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Top 5 Formula1: Lucky escapes

Submitted by on January 29, 20132 Comments

1982: Jochen Mass flies into the crowd at the French Grand Prix

Mauro Baldi and Jochen Mass go tangled up and Mass’s car landed upside down in a spectators enclosure and caught fire. Thankfully, no one was killed

1994: Brundle almost gets his head knocked off by Jos Verstappen in Brazil

Eddie Irvine was banned for one race for triggering this crash that ended with Martin Brundle being whacked on the helmet by the wheel of a flying Benetton.

1981: Geoff Less gets knocked out by the catchfence in South African GP

Catch fencing was supposed orginally designed to help in an accident, but in this clip Geoff Lees is knocked out by a catch fence pole,

1993: Gehard Berger somehow doesn’t get T- Boned by  Derek Warwick at Portugal

A best not to think about what could have happened had Derek Warwick collected Berger at this speed.

1992: Patrese almost lands in the pit lane in Portugal

Berger and Patrese collide and Ricardos Williams takes off, narrowly avoiding the bridge across the straight and thankfully not landing in the pit lane.

 

  • http://www.facebook.com/amichalik Art Michalik

    Great choices! If you expand to 10, please consider Christian Fittipaldi’s 360 degree flip at the 1993 Italian Grand Prix. And while no video exists, my favorite Lucky Escape is Brian Redman’s at the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix where he left the track at 150 mph, vaulted the barrier, and struck a parked spectator’s car.

  • http://www.facebook.com/richard.fowler Richard Fowler

    Hey Art, would love to see you do another 5!