'The Dark History of Formula 1'

[SA E30]

Damn, that has got 2 be one of the most sobering video's I've ever seen.

well with the exception of Tub Girl :P :P

Ok, bad joke I know

[Hick]

RIP Turkish puppy dog

[Teaguer]

RIP Michael Schumacher .

[Lurker27]

The David Purley part was hard to watch.

[Larry e30]

he David Purley part was very very sad.

i know it was so sad to watch :(

[TwoJ's]

The David Purley part... it gives me hope in human kind.

Great video, thanks for the link.

[xLibelle]

i was going to comment to "get over it," thats the way racing has gone early on with safety..... but watching that guy trying to save the other guy is moving... so nevermind.
good motion to remember those that lost their lives to racing.

[TDE30]

Wow, it's amazing to see how safety in motorsports (any motorsports) have evolved over the years.

[Pac1373]

The part where David Purley attempts to save his Freind was sobering...
kind of makes you stop to think a bit.
Guy was all around pretty amazing individual though...
Died in 85' crashing his stunt-plane into the sea.

[DSP74]

I don't know what to say after watching that. Wow. I thought that the Krosnoff cart crash in Toronto was bad. And it was. But man.....

[Jon325i]

If wasn't for their deaths and the work of guys like Jackie Stewart you would still have guys dying in Formula 1 races every year.

Very true. Safety in Formula 1 was a sick joke through a good part of the 1970s. Jackie Stewart has to be credited with a lot of the way F1 has evolved over the years. You look at some of the most recent serious accidents - Heikki in Spain this month or Kubica in Canada last summer - the efforts made to improve the safety of the cars and circuits have made a drivers' survival from serious crash increase many, many times. With exception to a couple of course workers loosing their lives within the past decade, a Formula 1 driver has not been lost since May of 1994 when Senna and Ratzenberger (sp?) were killed at Imola.

Jon

[hugh jass]

If wasn't for their deaths and the work of guys like Jackie Stewart you would still have guys dying in Formula 1 races every year.

[moatilliatta]

Dang. dead people everywhere...

[Turf1600]

he David Purley part was very very sad.

[E-Thirty]

The Tom Pryce death is just horrible. Tearing that poor kid to shreds and dieing instantly himself.