1976 John Banks flip @ Daytona (High Quality)
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- Canadian racer John Banks flips during a qualifying race at Daytona in 1976. Banks reportedly flipped at least 15 times after his Dodge underwent a series of corkscrews and barrel rolls.
News articles of the crash:
Chicago Tribune (2/13/76): Banks' accident brought on the first of three caution flags that caused a full third of the race to be run at speeds not much faster than you'd find on the Dan Ryan at high noon. He was just going into the first turn on the third lap when his right fender hit the wall. As he bounced off like a ping-pong ball he was tapped by Earle Canavan and went totally out of control, his car flipping and corkscrewing end over end and sideways through the turn. The entire scene was obscured by smoke but it was estimated that the car made more than a dozen airborne revolutions...
Daytona Beach Sunday News-Journal (2/13/76): The first race was marred by a wild wreck in which the racer of John Banks, Windsor, Ont., barrel rolled at least 15 frightening times going into the first turn on the third lap. Banks was treated at the field hospital and then taken to Halifax Hospital where he will be kept under observation for 24 to 48 hours. Dr. Al Monaco, at the track hospital, said Banks was conscious and didn't seem to be seriously injured. He suffered a possible concussion and multiple abrasions.
Herald-Journal (2/13/76): The opener was marred by a multicar wreck on the third lap which sent driver John Banks of Windsor, Ontario to a nearby hospital with multiple bruises and a possible concussion. He was scheduled to remain hospitalized for one or two days, although his injuries were not considered serious. Banks’ Dodge hit the wall coming out of the tri-oval, bounced back into traffic and was apparently hit by Earle Canavan’s Dodge. The Banks car sailed into a wild side-over-side spin as dust clouded the turn.
Lakeland Ledger (2/13/76): “I didn’t see the wreck, only the pieces on the track.” David Pearson said here Thursday following the first of two 125-mile qualifying races for Sunday’s Daytona 500. “When I came in the pits, I told Leonard (Wood) ‘He’s got to be dead, there’s no way he could come out of it.’” But fortunately John Banks wasn’t dead. In fact, he wasn’t even as seriously injured as Dave Decker, who was listed in serious condition with a possible broken sternum in a local hospital after he spun out on the backstretch in the second race. Banks wreck, in which he went end over end 15 times by some counts going through the first turn, and Decker’s injury overshadowed qualifying race wins by Dave Marcis and Darrell Waltrip as the field was completed for Sunday’s race.
Mid Cities Daily News (2/13/76): In the first of Thursday’s two events, John Banks, a Canadian, lost control of his Dodge as he passed the start-finish line and headed into turn one with only four laps gone. His vehicle skidded into the apron, began tumbling end-over-end, and bounced back into the track scattering debris over a wide area. He was pulled from the mass of tangled metal apparently unharmed, but was taken to a local hospital for observation.
Waycross Journal-Herald (2/13/76): The first caution flag was thrown because of a bad accident in the first turn, involving Earle Canavan, “Do”, L.M. Faustina, Gary Myers, and John Banks. Banks, Windsor, Ont., was the only one seriously injured. He rolled his car about 15 times before his Dodge landed upright. The field hospital reported he was conscious upon arrival and said he was alright. Hospital spokesman reported Banks received possible concussion, and many cuts and bruises and they were sending him to Halifax General Hospital in Daytona.
Windsor Star (2/13/76): Windsor’s Johnny Banks, left, was taken to a Daytona Beach, Fla. Hospital Thursday with a possible concussion and multiple cuts and bruises after his car rolled end-over-end and sideways in a stock car qualifying race at Daytona’s International Speedway. At least three other cars were involved in the smash, but the other drivers were able to make pit repairs and continue racing. Banks’ Dodge was turned into a crumpled wreck in the crash on the Speedway’s first turn during the first of two qualifying races for Sunday’s Daytona 500 stock car race. Banks, who has been racing about 25 years, took two cars and a team of eight men with him to Daytona. The Dodge he wrecked Thursday was apparently the better, more powerful machine. When first taken to the Speedway’s infirmary following the crash, Banks insisted to doctors he was all right.
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The actual rolls seem pretty similar to Maynard Troyer's flip in '71, wonder if John also clipped the apron to get on his side too
Not sure. Seeing this after the 2024 Firecracker 400 is especially topical.
2nd violent roll over at Daytona ever. 15 times barrel rolling that's wild 😮😮😮😮😮
These guys were TOUGH! No safer barriers. No HANS, crappy helmets, crappy fire suits, horribly designed cars for impact. Bad asses!
Good ol' days of racing.
My
favorite series as a kid and they still are like a tank coming at you down the road😂
Ahh, Mr. Jackie Stewart. The good ole days of stock car racing, and a country that was still proud.
Bicentennial year too
1:45 😳?? I didn't know Waylon Jennings raced in Nascar! 😂
LOL Waylon Jennings and his buddy Marty Robbins, Marty said he was the official wall tester for Nascar.
Excellent video quality for 76
I was there but admit I was only 14 years old. Didn't see it start, but remember the broken glass shimmering in the sun all across the track. We were sitting in the tri-oval
finally we can see how he rolled over there
I think I knew the Banks Family, delivered parts to their shop many years ago, I think. I might be mistaken, the years have flown by, God help me. I remember them as good people.😢
In Windsor, Ontario??
@@sludge8506 You may very well be right. The shop to which I delivered parts was south of Windsor. I think, maybe, their name was Bochamp. I don't rightly remember. I know the Son had a horrific crash. It all seems very familiar, very long ago. Sorry for the confusion. That terrible video brought back many very convoluted memories. My mind is not right.
The Banks family owned Banks Alignment which was located on Crawford Avenue in Windsor, ONT. and the Beauchamp race shop was located just south of McGregor, ONT on Walker Road and they ran in the Pintys Nascar Series in Canada.
@@guydemers7607 Hi, Guy. Thank You! It was about 30 years ago I was running auto parts out of Dorchester, ONT. for CANUSA. It was called the 'West Run'. I had about 60 stops a day on that route, Bank's Alignment was one of those stops along with the 'Beauchamp Race Shop' and many others. I knew I hadn't totally lost my mind!
Holy moly
These cars have been flipping since the start. Deal with it. It’s physics. If they down anymore then why watch?
This wreck must've spooked him because he never raced in NASCAR again after this occurred.
Looks like Tom just came back from tending to the moonshine still ?
Wow, this must’ve been rare footage
Yes. NASCAR itself has this video
no way its josh
@@SHOTGUN1100 omg it’s shot
Wow. Amazing
These dudes were driving rockets on wheels with horsecrap safety concerns. Just unreal.
Real
Johnny Banks was Canadian but I'm assuming Tom Williams wasn't. The days when Dave Marcis was a genuine contender. Doc Faustina, a racing dentist twenty years before Dr. Jack Miller?
how many times did he actually flip..? bc i think he flipped 15 times
15 flips is the magic number... that's how many times Maynard Troyer flipped in 1971. If Banks flipped more than 15 times this would be the biggest barrel roll in NASCAR history.
Trying to figure out how this even happened
My guess would be a blowover. There seems to be evidence in other wrecks during this era where they started to occur. There was one around this time at Talladega where it happened on the backstretch. I wanna say it was Richard Brooks.
If you watch the video it was clearly explained....
He blew a front right tire. 🛞
A reminder after the 2024 Firecracker 400 that these blow over wrecks aren’t because of the flat bottom on the new cars
Is he the only Canadian ever to compete at Daytona???
No... Trevor Boys, Earl Ross and Roy Smith come to mind. Smith was 10th in '82 Daytona 500, Ross was 11th in '74. They've done well.
@@SimRacin14 Also Vic Parsons from Barrie Ontario. I raced against him at Peterborough.
F1 champion Jacques Villeneuve also raced in the 500
Stewart Friesen who runs in the Truck series currently is Canadian-born and has run at Daytona multiple times
No not even close