Dbltime

Anyone familiar with the story behind this?

WEAR FULL NOMEX!!!!

Larry Herman

Unbelieveable how violent those crashes were at pace car speeds.

Veloce Raptor

Seriously...on the pace lap!

Ferrari Flambe. Hope that guy got out.

Dbltime

Reading the comments on the site indicate the Ferrari driver survived with serious burns.

Looks as if the pace car came out during the race and a hand full of cars blew through the white flag but thats a guess.

JimmiLew

This person survived this crash with serious burns. He sued the race track for his damages due to their slow response in his rescue and resultant permanant disfigurement from his burns. He won the suit and damage reward was substantial.

If I remember correctly, this was from a race in Japan. The crash was the result of the pace car accelerating too quickly, then suddenly slowing. The guys in the back only saw a gap, and then the gap closed quickly which caused them to crash.

Its amazing this guy survived! Lucky for sure!

GG Allin

What I find hard to believe is how fast the flames appeared. The Porsche must have been leaking fuel. It almost looks like the fire started just before the cars hit.

mark kibort

i heard that fellow died in the fire. did you see those flames?
very sad incident!
Mk

edit: just saw some discussion about that crash. turns out it seems he did survive, but was unable to ever race again due to his injuries. I dont see how it was possible. thank god for nomex!!!

mark kibort

it was a mid race caution pace car lap, where some in the back must have not gotten the word! the 911 or someone that hit him was trying to slow down and obviosly, that didnt work. who knows how the ferarri suddenly turned down to where the 911 was sitting awaiting to be ignited!

MK

Dbltime

The Grand Am pile up in the wet was a mild incident in comparison

Rain Watkins Glen pile up

MPD47

Mark, no one died. There is an aftermath video of them finally pulling the race driver from the car as they put out the fire a minute or so later. He did survive but with some serious burns and scaring.

A930Rocket

This one ended up a little safer...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUHSE...elated&search=

MDL

LOL

2BWise

Whole video

Here is the whole video that shows the accident all the way thru the rescue crew getting him out.

iJeremy

This video has found its way to the boards a few times now. He did survive, do a search on Ferrari crash in Japan for the full article and aftermath.

Larry Herman

It was amazing that he survived. I must be missing something about the response time though. If you check the video, the fire marshall was there with-in 40 seconds of impact. It took 15 seconds for the car to just stop moving, so he was actually there in 25 seconds, and had the fire out in 10 seconds. The driver endured the flames for 50 seconds at most. Aren't our 3 layer nomex suits good for 60 seconds of sustained flames? Seems like he did a pretty credible job to me.