Quote from AndroidXP :

Awww, sorry. Did you expect me to fake sympathy?

If you don't care, troll somewhere else please. In no way did he single you out, so there was no need to attack him.

The Mika Hakkinen crash that nearly killed him, scary man! thank god for the HANS device. He wasnt travelling very fast either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... 1OXHA&feature=related

did they have the HANS device back then??

Quote from Rdcranno :

The Mika Hakkinen crash that nearly killed him, scary man! thank god for the HANS device. He wasnt travelling very fast either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... 1OXHA&feature=related

What makes you think they had HANS? HANS was introduced in F1 over 10 years after his crash. I remember Baricchello's last season at ferrari (or second last) and he was complaining about neck pains. He was granted a HANSless drive for Interlagos but had to use it from there on. SO it's at least 3 years so yeah, ~10 years later.

Quote from Rdcranno :

The Mika Hakkinen crash that nearly killed him, scary man! thank god for the HANS device. He wasnt travelling very fast either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... 1OXHA&feature=related

Hakkinen didn't have a HANS device or the modern high sided cockpits. The latter would have helped to have prevented the extreme side to side head movement that HANS wouldn't help very much in. The fact that Hakkinen not only survived that crash but went on to two world championships afterwards is a testament to how some people are just unfairly lucky.

Quote from ajp71 :

Hakkinen didn't have a HANS device or the modern high sided cockpits. The latter would have helped to have prevented the extreme side to side head movement that HANS wouldn't help very much in. The fact that Hakkinen not only survived that crash but went on to two world championships afterwards is a testament to how some people are just unfairly lucky.

Not forgetting the fact that he was one of the few drivers to earn the respect of Schumacher, which is much harder to do that winning two world titles!

EDIT: Another big crash in todays F3 race...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0CqNWlotnI

I didnt mean that he was using the Hans device, now that we have hans we wont see anymore of that.

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

Not forgetting the fact that he was one of the few drivers to earn the respect of Schumacher, which is much harder to do that winning two world titles!

EDIT: Another big crash in todays F3 race...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0CqNWlotnI

:eek: OH MY GOD its EXACTLY like Lucas Di Grassi accident a few years ago. It was in F3 too, Di Grassi also tried to overtake using the left side, and also touched the other car's rear tire. car rolled over the exact same way and it's even on the same curve. difference is Di Grassi's car flied a little bit and the car's nose ended on top of the fence behind that tire wall.

edit: i only found a "watts zap" video with the accident. here it is. look for 0:39.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbUxMUw0D-U

Wow thats wierd, although this more recent one had a heavier impact on landing, the guy busted up his knees a bit and they had to take him out of the car carefully fearing spinal injuries. Thank you for giving me something to do too, I can watch all the Watts clips now!

Meh, car accidents are nothing compared to motorcycle racing accidents. Not saying that the guy wasn't shaken or completely safe, but this is really pretty minor stuff by comparison.

Quote from AndroidXP :

Awww, sorry. Did you expect me to fake sympathy?

If it would have been similarly serious crash from F1/F3/ALMS/DTM/MotoGP/whatever, would you have said something similarly stupid too?

I don't follow Nascar, I don't like it but I do laugh at whole thing but not when someone crashes a wall.

Yes... well no, since steering right wouldn't have applied in their cases, but I feel no sympathy for people I don't know just because they willingly put their lives at risk for the purpose of being fastest around a track - at least not more for all the other 150000 people that die every day. But that guy came out of the wreck with barely a scratch anyway, so what's the matter? Whatever, such a discussion has no place in this thread, if you want to continue, PM.