Horror Crash at Canadian GP

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

Funny, that's what North America thinks for most of the year...every race is either at 1 AM (Asia) or 6 AM (Europe), or at least it seems like it...

[gunnar hendershow]

I saw a clip of that crash, it's a miracle he made it through. All it would've taken was one piece of debris to hit him and we'd be looking at a completely different result.

[Katsuya]

The Crash

The first minute or so doesn't do it justice; the most violent angles of it come at about 1:10 -> 1:40, because its very close to the scene.

[AnnIQ Edison]

Wow. That looked very bad.

And has anyone got a vid of Senna's crash? I've never seen it

[Katsuya]

Senna Crash

Again, it's not actually "spectacular". You see cars do that nearly all the time nowadays, just goes to show how much more safe these cars are now. In fact, the more violent of the two crashes that killed that weekend was Ratzenberger's, because he just went right forward in to the wall. In fact, the reason I was so worried about Kubica was that his head was bouncing about a lot, and it seemed eerily reminscent of Ratzenberger's head just rolling around in his car.

[Farmer Reil]

Senna's crash never looks that fatal, because it wasn't the crash that killed him, it was the bits of debris flying around afterwards. I think a bit of his car ended up crashing through his visor and giving him a skull fracture or something, and that's what killed him.

Whereas, with Ratzenberger, it was the fact that his head had just hit a concrete wall at 150+ MPH that did it...

[Katsuya]

Yeah, it was the suspension that pierced Senna's helmet and caused the brain damage. That was anothr thing with Kubica's crash, the sheer amount of debris that could have hit him or another driver; Tonio Liuzzi's camera caught the car flipping and stuff, and a big metal bar cracked the top of the car on the roll cage, just missing Liuzzi's head...

[sirdavinator]

Funny, that's what North America thinks for most of the year...every race is either at 1 AM (Asia) or 6 AM (Europe), or at least it seems like it...

[Dan]

I don't think I can stomache watching the Senna crash again as I know it fatal.

The Kubica one was mad, but I told my Dad straight away he' be okay, the safety on the cars is massive these days.

[SeanDMan]

He's lucky to survive, because when his fuselodge did that canoo style barrel roll, he could very easily have clipped his head on the asphalt, and with that kind of torque, that would have been game over for sure.

[Lowerdeck]

The Senna crash wasn't even that bad. The Kubica crash was far more disintegrating, just nothing whacked him in the head unlike what happened to Senna.

[Katsuya]

Actually, if you look really hard at the end of the crash, something seems to slide underneath his head, unless that's his hand...

The crash was much worse live I think, because you can watch it now and think "well I know he's safe, so...", but it seriously was bad live. The thing that shocked me was that the car flipped over, so that gives an indication of how much force it takes for it to do that flip so quickly, and then travel as fast as it did in to the wall.

On a lighter note, it's a sprained ankle and light concussion, so that's all good. Plus, for the first time in like...ever, F1 has dominated the back pages; hell, Hamilton filled up most of the Sun's front page even.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

What was that crash a few years ago at the start line where one of the cars just shoots up into the air and barrel rolls away?! That was horrific.

[Katsuya]

Hmmm...I think you're looking for Luciano Burti climbing over the back of Michael Schumacher back in '01:

Ah, Luciano Burti. Worst, most accident prone driver ever. Here's his most spectacular and near death one:

Ahem

EDIT: Last really, really big one, where Nick Heidfeld loses control and smashed in to Sato.

Edited June 11, 2007 by Katsuya

[Lowerdeck]

1st and 3rd ones looked really painful.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

The first one is the one I remember. Ugh it was nasty.

[YI]

If I was an F1 driver, I'd crash for giggles.

[Lineker]

At least I am OK, despite my abnormally large forehead.

[Katsuya]

The worst part of that first crash, is the fact one of Burti's tires flies off on to the Arrows behind him.

[Liam]

It's probably a good thing for Kubica that the cars seem designed to fall apart pretty easily, aside from the main cockpit. Bad crash, but probably not as dangerous as it looked.