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Garry

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Racing Accidents
« on: January 27, 2014, 02:29:29 »
Here are a few accidents, but interesting in opening scene of early MB race cars.

No seat belts, roll bars or anything and a few very dead people I think.

Garry

http://devour.com/video/vintage-race-car-crashes/
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Garry Marks
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Re: Racing Accidents
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2014, 06:32:20 »
impressive, and I think you're right: it looks that there are very few very dead people, but much more of just slightly dead people...  ;D
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Stan
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Re: Racing Accidents
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2014, 18:16:45 »
Gruesome!
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71Beige280SL

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Re: Racing Accidents
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2014, 19:49:39 »
Wow, the open cockpit car crashes were pretty spectacular! Particularly the one that hit the wall and caught fire. Geesh!
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Re: Racing Accidents
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2014, 20:31:04 »
Frightening - it showed the deaths of many, however what interested me was the fact that many walked away - some of those impacts were huge - no seat belts, no padded dashes, no crumple zones and a whole lot of them still survived - just.
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Re: Racing Accidents
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2014, 15:01:25 »
Rent the 2013 Ron Howard movie "Rush" when you can...about F1 Drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda in the 70's... more about the story than the accidents specifically but a good flick overall...

http://www.fandango.com/movie-trailer/rush:70scoolfeaturette-trailer/159252/2411157245

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