this happened on friday in nascar qualifying im glad hes ok 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlGlLDaT9l0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlGlLDaT9l0
Worst wreck ive seen in a long time!!
Telemetry said he went from over 165mph to Stopped (forwards anyways) in just over a foot.
True testement to the SAFER barriers and the COT.
Plus when you look at it, the car kept moving around the track after the collision, which means less energy absorbed directly by the driver. (i.e. another part of what went wrong with the Earnhardt wreck)
True testement to the SAFER barriers and the COT.
Plus when you look at it, the car kept moving around the track after the collision, which means less energy absorbed directly by the driver. (i.e. another part of what went wrong with the Earnhardt wreck)
Steering to the right sure caught him off guard
"Oh my gosh" commentator killed me. 
Glad that the driver is OK. Nasty crash.
Glad that the driver is OK. Nasty crash.
Note to self: Do not steer to right on left-hand oval track.
If it was only that easy =)
I think his tire went down, there was an aweful lot of smoke before it got loose.
Glad he's ok.
Glad he's ok.
That was oil dry, not smoke.
Ya there was a thread relating to this here: http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=41366
Very nasty crash
Very nasty crash
Good thing they put in all those safety percautions. Definetly would've been deadly 10 years ago.
Is it just me or did that crash not look so bad?
I mean, it was a kind-of glancing blow on the barrier, car didn't slow down much so he can't have decelerated much in the impact. A bit like Kubica's 165mph accident at Montreal last year - looked deadly but the initial hit wasn't head-on so he just bounced off the wall and lost the rest of the energy rolling down to the hairpin.
I mean, it was a kind-of glancing blow on the barrier, car didn't slow down much so he can't have decelerated much in the impact. A bit like Kubica's 165mph accident at Montreal last year - looked deadly but the initial hit wasn't head-on so he just bounced off the wall and lost the rest of the energy rolling down to the hairpin.
I think that has a lot do to with the new safer barriers, they soak up the majority of the impact. You can see the pictures of how much damage the car did. I suspect if those were the old type of barriers and it was the old car then the outcome might not have been so good.
This was worst than Kubica's one, IMO, so many rolls, like the commentator ive never seen something like that. Really, it's very impressive
Kubica's was far worse than this, he hit a concrete wall very very hard, most of the energy went in that initial impact when the front of the car disappeared and he was very close to having an impact on the bottom of the car with the wall which there would be no way he could have survived. Kubica's rolls were pretty minor really and there were more rolls because of all the bits and mass that had been lost from the car, the last bit was just like it fell over like Bruno Sennas F3 car did after hitting the bridge at Snett. If you look at the high resolution photos of Kubica's impact and have some knowledge of where the bits that are flying around the place are meant to be located in the car you'll soon realise just how close it was.
In contrast that stock car crash wasn't that bad, the initial impact was the bad thing (not the rolls in a closed cockpit car with high sided bucket seats and 6 point harness), it looked nasty but thanks to good barrier design and the camera telling a bit of a lie it wasn't that heavy an impact into the wall itself the car bounced off exactly as it is supposed to the rest of it is just routine stuff that you can design for a good chance of walking away from.
quick thing about nascar, why do all the cars when they crash burst into flames? In no other motor sport that i watch do the cars burst into flames, so why in nascar? is it just because the fans would moan if they didnt see the spurt of flames when a car crashes?
The impact barely changed the speed of the car, only the velocity, which generally isn't as bad when it's only through about 30°. The car absorbed a lot of energy, rolled around a lot to disipate some more, and squashed the barrier to get rid of yet more.
Didn't look that bad at all.
Didn't look that bad at all.
It looks 100 times worse than the crash that killed Dale Earnhardt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVKLpNK6SqE
Shows how far things have come in 7 years. HAN's devices alone have reduced the chances of death/serious injury.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVKLpNK6SqE
Shows how far things have come in 7 years. HAN's devices alone have reduced the chances of death/serious injury.
Earnhardt's crash was much harder, into a concrete wall and even without some of the modern safety improvements there's no logical reason why he didn't walk away, exactly what killed him is a different question but from what I've heard he often raced with his belts slaked right off, which is effectively like racing unrestrained in the cockpit.
Crashing at 187mph??? Quick maths are telling me almost 320kmh...
it's really a nasty crash.
it's really a nasty crash.
300 km/h. Google is nice: http://www.google.com/search?h ... 20mph%20in%20km/h&lr=
ps. No matter how much Nascar sucked, those "steering right" comments were extremely stupid.
thanks for correcting me.
i only did 60mph=100kmh...and 180mph=300kmh
I just want to point out that a COT car for any given speed will have over 2.5 times more energy than an F1 car that will need to be dissipated.
I don't have a degree in physics so I can't accurately comment, but I would have to say that was one wicked crash and I am glad he's alright.
I don't have a degree in physics so I can't accurately comment, but I would have to say that was one wicked crash and I am glad he's alright.
F1 cars are 10 times more absorbant of energy then Stock cars.
This accident was worse then both Kubicas and Earnhardts crash.
This crash easily could of been fatal.
This accident was worse then both Kubicas and Earnhardts crash.
This crash easily could of been fatal.
Awww, sorry. Did you expect me to fake sympathy?
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Worst wreck ive seen in a long time!!
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