The way David Purley gave up after failing to roll the car over and extinguish it, moving away from it and leaving it burn was the most heart-breaking thing I have ever seen.
Watching his friend dying and crying/screaming for help and being unable to do something must be one of the most Soulcrushing experiences someone can have. I was devasteted while watching the scene, i cant and dont want to imagine what thoughts must have been going through Davids head at that Time.
If watching a car race in person means that I might be killed by a race car, I will save money by staying home and playing Russian roulette while I watch the race live on tv.
Again, flawless. Not only the undeniable quality of the documentary, but also the deep respect you show. And as in the first part, what an elegant and welcome ending. I don't want to spoil it here in the comments, so my advice for everyone watching this masterpiece is to start at the beginning and just watch it until the end to get the full experience. It's worth it.
i read your comment before i watched the video. i’m returning after finishing the video to say i agree that waiting to the end is worth it and im crying like a baby fr
Let’s not forget Sir Jackie Stewart probably saved more lives than we can imagine through his constant achievements for driver safety. I’m humbled to have met him.
@@Japs_Eye_Of_The_Tigerare you actually stupid? what does the current length and weight have to do with safety. the safety features in todays cars are nowhere near to being the main reason for their bulkier design.
I guess Billy Monger would disagree regarding the longer nose, such an obvious benefit and if we could speak to Nikki he would be an advocate for anyone not being burnt alive for someone’s armchair entertainment
He has absolutely nothing to do with the design of todays cars. his contribution to safety was mainly to do with improving medical facilities and circuit safety. try educating yourself.@@Japs_Eye_Of_The_Tiger
after the heartbreak that was david purley trying to save roger williamson who was screaming for help, that heartwarming outro was very needed. rip, all the drivers, employees and fans involved in these accidents. x
I'm happy that Jansen van Vuren, Gislimberti, and Ratzenberger get the same amount of respect as Vilneuve, Bianchi and Senna. They might not have been as famous, but their deaths are equally as tragic.
I never knew about ratzenberger until now, just a casual fan don’t follow too closely, man people were scared when verstappen took what 53g? Poor ratzenberger, 500g is unsurviveable, nothing he could do and he never stood a chance
15:26 Holy shit, seeing Gilles getting launched from the car like that was hard to watch.. Being an F1 driver back in the 80's must've been absolutely terrifying Quality video tho dude, very professionally done
The drivers were not terrified. For some people, the greater the danger, the more on the ragged edge you are driving, the greater the exhilaration, these are the type of people that begin a career in Motorsport whether on motorbikes, racing cars, powerboats, etc. You never feel more alive than when you are cheating death!
@@Handlebar-MustDashJames hunt said just that in his own words. I have a lot of respect for these trailblazers in the past but I also understand the safety features we have implemented now in f1.
This is a message to all the old school media/networked television companies out there: THIS is HOW you create an amazing two part documentary! I can't praise this enough but this series is better than anything about F1 shown on ANY networked television.
@@shanevinson845 That's a low quality bait! Does American cars turn right at some point during a race or does it confuse the Nascar drivers....*left* *left* *left* *left*....oh shit...that's a right! What do I do? 🙄
Something that is so haunting about the Jules bianchi accident is how the broadcast team goes from business as usual to confusion to knowing full well something is severely wrong
Having watched it again, you can see how woefully unequipped they were to expect such an outcome. Back in the days death was part and parcel of F1, until the Bianchi incident we were led to believe that F1 has left those dark days behind.
Listening to Brundle arriving at the conclusion is oddly somehow tougher than the crash itself for me. The confusion reminds me a lot of Jeff Krosnoff's fatal crash in Toronto in 1996, and to a degree also Dan Wheldon's, although in the latter the confusion was from just how much had happened.
Yeah. I had no idea they did not know immediately that Bianchi had hit the tractor. They must have all felt sick when they were beginning to realize the severity of things.
I guess they didn't have driver tracker like they do now, I remember watching the race, but looking at this the on screen graphics show him stopped quite a while before they realise there's a car there. The fan footage is horrifying seeing a massive digger like that thrown up into the air and a few meters round
Wow... I'm 37 and been watching Formula 1 since Damon Hill won his first title. I remember seeing the Spa pile up and thinking that was horrific, but seeing what has gone before in this video, how wrong could I be. Tom Pryce and Roger Williamson in particular were the most HORRIFIC of incidents. Im humbled to have been made aware of their talents and incredibly saddened that it was because of their deaths. I love F1 and the most heartwarming thing is, all of the drivers deaths, those brave enough to dive in and try to save lives and their persistent drive for safety throughout the decades, is evident in where we find safety within F1 today. Their deaths are NOT in vain. Thank you for producing this. Your love for F1 and your sensitivity to its content SHINES through.
As a motorcycle lover i really LOVED the part where you mentioned a rider got into a serious accident inspite of telling a story of f1 tragedies. RESPECT. MAD RESPECT TO YOU MY MAN ❤😭
Thank you. Whether it's 2 wheels or 4, they are all have a love racing. I'm not massively into motorcycle racing but I have huge admiration for what they do & one day I hope to attend the Isle of Man TT 👍
I remember watching japan 2014 live. Brundall saying "has he hit the truck" gave me chills on the day. Hearing him put it all together live on air was just so surreal!
They probily had the fottage of the crash but didnt show it because would look bad on the safety team and the sport £$. the truck being on the track b4 the cars were slowed write down was madness . Then the same nearly happend years latter japan has allways been dangerous u got the weather tricky track and the safety team have made so many mistakes lets hope there are no more mistakes R.I.P 🕊
Man, I don't think there's a worse death than dying in a vegetative state. Being alive but never reacting again is something that gives me goosebumps just imagining.
I remember how dark it was becoming and told my wife that this should be red flagged and as soon as I said it it happens, my wife was in tears, we are retired photographers from Indy 500 and watching Scott Brayton die 10 yards from me was really painful, I have carbon fiber piece put away from that day, in that situation even as my job and my love of the sport I told a young kid to put the camera down or I will beat you to death with this monopod, Brayton family has made many unbelievable engines over the years before everything changed, I just don't agree with a photographer who wants to make money off those kinds of photos makes me sick
The Riccardo Paletti section is heartbreaking. Imagine his mother watching all of that, and seeing the last thread of hope that he had survived literally go up in flames.
Definitely sad, but dude was 23. Why was he still celebrating his birthday with his mom? Maybe it's just the way it was framed, but there was a lot of mom emphasis for a racing driver in his story.
The Riccardo Paletti incident is the one that hits the hardest with me. The impact, fire and the fact his mother was witnessing the whole thing. Truly tragic. A good documentary with respect. Thank you.
Presumably all of them had family of one kind or another watching, possibly also watching from the pits. Wives, children... it just happened that Paletti's mum was caught on camera at that moment of despair and desperation.
I used to have a friend who was a mechanic at Osella at the time. When he described the accident, I couldn't believe it. I'll just say that Paletti was already gone when the car erupted in flames.
I used to be a paramedic/EMT for 3 years and seen some nasty things in my life (car/motorcycle accidents, ODs, shootings/stabbings)... I actually cried a bit from this doc, as i did after almost every bad call id run... (why i quit, it takes a toll and im still haunted to this day of some things ive seen, even have night terrors).. All these poor souls around the world dying in tragedy/war and not peace... It hurts so much because we are human, empathic to other people. To see a life taken away so quickly, or even dying in your arms, is hard to comprehend. We all bleed the same and are a human family at the end of the day and it hurts to see tragedy of all kinds. RIP to all the drivers and spectators in this. My heart goes out to them and all families.
This is a beautiful comment. Thank you for all you've done to help people in their times of need. I hope over time you're able to find more peace with the horrors you've seen.
Racing is dangerous, some forms more than others. You deal with it mentally somehow, or you put the car on the trailer, and you go home. Not many races would get to the checkers if every accident resulted in the race being cancelled.
@@johngavlick6479 By whom? And to what end? Do you think Gilles would have wanted the race cancelled? Do you think any of the drivers killed in accidents would have insisted upon the race being cancelled, had they not been killed? If that's what YOU think, you don't know much about racing drivers.
This is the greatest single Formula 1 documentary I have ever seen. It's pays Supreme respect to all the drivers, fans and corner workers involved. Combined with vol1, you have made an extremely devotional and honorable pair of films. I wish you could bottle these into a Bluray release someday... great work mate!
As a former pit lane marshal and starter, start line accidents are your absolute nightmare. You are always hypervigilant and often too ready to put out the yellow flags or turn on the yellow lights. I recall a very early race when a car stalled right in front of my pitlane position and I virtually climbed onto the pit wall to get my yellow flag out to warn following drivers almost immediately. Thankfully everyone avoided the stalled car. I never truly realised how important it was until the starter came down to thank me, the chief pit lane marshal did the same and even race control did so. That day no one had an accident, no one had a damaged car and we all went home happy. To this day if I watch motor racing on TV, my senses tighten up until everyone is away safely. Seeing Paletti's accident, which was just horrendous, brought back all those memories.
Soichiro Honda was directly responsible for the horrific death of Jo Shclesser. I hope Mr. S Honda had nightmares about Jo Shclesser's accident for the rest of his life.
@@tk9780it was a totally different set of mind back then. Much of those people have grown with death during WWII. Ask Mike Hawthorn if he felt guilty after murdering 79 spectator after Le Mans 1955? No this son of ***** smiled on the podium.... Racers from that era knew that each new corner could be their last one. But each death bring more safety. It just took way too many life to get where we are today.
Great tribute. I was fortunate enough to see Ronnie Peterson, Tom Pryce, and Ayrton Senna driving at various Grands Prix over the years, along with a host of other drivers who are no longer with us. Thankfully, I was never at a race where there was a fatality.
The death of Roger Williamson, to probably nobody's surprise, is the one I find hardest to handle emotionally. With most of the others, they were killed or at least knocked unconscious instantly. But the mere thought of what both Williamson and Purley must have gone through that day breaks me everytime I hear or see it. Jo Schlesser was a familiar name, but I never bothered to look up his story. As soon as you said 'magnesium-coated skin' I went 'Oh, f*ck, let me guess, fiery accident, and WATER extinguishers' ... I've never hated to be right so much. Hearing about his post-humous 'involvement' in Ligier was very touching, especially that they honour him to this day. Knowing what horrific accidents are left to cover, I'm not sure whether I'll be able to sit through Episode 3, tbh - but this, and Episode 1, was outstanding work of you, good Sir. What a wonderful, tasteful tribute to those mad lads.
I agree. The split second I heard him say magnesium coated parts I legit shuddered, and was proved right. Guarantee it was probably the second most painful death, behind Roger Williamson, which almost made me cry.
@@dougbourdo2589 I was thinking about why on earth would you coat a race car, who were notorious for going up in flames, with magnesium, surely Honda engineers didn't all fail chemistry ... then I remembered we use flammable stuff to insulate houses, or at least used to. It's infuriating from an engineering standpoint. Borderline perverse. I get that the mindset in the 60s was different, but this is equivalent to putting TNT into the cars.
@@givmi_more_w9251 Hard to believe that no one thought this was a bad idea and the car got through scrutineering even back then. The properties of magnesium are basic metallurgy that any decent engineer should know. The governing body are just as culpable for allowing that death trap to race.
The Roger Williamson crash was heartbreaking, watching his friend David Pearly trying to push the car back over, and nobody able to help him. You could see he was devastated.
@@Slothisticated0252 unfortunately they couldn’t. Only the drivers had any kind of fire retardant clothing - the Marshalls couldn’t get near the fire. It makes you appreciate the training and equipment they have today to prevent that kind of tragedy.
James Hunt gets a bad rap for being a playboy, but who risked getting burnt while trying to pull Peterson out of the car. Great content and presentation. 🇦🇺
@@annnee6818 You're right. But it's what hides the truth of the man because that is what so many dismiss him as. In the 1990s, he turned up at a meeting for individuals and groups supporting black-led groups in South Africa. Not wanting his commentary to be broadcast, went into an anti-apartheid tirade and then donated to these groups.
Some people have the perfect voice for doing documentaries, one that keeps you glued to the video and you sir have such a voice. Although a hard subject to view, you made it worth watching.
It was an interesting fact that Lewis Hamilton had decried the fitting of the hoop as being ugly and safety was okay and then in a later chapter, seeing him saved by the device when another race car went over the top of him. All race drivers deserve our utter respect for their dedication, abilities and desire to perform for the spectators and their teams.
Roman Grosjean, after his horrific accident and fire, hated the Halo prior to the wreck, but said he survived because of it. And in NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt died because he refused to wear the HANS device, which now is even mandated in F1. Earnhardt would have survived had he worn it. But NASCAR at least made it mandatory--after Dale died.
I remember on a podcast, Rubens commented that not even he believes it. The guy swallowed his own tongue, hit him really hard and somehow came out alive. If this isn't divine intervention, I don't know what is.
I really don't understand how they measure the g forces on these crashes and I definitely don't think they adequately measure the g forces going through the driver. Just looking at certain similar accidents and seeing the disparity in the g measurements is baffling. Regardless, I also don't understand how he survived that and was able to race 2 weeks later. Luck I guess.
@@ultimate_hecker1966Ratzenburger hit a concrete wall. Soon as u heard concrete and 195mph u know that’s death. Rubins luckily clips the tire barrier and fence greatly reducing the impact. He’s still driving today he was racing in a shifter go kart race earlier this year at my local track.
The Arnoux/Villeneuve sequence wouldn't even be possible today. So many rules on overtaking, but in addition the current cars would just disintegrate if they touch each other at speeds like that.
i’m so happy that f1 is constantly improving and creating safety devices. even just seatbelts would have prevented so many early f1 crash deaths (i say “so many” instead of “all” bc a lot of those cars also caught on fire)
@@misseselise3864 In the early F1 years it was considered desireable to be thrown clear of the car because of the fire risk. hence the lack of seat belts. very rare for a car to ignite these days, so it's more important to be strapped in.
What an emotional roller coaster, watched part 1 and 2 one after the other, I’d heard about a lot of these and unfortunately remember watching a few of them live but you did an incredible job in explaining each of these unfortunate events in an extremely respectful and informative manner. Part 1+2 together are one of the best documentaries about F1 I’ve ever seen. And that includes Senna.
The 1977 African GP is by far one of the most morbidly interesting tragedies of F1. As the documentary host said, it's ingrained in my memory. Thank you for compiling the images of Tom Pryce directly after the incident, as they were perspectives I hadn't seen before.
@@TheJingles007 No, he turns to jelly mid air. Just too many G forces involved getting hit head-on by the an F1 racer at 170mph. That's why they couldn't identify the remains and had to do a roll call post race to find out who was missing. It was just chunks of meat landing.
Well, you warned me and I decided to play the curious one and look up what happened to the marshal when Tom Pryce had his life taken as well. I dont think Ive seen anything quite like that before. You were correct for holding back that footage and letting the viewer make that decision. Just horrific. You have done an immaculate job in showing respect to these drivers and this sport. I can't commend you enough for the efforts you have made in Part 1 and Part 2. While this is some of the darkest stuff in racing, it was handled with care. I do not know if there are plans to do even another part (or if it makes any sense to do so) but I know if it did happen it would be shown the respect it deserves. Thank you for making these videos.
I unfortunately felt the same curiosity about the Tom Pryce accident as I am far to young that I’d never even heard of that crash and my god that will live with me forever. My only hope is that it really was instant and both involved didn’t suffer. May they rest in peace.
@@emily-bt6pq Personally, I like to picture Pryce and van Vuuren meeting up in some afterlife Formula 1 bar, asking each other "... So uh, what the hell just happened?". My morbid curiosity also led me to find the full footage, and... Yeah. That's all I want to say about it.
Us humans are very strange. Someone suggests that something is really awful to see, so we go and find it. Then think to ourselves that we wish we hadn't found it. 😧
Your efforts in assembling this two-part series stand as a remarkable historical testament, chronicling the tragedies and close calls within the realm of F1. Your adept gathering of information and media has respectfully depicted these pivotal moments. Admirably done! Thank you! IBCGPT
You definitely have talent!!! Only 2 videos watched both liked and Subbed, from now on, even if i am not watching video i will press like! You deserve!!!
@@eddd6827 you accidentally replied to my message. The owner of the channel is more likely to see and read your comment if you post it as a stand alone comment rather than a replay to me. You should re-post.
This might be the one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen. The detail and the emotional effects you brought in really made you feel the hurt of their deaths, and the legacy they brought. And that ending…… even I couldn’t stop myself from crying. All the drivers, marshalls and spectators killed were beautiful people and I hope they may rest in peace. As a request, you don’t have to of course, but I personally hope to see one done for IndyCar too, as there were some real stories there as well, with the non-fatalities being very interesting to cover for example. Just an idea….. But yeah you are very talented in the making of these videos, professional documentary makers could actually learn from you in my opinion as I’ve seen some mistakes in those that you didn’t make or were even outright disrespectful. Wish you the best man, you put out a masterpiece that’s all I can say.
The tribute at the end was the final touch to this masterpiece. The bios on all the drivers was great development and softened a very difficult subject in a way that was much more respectable and commendable than all the other compilations on this subject, whih tend to just the morbid curiosities of the events. Bravo for the development on this piece of art. You deeply humanized a very tragic subject. I cannot overstate my respect and admiration for your work here.
Thank you for not showing the Tom Pryce marshall...that was traumatizing and something I will never get out of my mind. You've made an incredible documentary here that honours the legacy of these drivers and marshalls.
So I've never seen an F1 race or had really any interest, but I am interested in the 'anatomy' of a disaster and the response. I appreciate how accessible this series has been as someone who knows nothing about any of these people, and the detail you provided about how the sport has been approved as a consequence of these tragedies. Thank you for your hard work!
Thank you. This series was written to be watchable for both veteran F1 fans & those who are not even interested, so I'm glad to see that you found it interesting 👍
Same with me... never been more than tangentially aware of F1, but come from disaster response and safety culture. This documentary was a great introduction.
The Tom Pryce accident is absolutely horrific. I consider myself pretty desinsitized to things on the internet, but the footage has always haunted me..
For many reasons the footage from that incident looks really unreal, reminiscent of some intentionally low quality creepy content I have seen. I would not need to mention how it looks like the poor marshall is cut in half and held together by intestines, but the other angle concentrating on Zorzi is honestly even weirder. Zorzi's car makes that odd, sudden flammation, he acts like a cartoon character until marshalls arrive and then we see bits and pieces of a person flying casually through the screen. Finally, they seem not to react properly to the incident and kind of forget it in a second. They must have seen immediately that absolutely nothing is to the done and it's better to make sure Zorzi's car doesn't go up in flames. Or they simply could not understand what just happened. Also, doesn't help that the version with an added sound effect on impact is quite common. I first saw the clip in 2006 (I think) and could not find it for a while afterwards, which made me think I had imagined the whole thing.
@@leverage1990 I believe the footage with the sound effect came from an Italian movie about F1. If I recall correctly, it was also accompanied by an ominous music. I couldn't even bear to watch it with that music on.
@@tiadaidI know that documentary, makes sense since they utilized stock sound effects in it. A real product of its time, it's amazingly tasteless by modern standards but it's quite high quality and really fascinating to watch thanks to the soundtrack.
I never like seeing people say they enjoyed, or loved a video on here thats made about people dying. That being said, you still are due respect and appreciation for the hard work youve done on yours. These were very well made, and more importantly, the care and dignity in which you used to cover such horrible stories, is applaudable.
I understand what you mean. The praise on videos like this is often a bit more nuanced because it's a different type of enjoyment. You're more drawn in and understand the seriousness because the tone was correct. It wasn't a gruesome crash compilation but something that could be expanded to include talking head pieces from drivers and other people around them. You'd empathise with their close ones because the tone of the video reminds you that there are other people affected.
61 year old female here. Excellent documentary. I'm not a motorsports fan, or really any sports fan due to the tragedies and dangers involved (football for one). However, there is something about watching these documentaries, much like the Mayday Air Disaster videos I watch frequently. Something about the mechanics involved. Terrific and very touching ending and much appreciated since some memories are "too painful to remember." Thank you Mr. Palmer.
He almost didn’t. The impact caused him to swallow his tongue, so he was unable to breathe. It was thanks to Sid Watkins pulling his tongue back into place that he was able to breathe again.
Imola 94 just makes me so incredibly angry every time i think of it. The terrible handling of everything that happened is just... it's so hard for me to grasp how people could be so dismissive of other people's lives... i wasn't alive then, i was born in 99. But i still feel the same rage my father must have felt when he told his sons about one of the greatest drivers the world had ever seen. I can remember the pain in his voice when he spoke about senna.
This is unfortunatly the case with so many accident here, there was sadly a time where the race just weren't stop not even slow down, when an accident occurs, all because they didn't want to lose money, and in some cases like Tom Pryce this turn what was at first a minor accident into a tragic one.... the worst part is that I can't believe there is still people that dare call themselves fans, saying F1 was better when all these safety measures weren't in place and there was more accidents.
@@nesoukkefka1741 yup... i get the thinking, i grew up watching F1 and there were some things that were better back then. But the safety wasn't, even in the early to mid 2000s...
Today it would be a safety car or red flag but still the race would continue after the accident scene was clear. It's been for a while now (since 70s or 80s) that "driver shall never be in a life threatening state or die on track" because in the past it has caused fans to follow the ambulance. In a case for Nascar or Indie, it ended up blocking the ambulance from leaving resulting in a death that could've been prevented. We're not much better now, just the FIA (or what ever governing body of the race you're watching) hides it from you until the race is over. That being said, it's not stopping you from assuming based off of forces / cause of injury(s).
Now they are finally investigating the steering in his vehicle and speaking to witnesses that saw him what looked like fighting with the steering. Things are falling into place as so many argued from day 1 that he didn’t lose control the footage of the accident was hard to believe as it wasn’t a difficult turn but the car banked hard. Members of his team had always stated that it was the steering.
I've gotten into F1 at the beginning of last year and lately I've gotten interested in the history of the sport. So I was already aware of most of these crashes but reading a Wikipedia article is not the same as seeing it in context. I firmly think that to avoid repeating the many mistakes made in the past which took so many lives we shouldn't forget those mistakes and that's why I watch videos like this. Thank you for the respect shown to the drivers who share with us their joy doing what they love, for remembering the marshals who always risk their lives and the fans who shouldn't have died. Also, my personal reason for feeling sad for their deaths (apart from the reasons you mentioned) is because in most of these cases they were so senseless, so negligent. The fact that if the organizers had shown a bit more concern these guys may still be with us is the thing that always hits me the worst. Another example is also the case of De Angelis that you mentioned during the video and was very similar to Williamson's: car flew, turned upside down, caught fire. But this was 1986 and had his crash been during a race weekend the story would have been very different because they were better equipped during races, but since it was a test outside a race weekend the marshalls vere very few men, they had no equipment, they were in *shorts* while the car burned and it was the drivers and mechanics trying and failing to save him. There was also no medical helicopter. He "only" had light burns and I think a collarbone fracture and nothing else by the time the fire was out, but he died of asphyxiation and smoke inhalation similar to Williamson. I think after this, drivers threatened to boycott unless it became mandatory for tests to have full preparation and so it became mandatory from then on, but another life was lost to negligence. Even the Villeneuve crash that could be seen as mostly bad luck, was predictable. Those ground effect cars went airborne at the smallest crash and by then the driver was a passenger. I think Pironi ironically as head of the GPDA had warned before many times that that could happen... And then he went on to have a similar crash himself that he luckily survived, although with horrible injuries. That's why it makes my blood boil when I see fans or even drivers criticize others for asking for more safety today, since I'd rather avoid the mandatory avoidable death if possible before finally taking measures when a potential problem arises. I prefer a million times to watch a boring race or to have it stopped than to watch one of the drivers that I've come to care for, die. Also thank you for the ending showing us some of their happy moments. It was nice to end it in a happier note and to see some of their personality shine through.
I started watching in 1979 as a ten year old. It is well worth going right back to the early 30s and the early car manufacturers, the Acari’s, Nuvolari (the old man Ferrari’s favourite driver) I kept scrapbooks for many years, met Senna and Ratzenberger got their autographs I have many highs and lows to share. I started off liking Nelson Piquet and I still love to see him with Max Verstappen, his sense of humour and attempts of psychological warfare, means his reputation has suffered but it should not have done. Read about how he won his first Championship in 1981 in Las Vegas although only finished 5th in race due to exhaustion, sickness and he had to be lifted out the car. There is no real substitute for living through those years because you cannot put the mindset of the current climate on events of the past so different. Elio De Angelis was areal gentleman and very talented Pianist he was one of the nicest drivers of the era. I could not believe the news when he died I have all the newspaper clippings and it had only been eleven months since two F1 drivers had been killed in the WEC Stefan Bellof and Manfred Winklehock, I had met both at the British GP in 1985. De Angelis was Senna’s teammate at Lotus and I was gutted that despite meeting Ayrton twice that weekend I never got to meet Elio. My brothers hero was Gilles Villeneuve and the new Sky documentary filled in a lot of the gaps we didn’t know about especially just how ruthless Didier Pironi was and how he didn’t even invite him to his wedding. His wife had told him not to trust him but Gilles was too trusting I have thousand stories that could only really been understood by those who were passionate about it at the time. The early press on Ayrton Senna was cruel and he was a victim of his own self belief, which he proved he was as good as he said he was but some of them are comedic and I have all those articles and jokes. Please continue to look back because the biggest problem of people making comments on F1 sites is few know anything beyond Lewis Hamilton, few die hard Senna fans. I like coming across the fans who got to see the late 60s and early 70s it was crazy! I know it’s old fashioned but books are the best source I have loads. Reading Jackie Stewart’s book at the moment!!
With all due respect, i don't think it can get more safer than today, other than to quit the racing completley. I mean we have all it takes, safety cells that are almost bulletproof, halos that can hold a bus on them and be fine with it, marshalls that are well instructed and wear top level fireproof suits, the drivers also wear that too and the tracks have usually more run off than actual pavement.
@rickrolled7930 They probably thought the same in the 80s after the carbon fiber chassis increased safety exponentially. I won't deny that it's probably harder to think of new things now but you can't stop trying because of that. Off the top of my head I can think of removing sausage kerbs universally, doing things to prevent the potential disaster that was Qatar last year, tbh this will be controversial but I'd prefer to have aeroscreen over halo, after all, aeroscreen would've prevented Massa's injury but halo won't (I am infinitely grateful for the halo though please don't take me wrong). Improve rapid medical response protocols in general (Indycar has F1 absolutely beat in this regard). Find ways to prevent cars entering a live track again right after a crash, to prevent another Hubert or Dilano. Also if you're really taking it serious, start investigating what are the long term consequences of so many crashes. Finally we're at a stage where most accidents are survivable but that doesn't mean that the brain isn't basically thrown all over the place when there are insane crashes with many Gs like Silverstone 22. What are the long term consequences of that and can something be done to prevent that? And that's what I can think off the top of my head without being an expert. I don't expect all of this to happen tbh, the higher ups don't like spending money, but these are some of the things that in my opinion can be improved.
@@rickrolled7930 I'm sorry I'm an idiot and didn't see the "read more" so only saw the first paragraph. What you say is absolutely true, but I've been on the sport just two and a half years and that's long enough to see potentially deadly things that are preventable which I mentioned in my previous comment
@@Nyaran56 i know, but in the end you can't remove the danger 100%. There will always, and i mean always, even if you add an aero screen and make everything as safe as possible that 0.01% chance of something bad happening because after all, metal cages that only have 4 rubber rolls as connection to the ground going as fast as they can is a dangerous idea. You can only do so much to prevent deaths and injuries. But to account for everything, even stuff such as long term effects, is not possible for the fia. Because if you think about it, racing drivers have to sustain 140-170 bpm during a race, battle intense heat and also concentrate while they are doing it for about 1 ½ hours. That can have future long term side effects, so again, you can't have a racing driver's body look like a normie's body under examination, not possible.
The final segment of this particular video was very touching - I've seen plenty of compilation videos of fatal racing accidents including those in F1 but you made this one in a way that also pays tribute to them
Ive witnessed live on tv 3 of these deaths in my time watching F1. Ratzenberger, Senna and Bianchi and you showed them all the love and respect they deserve.
Absolutely incredible you have witnessed those incidences at the time they happened. I cant imagine what that was like. I agree that this documentary respects these incidences extremely well. Stunning some of the things that have happened in auto racing in the last 60 years.
@MiamiSunrise I watched that weekend in 1994 and as a 12 year old I was destroyed hearing about my favourite drivers death. Then having it happen 21 years later brought those emotions flooding back. Then watching live the Grosjean crash I thought I'd seen another driver go.
I was 13 at the time and missed the race because I had to go to a lunch event with my parents. When we got home we heard that Senna had a deadly accident. In my youthful naivete I thought "deadly" meant close to death but not dead and I was mostly upset about Senna having to recover and missing enough races to make it impossible to win the championship. Boy was that a hard moment when my parents had to explain to me what "deadly" means. @@ThePointlessDeath
Horrific to watch... but a very well written, documented and narrated documentaries about one of Racings biggest Dark sides. I still remember Ayrton Sennas crash like it was yesterday. Once again, this docu is worth a watch as it is well written with the respect of the people who are no longer racing with us. Thank you.
I saw a video on the Honda P302, didn't include video of the accident just a desciption, but for an F1 driver of that era to be too scared to drive that car and magnesium body panels kind of said it all.
The Ronnie Peterson crash has always stuck in my head. Watching fellow drivers desperately wade through fire to pull him out, only for him to succumb to his injuries is heartbreaking. Imagine being a driver in those days, James Hunt jumped back into that car for the next race with that on his mind and had to try to drive at 100%. That was a different time and we owe the existence of the sport we love to these pioneers.
The Pryce and Williamson crashes still get me every time I hear about them, both utterly tragic. Of course all driver deaths are but those two and the circumstances surrounding them are particularly soul destroying 😢
Bandini was so much pain he was begging people to kill him. He was one of the few drivers that didn't come from a rich family. Unbelievably great documentary
Absolute masterpiece of a documentary. I appreciate the respect given to the drivers, fans and marshals involved in these tragic crashes. Your commentary and editing is also excellent. I'd like to add something about Senna's fatal crash that makes it even more soul-crushing: Back in 1992, Érik Comas had suffered a violent crash during the Belgian GP on Friday practice. He was knocked unconscious, with his foot slammed down on the throttle. Senna arrived at the scene of the crash, stopped his car trackside and rushed to cut off the engine of Comas's car. Comas later said that Senna's action saved his life, as the car was at risk of catching fire. During the 1994 San Marino GP, Comas was sent back out on the track during the red flag period, due to a miscommunication with his team. He arrived at race speed near Tamburello, where marshals, medics, safety vehicles and a helicopter were stationed, attending to Senna's aid. Comas just barely managed to slow down and avoided crashing into any one of these. But he saw the scene of medics tending to Senna's fatal injuries. Érik Comas saw the hero who had saved his life nearly two years prior, mortally wounded. His own hero, taken away. Afterwards, Comas retired from the race, deeply traumatized by the incident, and quit Formula 1 at the end of the season.
Every motor racing death is horrific!! The ones that haunt the most for me from this video are Tom Pryce and Roger Williamson as I began following F1 in earnest in 1970. David Purley was a hero even though he failed to save his great friend!! 😢😢❤
The Tom Pryce accident hits hard. My father and uncle had been marshals there for a decade, the last 2 years they were the guys in the asbestos suits on the fire truck. They quit in 1976 due to the woeful state of their equipment and the poor treatment they received when they tried to get that addressed. Then I discovered a few years ago that the 2 marshals that ran across the track were in fact brothers. The older brother was unaware his brother had followed him and until the roll call after the race had been confident his brother was still safely over on the other side at their marshalling station. A tragedy in itself.
death is never fair, but pryce’s death feels extra unfair. though i guess in some ways he was kinda lucky because there was no time for him to realize he was about to be fatally injured
I remember vividly watching as Ayrton Senna hit the wall, his car smashing into pieces at the same time as my heart. He was my favourite driver. Huge respect to each one of them, passed and present. Huge thank you and massive respect for the making and sharing of these amazing videos. Merry Christmas and Blessings to you all x 🙏🌹🎄
I was always really affected by the Gilles Villeneuve crash, we raced snowmobiled through the 70’s to 1985 and again from 2008-2016 . We met Gilles in 1980 at the World Series race in 1980 on his personally designed Moto Ski twin track snowmobile and his pit area was two trailers down. The fact that he raced in 1980 angered Enzo Ferrari to no end, worried his best driver would injure himself in the F1 Off season.Brother Jacques continued to race snowmobiles right up to the 2014 season and was a World Champion.
Finnish broadcast of Imola 1994 had Keke Rosberg as a commentator. He's usually calm and collected, but during the Alboreto pit incident he clearly thought the situation was even worse than it was, stating immediately that someone must lost control of his car and veered straight at the pit crews at high speed. He was livid and furious, stating that he had worked years to convince FIA to impose speed limits at the pitlane for he knew that it was only a matter of time before incident like Alboreto's
Whether correct about that particular incident or not, Keke was completely right. We've seen major incidents even with pit lane speed limits in place. If they never had been instituted, we'd have many more injuries and possibly worse in the sport's history.
@@FloridaManRacerWhen you look at relics of the past like this, the questions feel like they turn towards how lucky we were that not as many did. How many times we came close to drivers losing their heads in accidents, the failings in the lone cars burning that were commonplace. So many times, you wonder how the sport wasn't ended by Le Mans 1955 Part 2.
I am not good with words, but after seeing the first part I knew the second part was going to be amazing, this is the kind of videos I would want new F1 fans to see (specially the ones that started watching because of DTS), and not because there's dying involved or something related to that, but because this is part of the sport's history, and everyone should know about it. Thank you for this incredible piece of information. Great work.
'Individuals like Gilles only come to earth once. He was truly unique and I would have liked to see what career he would have had without this accident. Gilles would have been crowned world champion, I am 100% convinced of that, but unfortunately he was never able to finish his job.'' Mario Andretti.
Imola 1994 definitely was the most horrifying weekend in F1 history. It's incredible how they let the race go on after one driver's death and a seriously injured one the day before. Also it's horrible seeing Villeneuve flying out of his car. Such terrible sights!
Senna's death for me is still the most heart wrenching among other drivers. Rest in Peace to all drivers who are passionate and committed to win till the end. Thank you for covering such tragic events respectfully and well documented.
Thank you for this documentary. I only knew of a few of these tragic incidents since I'm a relatively recent F1 fan. We are approaching the 30th anniversary of that tragic weekend at Imola and it still hurts to recount those events and how many including myself feel the race should have been stopped /cancelled. I can't help but wonder how Senna's career would have played out had he decided not to race that Sunday. Thank you for honoring the marshalls and spectators who were victims of tragedy as well. I bristle now when people complain about safety precautions or echo Lewis' words about the halo without knowing the history behind it as seen here. Also, a big thank you for ending this on an uplifting note. These drivers were our heroes not for taking risks but for facing the dangers in a true sport where life was always in the balance. Great work, cheers.
The halo went on and saved Hamilton later on. The most horrific accidents are the fires. Even to this day, I feel they don’t have enough safety agains that. Grosjean accident was crazy.
Well, it's been 30 years. Flew the Brazilian flag with Senna on it on the first of may. I also rewatched the documentary on him. Such a shame that such an amazing driver was taken from us, moreso for the Brazilian people.
I struggle to put in words just how well-produced this documentary is. I've always held the belief that in order to understand risks and improve safety, one must know and see the shocking details of accidents uncensored - and you managed well to present those footages in a respectful way. The editing is nothing short of professional and I'm genuinely surprised such a gem of a production is just laying around here on TH-cam. Take all the time you need for producing the next episode, I'll be waiting patiently!
This is an amazing documentary. The amount of respect, for those who fell in the sport, is truly outstanding. The way you didn't sugarcoat it, but also didn't dramatize the incidents either. Thank you for this, it has been an experience for sure. It gave me a whole new respect for the sport.
If FOM ever takes your videos down, it has to be known that this is the most respectful, human, and comprehensive summary of the days when our sport pains us the most. Thank you.
I really have to applaud you for the way you did this documentary. You stayed away from sensationalism and treated this with a lot of respect. I've seen many of this accidents live on TV when they happened and everyone was one too many.
Excellent documentary. Painful indeed given my personal experience at only my 2nd GP I ever attended. But I am still a fan today. You ahve some remarkable footage and seeing this reminded me how this sport has evolved and how inportant driver safety has become. We can trully thank the likes of Sir Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda, Ayrton Senna and many others who pushed so hard for this to become the biggest priority of the sport.
I am so glad that episode 1 was recommended to me just the day before episode 2 came out. You did a fantastic job making this documentary, both in the collection and editing down of so much footage, and in the tone you took while commentating on some of the darkest days in sporting history. You were able to accomplish the incredibly difficult tasks of maintaining your integrity while describing fatal accidents in great detail, and of preserving the dignity of all of those involved. Incredible stuff. And if this series is one of only your first few attempts at making a documentary then I`m even more blown away. You have some serious talent. Thanks for putting in the time and effort to make these for us, I learned a lot.
I truly believe that this is one of the single best videos I have ever seen in my life, even if it was one of the most difficult to watch as well. Anyone that has any sort of love or respect for this sport should watch this video on its entirety, for it shows us stories that we should never forget, no matter how much time passes. Absolutely incredible job with this video, and thank you for making it.
Your delicacy and respect for the people invovled whilst exploring and reporting this tough subject is commendable. The ending was perfect. I'm a hard nut and I paused and cried at least twice through this one. I came across the Pryce footage accidentally many years ago, that youtuber didn't give any warnings, and I will never unsee it. Thank you for your sensitivity. Congratulations on a masterpiece of videography.
Beautifully and sensitively made, it brought a tear to the eye. The trauma of being a 'rival' driver and then trying to save your friend and failing is horrendous. Bless you all.
This, and part 1, are probably two of the best produced motorsport documentaries I have seen in recent times. Informative and educational without being sensationalist which is often a difficult balance to strike with this sort of subject matter.
I can't give you enough praise for the way you made this. Respectful and concise. I've been a fan since I was a little boy of 5 years old. That was 48 years ago now. I've been so blessed to see heroes race heroes, for so many years. You showed the will to race is more powerful than the fear of death. Sometimes that's the price they pay. Those that we lost will always be remembered as the true heroes of the sport and we owe a debt of gratitiute to those who strove to make racing safer for drivers and spectators alike. Thank you for your work in making these documetaries. Subbed and liked. Looking forward to part 3! They lived and raced so we could admire their skill and bravery and we still do. May F1 carry on long after I'm gone and continue to excite and amaze new fans in every session of every race weekend. RIP Legends.
Gilles Villeneuve's accident was absolutely heartbreaking to watch. I really like how much respect you showed for the drivers in this video. Seriously, amazing work here.
These two parts were a fantastically well put together, respectful, review of some dark times in F1 history. Thank you for your effort and care into their development.
Beautifully researched, and respectfully put together. Thank you for making this, it’s important to remember the past so we can learn from it, and these drivers should never be forgotten. F1 is the best sport in the world, but it was built on the shoulders of these drivers and teams. Well done , you’ve done them justice here.
The accident of JB in 2014 was shown live. But off to the side while the camera was focused on the car ahead. The commentators missed it. I remember questioning if I actually saw it. But could see the car was pointing and heading straight for the fork lift which had just panned out of shot. Horrific.
@@Jb33124 I've never seen the live broadcast footage since. Only ever spectators. I'm sure if you find a replay of the the race and skip to lap 40 you'll see what I saw.
Most of these incidents brought tears to my eyes because I knew the drivers having been watching them race and often seeing the crashes happening in live coverage. Too sad and I thank you for putting this together.
Took me 3 sittings to make it through this episode of your documentary. Very sad, but very well done. Excellent job on your presentation, editing and narration - for this entire documentary. ty
the 1994 weekend was simply macabre looking back at it. I was 3 at the time but growing up a massive F1 fan and eventually learning about that weekend, it's honestly one of the most shameful and low points in F1 history. If Roland Ratzenberger's death would've been treated as it should then Senna wouldn't have had the accident. The race going on on Sunday like nothing happened only made Roland's death go to waste. Both accidents were so brutal, we can only hope they didn't feel anything...500 G impact I don't think our normal non-racing driver brains can even comprehend how violent such an impact is...
Over the years I have come to understand so much that went down in that year with that weekends events. I remember the social media outrage (in more recent years since the invention of facebook etc) that still surrounds Max Mosely who was head of the FIA deciding not to attend Aryton's funeral. The ragers refuse to understand there was a damn good reason for that, Rolands funeral was held the same day as Aryton's. Max Mosely was the SOLE Formula 1 representative at Rolands funeral. Jackie, Max and Bernie worked tirelessly to make F1 safer. Both before 1994 and after.
Agreed, Italian law was such, that if Roland Ratzenberger had been declared deceased at the track, which he unfortunately was, then the race would have been cancelled. Typically back then, money took precedence over safety. I've been watching F1 since 1984, and San Marino was always known as a track that could bite drivers on the bum if they made a mistake, or their car failed. I saw Piquet, Berger, Alboreto and Patrese have bad crashes at Tamburello in the years before the 1994 GP. It was a notoriously fast corner, that wasn't actually that hard. The proximity of the wall made it more dangerous.
It's absolutely awesome that this channel stands out by not blurring or censoring any part of the footage! Unlike so many channels that fear demonetization and blur out even the most harmless incidents like a simple fall or trip, this channel gets it-knowledge is power. By showing the reality, you're preserving the integrity of the content and letting viewers see the truth without watered-down edits. When history is blurred, knowledge is lost, but this channel is here to keep it real. Props to you all for respecting your audience and sticking to real transparency!
Cheers 👍. I take pride in what I do here because it's a subject I'm very passionate about. There are too many content-farm channels out there that jump on the F1 hype-train that latch onto the subject of crashes to make some quick crash. I don't care about the money, I just want people to enjoy the content I make & hopefully teach a thing or two about the grim realities of motorsport whilst also paying respect to those we've lost. So I really appreciate your comment, thank you 👍
First of all, i want to thank you for the very Respectfull tribute you have made in this video, including sparing to some of us the death of that very young Marshal. It rises high respect to you as a person and despite arriving here from merely wandering the Web and shortening my sleep laptime for watching this tribute from start to the very end, i had to answer your question. As a former security member in different kind of professions, i have become a longtime warning shouter that is mostly depreciated and has sometimes being fired for pointing out security fails in places where it might mean danger for people if those points where not fixed. On the worst scenari , the companie's responsibles simply don't want to spend more money on a topic THEY consider not so much important as they fail to evaluate if you are genuinely trustable or if you have a tendency to be paranoïd. Not wanting to plainly answer this question about myself, i'll simply say that it is far from necessary to await a disaster to take measures to avoid it to happen. But it requires a strong determination to leave the least possible chances for drama to happen. And this strong will rarely inhabits people that haven't seen others die, or the huge grief and sorrows that entrap their families and those that participated, in whateverproportion, to the accomplishment of somebody's death. Luckily or sadly, my youth was made of difficult times, thus leading first to rage, then to compassion for other victims of same circumstances, and along time and progression, lead to deep interest in all matters concerning safety. Be it previously to a disaster, to inmediate physical response to a wild agression (became instructor by the time, just mentioning for context). And again, whichever environment i've been walking into, there are always those very clever know-all people that disminish danger probabilities, instead of having in mind a very very simple rule : >>> Once it happened, it is too late
I've watched this video over the past two days. While the subject itself is incredibly sad, you portrayed all of it with such respect to all parties involved. This video brings a whole new perspective to the sport and reminds all of us why we love the sport, and why we can hate it. Fantastic work, this is extremely high quality stuff that could be streamed for money. Thank you for making such great content for us to view for free.
Tom Pryce's accident still haunts me after watching the footage many years ago. It was said that the fire extinguisher that hit Pryce impacted with such force that it was later discovered jammed in a parked car door after being launched over the adjacent grandstand to the left of the pit straight. Horrifying.
You've earned a new subscriber from these two videos. The respect and reverence you gave all the drivers featured in both videos is of the highest order and being able to address some of the darkest days of F1 in such a considerate manner is enough for me to want to watch more. As a life-long F1 and motorsport fan, you have my appreciation for your effort.
Worth mentioning is in monaco 2 weeks after the Imola GP, Karl Wendlinger had a big crash after the tunnel where he crashed into the barrier sticking out that is put up behind a tree back then there. (The barrier there is much further back now). He went into a 2 weeks choma and the possibility was high that another driver (and Austrian) would have been killed just 2 weeks after the horrible san marino gp weekend
Well done on this mini series documentary. I’ve already seen most footage and known about all these tragedies, but you’d did a wonderful job telling and showing everything. It saddens me that anyone doing what they love has lost their lives doing so, and you did a justice of memories with this documentary. Especially the ending, which I’m sure we can all appreciate after watching such a tragic event one after the other. May everyone affected by these terrible fates lay to rest and find peace elsewhere
Would have been nice if Peter Revson was included. He was a colorful personality and died in a horrific crash chasing his dream when he had everything anyone could want already. Didn't even need to race he already had it all!!
This is a TRULY excellent docu-series! So professionally and expertly made. I rarely watch anything on TH-cam that is close to an hour long, but these had me CAPTIVATED. Thank you for creating this fine, and touching piece.
Quite simply, one of the best videos I’ve ever seen on TH-cam. Every content creator should aspire to this level of excellence. The horrors and tragedy of driver, spectator and marshal deaths has never been presented with more tact, respect and reverence than here…
The way David Purley gave up after failing to roll the car over and extinguish it, moving away from it and leaving it burn was the most heart-breaking thing I have ever seen.
Watching his friend dying and crying/screaming for help and being unable to do something must be one of the most Soulcrushing experiences someone can have. I was devasteted while watching the scene, i cant and dont want to imagine what thoughts must have been going through Davids head at that Time.
Agreed. That was pure despair.
The way people tried to get him off the track into safety and his body language asking what's the point?
Absolutely devastating.
If watching a car race in person means that I might be killed by a race car, I will save money by staying home and playing Russian roulette while I watch the race live on tv.
Again, flawless. Not only the undeniable quality of the documentary, but also the deep respect you show. And as in the first part, what an elegant and welcome ending. I don't want to spoil it here in the comments, so my advice for everyone watching this masterpiece is to start at the beginning and just watch it until the end to get the full experience. It's worth it.
i read your comment before i watched the video. i’m returning after finishing the video to say i agree that waiting to the end is worth it and im crying like a baby fr
@@misseselise3864Just a pity his pronunciation of some the drivers names was so bad.
@@Biffo1262 Piss off.
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@@Biffo1262not just driver names… there’s no corner at Monaco called “Taybac”.
Let’s not forget Sir Jackie Stewart probably saved more lives than we can imagine through his constant achievements for driver safety. I’m humbled to have met him.
@@Japs_Eye_Of_The_Tigerare you actually stupid? what does the current length and weight have to do with safety. the safety features in todays cars are nowhere near to being the main reason for their bulkier design.
Kind video maker and channel owner, could we delete the comment of this "gentleman"?
I didn’t want to reply to such a ridiculous comment but yes I wholeheartedly agree to delete the comment
I guess Billy Monger would disagree regarding the longer nose, such an obvious benefit and if we could speak to Nikki he would be an advocate for anyone not being burnt alive for someone’s armchair entertainment
He has absolutely nothing to do with the design of todays cars.
his contribution to safety was mainly to do with improving medical facilities and circuit safety.
try educating yourself.@@Japs_Eye_Of_The_Tiger
after the heartbreak that was david purley trying to save roger williamson who was screaming for help, that heartwarming outro was very needed. rip, all the drivers, employees and fans involved in these accidents. x
I'm happy that Jansen van Vuren, Gislimberti, and Ratzenberger get the same amount of respect as Vilneuve, Bianchi and Senna. They might not have been as famous, but their deaths are equally as tragic.
Watched Ratzenberger at the formula ford festival the was a great driver, we never saw the best of him
I never knew about ratzenberger until now, just a casual fan don’t follow too closely, man people were scared when verstappen took what 53g? Poor ratzenberger, 500g is unsurviveable, nothing he could do and he never stood a chance
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Holy shit, seeing Gilles getting launched from the car like that was hard to watch.. Being an F1 driver back in the 80's must've been absolutely terrifying
Quality video tho dude, very professionally done
You tend to forget, or not understand, just how powerfully violent a high-speed crash is until you have such a horrific reminder...
The drivers were not terrified. For some people, the greater the danger, the more on the ragged edge you are driving, the greater the exhilaration, these are the type of people that begin a career in Motorsport whether on motorbikes, racing cars, powerboats, etc.
You never feel more alive than when you are cheating death!
@@Handlebar-MustDashJames hunt said just that in his own words. I have a lot of respect for these trailblazers in the past but I also understand the safety features we have implemented now in f1.
I dont gasp often but when i saw him up against the fence before the replay i did. Actually made me tear up watching that.
Then it happened again 1990 with martin donelle in jarez
This is a message to all the old school media/networked television companies out there: THIS is HOW you create an amazing two part documentary!
I can't praise this enough but this series is better than anything about F1 shown on ANY networked television.
This is a documentary about how bad safety is in European sport.
@@shanevinson845 That's a low quality bait! Does American cars turn right at some point during a race or does it confuse the Nascar drivers....*left* *left* *left* *left*....oh shit...that's a right! What do I do? 🙄
@@sotkajarvi Awe, you twiggered? Go watch your little kicky ball, and grown men falling down, whining, crying, and cheating.
Thank you for making this
@sotkajarvi I'll put a Nascar or dirt driver up against any f1 driver and I bet the f1 guy loses
Something that is so haunting about the Jules bianchi accident is how the broadcast team goes from business as usual to confusion to knowing full well something is severely wrong
Having watched it again, you can see how woefully unequipped they were to expect such an outcome.
Back in the days death was part and parcel of F1, until the Bianchi incident we were led to believe that F1 has left those dark days behind.
Listening to Brundle arriving at the conclusion is oddly somehow tougher than the crash itself for me. The confusion reminds me a lot of Jeff Krosnoff's fatal crash in Toronto in 1996, and to a degree also Dan Wheldon's, although in the latter the confusion was from just how much had happened.
Yeah. I had no idea they did not know immediately that Bianchi had hit the tractor. They must have all felt sick when they were beginning to realize the severity of things.
I guess they didn't have driver tracker like they do now, I remember watching the race, but looking at this the on screen graphics show him stopped quite a while before they realise there's a car there. The fan footage is horrifying seeing a massive digger like that thrown up into the air and a few meters round
Wow... I'm 37 and been watching Formula 1 since Damon Hill won his first title. I remember seeing the Spa pile up and thinking that was horrific, but seeing what has gone before in this video, how wrong could I be. Tom Pryce and Roger Williamson in particular were the most HORRIFIC of incidents. Im humbled to have been made aware of their talents and incredibly saddened that it was because of their deaths. I love F1 and the most heartwarming thing is, all of the drivers deaths, those brave enough to dive in and try to save lives and their persistent drive for safety throughout the decades, is evident in where we find safety within F1 today. Their deaths are NOT in vain. Thank you for producing this. Your love for F1 and your sensitivity to its content SHINES through.
As a motorcycle lover i really LOVED the part where you mentioned a rider got into a serious accident inspite of telling a story of f1 tragedies. RESPECT. MAD RESPECT TO YOU MY MAN ❤😭
Thank you. Whether it's 2 wheels or 4, they are all have a love racing. I'm not massively into motorcycle racing but I have huge admiration for what they do & one day I hope to attend the Isle of Man TT 👍
I remember watching japan 2014 live. Brundall saying "has he hit the truck" gave me chills on the day. Hearing him put it all together live on air was just so surreal!
And Brundle would know. He nearly had that accident years earlier. He warned them.
@@JV-the-TosshMartin had warned a number of times such an accident could happen.
They probily had the fottage of the crash but didnt show it because would look bad on the safety team and the sport £$. the truck being on the track b4 the cars were slowed write down was madness . Then the same nearly happend years latter japan has allways been dangerous u got the weather tricky track and the safety team have made so many mistakes lets hope there are no more mistakes R.I.P 🕊
Man, I don't think there's a worse death than dying in a vegetative state. Being alive but never reacting again is something that gives me goosebumps just imagining.
I remember how dark it was becoming and told my wife that this should be red flagged and as soon as I said it it happens, my wife was in tears, we are retired photographers from Indy 500 and watching Scott Brayton die 10 yards from me was really painful, I have carbon fiber piece put away from that day, in that situation even as my job and my love of the sport I told a young kid to put the camera down or I will beat you to death with this monopod, Brayton family has made many unbelievable engines over the years before everything changed, I just don't agree with a photographer who wants to make money off those kinds of photos makes me sick
The Riccardo Paletti section is heartbreaking. Imagine his mother watching all of that, and seeing the last thread of hope that he had survived literally go up in flames.
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for real. really kinda tearing me up rn
Definitely sad, but dude was 23. Why was he still celebrating his birthday with his mom? Maybe it's just the way it was framed, but there was a lot of mom emphasis for a racing driver in his story.
@@randylahey345 tell me you don't have a good relationship with your family without telling me you don't have a good relationship with your family.
Clearly your mum hates you. Not surprising really. @@randylahey345
The Riccardo Paletti incident is the one that hits the hardest with me.
The impact, fire and the fact his mother was witnessing the whole thing.
Truly tragic.
A good documentary with respect.
Thank you.
The dangers of F1 were someway overlooked.
Presumably all of them had family of one kind or another watching, possibly also watching from the pits. Wives, children... it just happened that Paletti's mum was caught on camera at that moment of despair and desperation.
I used to have a friend who was a mechanic at Osella at the time. When he described the accident, I couldn't believe it. I'll just say that Paletti was already gone when the car erupted in flames.
@@raulv0417 Paletti was crushed by steering wheel and column and his chest injuries were fatal.
@@marguskiis7711 Please notice if you see his legs or feet at the nose of the car. That will give you an idea of what really killed him.
I used to be a paramedic/EMT for 3 years and seen some nasty things in my life (car/motorcycle accidents, ODs, shootings/stabbings)... I actually cried a bit from this doc, as i did after almost every bad call id run... (why i quit, it takes a toll and im still haunted to this day of some things ive seen, even have night terrors).. All these poor souls around the world dying in tragedy/war and not peace... It hurts so much because we are human, empathic to other people. To see a life taken away so quickly, or even dying in your arms, is hard to comprehend. We all bleed the same and are a human family at the end of the day and it hurts to see tragedy of all kinds. RIP to all the drivers and spectators in this. My heart goes out to them and all families.
This is a beautiful comment. Thank you for all you've done to help people in their times of need. I hope over time you're able to find more peace with the horrors you've seen.
The not stopping of the racing after some of these accidents is utter madness
why?
@@steveclapper5424 wym why? use ur brain for once you would think they would stop driving after someone crashes use ur brain holy fucking shit
@@steveclapper5424 it's considered disrespectful
Racing is dangerous, some forms more than others. You deal with it mentally somehow, or you put the car on the trailer, and you go home. Not many races would get to the checkers if every accident resulted in the race being cancelled.
@@johngavlick6479 By whom? And to what end? Do you think Gilles would have wanted the race cancelled? Do you think any of the drivers killed in accidents would have insisted upon the race being cancelled, had they not been killed? If that's what YOU think, you don't know much about racing drivers.
This is the greatest single Formula 1 documentary I have ever seen. It's pays Supreme respect to all the drivers, fans and corner workers involved. Combined with vol1, you have made an extremely devotional and honorable pair of films. I wish you could bottle these into a Bluray release someday... great work mate!
Me, I have a soft spot for "One - Life on the Limit".
@@CEngelbrecht Fantastic movie
As a former pit lane marshal and starter, start line accidents are your absolute nightmare. You are always hypervigilant and often too ready to put out the yellow flags or turn on the yellow lights. I recall a very early race when a car stalled right in front of my pitlane position and I virtually climbed onto the pit wall to get my yellow flag out to warn following drivers almost immediately. Thankfully everyone avoided the stalled car. I never truly realised how important it was until the starter came down to thank me, the chief pit lane marshal did the same and even race control did so. That day no one had an accident, no one had a damaged car and we all went home happy. To this day if I watch motor racing on TV, my senses tighten up until everyone is away safely. Seeing Paletti's accident, which was just horrendous, brought back all those memories.
dude, the jo shclesser story just made me cry. the fact that he is linked indirectly to senna, schumi, and the whole ligier story is mindblowing
Soichiro Honda was directly responsible for the horrific death of Jo Shclesser. I hope Mr. S Honda had nightmares about Jo Shclesser's accident for the rest of his life.
@@tk9780 considering they brutally just offered John Surtees to drive that same car model again the next GP, I think not
@@tk9780it was a totally different set of mind back then. Much of those people have grown with death during WWII.
Ask Mike Hawthorn if he felt guilty after murdering 79 spectator after Le Mans 1955? No this son of ***** smiled on the podium....
Racers from that era knew that each new corner could be their last one. But each death bring more safety. It just took way too many life to get where we are today.
Shclesser came in for a lot of flack over the Senna incident but to my mind Senna should have shared 50% of the blame for that.
I miss the days when nobody said 'dude'.
I think the fact that homage is given to the marshals is just deeply heartening.
Great tribute. I was fortunate enough to see Ronnie Peterson, Tom Pryce, and Ayrton Senna driving at various Grands Prix over the years, along with a host of other drivers who are no longer with us. Thankfully, I was never at a race where there was a fatality.
The death of Roger Williamson, to probably nobody's surprise, is the one I find hardest to handle emotionally. With most of the others, they were killed or at least knocked unconscious instantly. But the mere thought of what both Williamson and Purley must have gone through that day breaks me everytime I hear or see it.
Jo Schlesser was a familiar name, but I never bothered to look up his story. As soon as you said 'magnesium-coated skin' I went 'Oh, f*ck, let me guess, fiery accident, and WATER extinguishers' ... I've never hated to be right so much. Hearing about his post-humous 'involvement' in Ligier was very touching, especially that they honour him to this day.
Knowing what horrific accidents are left to cover, I'm not sure whether I'll be able to sit through Episode 3, tbh - but this, and Episode 1, was outstanding work of you, good Sir. What a wonderful, tasteful tribute to those mad lads.
I agree. The split second I heard him say magnesium coated parts I legit shuddered, and was proved right. Guarantee it was probably the second most painful death, behind Roger Williamson, which almost made me cry.
Third in agreement. As soon as Magnesium was mentioned I dreaded to hear when it was going to died to a deadly result.
@@dougbourdo2589 I was thinking about why on earth would you coat a race car, who were notorious for going up in flames, with magnesium, surely Honda engineers didn't all fail chemistry ... then I remembered we use flammable stuff to insulate houses, or at least used to.
It's infuriating from an engineering standpoint. Borderline perverse. I get that the mindset in the 60s was different, but this is equivalent to putting TNT into the cars.
@@givmi_more_w9251 I mean they also did the same with methanol fuel, which was LITERALLY INVISIBLE when set alight. That cost some lives too.
@@givmi_more_w9251 Hard to believe that no one thought this was a bad idea and the car got through scrutineering even back then. The properties of magnesium are basic metallurgy that any decent engineer should know. The governing body are just as culpable for allowing that death trap to race.
The Roger Williamson crash was heartbreaking, watching his friend David Pearly trying to push the car back over, and nobody able to help him. You could see he was devastated.
That crash angers me more than any other crash, literally no one helped him, despicable
@@Slothisticated0252 unfortunately they couldn’t. Only the drivers had any kind of fire retardant clothing - the Marshalls couldn’t get near the fire. It makes you appreciate the training and equipment they have today to prevent that kind of tragedy.
James Hunt gets a bad rap for being a playboy, but who risked getting burnt while trying to pull Peterson out of the car. Great content and presentation. 🇦🇺
The two things have nothing whatever to do with each other after all.
@@annnee6818 You're right. But it's what hides the truth of the man because that is what so many dismiss him as. In the 1990s, he turned up at a meeting for individuals and groups supporting black-led groups in South Africa. Not wanting his commentary to be broadcast, went into an anti-apartheid tirade and then donated to these groups.
Some people have the perfect voice for doing documentaries, one that keeps you glued to the video and you sir have such a voice. Although a hard subject to view, you made it worth watching.
It was an interesting fact that Lewis Hamilton had decried the fitting of the hoop as being ugly and safety was okay and then in a later chapter, seeing him saved by the device when another race car went over the top of him. All race drivers deserve our utter respect for their dedication, abilities and desire to perform for the spectators and their teams.
Roman Grosjean, after his horrific accident and fire, hated the Halo prior to the wreck, but said he survived because of it. And in NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt died because he refused to wear the HANS device, which now is even mandated in F1. Earnhardt would have survived had he worn it. But NASCAR at least made it mandatory--after Dale died.
How Rubens survived that impact at Imola is beyond me
That's exactly what I was thinking, the force of that is unbelievable, it goes from so incredibly fast to barely moving instantly
I remember on a podcast, Rubens commented that not even he believes it. The guy swallowed his own tongue, hit him really hard and somehow came out alive. If this isn't divine intervention, I don't know what is.
What I question was how was that 90G and the Ratzenberger fatal accident 500G
I really don't understand how they measure the g forces on these crashes and I definitely don't think they adequately measure the g forces going through the driver. Just looking at certain similar accidents and seeing the disparity in the g measurements is baffling. Regardless, I also don't understand how he survived that and was able to race 2 weeks later. Luck I guess.
@@ultimate_hecker1966Ratzenburger hit a concrete wall. Soon as u heard concrete and 195mph u know that’s death. Rubins luckily clips the tire barrier and fence greatly reducing the impact. He’s still driving today he was racing in a shifter go kart race earlier this year at my local track.
It's been nine years and yet the footage of Bianchi hitting the crane is absolutely tragic even to this date. No words for it even still.
The fact that it happened and then so nearly happened again at the same circuit a couple of years ago makes me upset. Sometimes some just don’t learn.
I can't believe this is the first time I've seen that fan footage...awful. Just an awful thing to happen.
The Arnoux/Villeneuve sequence wouldn't even be possible today.
So many rules on overtaking, but in addition the current cars would just disintegrate if they touch each other at speeds like that.
i’m so happy that f1 is constantly improving and creating safety devices. even just seatbelts would have prevented so many early f1 crash deaths (i say “so many” instead of “all” bc a lot of those cars also caught on fire)
@@misseselise3864 y’all I look like a lot of the death were broadenline neglecance
In the early days it was preferable to be thrown clear.@@misseselise3864
@@misseselise3864 In the early F1 years it was considered desireable to be thrown clear of the car because of the fire risk. hence the lack of seat belts. very rare for a car to ignite these days, so it's more important to be strapped in.
Cars today are in fact way better/sturdier these days, what a weird comment. And people still race each other. But that was ballet, very true
What an emotional roller coaster, watched part 1 and 2 one after the other, I’d heard about a lot of these and unfortunately remember watching a few of them live but you did an incredible job in explaining each of these unfortunate events in an extremely respectful and informative manner. Part 1+2 together are one of the best documentaries about F1 I’ve ever seen. And that includes Senna.
Agreed; part 2 had me in tears more than twice
The 1977 African GP is by far one of the most morbidly interesting tragedies of F1. As the documentary host said, it's ingrained in my memory. Thank you for compiling the images of Tom Pryce directly after the incident, as they were perspectives I hadn't seen before.
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Thanks for pausing right at Tom Pryce's impact. I once accidentally saw the full fate of that kid that he hit. Don't want to see it ever again.
It’s not gore-y. It just looks like his clothes falling off of him while he’s in the air
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No, he turns to jelly mid air. Just too many G forces involved getting hit head-on by the an F1 racer at 170mph. That's why they couldn't identify the remains and had to do a roll call post race to find out who was missing. It was just chunks of meat landing.
@@CEngelbrecht1:24:35 he’s in one piece, his clothes were ripped off
He was 7 feet long in the air. His spine totally ripped apart by the forces, as someone stated earlier.
Yes, but he ultimately stayed in a single piece.
Well, you warned me and I decided to play the curious one and look up what happened to the marshal when Tom Pryce had his life taken as well. I dont think Ive seen anything quite like that before. You were correct for holding back that footage and letting the viewer make that decision. Just horrific. You have done an immaculate job in showing respect to these drivers and this sport. I can't commend you enough for the efforts you have made in Part 1 and Part 2. While this is some of the darkest stuff in racing, it was handled with care. I do not know if there are plans to do even another part (or if it makes any sense to do so) but I know if it did happen it would be shown the respect it deserves. Thank you for making these videos.
I unfortunately felt the same curiosity about the Tom Pryce accident as I am far to young that I’d never even heard of that crash and my god that will live with me forever. My only hope is that it really was instant and both involved didn’t suffer. May they rest in peace.
@@emily-bt6pq Personally, I like to picture Pryce and van Vuuren meeting up in some afterlife Formula 1 bar, asking each other "... So uh, what the hell just happened?".
My morbid curiosity also led me to find the full footage, and...
Yeah. That's all I want to say about it.
Us humans are very strange. Someone suggests that something is really awful to see, so we go and find it. Then think to ourselves that we wish we hadn't found it. 😧
@@chrissyp1188 so true. A compelling mystery, even one with a substantial warning will get us anyway haha
Having seen drivers die at the track, sprint cars not F1, I won't watch that video. Just the description is still way too much.
Your efforts in assembling this two-part series stand as a remarkable historical testament, chronicling the tragedies and close calls within the realm of F1. Your adept gathering of information and media has respectfully depicted these pivotal moments. Admirably done! Thank you! IBCGPT
Thank you very much dude! Much appreciated 🙂
You definitely have talent!!! Only 2 videos watched both liked and Subbed, from now on, even if i am not watching video i will press like! You deserve!!!
@@eddd6827 you accidentally replied to my message. The owner of the channel is more likely to see and read your comment if you post it as a stand alone comment rather than a replay to me. You should re-post.
This might be the one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen. The detail and the emotional effects you brought in really made you feel the hurt of their deaths, and the legacy they brought.
And that ending…… even I couldn’t stop myself from crying. All the drivers, marshalls and spectators killed were beautiful people and I hope they may rest in peace.
As a request, you don’t have to of course, but I personally hope to see one done for IndyCar too, as there were some real stories there as well, with the non-fatalities being very interesting to cover for example. Just an idea…..
But yeah you are very talented in the making of these videos, professional documentary makers could actually learn from you in my opinion as I’ve seen some mistakes in those that you didn’t make or were even outright disrespectful. Wish you the best man, you put out a masterpiece that’s all I can say.
The tribute at the end was the final touch to this masterpiece. The bios on all the drivers was great development and softened a very difficult subject in a way that was much more respectable and commendable than all the other compilations on this subject, whih tend to just the morbid curiosities of the events. Bravo for the development on this piece of art. You deeply humanized a very tragic subject. I cannot overstate my respect and admiration for your work here.
Thank you for not showing the Tom Pryce marshall...that was traumatizing and something I will never get out of my mind. You've made an incredible documentary here that honours the legacy of these drivers and marshalls.
ive seen it once and i remember that i was pretty much about to throw up because of the sight.
So I've never seen an F1 race or had really any interest, but I am interested in the 'anatomy' of a disaster and the response. I appreciate how accessible this series has been as someone who knows nothing about any of these people, and the detail you provided about how the sport has been approved as a consequence of these tragedies. Thank you for your hard work!
Thank you. This series was written to be watchable for both veteran F1 fans & those who are not even interested, so I'm glad to see that you found it interesting 👍
I got into F1 due to that same reason
Same with me... never been more than tangentially aware of F1, but come from disaster response and safety culture. This documentary was a great introduction.
The Tom Pryce accident is absolutely horrific. I consider myself pretty desinsitized to things on the internet, but the footage has always haunted me..
My father was at at the grandstand that Tom Pryce's car ended up after the impact. He still talks about it. I think it haunts him.
For many reasons the footage from that incident looks really unreal, reminiscent of some intentionally low quality creepy content I have seen. I would not need to mention how it looks like the poor marshall is cut in half and held together by intestines, but the other angle concentrating on Zorzi is honestly even weirder. Zorzi's car makes that odd, sudden flammation, he acts like a cartoon character until marshalls arrive and then we see bits and pieces of a person flying casually through the screen. Finally, they seem not to react properly to the incident and kind of forget it in a second. They must have seen immediately that absolutely nothing is to the done and it's better to make sure Zorzi's car doesn't go up in flames. Or they simply could not understand what just happened. Also, doesn't help that the version with an added sound effect on impact is quite common.
I first saw the clip in 2006 (I think) and could not find it for a while afterwards, which made me think I had imagined the whole thing.
@@leverage1990 I believe the footage with the sound effect came from an Italian movie about F1. If I recall correctly, it was also accompanied by an ominous music. I couldn't even bear to watch it with that music on.
@@tiadaidI know that documentary, makes sense since they utilized stock sound effects in it. A real product of its time, it's amazingly tasteless by modern standards but it's quite high quality and really fascinating to watch thanks to the soundtrack.
@@leverage1990 well, the marshal's body was still one piece, but that is little consolation
I never like seeing people say they enjoyed, or loved a video on here thats made about people dying.
That being said, you still are due respect and appreciation for the hard work youve done on yours. These were very well made, and more importantly, the care and dignity in which you used to cover such horrible stories, is applaudable.
I understand what you mean. The praise on videos like this is often a bit more nuanced because it's a different type of enjoyment. You're more drawn in and understand the seriousness because the tone was correct. It wasn't a gruesome crash compilation but something that could be expanded to include talking head pieces from drivers and other people around them. You'd empathise with their close ones because the tone of the video reminds you that there are other people affected.
61 year old female here. Excellent documentary. I'm not a motorsports fan, or really any sports fan due to the tragedies and dangers involved (football for one). However, there is something about watching these documentaries, much like the Mayday Air Disaster videos I watch frequently. Something about the mechanics involved. Terrific and very touching ending and much appreciated since some memories are "too painful to remember." Thank you Mr. Palmer.
I actually jumped when Barrichello hit the barrier, it's miraculous how he escaped death honestly
Heard about the crash but never seen it till now....WOW
He almost didn’t. The impact caused him to swallow his tongue, so he was unable to breathe. It was thanks to Sid Watkins pulling his tongue back into place that he was able to breathe again.
Senna and Gilles are among the greatest natural talents in the history of F1. It's very sad that they passed away so early.
I cry to this day when I see that helmet with the colors of the Brazilian flag…
I never stop crying for Gilles and Ayrton.I love both of them so much! God bless them forever!
Imola 94 just makes me so incredibly angry every time i think of it. The terrible handling of everything that happened is just... it's so hard for me to grasp how people could be so dismissive of other people's lives... i wasn't alive then, i was born in 99. But i still feel the same rage my father must have felt when he told his sons about one of the greatest drivers the world had ever seen. I can remember the pain in his voice when he spoke about senna.
This is unfortunatly the case with so many accident here, there was sadly a time where the race just weren't stop not even slow down, when an accident occurs, all because they didn't want to lose money, and in some cases like Tom Pryce this turn what was at first a minor accident into a tragic one.... the worst part is that I can't believe there is still people that dare call themselves fans, saying F1 was better when all these safety measures weren't in place and there was more accidents.
@@nesoukkefka1741 yup... i get the thinking, i grew up watching F1 and there were some things that were better back then. But the safety wasn't, even in the early to mid 2000s...
Today it would be a safety car or red flag but still the race would continue after the accident scene was clear. It's been for a while now (since 70s or 80s) that "driver shall never be in a life threatening state or die on track" because in the past it has caused fans to follow the ambulance. In a case for Nascar or Indie, it ended up blocking the ambulance from leaving resulting in a death that could've been prevented.
We're not much better now, just the FIA (or what ever governing body of the race you're watching) hides it from you until the race is over. That being said, it's not stopping you from assuming based off of forces / cause of injury(s).
Just about all of these make me angry. To know a driver was killed and to keep running the race like nothing happened just really gets under my skin.
Now they are finally investigating the steering in his vehicle and speaking to witnesses that saw him what looked like fighting with the steering. Things are falling into place as so many argued from day 1 that he didn’t lose control the footage of the accident was hard to believe as it wasn’t a difficult turn but the car banked hard. Members of his team had always stated that it was the steering.
I've gotten into F1 at the beginning of last year and lately I've gotten interested in the history of the sport. So I was already aware of most of these crashes but reading a Wikipedia article is not the same as seeing it in context. I firmly think that to avoid repeating the many mistakes made in the past which took so many lives we shouldn't forget those mistakes and that's why I watch videos like this. Thank you for the respect shown to the drivers who share with us their joy doing what they love, for remembering the marshals who always risk their lives and the fans who shouldn't have died.
Also, my personal reason for feeling sad for their deaths (apart from the reasons you mentioned) is because in most of these cases they were so senseless, so negligent. The fact that if the organizers had shown a bit more concern these guys may still be with us is the thing that always hits me the worst. Another example is also the case of De Angelis that you mentioned during the video and was very similar to Williamson's: car flew, turned upside down, caught fire. But this was 1986 and had his crash been during a race weekend the story would have been very different because they were better equipped during races, but since it was a test outside a race weekend the marshalls vere very few men, they had no equipment, they were in *shorts* while the car burned and it was the drivers and mechanics trying and failing to save him. There was also no medical helicopter. He "only" had light burns and I think a collarbone fracture and nothing else by the time the fire was out, but he died of asphyxiation and smoke inhalation similar to Williamson. I think after this, drivers threatened to boycott unless it became mandatory for tests to have full preparation and so it became mandatory from then on, but another life was lost to negligence. Even the Villeneuve crash that could be seen as mostly bad luck, was predictable. Those ground effect cars went airborne at the smallest crash and by then the driver was a passenger. I think Pironi ironically as head of the GPDA had warned before many times that that could happen... And then he went on to have a similar crash himself that he luckily survived, although with horrible injuries. That's why it makes my blood boil when I see fans or even drivers criticize others for asking for more safety today, since I'd rather avoid the mandatory avoidable death if possible before finally taking measures when a potential problem arises. I prefer a million times to watch a boring race or to have it stopped than to watch one of the drivers that I've come to care for, die.
Also thank you for the ending showing us some of their happy moments. It was nice to end it in a happier note and to see some of their personality shine through.
I started watching in 1979 as a ten year old. It is well worth going right back to the early 30s and the early car manufacturers, the Acari’s, Nuvolari (the old man Ferrari’s favourite driver) I kept scrapbooks for many years, met Senna and Ratzenberger got their autographs I have many highs and lows to share.
I started off liking Nelson Piquet and I still love to see him with Max Verstappen, his sense of humour and attempts of psychological warfare, means his reputation has suffered but it should not have done.
Read about how he won his first Championship in 1981 in Las Vegas although only finished 5th in race due to exhaustion, sickness and he had to be lifted out the car.
There is no real substitute for living through those years because you cannot put the mindset of the current climate on events of the past so different.
Elio De Angelis was areal gentleman and very talented Pianist he was one of the nicest drivers of the era. I could not believe the news when he died I have all the newspaper clippings and it had only been eleven months since two F1 drivers had been killed in the WEC Stefan Bellof and Manfred Winklehock, I had met both at the British GP in 1985. De Angelis was Senna’s teammate at Lotus and I was gutted that despite meeting Ayrton twice that weekend I never got to meet Elio.
My brothers hero was Gilles Villeneuve and the new Sky documentary filled in a lot of the gaps we didn’t know about especially just how ruthless Didier Pironi was and how he didn’t even invite him to his wedding. His wife had told him not to trust him but Gilles was too trusting I have thousand stories that could only really been understood by those who were passionate about it at the time.
The early press on Ayrton Senna was cruel and he was a victim of his own self belief, which he proved he was as good as he said he was but some of them are comedic and I have all those articles and jokes.
Please continue to look back because the biggest problem of people making comments on F1 sites is few know anything beyond Lewis Hamilton, few die hard Senna fans. I like coming across the fans who got to see the late 60s and early 70s it was crazy!
I know it’s old fashioned but books are the best source I have loads. Reading Jackie Stewart’s book at the moment!!
With all due respect, i don't think it can get more safer than today, other than to quit the racing completley.
I mean we have all it takes, safety cells that are almost bulletproof, halos that can hold a bus on them and be fine with it, marshalls that are well instructed and wear top level fireproof suits, the drivers also wear that too and the tracks have usually more run off than actual pavement.
@rickrolled7930 They probably thought the same in the 80s after the carbon fiber chassis increased safety exponentially. I won't deny that it's probably harder to think of new things now but you can't stop trying because of that. Off the top of my head I can think of removing sausage kerbs universally, doing things to prevent the potential disaster that was Qatar last year, tbh this will be controversial but I'd prefer to have aeroscreen over halo, after all, aeroscreen would've prevented Massa's injury but halo won't (I am infinitely grateful for the halo though please don't take me wrong). Improve rapid medical response protocols in general (Indycar has F1 absolutely beat in this regard). Find ways to prevent cars entering a live track again right after a crash, to prevent another Hubert or Dilano. Also if you're really taking it serious, start investigating what are the long term consequences of so many crashes. Finally we're at a stage where most accidents are survivable but that doesn't mean that the brain isn't basically thrown all over the place when there are insane crashes with many Gs like Silverstone 22. What are the long term consequences of that and can something be done to prevent that? And that's what I can think off the top of my head without being an expert.
I don't expect all of this to happen tbh, the higher ups don't like spending money, but these are some of the things that in my opinion can be improved.
@@rickrolled7930 I'm sorry I'm an idiot and didn't see the "read more" so only saw the first paragraph. What you say is absolutely true, but I've been on the sport just two and a half years and that's long enough to see potentially deadly things that are preventable which I mentioned in my previous comment
@@Nyaran56 i know, but in the end you can't remove the danger 100%. There will always, and i mean always, even if you add an aero screen and make everything as safe as possible that 0.01% chance of something bad happening because after all, metal cages that only have 4 rubber rolls as connection to the ground going as fast as they can is a dangerous idea. You can only do so much to prevent deaths and injuries. But to account for everything, even stuff such as long term effects, is not possible for the fia. Because if you think about it, racing drivers have to sustain 140-170 bpm during a race, battle intense heat and also concentrate while they are doing it for about 1 ½ hours. That can have future long term side effects, so again, you can't have a racing driver's body look like a normie's body under examination, not possible.
The final segment of this particular video was very touching - I've seen plenty of compilation videos of fatal racing accidents including those in F1 but you made this one in a way that also pays tribute to them
Ive witnessed live on tv 3 of these deaths in my time watching F1. Ratzenberger, Senna and Bianchi and you showed them all the love and respect they deserve.
Absolutely incredible you have witnessed those incidences at the time they happened. I cant imagine what that was like. I agree that this documentary respects these incidences extremely well. Stunning some of the things that have happened in auto racing in the last 60 years.
@MiamiSunrise I watched that weekend in 1994 and as a 12 year old I was destroyed hearing about my favourite drivers death. Then having it happen 21 years later brought those emotions flooding back.
Then watching live the Grosjean crash I thought I'd seen another driver go.
I was 13 at the time and missed the race because I had to go to a lunch event with my parents.
When we got home we heard that Senna had a deadly accident. In my youthful naivete I thought "deadly" meant close to death but not dead and I was mostly upset about Senna having to recover and missing enough races to make it impossible to win the championship.
Boy was that a hard moment when my parents had to explain to me what "deadly" means.
@@ThePointlessDeath
Horrific to watch... but a very well written, documented and narrated documentaries about one of Racings biggest Dark sides.
I still remember Ayrton Sennas crash like it was yesterday.
Once again, this docu is worth a watch as it is well written with the respect of the people who are no longer racing with us.
Thank you.
Had never heard of Jo schlesser, what a story... The added information around Ligier only makes it more emotional
I saw a video on the Honda P302, didn't include video of the accident just a desciption, but for an F1 driver of that era to be too scared to drive that car and magnesium body panels kind of said it all.
The Ronnie Peterson crash has always stuck in my head. Watching fellow drivers desperately wade through fire to pull him out, only for him to succumb to his injuries is heartbreaking. Imagine being a driver in those days, James Hunt jumped back into that car for the next race with that on his mind and had to try to drive at 100%. That was a different time and we owe the existence of the sport we love to these pioneers.
The Pryce and Williamson crashes still get me every time I hear about them, both utterly tragic. Of course all driver deaths are but those two and the circumstances surrounding them are particularly soul destroying 😢
Bandini was so much pain he was begging people to kill him. He was one of the few drivers that didn't come from a rich family. Unbelievably great documentary
You sure? He was 100% dead when the flames were finally put out.
@@hyweljthomas Bandini died three days after the accident.
@@terrystevens5261 Sorry Terry you're right. Just watching that video though. Horrible.
Absolute masterpiece of a documentary. I appreciate the respect given to the drivers, fans and marshals involved in these tragic crashes. Your commentary and editing is also excellent.
I'd like to add something about Senna's fatal crash that makes it even more soul-crushing:
Back in 1992, Érik Comas had suffered a violent crash during the Belgian GP on Friday practice. He was knocked unconscious, with his foot slammed down on the throttle. Senna arrived at the scene of the crash, stopped his car trackside and rushed to cut off the engine of Comas's car.
Comas later said that Senna's action saved his life, as the car was at risk of catching fire.
During the 1994 San Marino GP, Comas was sent back out on the track during the red flag period, due to a miscommunication with his team. He arrived at race speed near Tamburello, where marshals, medics, safety vehicles and a helicopter were stationed, attending to Senna's aid. Comas just barely managed to slow down and avoided crashing into any one of these. But he saw the scene of medics tending to Senna's fatal injuries.
Érik Comas saw the hero who had saved his life nearly two years prior, mortally wounded. His own hero, taken away.
Afterwards, Comas retired from the race, deeply traumatized by the incident, and quit Formula 1 at the end of the season.
Every motor racing death is horrific!! The ones that haunt the most for me from this video are Tom Pryce and Roger Williamson as I began following F1 in earnest in 1970. David Purley was a hero even though he failed to save his great friend!! 😢😢❤
The Tom Pryce accident hits hard. My father and uncle had been marshals there for a decade, the last 2 years they were the guys in the asbestos suits on the fire truck. They quit in 1976 due to the woeful state of their equipment and the poor treatment they received when they tried to get that addressed.
Then I discovered a few years ago that the 2 marshals that ran across the track were in fact brothers. The older brother was unaware his brother had followed him and until the roll call after the race had been confident his brother was still safely over on the other side at their marshalling station. A tragedy in itself.
death is never fair, but pryce’s death feels extra unfair. though i guess in some ways he was kinda lucky because there was no time for him to realize he was about to be fatally injured
@@misseselise3864He was probably dead before he hit the ground. That's a bad accident but not that bad of a death as far as fatal accidents go.
Thank you for putting this together...F1 has come a long way, but it's unbelievable how unsafe they were in the 60's and 70's.
I remember vividly watching as Ayrton Senna hit the wall, his car smashing into pieces at the same time as my heart. He was my favourite driver. Huge respect to each one of them, passed and present. Huge thank you and massive respect for the making and sharing of these amazing videos. Merry Christmas and Blessings to you all x 🙏🌹🎄
I was always really affected by the Gilles Villeneuve crash, we raced snowmobiled through the 70’s to 1985 and again from 2008-2016 . We met Gilles in 1980 at the World Series race in 1980 on his personally designed Moto Ski twin track snowmobile and his pit area was two trailers down. The fact that he raced in 1980 angered Enzo Ferrari to no end, worried his best driver would injure himself in the F1 Off season.Brother Jacques continued to race snowmobiles right up to the 2014 season and was a World Champion.
Finnish broadcast of Imola 1994 had Keke Rosberg as a commentator. He's usually calm and collected, but during the Alboreto pit incident he clearly thought the situation was even worse than it was, stating immediately that someone must lost control of his car and veered straight at the pit crews at high speed. He was livid and furious, stating that he had worked years to convince FIA to impose speed limits at the pitlane for he knew that it was only a matter of time before incident like Alboreto's
Whether correct about that particular incident or not, Keke was completely right. We've seen major incidents even with pit lane speed limits in place. If they never had been instituted, we'd have many more injuries and possibly worse in the sport's history.
@@FloridaManRacerWhen you look at relics of the past like this, the questions feel like they turn towards how lucky we were that not as many did. How many times we came close to drivers losing their heads in accidents, the failings in the lone cars burning that were commonplace. So many times, you wonder how the sport wasn't ended by Le Mans 1955 Part 2.
I am not good with words, but after seeing the first part I knew the second part was going to be amazing, this is the kind of videos I would want new F1 fans to see (specially the ones that started watching because of DTS), and not because there's dying involved or something related to that, but because this is part of the sport's history, and everyone should know about it.
Thank you for this incredible piece of information. Great work.
I've gotten into the sport recently and I haven't watched DTS
'Individuals like Gilles only come to earth once. He was truly unique and I would have liked to see what career he would have had without this accident. Gilles would have been crowned world champion, I am 100% convinced of that, but unfortunately he was never able to finish his job.'' Mario Andretti.
Imola 1994 definitely was the most horrifying weekend in F1 history. It's incredible how they let the race go on after one driver's death and a seriously injured one the day before. Also it's horrible seeing Villeneuve flying out of his car. Such terrible sights!
Senna's death for me is still the most heart wrenching among other drivers.
Rest in Peace to all drivers who are passionate and committed to win till the end.
Thank you for covering such tragic events respectfully and well documented.
Thank you for this documentary. I only knew of a few of these tragic incidents since I'm a relatively recent F1 fan. We are approaching the 30th anniversary of that tragic weekend at Imola and it still hurts to recount those events and how many including myself feel the race should have been stopped /cancelled. I can't help but wonder how Senna's career would have played out had he decided not to race that Sunday. Thank you for honoring the marshalls and spectators who were victims of tragedy as well. I bristle now when people complain about safety precautions or echo Lewis' words about the halo without knowing the history behind it as seen here. Also, a big thank you for ending this on an uplifting note. These drivers were our heroes not for taking risks but for facing the dangers in a true sport where life was always in the balance. Great work, cheers.
The halo went on and saved Hamilton later on. The most horrific accidents are the fires. Even to this day, I feel they don’t have enough safety agains that. Grosjean accident was crazy.
@@ferociousfil5747 halo also saved Grosjean that time
Well, it's been 30 years. Flew the Brazilian flag with Senna on it on the first of may. I also rewatched the documentary on him. Such a shame that such an amazing driver was taken from us, moreso for the Brazilian people.
I struggle to put in words just how well-produced this documentary is. I've always held the belief that in order to understand risks and improve safety, one must know and see the shocking details of accidents uncensored - and you managed well to present those footages in a respectful way. The editing is nothing short of professional and I'm genuinely surprised such a gem of a production is just laying around here on TH-cam.
Take all the time you need for producing the next episode, I'll be waiting patiently!
This is an amazing documentary. The amount of respect, for those who fell in the sport, is truly outstanding. The way you didn't sugarcoat it, but also didn't dramatize the incidents either. Thank you for this, it has been an experience for sure. It gave me a whole new respect for the sport.
If FOM ever takes your videos down, it has to be known that this is the most respectful, human, and comprehensive summary of the days when our sport pains us the most. Thank you.
Thank you for showing their names from 1961. This has been a very difficult video to watch, such sadness and carnage.
It's not often that I am moved by documentaries, but man, you did all of their memories justice.. massive props! May they all find peace.
I’ve only ever seen still photos following Villeneuve’s crash before watching this. Seeing him being thrown from the car so violently is horrifying.
60's were the most horrific but how gorgeous are those monsters, engine exposed and bullet shape. Crazy times.
I really have to applaud you for the way you did this documentary. You stayed away from sensationalism and treated this with a lot of respect. I've seen many of this accidents live on TV when they happened and everyone was one too many.
Excellent documentary. Painful indeed given my personal experience at only my 2nd GP I ever attended. But I am still a fan today. You ahve some remarkable footage and seeing this reminded me how this sport has evolved and how inportant driver safety has become. We can trully thank the likes of Sir Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda, Ayrton Senna and many others who pushed so hard for this to become the biggest priority of the sport.
I am so glad that episode 1 was recommended to me just the day before episode 2 came out. You did a fantastic job making this documentary, both in the collection and editing down of so much footage, and in the tone you took while commentating on some of the darkest days in sporting history. You were able to accomplish the incredibly difficult tasks of maintaining your integrity while describing fatal accidents in great detail, and of preserving the dignity of all of those involved. Incredible stuff. And if this series is one of only your first few attempts at making a documentary then I`m even more blown away. You have some serious talent. Thanks for putting in the time and effort to make these for us, I learned a lot.
I truly believe that this is one of the single best videos I have ever seen in my life, even if it was one of the most difficult to watch as well. Anyone that has any sort of love or respect for this sport should watch this video on its entirety, for it shows us stories that we should never forget, no matter how much time passes.
Absolutely incredible job with this video, and thank you for making it.
Your delicacy and respect for the people invovled whilst exploring and reporting this tough subject is commendable. The ending was perfect. I'm a hard nut and I paused and cried at least twice through this one. I came across the Pryce footage accidentally many years ago, that youtuber didn't give any warnings, and I will never unsee it. Thank you for your sensitivity. Congratulations on a masterpiece of videography.
Beautifully and sensitively made, it brought a tear to the eye. The trauma of being a 'rival' driver and then trying to save your friend and failing is horrendous. Bless you all.
This, and part 1, are probably two of the best produced motorsport documentaries I have seen in recent times. Informative and educational without being sensationalist which is often a difficult balance to strike with this sort of subject matter.
To my own surprise I had to shed a couple of tears seeing through this. Well made, touching, informative.. thank you for making this :)
I can't give you enough praise for the way you made this. Respectful and concise. I've been a fan since I was a little boy of 5 years old. That was 48 years ago now. I've been so blessed to see heroes race heroes, for so many years. You showed the will to race is more powerful than the fear of death. Sometimes that's the price they pay. Those that we lost will always be remembered as the true heroes of the sport and we owe a debt of gratitiute to those who strove to make racing safer for drivers and spectators alike. Thank you for your work in making these documetaries. Subbed and liked. Looking forward to part 3! They lived and raced so we could admire their skill and bravery and we still do. May F1 carry on long after I'm gone and continue to excite and amaze new fans in every session of every race weekend. RIP Legends.
Gilles Villeneuve's accident was absolutely heartbreaking to watch. I really like how much respect you showed for the drivers in this video. Seriously, amazing work here.
These two parts were a fantastically well put together, respectful, review of some dark times in F1 history. Thank you for your effort and care into their development.
Thanks for this great documentary. A very respectfull way to deal with this subject.
Thank You very much! 🙂
Beautifully researched, and respectfully put together. Thank you for making this, it’s important to remember the past so we can learn from it, and these drivers should never be forgotten. F1 is the best sport in the world, but it was built on the shoulders of these drivers and teams. Well done , you’ve done them justice here.
The accident of JB in 2014 was shown live. But off to the side while the camera was focused on the car ahead. The commentators missed it. I remember questioning if I actually saw it. But could see the car was pointing and heading straight for the fork lift which had just panned out of shot. Horrific.
I know this makes me sound like an abhorrent person, but could you point me towards this footage? I don't recall seeing it myself.
@@Jb33124 I've never seen the live broadcast footage since. Only ever spectators. I'm sure if you find a replay of the the race and skip to lap 40 you'll see what I saw.
I went through the laps but there wasnt anything like you mentioned on the broadcast, maybe your memory is a bit flawed
@@Tuoppi_97 Quite possibly dude. My 20's was a wild time. Or maybe we viewed different broadcasts?
Most of these incidents brought tears to my eyes because I knew the drivers having been watching them race and often seeing the crashes happening in live coverage. Too sad and I thank you for putting this together.
Took me 3 sittings to make it through this episode of your documentary. Very sad, but very well done. Excellent job on your presentation, editing and narration - for this entire documentary. ty
Absolutely stunning video and you do it so well, such impeccible story telling and so very respectful for such horrific topics.
the 1994 weekend was simply macabre looking back at it. I was 3 at the time but growing up a massive F1 fan and eventually learning about that weekend, it's honestly one of the most shameful and low points in F1 history. If Roland Ratzenberger's death would've been treated as it should then Senna wouldn't have had the accident. The race going on on Sunday like nothing happened only made Roland's death go to waste. Both accidents were so brutal, we can only hope they didn't feel anything...500 G impact I don't think our normal non-racing driver brains can even comprehend how violent such an impact is...
Over the years I have come to understand so much that went down in that year with that weekends events. I remember the social media outrage (in more recent years since the invention of facebook etc) that still surrounds Max Mosely who was head of the FIA deciding not to attend Aryton's funeral. The ragers refuse to understand there was a damn good reason for that, Rolands funeral was held the same day as Aryton's. Max Mosely was the SOLE Formula 1 representative at Rolands funeral.
Jackie, Max and Bernie worked tirelessly to make F1 safer. Both before 1994 and after.
Agreed, Italian law was such, that if Roland Ratzenberger had been declared deceased at the track, which he unfortunately was, then the race would have been cancelled. Typically back then, money took precedence over safety. I've been watching F1 since 1984, and San Marino was always known as a track that could bite drivers on the bum if they made a mistake, or their car failed. I saw Piquet, Berger, Alboreto and Patrese have bad crashes at Tamburello in the years before the 1994 GP. It was a notoriously fast corner, that wasn't actually that hard. The proximity of the wall made it more dangerous.
Both parts of this series are fantastically produced, and this one especially, done with respect for the lives lost. Thank you for your work.
It's absolutely awesome that this channel stands out by not blurring or censoring any part of the footage! Unlike so many channels that fear demonetization and blur out even the most harmless incidents like a simple fall or trip, this channel gets it-knowledge is power. By showing the reality, you're preserving the integrity of the content and letting viewers see the truth without watered-down edits. When history is blurred, knowledge is lost, but this channel is here to keep it real. Props to you all for respecting your audience and sticking to real transparency!
Cheers 👍. I take pride in what I do here because it's a subject I'm very passionate about. There are too many content-farm channels out there that jump on the F1 hype-train that latch onto the subject of crashes to make some quick crash. I don't care about the money, I just want people to enjoy the content I make & hopefully teach a thing or two about the grim realities of motorsport whilst also paying respect to those we've lost. So I really appreciate your comment, thank you 👍
First of all, i want to thank you for the very Respectfull tribute you have made in this video, including sparing to some of us the death of that very young Marshal. It rises high respect to you as a person and despite arriving here from merely wandering the Web and shortening my sleep laptime for watching this tribute from start to the very end, i had to answer your question.
As a former security member in different kind of professions, i have become a longtime warning shouter that is mostly depreciated and has sometimes being fired for pointing out security fails in places where it might mean danger for people if those points where not fixed.
On the worst scenari , the companie's responsibles simply don't want to spend more money on a topic THEY consider not so much important as they fail to evaluate if you are genuinely trustable or if you have a tendency to be paranoïd.
Not wanting to plainly answer this question about myself, i'll simply say that it is far from necessary to await a disaster to take measures to avoid it to happen.
But it requires a strong determination to leave the least possible chances for drama to happen.
And this strong will rarely inhabits people that haven't seen others die, or the huge grief and sorrows that entrap their families and those that participated, in whateverproportion, to the accomplishment of somebody's death.
Luckily or sadly, my youth was made of difficult times, thus leading first to rage, then to compassion for other victims of same circumstances, and along time and progression, lead to deep interest in all matters concerning safety.
Be it previously to a disaster, to inmediate physical response to a wild agression (became instructor by the time, just mentioning for context).
And again, whichever environment i've been walking into, there are always those very clever know-all people that disminish danger probabilities, instead of having in mind a very very simple rule :
>>> Once it happened, it is too late
I've watched this video over the past two days. While the subject itself is incredibly sad, you portrayed all of it with such respect to all parties involved. This video brings a whole new perspective to the sport and reminds all of us why we love the sport, and why we can hate it. Fantastic work, this is extremely high quality stuff that could be streamed for money. Thank you for making such great content for us to view for free.
Tom Pryce's accident still haunts me after watching the footage many years ago. It was said that the fire extinguisher that hit Pryce impacted with such force that it was later discovered jammed in a parked car door after being launched over the adjacent grandstand to the left of the pit straight. Horrifying.
You've earned a new subscriber from these two videos. The respect and reverence you gave all the drivers featured in both videos is of the highest order and being able to address some of the darkest days of F1 in such a considerate manner is enough for me to want to watch more.
As a life-long F1 and motorsport fan, you have my appreciation for your effort.
Thank you for this documentary. It helped highlight some of F1’s darkest moments, but also shined a light on its brighter ones, too.
That was a tough watch. Brilliantly handled. Well done.
Worth mentioning is in monaco 2 weeks after the Imola GP, Karl Wendlinger had a big crash after the tunnel where he crashed into the barrier sticking out that is put up behind a tree back then there. (The barrier there is much further back now). He went into a 2 weeks choma and the possibility was high that another driver (and Austrian) would have been killed just 2 weeks after the horrible san marino gp weekend
Well done on this mini series documentary. I’ve already seen most footage and known about all these tragedies, but you’d did a wonderful job telling and showing everything. It saddens me that anyone doing what they love has lost their lives doing so, and you did a justice of memories with this documentary. Especially the ending, which I’m sure we can all appreciate after watching such a tragic event one after the other. May everyone affected by these terrible fates lay to rest and find peace elsewhere
Would have been nice if Peter Revson was included. He was a colorful personality and died in a horrific crash chasing his dream when he had everything anyone could want already. Didn't even need to race he already had it all!!
Also Francois Cevert, I guess there isnt enough footage to do the stories justice.
There’s unfortunately a lot of racers he missed. Maybe there’s a part three coming in the future
@@TheJingles007it’s confirmed, at the end (like, the very last few seconds), it says it’s coming in the first half of 2024.
This is a TRULY excellent docu-series! So professionally and expertly made. I rarely watch anything on TH-cam that is close to an hour long, but these had me CAPTIVATED. Thank you for creating this fine, and touching piece.
Quite simply, one of the best videos I’ve ever seen on TH-cam. Every content creator should aspire to this level of excellence. The horrors and tragedy of driver, spectator and marshal deaths has never been presented with more tact, respect and reverence than here…