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  • Being 17 i haven't witnessed a fatality in formula 1 luckily. Hope that these days are gone :\

  • Good Riddance. This guy caused Senna's death.

    

  • @masterhalco What are you talking about? Paletti never raced with Senna. Murray Walker, as a commentator also had nothing to do with the death of Senna. Pironi being on Villeneuve's mind when he crashed fatally at Zolder is what I suppose you mean but Pironi doesn't die in this video so I don't know what you mean.

  • @MrChrisalf2004 Paletti ordered the assassination of Senna. Open you eyes and see the truth. I bet you think 9-11 was muslims crashing airplanes too.

  • @masterhalco Neither driver involved ever raced with Senna, and both were dead before Senna was even a champion in F1, let alone before the crash at Imola. I know you're trolling and trying to get a reaction from people, but try and make it less obvious, idiot.

  • @icuwoot I got the reaction from you. I know you're a sucker, but try to make it less obvious, idiot.

  • @masterhalco You totally did. I was raging. I even threw my laptop across the room and broken it. Now I'm posting from the public library.

  • Whatever you might have thought of Pironi in light of the Villeneuve controversy at San Marino - let it be said that Pironi did everything he could to do to try to save Paletti.

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  • @SonyByPirModerator Don't be such a disrespectful cunt.

  • @SonyByPirModerator Serioulsy? Your happy he's dead?

  • Where is the tape from cameraman in yellow?

  • Must have been the scariest thing i can imagine happening.

  • the crash isnt what killed him burning up in the car is

  • @twotoneify NO ABSOLUTELY, HE DIED BECAUSE OF THE CRASH INJURIES....NOT COS THE FIRE...

  • @Lucignolone90 Actually, the chest injuries werent fatal in of itself. The autopsy concluded that the fire retardant foam used to put out the flames combined with the chest injuries caused him to suffocate because he couldnt breathe properly.

  • it's never easy watching these things, I was in the grandstands at Las Vegas to watch Dan Wheldon's fatal crash yesterday. RIP to Paletti, Wheldon, and all of the other heroes who gave their lives going for that extra tenth of a second.

  • It's impressive and horrible how F1 car burn so fast that time..

    RIP

  • His mother was watching from the stands, where they were to celebrate his 24th birthday the next day.

  • pelo menos ele não sofreu pois ja estava inconciente dentro do carro antes mesmo de ter pego fogo.Cenas bizarras de uma formula 1 q em termos de segurança era precária.Cena inadimissivel nos dias de hoje.

  • Notice the guy's foot catches fire.

  • Brave marshals, very brave guys.

  • Finalmente fue trasladado a un hospital donde falleció poco después. Esa misma temporada falleció Gilles Villeneuve, tan solo un mes antes de su muerte. Riccardo Paletti no murió por las quemaduras, sino que murió a causa del choque, porque al chocar a 200 km/h, con el coche de Pironi, la parte delantera del frágil Osella se rompió, y se clavó la barra de dirección en el pecho, motivo que explica porqué Riccardo Paletti no salía de su coche cuando los médicos le atendían.

  • Pese a la ayuda y las asistencias médicas, el tanque de gasolina del Osella se terminó de abrir, comenzado un fuego que haría imposible su rescate durante unos largos y enternos minutos. Paletti en el momento del choque perdió el conocimiento, ya que tenía el tórax destrozado. A la dantesca situación en la que se encontraba el piloto, había que sumarle el estar inmerso en una bola de fuego, sin poder escapar.

  • En el GP de Canadá de 1982 salía desde la pole position el piloto francés Didier Pironi, quien no consiguió arrancar su Ferrari por problemas técnicos, quedándose totalmente clavado. La mayoría de pilotos consiguieron esquivarlo, desafortunadamente el italiano Ricardo Paletti, de 23 años, no pudo esquivarlo y se estrelló contra la parte trasera de su coche

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  • Pironi what a legend for actually trying to save Paletti during the fire and carnage

  • God that's sad

  • Addio Riccardo...

  • murray walker. what a commentator

  • RIP

    very professionally and tastefully put together and Murray Walker was superb. when the BBC was at its best.

  • No way a car that considers the drivers feet and legs "crumple zones" safe.

  • rip

    

  • R.I.P

  • That didn't look fatal at all

  • @geraDce You have to understand, todays cars are alot safer because of these sort of accidents. Dale Earndharts accident at daytona looks pretty normal today, but the cars weren't so safe even 10 years ago!

  • @KennPFC Right point, wrong example perhaps. Dale Sr's accident brought about mandatory use of the HANS device along with SAFER walls. The cars themselves didn't change that much in a way that would've prevented this tragedy. 

  • They had to do something more,poor man burned in front o them.

  • @1963zoso ..... cunt.

  • @rpby82 yeah cause it's funny when people die....

  • two days before his 24th birth day :S

  • my god.....

  • Open wheel racing can never be safe. You know a car design is messed up when a drivers legs are considered "crumple zones". It's a miracle more have not died.

  • @Zoomer30 fuck off pussy 

  • @Zoomer30 The drivers legs are by no means a crumple zone. Back in the days the cars were just too weak, but today the cars have a crumble zone in the nose of the car where there is nothing but suspension and wires. The drivers legs are in a contained box behind that. It is not the open wheel design that is the problem it was just the safety regulations that were not strict enough back then.

  • @dude2106 In a way people have to die before you get safety regulations, you wouldn't just put them there automatically, I mean builders on site only wear hard hats these days because people have died from having bricks dropped on their heads before. They say prevention is better than cure but safety regs are 100% cure, you learn from your mistakes and all that. RIP to all the greats who helped forge this sport into what it is today

  • @dude2106 The cars were NOT too weak. The problem was that the drivers were seated too far forward. A driver could reach outward with his arms and touch the wheels. Incredibly, FISA did absolutely nothing after this accident...they waited until Pironi's Germany accident to change the regs.

  • bad firefighters!!!!!!!!!!

  • How ironic that Pironi dedicated his pole for Gilles who died a Zolder earlier in the season. Yet it was his very own stalled car that acted like a brick wall when the novice yet undiscovered Paletti slammned into him at just over 100mph. Very sad year in F1. RIP all those legends who loved what they were doing and would die trying to be the very best. Man those cars were all so beautil. Murray Walker is a legend of motor sport. The grandfather of TV commentry and such a gentleman.

  • @thegreatbasher

    Summed it up well.

  • @J90JAM Thank you for the nice comment. My appreciated.

  • @thegreatbasher Even more than that, the monaco GP of 1982 something like 5 drivers lead and went out on the final lap. Gilles had won his last GP at that track the previous year

  • @thegreatbasher and one of those leaders was Pironi in the ferrari and he ran out of petrol in the tunnel

  • Such a bad year for F1, and Didier Pironi factors in to most of the bad luck and/or trouble.

  • It's still tragic to see all people trying to control the massive petrol fire.But Ricardo was already dead from the impact with Pironis Ferrari.

  • @kzbxvz He wasn't dead when the fire was happening, just unconcious

  • @TotnumMatt But in that case with really life threathening injuries on his way to hospital.

  • Just in case anyone is wondering, he apparently was not conscious and actually suffered no burns (wikipedia)

  • what a terrible way to go... wow, just terrible.

  • @SkeeboDa1 At least he died in the car, which to a race driver is a warrior's death, and not ignominiously while making a ham sandwich.

  • @gp75motorsports I didn't mean anything in regards to the sport. I was strictly referring to him burning to death.

  • @SkeeboDa1 Oh. Well, at least he didn't feel it.

  • @gp75motorsports This is true. I suppose there is an upside to everything.

  • R.I.P Ricardo.....

  • RIPOSA IN PACE.

  • It's so shocking that he died at a track dedicated to Gilles Villeneuve, another driver fatally injured in a crash. RIP

  • That a shame!!

    Che vergogna è morto sotto gli occhi dei commisari!!

    Per fortuna la formula 1 è cambiata.

  • What touches me about these older racing videos is how the drivers were always concerned foremost about the well-being of their fellow racers after an accident. You wouldn't see many of the spoiled brats in top-tier racing these days risking their own necks to try to save someone else.

  • @Shirazae one word: amen

  • @Shirazae Yeah, you wont see alonso try to help vettel if he crashes into him. He'll just start shouting and waving his middle finger

  • Qué lástima. Este piloto cumplía 24 años justo dos días después. Por eso, entre otras cosas, su madre estaba ese día en el circuito mirando la carrera.

    Que en paz descanses Ricardo.

  • Sorry to disappoint some of you sick bastards.. and Glad to relive the rest of you.. If anyone here has actually watched the video you will realize that he (1.) was unconscious when the car went up in flames (2.) Did not suffer any burns (or pain) from the fire due to the fire proof suit he was wearing & (3.) was cut free from the wreckage and died after of internal bleeding and chest injuries the next day.

  • I wish Murray could continue his job in F1; he was amazing!

  • Wie fürchterlich!

  • Riccardo Paletti and Roland Ratzemberger died in their 2° race in F1.

  • @elmasterderacing3 and williamson...

  • quand j y pense je regarde les images est c est comme si c etait hier.. ouff , c est pas le feu ou la fumee qui la tuer , car il est deceder sur le coup .. la aorte du coeur c etait sectionner.. , mais remarquer bien que il y a aucun signaleur et drapeau jaune qui est suposer etre agiter pt que ca aurait aider ,. mais moi meme etant pilote. on na pas le temps lors d un depart , on fonce ..

    RIP Riccardo !!

  • Non doveva finire così... :-(

  • everything was handycrafted while nowadays electronics takes its toll and there's little place for surprises, telemetry shows a complete record of all your moves, and so on. anyway, hats off to mark, fernando, sebastian, jenson, lewis.

    vamos fernando!

    aquí no me oye nadie.

  • drivers safety has come into the equation... and f1 nowadays is not as exciting (lovable) as it was until the 80s. let's face it: it had to happen, but still there's a certain charm and as for me total admiration for those pioneers of the 50s 60s 70s up until the 80s when a team was a brave committed racing driver and a team of mechanics.

  • Basal skull facture. Same the that killed Dale Earnhardt (and Adam Petty). That's why the HANS device is madatory now.

  • @Zoomer30 Paletti died of fat embolism, because they didn't immobilize his legs, nor put any type of cast to do so.

  • @jacobyne: Fat embolism? You must be thinking of Ronnie Peterson in Monza... It was massive internal injuries that killed Ricardo...

  • @PhilipTheBigOne My mistake

  • @jacobyne I could be wrong, but I think you are thinking of Ronnie Peterson who died of an embolisim some days after his startline accident. Paletti I think died of his injuries

  • @Zoomer30 It was internal chest injuries that killed him... try wikipedia. nascar guys...

  • Why them don't put Palleti fastely out of the car??? Times that the F1 was so dangerous...

  • sad, only 23...god bless him.

    shit, the acceleration must be mental! within a few hundred feet ??

  • In the new F1 racing magazine. Sid Watkins said that when he checked him before the fire he had blown pupils. And he says "he was already dead"

  • Flames did not harm him, he had basal skull fracture

  • He would have been unconscious as the car set alight probably dead, he won't have felt the flames. Shocking how a car could come to pieces in those days.

  • @araregoodguy he was alive when he was airlifted to hospital. the surgeons tried to save him, but ultimately, he succumbed to his severe injuries in hospital. R.I.P

  • @xtralog .just like how u roast ur dads d!ck and how i roast ur mum's {unt everynight.

  • @xtralog

    He wasn't harmed by those flames.

  • this just shows Pironi was a decent human being

  • @kyzrvlhlm1995 - Wouldn't you have done the same?

  • @Sacriphyx yes, but would have anyone else?

  • NASCAR is for inbred fags

  • @n1psy

    people that judge different types of racingare fags

  • @n1psy like yourself

  • 1982

  • what year was that accident

  • If im thinking right, this incident alone made head-on impact crash tests mandatory.

    And a good thing too as thAt was a horrible impact

    RIP :(

  • so was he still alive after the crash, but burnt to death? and was one of the orange suit guy actually videorising it?

  • Horrible Death...

  • omg this is so cruel.(

  • R.I.P Ricardo Paletti

  • riposa in pace....

  • YES INDEED THE formula 1 of today is boring

  • @MrAmore94 I would too, I and I'd put my money on an F1 for many reasons, but others I would leave it to Nascar. I like Nascar because of muscle and the excitement, F1 is so predictable if you start 1st most likely you end 1st.

  • @MrAmore94 your an idiot... google it moron

  • 10 years from now we'll see hybrid f1's...

  • wrong and wrong

    the crashtest F1 cars need to pass are far more tough to design a car to withstand than those basic rollcage Nascars

    also a F1 car has more power too, in the Turbo era of the 80's this was particularly true

  • @AlexDeLarge90 No your totally wrong, get your facts right mate.

  • @dreampilot2

    you can't even spell you're and according to the Nascar teams themselves on their websites they claim around 760-790hp, above 800hp in ideal configuartions without restrictors.

    Nonetheless 760hp/0,6tons=1267hp/ton in power to weight ratio

    and 800hp/1,6556tons=483hp/ton in power to weight ratio

    1655,6 kilos as a minumum weight for a a car, with fuel and driver is incredibly heavy for racing. Next up is FIA truck racing.

    It's a heck of a lot more physically demanding driving F1

  • @AlexDeLarge90 Nascar has a lot more power than an F1, Nascar: 855BHP 5.86L V8, F1: 725BHP 2.4L V8. Nascar bodies and cages are much stronger, the rate of death in a crash of Nascar is nothing compared to F1. Get your facts straight, I'm not saying Nascar is better by any means I personally like Nascar and F1.

  • @dreampilot2 Bullshit, more power doesn't mean faster machines. Nascar is a LOT heavier than your typical F1 vehicle. Also, those cages are fucking useless, only rolling you on and on but because of the amount of racers, fatalities are more common. In the same period since Senna's death in 1994, there has been 0 F1 fatalities whereas Nascar has seen 10!!!

  • @ElayneTrakand Do you know why there has been 10 fatalities it's because in NASCAR each car is at a constant 200 mph where as F1 reaches 200 mph very rarely also each car in NASCAR is much more safer than any F1.

  • @dreampilot2

    bull. if you take weight and size into account F1 is way safer considering there's no crumble zones, no monster roll cage and the head is totally open and vulnerable, witness Massa's accident last year

    Since 1994 there has been zero deaths in F1, that is 16 years without a single death. Before that you had to go back all the way to 1982 to a death in a race, which was Gilles Villeneuve. Elio De Angelis died in a test in 1986.

  • @McLarenMercedes Use your brain there hasn't been a death in F1 for that long because the cars never reach 200mph in a race where as NASCAR is at a constant 200mph so if you take everything into consideration each NASCAR car is safer than any F1 car. Crash a NASCAR into an F1 head on see which one crumbles.

  • @dreampilot2

    Most crashes don't occur at 200mph either. Robert Kubica's crash in Canada in 2007 was doing 180mph at least, and he was fine. Just missed a race because his doctors wanted to check him out.

    "the heavier the safer". Unbelievable. Mercedes proved that idea wrong in the 1950's while testing the safest configuration for future road cars.

    You're either insane or think you're funny.

  • @McLarenMercedes Heavier is safer when head on with two cars dimwit. 

  • @dreampilot2

    oval racing with concrete walls is hardly what I call safe. Also they do race in RAIN in F1, which they don't in Nascar as soon as the rain falls.

  • @dreampilot2 Hmm, F1 circuits have upwards of 25 corners true, but all F1 accidents occur at 150mph+ speeds. Way enough to kill.

  • @dreampilot2

    You're forgetting something very important. A F1 car is 600kilos heavy with a driver. Whereas a NASCAR is almost THREE TIMES as heavy. Ever taken power to weight ratio into account?

    Uh, Mercedes claim their 2007 engine had 810hp and BMW had even more than that.

    And let's assume a conservative 750hp, how is 100hp more from more than twice the displacement "a lot more power"?

    Last time I checked Nascar's don't pull 5 G's in the corners, or brake nearly as well. Fitness??

  • @McLarenMercedes Thats the whole point, the heavier the safer. An Aero TT (American) has a V8 engine which is faster than the Bugatti Veyron's V16. America is far ahead of Europe.

  • @dreampilot2

    No, the heavier the harder it is for it to stop. Basic physics. In racing heavy weight usually means hopeless handling and the heavier an oject is the more kinetic energy it has, which makes it harder to stop. For this reason they forced the racing trucks to have speed limiters at 100mph, otherwise they'd be impossible to stop. Imagine a 8 ton truck having brake failure doing 150mph??

    The Veyron is electronically limited to 253mph because that is what the tires can safely take.

  • @dreampilot2

    Power doesn't come from the numbers of cylinders, rather displacement. BMW made a 1,5litre straight 4 cylinder which had 1400hp and they raced that in Formula 1 in 1983. That's almost 1000hp/litre. That one was based on their 1961 designed M10 engine which was a roadcar engine, not designed for F1 at all.

    Veyron could easily take the record back by de-restricting the Veyron and charge the same amount of enginebraking boost Aero TT uses. How many of those SSC's have been tested??

  • @dreampilot2

    They have already sold over 200 Veyron's. How many SSC's have been sold anyway? How come the rich and famous don't go out and buy it so they can have "the fastest car in the world"? I'll tell you why, because it's a souped up kitcar from a micro company that used to sell Lamborghini replicas.

    Sorry, but Nazi Germany had Mercedes and Auto Union cars reach 270mph on Autobahn in 1938 so to make a car go fast is nothing new, to make it go fast safely for non-pro drivers another.

  • @dreampilot2

    You're either a troll or the real deal. I am having a hard time taking you for real because it seems you're intentionally being stupid.

    "the heavier the safer". Haha. You can make a lightweight carbonfibre monocoque and make it both leight, strong and incredibly safe, McLaren proved this in 1981 already when DeCesaris crashed in every race but wasn't hurt in any of them.

    There are no American teams in F1. Lotus revolutionized IndyCar with the rearengined car. Nascar is lowtech

  • @dreampilot2 you chat shit. the veyron ss is faster and can go round corners unlike american cars

  • Formula 1 is magic, football is shit.

  • @Piasintei71 heck if you're right!!!!!!at least on the football....

  • @Piasintei71 I agree you can have a bad race in f1 but when you get a good one it is much better than any football. Plus all football thesedays is decided on some Ronaldo like player diving and winning a penalty.

  • @Piasintei71 Formula 1 is a SPORT, football is just a game. 

  • @Piasintei71 Formula 1 was magic, football is a good second ever.. However not even close to the old days of Formula 1. I love to see the top gear episode where Hamilton can drives a real Mclaren race monster.

  • @Piasintei71 Why do u say "F1 is magic" on this particular video??

  • I remember watching this live on CBC...about a month after Gilles Villeneuve died, the track was named in his honour and then somebody crashes into a Ferrari and dies, it was like a curse or something.

  • oh... that's definately a unfair situation... RIP

  • oh man, just look at that wreck..

    speechless

  • the chassis was made of alluminium back then so any head on crash could be disasterous and also the fact the drivers sat so far forward then with their feet well past the centre axle line

  • unfortunately the aluminium chassis had nothing to do with his death. Paletti died of a ruptured aorta, meaning he simply died of the deceleration caused by the impact. This won't get better by the use of a more rigid carbon chassis. I say 'unfortunately' since this means that this type of accident can reoccur anytime.

  • Murray Walker really was a terrible commentator sometimes. If you didn't know Paletti's fate before seeing this, you'd never have guessed he died. MW makes it sound like he was rescued, with words like "he was in shock", "was not affected by the flames", "his internal injuries and broken legs were the problem".

    Btw, this is NOT the most terrible F1 crash to watch. Sadly, Roger Williamson has that dubious honour. His death was the worst ever and is unbearable.

  • @charliechutney I suspect these are highlights upon which Murray is commentating on afterwards.Overseas races in the early 80s rarely received live coverage on the BBC.Had this been live then I'm sure his tone of voice would have been quite different.

  • I know it was from a highlights show, that's obvious, but he was still an awful commentator/presenter sometimes.

  • he's presenting the crash not commentating. This wasn't live.

  • oh really??? i thought he was training his budgie how to make an origami tortoise!!!

  • Bam....The so called prick you claim is a on track camera man. What makes him a prick?????? WTF is he going to do? Its his job to film, he cant help any its not like he can get anywhere near the flames.

  • You stand alone on this toss boy. those around the car also expressed extreme anger at the 'man' with the video camera who had nothing to do with the official TV broadcast.

  • this is possibly the most harrowing thing ive ever witnessed in f1. made even worse by the sight of riccardos mother rushing onto the track in hysterics trying to help..... awful tragedy.

  • So sad..I love F1 from the bottom of my heart but I hate the cold fact that it has taken so many lives..It makes me sick to the pit of my stomach when I think of all those who've died..Paletti was only 23!! Had his whole career ahead of him..a tragedy beyond measure..rest in peace guys..you did good..

  • other way round..

  • You would not be in my team in a formula one quiz..oh no...

  • Pironi died on a power boat, a few years later, not on a race car...

  • coitado era muito jovem

  • dont blame the engineers, blame to the fia security politics in the 80's

  • I'd like to get my hands on the camera man in the yellow top who continued to film when the car went up in flames. And beat 10 shades of shit out of him.

    RIP Riccardo.

  • Onore a Riccardo.

  • 13th july 1982. Strange day for sport. World cup started in Spain, with 140 countries and 1 billion people watching. It was also the first international ladies rugby match, Holand - France. And this race, pretty sad.