It's been a long time since anything disturbed me as much as the F1 Perished Heros video from YouTube.
prashanthks had sent this link along quite sometime back and I watched it only today. Sad. The worst ones were those where the fuel ignites and the car burns with the driver still inside...the marshals are unable to stop it since the flames are simply too much to fight with fire extinguishers.
I still remember Senna...the others I was too young to know about but Senna is etched forever in my head.
12 years down the line, I'm extremely thankful to those who made Formula 1 as safe as it is today. No driver's life has been threatened post 1994 although there have been some very nasty accidents.
I hope it continues to be this way. No one should die racing in F1 again.
prashanthks had sent this link along quite sometime back and I watched it only today. Sad. The worst ones were those where the fuel ignites and the car burns with the driver still inside...the marshals are unable to stop it since the flames are simply too much to fight with fire extinguishers.I still remember Senna...the others I was too young to know about but Senna is etched forever in my head.
12 years down the line, I'm extremely thankful to those who made Formula 1 as safe as it is today. No driver's life has been threatened post 1994 although there have been some very nasty accidents.
I hope it continues to be this way. No one should die racing in F1 again.
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No one should die racing in F1 again.
Amen.
The background score was terrible, though. I muted the sound while watching.
I never knew Gilles died during a race till I saw that. Yeah...he was flung out of his car at that speed. Jeez.
The second half of the background score had Evanescence...but then I guess I was too caught up in the clip to pay attention to the music...
Very touching video man. Is it posted at
I'll post it to the community, thanks for the idea.
Also he comes running from some distance away. Didn't look like a fire marshal. Running a Google on him now.
Got it...
"The driver running behind him, David Purley in his private March 731, stopped his car and ran to Williamson."
http://rubycabernet.members.beeb.net/rogerw.htm
Horrible!
Googled that... The driver was Tom Pryce, the car that was stationery was someone elses. He hits the marshal Van Vuuren killing him instantly, the fire extinguisher carried by the marshal hits Pryce killing him too. Bizarre.
And that is a threat even today. Someone crossing an F1 track during a race...can be devastating.