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[scheivlak]

When Martin Brundle had his accident in Melbourne 1994

1996, I guess.

[arttidesco]

Simon Lewis's photo of the wreck, plus Gregor's comments, here.

Thanks for the link Tim

[k1w1taxi]

Do you mean Jim Mullen's in 1985 at Road America?

Sorry for the very late entry on this. Thought Dave McK might have answered, but twinny more likely meant Steve Millen (hence the Air NZ connection) who had an absolute doozy in the NZ GP when he multiple rolled the Chardon Ralt RT1 at Pukekohe in 1980. This accident was later immortalised at the beginning of Roger Donaldson's Smash Palace movie.

Steve had a couple of other crashes that qualify for for this thread including this career ending one at Watkins Glen


On an unrelated note Alexandre Premat joined the very lucky club at the recent DTM round at Adria


Cheers
Lee

Edited by k1w1taxi, 02 November 2010 - 08:36.

[k1w1taxi]

Mention was also made (much) earlier of Bill Brown at Bathurst. Does he qualify? You be the judge. I think the marshal/spectator also qualifies.


Cheers
Lee

[noikeee]

Not really nostalgia (at all), but someone's going to mention this sooner or later when this thread pops up along the years, so let's add it to the list now: Ernesto Viso at Magny-Cours in GP2, three years ago. Looked like he had been decapitated by the wall he hit upside down.

Kovalainen at Barcelona (2008?) also scared the crap out of me, not a very "spectacular" crash but it was head-on on a quick corner, the car dived under the tyre wall, then they kept him there for a long time.

[aportinga]

I just found this photo of Martin Donnelly's wreck @ Jerez in 1990. Does anyone know how/what he's doing now? It occurred to me that I never heard any more about him after this incident...

http://b.f1-facts.com/ul/a/1647

That was insane - that someone could survive that crash!

Probably the biggest escape during my time as a fan of the sport.

Lucky man.

Edited by aportinga, 04 November 2010 - 18:31.

[cheapracer]

I think this is the most amazing survival ever, can you watch it and believe that he survived?

http://www.streetfir...a-ota_15315.htm

He later sued .....
http://en.wikipedia....iki/Tetsuya_Ota

If you look around you can find part 2 of the video when he gets out of the car but not for the faint hearted.

Maybe it's on this youtube, can't view youtube so I don't know so be careful if it runs longer than a minute or so. ...

[Rob G]

Not really nostalgia (at all), but someone's going to mention this sooner or later when this thread pops up along the years, so let's add it to the list now: Ernesto Viso at Magny-Cours in GP2, three years ago. Looked like he had been decapitated by the wall he hit upside down.

Yes, that was horrifying. He was extremely lucky that the only decapitation involved was to the top of a fire extinguisher that had been left near the wall.