surtees dies // well his son

[Moriath]

YouTube - Henry Surtees Brands Hatch Crash 2009

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/8158445.stm

 

[Tom]

I filmed single seaters for several years - its still a very dangerous sport.

 

[ECA]

I couldn't figure out how the second car lost control, the bouncing wheel from the first car that came across actually hit him in the head if you watch closely :/

 

[old.Tohtori]

I couldn't figure out how the second car lost control, the bouncing wheel from the first car that came across actually hit him in the head if you watch closely :/

Thanks, i was wondering how the hell(watching vid at work) did one of those guys die from those crashes.

THAT, explains a lot.

That's some bad mojo though, chances on that happening must be astronomical.

 

[Gray]

I seen this last night and the first thing i wondered was why the cars didnt have a sort of barrier to stop this from happening?

I seen something exactly the same on LiveLeak ages ago, where i think a tyre came off and hit a driver - I believe his neck was snapped in the impact and they where calling for some type of roll-cage to protect the drivers in the future.

Albeit i dont actually watch racing much, just "when things go bad!"


Oh it was the Tom Pryce incident. Some fire marshall ran onto the track, ended up getting obliterated by Pryce' car, but the fire extinguisher that the marshall was carrying smacked Pryce' helmet at something like 150+++ mph. Nasty

 

[Kryten]

Worth noting there is an area of about 5 cm in which that tyre could have hit. That's TINY. That was a matter of extreme bad luck and nothing more - I posted the link of the crash in #freddyshouse about 20 minutes after it happening, hoping Surtees would walk out of hospital soon after, and this is a huge tragic accident. Nothing more you can really say about it, and I don't believe fitting any form of rollcage would help. You're just as likely to be speared through the face by a tree thats found its way on the track, than ever seeing another bloke hit on the head by a tyre in that way again.

 

[DaGaffer]

Oh it was the Tom Pryce incident. Some fire marshall ran onto the track, ended up getting obliterated by Pryce' car, but the fire extinguisher that the marshall was carrying smacked Pryce' helmet at something like 150+++ mph. Nasty

That was 1975! Racing car design has moved on a bit since then! As Kryten said, its quite difficult to hit the driver these days, so it was a real freak accident, although I bet there will now be calls for the wheel cable restraints F1 cars have to be applied to lesser formulae.

 

[Raven]

The wheel restraints were implemented to stop wheel going into the crowd more than anything, wasn't someone killed a few year back when one bounced over the fencing?

 

[Tom]

The wheel restraints were implemented to stop wheel going into the crowd more than anything, wasn't someone killed a few year back when one bounced over the fencing?

A marshall was killed by a wheel which went through a window in the fencing, at Italy.

The marshall was stood in the wrong place at the time.

 

[Embattle]

Wheel restraints reduce the risk of a wheel off, they don't stop them.

 

[DaGaffer]

Wheel restraints reduce the risk of a wheel off, they don't stop them.

Well d'uh. No mechanical device has perfect reliability.

I wasn't for a minute suggesting cable restraints on lesser formulae is the right thing to do (I have no opinion because I don't know the cost/benefit), just pointing out that its likely to be suggested.

 

[Embattle]

Well d'uh. No mechanical device has perfect reliability.

I wasn't for a minute suggesting cable restraints on lesser formulae is the right thing to do (I have no opinion because I don't know the cost/benefit), just pointing out that its likely to be suggested.

Nor was I suggesting for a minute you were, just pointing a simple fact about them.

 

[Aada]

So how did he actually die?

Broken neck? or brain injury?

Sad

 

[Madmaxx]

omg its so weird when his car is spinning round, as he is just flooring it when he's unconcious/dead

 

[Kryten]

Don't think those details have been released, most likely a brain injury though - a broken neck would be nigh on impossible in modern formula racing cars.

 

[sayward]

Senna was hit on the head by a loose wheel, mind you it was his own. Slightly different I suppose.

 

[Cozak]

Ended up dieing for massive head injuries in Royal London Hospital a few hours later

 

[Tom]

Ended up dieing for massive head injuries in Royal London Hospital a few hours later

Drivers never 'die' at circuits. Strange that...

 

[Cozak]

Who wants a haunted racetrack?