Indy 500 - Mike Conway Amazing Crash (May 30 2010)

[corvetteusa01]

what ryan saw had to of been the scariest thing ever.. the car came so close to him

[turducken97]

thanks to scott goodyear, everything reminds me of dan wheldon now

[xDarkyc]

He is dead ??

[and87gamer]

@xDarkyc no

[jbruce01241]

@jfpk114 this was in 2010 and they said a few years ago so it was not in 2011

[jfpk114]

funny how they mention Dan Wheldon's crash. R.I.P Dan. one of the good guys.

[nk7792]

You can only sum this up with two words upon your first viewing, "holy shit".

[tsharpmac420]

@nk7792 the two words i said when i saw this the first time was "holy fucking shit"

[TheMonsterjamfan4018]

trying to do a backflip huh?

[romero2k]

I was standing in line at Charlotte Motor Speedway getting tickets for the 600 & watching this live when it happened. Everyone in line was unison with HOLY SHIT! I didn't think he was getting out alive, had it been 1960 instead of 2010 he wouldn't have...

[JRBeaman]

Try 214 G's: /watch?v=aVpux5JxqEk

[99dndd]

From what I remember, Ryan was fuel saving to make the end of the race.

The Kimble/Hildebrand accident from 2011 was caused by the same thing.

Indycar should force the drivers to all pit for fuel on lap 180, to avoid this happening again. The Indy 500 is pretty much everything that Indycar has and it shouldn't be spoiled by a "fuel mileage" race.

[usedsportscars]

thats great video

[tsharpmac420]

and its not a circle, its an oval or tri oval, except pocano, the company that handled the construction were retarded and forgot to put in turn 4

[LauraRN713]

Kropikovo....you're right. If you look at the video Ryan Hunter Reah moves in his car to try to avoid the car hitting him. I was there but not near the accident.

[ajmurder]

its amazing to see how close both men came to dieing, and to think i got to shake ryan's hand and get his autograph on his qualifying day for 2010 in long beach, where he won that race, and to hear next year that mike wins the GP in long beach, its pretty awesome

[MortifiedPenguin275]

And now he's won the GP of Long Beach.

[DougMcDave]

I was there, about 10 rows up. I did not see Conway's car go airborne because I was looking towards the finish line, but saw the 100 plus car parts fly everywhere right in front of us. The only thing left was the steel cage cacoon which kept Conway alive! What a mess that was!

[rjl1184]

IndyCar needs to design a new car, like Nascar did for there cars. Safety should be the #1 priority.  I don't think IndyCar has done enough. We need to find a way to keep there cars on the ground and ways to keep their drivers safe. Protection on the sides and above the drivers head. We don't want anymore drivers getting killed, and we want the spectators to be safe.

[deperer]

reminds me of the le mans 1955 crash disaster. The only footage of that disaster of the actually crashing moment appeared only last year or 2 years a go... car goes airborn... kills 86 people. Luckily that will never happen these days.

[Fezz050]

These types of accidents are the reason why I believe that open-wheelers should have a closed cockpit. Like the types you find on speedboat racing. I mean if we had closed cockpits the accident Felipe Massa had 2 years ago wouldn't have happened

[10TC55]

Lol @ 1:23, it sounds like the Indy car drivers are honking their horns lol.

[ChrisMolyneaux93]

1:06 he probably shit his pants. I would too!

[goodcat1982]

wow a big oval race track. how exciting..............boring.

Forumla 1 rules!

[jdwhiskeyboy]

@goodcat1982 F1 sucks in comparison to indy. for a start there is actually overtaking in indy not just a freaking procession of cars

[MrSmoketheherb420]

@goodcat1982 dude you can't compare F1 with IndyCar. two totally different styles of racing and the dynamics of the cars are wayy different

[goodcat1982]

@MrSmoketheherb420....no your right. 1 goes round a race track and the other goes round in circles......

[tsharpmac420]

@goodcat1982 one goes around a course and is less dangerous due to lower speeds, the other goes around a race track with avg speeds around 200mph and more dangerous due to the fact if someone dies in the fastest part a road course they add a chicane to slows cars down, you cant add a chicane on a trial-oval, or any other roundy round

[goodcat1982]

@tsharpmac420 lol whatever. all you indy twats can suck my cock!

[tsharpmac420]

@goodcat1982 i aint an indy nut cock sucker, 88 BITCH

[tsharpmac420]

@MrSmoketheherb420 im pretty stoned right now so am i wrong in thinking the cars are identical except one differnce....the formula?

[dummy2k]

which hollywood movie is this? wow, nice special effects

[Railer61]

1:06  NOT what you wanna see in front of you

[Tubbs888]

@Railer61 I don't think he woulda had his eyes open!

[yoda10ike]

you can't appreciate the severity of this crash unless you saw it live right in front of you. 100,000 fans in turns 3 and 4 all holding their breath.

[KingsPowerSteel]

@yoda10ike

I can only imagine. When I was in Monza at the Parabolica (they reached about 350 there) watching F1 in 2003, I saw da Matta spin off track after a tyre failure. That already looked damn scary, eventhough he didn't even hit anything. But the sheer speed they have is sick and not imagineable.

[WeisMotorsport]

@KingsPowerSteel idiot :(

[HistoricRacers]

OUCH!!!

[Kropikovo]

What's that other guys name? Ryan Hunter Ray? That it that luckiest man alive! Nobody seems to notice this, but Conway's car misses his head only by centimeters. This was so closely two fatalities.... ufff. If Conway wen head first into the fence, he's dead. If Ray was just a tiny bit faster, he'd smag his head into the flying car. For me the luckiest escape of 2010

[gobackto82]

@Kropikovo Ryan Hunter-Reay. Earlier in the race, Ryan broke his index finger. But I agree 100+% with you

[thevmanvj]

This is very similar to the the nasty crash of Tom Sneva in 1975, in which Conway climbed over the wheel of Hunter-Ray"s car (which was unfortunately running out of fuel). Bad luck for both !! (see clips and compare) TFP

[supermassa23]

esse nasce novamente eim!!!

tomara ki fosse o o alonso ki tivesse la dentro!

[afrociberdelico]

@supermassa23 Realmente nem pra ser o cretino do alonso

[haddaway1234]

hope he is alive

[witchcraft2020]

@haddaway1234 Yup, broken leg. Astonishing. He'll be back racing soon :)

[kimifan06]

@haddaway1234 dont worry he is

[Naoki09]

I got it on video right in the stands, that shocked me that he just got away with a back injury and a broken leg. That was a terrible crash that could have been much worse.

[maik20091]

My car is one of the safest out there and it's fender is made of plastic, ever heard the the crumple zone? Certain parts are designed to take away the energy of the impact.

[pnutbutrncrackers]

This crash reminds me A LOT of the one at the end of the 1996 Indy 500, also on the last lap, with Zampedri's car doing pirouettes in the air right above Salazar's head (he actually ducks!). It's on YouTube.

[micheltre]

@p0litician0nLSD, your right on that, it is not the same impact,same angle, but in fact, the care was built pretty same, to be easly dislock, to absorb G forces on impact, i am a track marshall in canada, and i work for F1, and i work for champcar and indy to, and it is very same. That make a spectacular accident, but safe for the driver. in 20 years the security have been incrase by 300%. and carbon fiber do a nice job, i cant imagine a driver survive inside a aluminum car.

[micheltre]

it's carbon fiber, same then a F1, and at this speed a F1 will be destoyed too, just remember robert kubica at montreal 2008,

and he have been catch by the fences, all holes into the fence was like a scrub.

[p0litician0nLSD]

@micheltre kubica was much more massive impact on the wall, here we got totally different angle so its not so compareable (if such word exists..ajem not gut englishman^)

[DBoy02]

@p0litician0nLSD Kubica's crash was much lighter than this courtesy of much slwoer speed. 186 MPH vs 220 MPH(sure, it probably lost some speed before impact with the fence, but not much). Kubica's crash peaked at 75 Gs. This was in excess of 100 Gs.

(and micheltre, the crash was in 2007, not 2008. Kubica WON the 2008 Canadian Grand Prix)

[p0litician0nLSD]

@DBoy02 hmm i didnt know the numbers, both are impressive, i was just judging what i saw, kubica looked more like a frontal hit with a wall, and this more like a slide-hit. whats good about both impacts.. both drivers came out alive^^ which is quiet amazing performance when thinking about crashes 10 years, 20 years ago.. both would be dead.

[rastamees]

wtf are those made of ? plastic ? the tire bumped into the side and it was already dented ?

an f1 car would never be so completely destroyed.

[DBoy02]

@rastamees Not true. F1 cars are built to the same safety specifications. If an F1 car crashed the same way at those speeds, it would break apart in the same way. Yes, even the dent from the tire "bumping" into the side(there is no such thing a a mere "bump" at 220 MPH) would occur the same way.

[rastamees]

@DBoy02

the wheels and wings would ofcourse break off. but i have yet to see a modern day f1 break in half.

[DBoy02]

@rastamees A modern F1 car has never hit a wall while flying through the air at 220 MPH. The same thing would happen if such a situation occurred.

[rastamees]

@DBoy02

F1 is still the highest class of racing. thus i believe it is also the safest.

[DBoy02]

@rastamees I HAVE seen Kubica's crash and it WAS NOT AS BIG A HIT. The speed was lower, and the G-Forces are lower. F1 is only safer because on road courses you don't get up to oval speeds.

Just being the highest class of racing doesn't mean it's safer.

[rastamees]

@DBoy02

well theres alot more money involved. and in indy500 its impossible to hit a wall going straight at it. thats why F1 tracks have tire walls. in kubicas case it was a really unlucky crash. he basically hit a concrete wall dead on. i dont think an indy500 car would take a hit like that so well.

[DBoy02]

@rastamees It is possible for an IndyCar to hit a wall straight-on under the right circumstances. At least, as straight-on as Kubica's incident(which was more straight than your average IndyCar crash, yes, but was still not a direct straight-on hit). IndyCar ovals also have SAFER barriers, which are far safer than tire barriers(to the point where even road courses are starting to install them). IndyCars are tested to FIA crash safety standards, and that's the end of it.

[rastamees]

@DBoy02

ofcourse i agree that they are safe. but i think F1 is safer.

[DBoy02]

@rastamees They're only safer because they run slower. On road courses, where the IndyCars are the ones that're a bit slower(that's the problem with only 650 horsepower despite the cars producing less drag than F1 cars. Bring on the next-gen cars), crash results are comparable to F1.

[rastamees]

@DBoy02

yea, but i think an F1 car wouldnt have been torn in half in this particular crash.

[DBoy02]

@rastamees It definitely would have. The car broke apart because as part of FIA crash safety requirements, the tub is the only portion of the car that absolutely MUST stay completely intact during during a crash. Every other component MUST be designed to break away at certain G-loads, even the point where the engine mounts to the chassis. It takes a lot of energy to split the car in half, but in a comparable situation it will happy to ANY open-wheel car built to FIA safety requirements.

[paulboggan]

@rastamees

if an f1 car didnt get torn in half in that kind of accident it would probably killed the driver. the reason it gets torn apart is to dissapate the crash energy away from the survival cell. anyway f1 car hitting a brick wall or catch fencing at 220+mph would suffer much more damage as they are not designed to race on ovals. indycars are much stronger and heavier machines.

[rastamees]

@paulboggan

it may be true but i refuse to believe it.

maybe i just like F1 too much.

[paulboggan]

@rastamees

it is possible to love f1 and other motorsports too! i do!!

[rastamees]

@paulboggan

i bet if i had a channel that would show indy500 then i probably would start to like it.

[paulboggan]

@rastamees

fair point! its on sky sports over here in ireland i dont know about the rest of europe (sorry, im presuming you are in europe.....dont know why!)

[rastamees]

@paulboggan

yea, im from estonia.

[rastamees]

@DBoy02

btw, what was the deal with that swiss woman who couldnt get out of her car fast enough and suffered burns ? plus it took the fire team about 30sec to start putting the flames out, right after she was pulled out.

[DBoy02]

@rastamees The firefighting gear on the first truck broke. Generally you only need one truck to take care of an oil or fuel fire in an IndyCar(ethanol fires are easier to extinguish), so once the others saw a truck on scene they took it easy to avoid the active cars. The good thing is that, once they realized their equipment had malfunctioned, they did the best thing they could - got their asses over to the car and pulled her out.

[maik20091]

Franchitti wa sunder pressure, i doubt he would have won without the yellow flag.

[xploddan]

Open wheel racing on those tracks are just stupid...

[vuetube]

No more stupid than F1 racing in the streets of Monaco.

[afannell]

@vuetube

Looks like we're going end up with the Delta Wing Car or the BAT chassis as a result of that accident.

[mrcgeraldes]

cooool! :D

[vizirek87]

@mrcgeraldes

no that isn't cool at all!!.

[mvanherd]

Was Hunter-ray blocking by chance? Or was Conway just really optomistic?...wow very lucky..he may as well quit buying lotto tickets for a while.

[simcut]

@mvanherd Hunter-reay was running out of fuel and his car was slowing down...

[GDPargentinean]

I've seen this live!

Panther Racing SHOULD HAVE WON THE INDY 500 !!!!!!!!!!

They Have Finished 2nd In 2008, 2nd In 2009 And 2nd In 2010 !!!!!

STUPID CAUTION FLAG, WHY THE HELL THEY CRASHED... ???!!!