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[frisk]

i have a question about a crash i have seen a long time ago i believe it was on silvestone

i've been looking everywhere to find some info where and when it happend or who's car it was but no luck

this happen about 10 to 15 years ago maybe even longer

i dont know any detail about the drivers who where involved

i will discribe the crash

two F1 cars they just drove through 2 tight corners once left then right
the one in the back (yellow i beleive) tried to overtake in the inside of the corner
their wheels got stuck and the yellow car flipped over and kept spinning into summersaults
over the wall the car split in to cockpit and engine (at that time all the wheels where allready gone)
the car or just the engine (can't remember ) still summersaulting hit a few cars on the otherside of the wall
after that the cockpit had stopped moving but the engine was still going spinning all over the place
one guy in a yellew raincoat saw the engine coming right at him he quickly runned away looking back
but he couldn't escape the engine he fell and the engine hit him and then the engine finally came to a stop
falling in a underpass walk way

i believe i saw a big half grey tire spanning over the race tack with the name Silverstone??
just where the car summersaulted over the wall

i would like to know who's car it was and at which track. again i beleive it was on silverstone

[Rosemayer]

You might want to post this on the TNF Forum.

[pacificquay]

Possibly Allan McNish and Emanuele Naspetti at Donington

[united]

Originally posted by frisk

i would like to know who's car it was and at which track. again i beleive it was on silverstone

Allan McNish (DAMS) and Emanuele Naspetti (yellow Jordan car), F3000 - Donington, locking wheels on 22th of April, 1990.

[ensign14]

Agree on McNish. Only his car was red and white (Marlboro colours). And it was F3000.

[FLB]

Agreed as well about McNish at Donington:

http://www.motorspor...php?db=ct&n=665

[noikeee]

Here's a video of the crash if you want to confirm if indeed it is what you remembered (WARNING - very shocking images of a fatal crash):

[john aston]

I was at the meeting but was unaware what had happened until I walked through the wreckage en route to my car.It looked like a plane crash - utterly horrifying.I heard about the fatality on the way home.The video - yes I did watch it, no apologies,- is a classic illustration of how crashing racing cars seem to speed up as soon as they are out of control.

[Juan Kerr]

Originally posted by pacificquay
Possibly Allan McNish and Emanuele Naspetti at Donington

That's the one. Allan McNish has had some shunts mind hasn't he, quite a tough old boot apparently.

[bigears]

Allan McNish was quite affected after that scary accident and he held on to himself and won the next race at Silverstone.

[Thundersports]

I agree Allan was deeply affected by the shunt and was in a coma for a few days I think it took the "edge" off his driving similar to Johnny after Brands in '88. The comment someone made about crashing racing cars going faster to the eye is one I agree with other peaple here who have raced may agree with me that having retired from your race you spectate and think christ that looks fast and there track behaviour is that of "loonies"!

[bigears]

In a coma? Really?

*VIDEO CONTAINS A FATALITY*

*VIDEO CONTAINS A FATALITY*

5.80MB in a Rapidshare link (just click on there and there is a small timer then it will start downloading)

You can see Allan McNish at the end of the video clip, surely was he awake after the accident?

Or did he experience a similar thing like what Mark Donohue at the 1975 Austrian Grand Prix?

Alive and walking before falling into a coma?

[LB]

Originally posted by Thundersport
I agree Allan was deeply affected by the shunt and was in a coma for a few days I think it took the "edge" off his driving similar to Johnny after Brands in '88.

I always though Nishy was completely unhurt in that crash, considering he was at Ray Plummers funeral later that week and was persuaded to race on by his wife, I may be wrong though. I agree that the accident got to him a bit mentally, rather than physically as was the Herbert case, but bare in mind that he won two F3000 races that year including the very next one at Silverstone.

[Twin Window]

Originally posted by LB

I always though Nishy was completely unhurt in that crash...

That's the way I remember it too.

Was Ray Plummer the spectator killed in the accident? From memory the unfortunate individual had a son who was competing in the Renault 5 race that day, and his best mate - who was standing next to him - was also injured quite badly.

The latter bloke sent in from hospital a sequence of prints he'd taken on his camera of the entire accident unfolding (one of which was included in the end-of-season 'photos of the year' section) explaining that he was frozen like a rabbit in car's headlights, finger hard on the motor-drive, until the very last split-second. I believe these two friends are the chaps in the yellow jackets visible on the video.

[f1steveuk]

A truely horrible bit of footage.

I recall Alan in the paddock in Suzuka after putting the Toyota right through the Armco, he was visibly shaken, hours after (survived sone huge G force as well), and he made a comment about Donnington even then.

[frisk]

Spot on

Originally posted by pacificquay
Possibly Allan McNish and Emanuele Naspetti at Donington

found a few links to videos
http://www.gofish.co...gfid=30-1070844

http://www.dailymoti...tor-gets-k_auto

Allan McNish and Emanuele Naspetti locks wheels as they go under the Dunlop-bridge. McNish's car goes over a wall and breaks apart. A spectator gets killed as the engine and a wheel falls on him.
McNish and Naspetti both receive minor injuries and practically get through this unhurt.

i always watched auto sports for the crashes and havoc

but after this crash i lost appetite in my recollection McNish died that day

didn't even check untill now

http://nl.wikipedia....ki/Allan_McNish he didn't die

tnx for the info.

Frisk

[frisk]

http://www.motorspor...b=ct&s_into=all

Allan McNish, who was fastened in the cockpit's wreckage, was taken to hospital and remained unconscious for three days in consequence of the accident and strong feelings about ending his career after it. Asked to attend the fan’s funeral by his widow, McNish was there told by her to keep going and not let what happened scupper his racing dreams. One month later McNish won the next round of the 1990 FIA Formula 3000 Championship held at Silverstone.