was one off the most brutal f1 crashes i have ever seen
Villeneuves accident was unreal quick. The car just came apart at the cockpit and threw him across the track. Ferrari made these cockpits in two sections, they bolted together when the car got to the track. Just a crazy way to make a cockpit for a driver to sit in. I do not miss seeing drivers die in any form of motorsports.Thank you to every man and woman who sat at their drawing boards and who did repeated testing and who developed the fantastically much safer equipment and tracks these racers have today. Death is not necessary to have great racing.
Tambay's lucky not to flip over the armco at Monaco
And all the people standing behind it would have been taken out as well.
@@idiotsinc It's also about a 20 foot drop down to the road below at a certain point on the radius of the corner.
I read that Gilles Villeneuve's fatal crash really affected Jochen Mass, and it took Ferrari's Mauro Forgheiri to tell him that it was not his fault
Yes, and if that wasn't enough he then suffered the huge crash at Paul Ricard only two months later, which resulted in him retiring from F1 immediately.
I recently saw a documentary, from a while back, but they interviewed Jochen Mass and they asked about the Villeneuve crash and the look of pain that crossed his features was very sad. I don’t think he ever fully absolved himself of guilt for the accident. It’s one thing to know, in your head, that you weren’t to blame, but it’s another thing to truly believe it and tbh, a man he knew well, that he competed against many times, DIED after hitting his car…….how do you deal with that?
On that day at Zolder, Gilles was pissed because of what happened in Imola
He never spoke to Pironi again after that race
It probably contributted to the crash. He was extremely angry beeind the wheel at the time, and many said he was an accident waiting to happen in that testing session. I read a book few years ago about the 1982 F1 season and it goes into this in great depth. Excellent book by the way; highly recommended
Despite Villeneuve's anger, resulting in his own death, Pironi and his family maintained great respect towards him though... Pironi's wife was pregnant with twin boys when he himself died a few years later; as a mark of respect to Villeneuve, and as a tribute to the rivalry between the two, she named them Gilles and Didier Jr...
Gilles Pironi also made it to F1, but not as a driver - he has been one of Mercedes' crew members and then moved to Ferrari's WEC Hypercars team.
How De Cesaris survived those flips with the Ligier is just a miracle.
De-Crasherous
Brundle was so young! Those were some crazy days of F1. They laid the groundwork for the safer racing we have today. Thank you, gents.
What got me about Brundle's Monaco crash was the car was upside down and the marshals just flipped it back on to its wheels with Brundle inside! That must have hurt more than the crash!
The Tambay crash at Monaco could have been one of the worst in memory had the car gone over the barrier. Thankfully there catch fences now.
Superb video showinf rage footage hilighting the crazy risk level of racing at these ages. Thx
Man F1 was a jungle back then, De Cesaris’ mistake would be an innocuous spin nowadays, instead he totaled the car
Funnily, that was exactly what de Cesaris replied to Ligier back in the pits when asked about the crash - he just said that he had spun out while in fact the car was ruined !
The team then fired him immediately, with Guy Ligier giving the famous line "I can no longer afford to employ that man" - and that was despite Marlboro paying most of his salary XD
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Imagine if today’s F1 drivers driver THESE tracks. One mistake or off-track excursion, and your session (or even your career) is over
@@Duval-In-The-Wall - well, they still race in MOnaco
Gilles Villeneuve's fatal accident happened at the 1982 Belgian GP by clipping the back of the west German racer Jochen Mass
Patrick depailler [fatal] crash 6:15
Some of these were brutal, god damm.
First time i've ever seen the full Mass crash at Paul Ricard. Can't blame Mass for deciding to quit afterwards especially as he was involved in at least 3 crashes on this video
The crash of Andre DeCrashorus was the last time he crashed in F1 car. He told the team something broke on the car which caused it to crash, but the team later on saw the video that he just simply ran wider the track and got his right side tires on the wet grass. He was subsequently fired.
Some years ago I saw a video about old Andre. Between all the teams that he drove for, and all the accidents that he caused, he cost the teams he was the driver for over $14 million yesteryears dollars.
There's also Jaques Villeneuve who when he left F1 to drive over in the US for the CART series. Forget what track it was, but apparently Jaq had a reputation for this one corner that he would every time he race there, he would hit the Armco barriers. That particular section of Armco the other CART drivers jokingly called the Jaq absorber as reported by the bi-weekly magazine publication ON TRACK.
Crash helmet check. Five-point safety harness check. Balls of steel check.
I'd not seen the de Angelis footage before, just heart breaking how that unfolded and was not a fatal accident initally had there been proper safety equipment there.
Like flying, racing regulations are written in blood. Go back another decade or so and you had Jackie Stewart crashing in Belgium and being trapped in the car by the steering wheel. Someone had to borrow a spanner from someone in the crowd who got it from his car tool kit so they could unbolt the steering wheel and let Jackie out.
@@karlbassett8485 Yes I remember reading about that. Good analogy that, racing regs a written in blood like flying. It's very true.
Look at the halo and Henry Surtees.
It's so weird to see the heads of the drivers bob and wobble around during a crash in old footage. Thankfully, HANS and dozen other improvements have increased F1's safety so much.
No disrespect to our current fine roster of F1 drivers, I love and adore all of them, but the guts it took to drive back in the 80s (let alone before!) can't be compared with today.
Sure, all drivers put their life on the line every time they set foot in the pitlane, but 40+ years ago, you had to be a complete daredevil to take your chances for more than 3 seasons, meanwhile we have drivers that casually drive for a decade or more.
Tambay also crashed on Sunday morning before the Canadian GP in 1986 - probably his last appearance in F1 then.
Oooh my God. I'm now 42... and now, watching that, just sooo punched me back to where I was a Boy.... watching with my Dad F1. All the Names are so just *booom*... back in my memories...
Brundle
De Cesaris
Berger
Mansell
LIGIER-RENAULT.....
I still miss Gilles.
If you slow down playback to 0.25x @5:55 and stop there, you can see Villeneuve ejecting from the wreck..A truly horrible tragic way to go.
Wow I just saw it!
he died?
That first clip, when the commentator says (as the lights go out): _"Let's listen"_ is something that awful Croft character has been making impossible for years now, screaming his freakin' lungs out in such an annoying manner that one needs to turn the volume way down to bare watching an F1 start.
Villeneuve crash was so horrifying.
The video quality is stunning 👌
What happened to Streiff wasn't just a mere flip. It was total destruction of the chassis
and yet he could have survived without paralysis, had the Brazilian marshals and "rescue" medics not treated him and pulled him out like a sack of potatoes... What a shame. :(
@@ursuss100 He literally got Tony Renna'd and live to tell the tail
3:15 De Cesaris is like "Yeah, I know the script!"
In Villeneuve’s crash, you saw that yellow-ish thing flying out? I think that was Gilles... what a dreary sight to see...
I was wondering if you could see him.
Eye wateringly unsafe in 1980's ...imagine the total carnage of the decades before that !!
Yeah who would ever think speeding around at high speeds is dangerous?
+ Serra Paul Ricard 1983
Practice
3:10 HE'S GOING OVER!!!!!!
Villeneuve's neck was 7 centimeters longer after the crash....he was dead on impact. Depailler was driving a very dangerous car, Elio de Angelis was driving a Lotus...always dangerous car...Jim Clark, Jochen Rindt...suspension failure, both of them...
No de Angelis was in a Brabham
Brundle got a tire across his head at that Monaco crack-up. I never realized that before
Mass has some crazy 80s 😅
at 0:29 - 0:53 i'm sure, this must be John Lennon who's commented here.. - great that his voice is still here with us....
It's amazing they used to show how the driver was being resuscitated 😯 Also, they didn't use to throw a red flag unless there was a nuclear attack from the Soviets.
Derek daly crashsed (unkown?) 6:43
Elio's death led to a complete overhaul of testing conditions and introduced marshals had to be in sufficent numbers and trained. A safety helicopter had to be present and medical staff. He was a gentleman and I still remember when it happened. Villeneuve and Depailler as well.
Andrea DeCrasherit made in the collection!
Find me an 80s and 90s f1 crash compilation that doesn't have him in it, I don't think there is one lol
Austria 1985 is scary... the amount of head movement in the cockpit is horrific.
Austria saw a lot of bad accidents, I believe
5:32 I was watching from Pilgrim's Drop at Brands Hatch '82 and saw Chico Serra's accident at Hawthorn. The TV cameras missed it totally. Unfortunately so did my 8mm camera, which would otherwise be the only known footage of the incident.
Sad video but amazing quality of the footage! Thx for upload!
My mom watched Villeneuves crash live and she stopped watching motorsports since, he was her idol.
RIP,! To all drivers that lost there life's doing what they loved doing in raceing,! A motor sport fan from northern Ireland UK 🤝
Machine color of Ligier gitanes team
is very beautiful!
French blue is good.
Hey mom I caught the rear wing!!!
I always loved watching the track officials immediately run on the track like it's all safe.
Wow. this is the best compilation I have ever seen. some private video....
Do you have a time machine? I want to live this era
That Tambay-crash has always appeared to me to be a relatively undramatic incident, but look how Brundles helmet is hit by the wheel, and just think what would have happened if the car flew over the barrier.
In the 80's it sounds like they hadn't upgraded some of broadcasting equipment since before the war.
You see Nigel Mansell driving past as Villeneuve's accident happens. I never heard him mention this until a recent interview... he saw Villeneuve flung out of the car and could see his head/neck stretched 7 inches or so away as he tumbled through the air before hitting the fence.
I've read Nigel's comments about this, but his Lotus is not visible in the clip and besides Mass the next car to pass is either a Toleman or Ligier, not a black Lotus. Also at this point point the crash has already concluded. Something doesn't add up about it.
Andrea de cesaris part 1 crash! 3:05
7:06 you could’ve used the photograph where it looked as the Michelin Man was running from Daly’s crash
daly crashsed FINALE 6:43
Thanks for this video bro, big document
0:25 john lennon commentator
the brazilian guy 0:58 "OH GOD, the guy die" Before you correct my English, this is the exact translation
Man track workers are something else especially at 2:58. Basically putting faith in flag to keep another driver from plowing through that corner and taking you out.
no footage from Pironi`s accident. it could be the highest flip from all of them. he flipped over Alain Prost`s car. later he said he saw the crowns of the trees there. in Hockenheim some trees were 20 meters high...