Philippe alliot 1988 crash at mexico

[jerryaltman]

Spectators was very close !!! Anybody hurt ???

[taitaglider]

Un accidente muy fuerte despues de que el auto se detuvo salio caminando solo.

El coche quedo a 5 metros de donde yo estaba.

[assmasterj]

left rear suspension failure. look at how the left rear wiggles before he fuses with the wall

[hugomiosotti]

incredible accent

[mathias921]

He's a terrorist!

[andyashe15]

looks to me like a rear suspension failure, u an see the cars rear suspension load up without touching the curb, yet the previous car does not experience this. tough to decipher though.

[markyhallam]

Rear suspension? Bump in the road (it would have to be massive, though)? Tyre problem?

Surely it's not the kerb, because the car has already snapped to the right for no good reason (0:39/0:40) after he was through the corner, free and clear. That's what sent him onto the kerb in the first place...

Doesn't look like driver error at all to me. He looks very stable through the turn.

[hhJACK92]

It's amazing enough that he is alright, but to be able to recall the event precisely is incredible. To think this was several years before the post-Senna-crash safety revolution took place, it's nothing short of astounding.

[DailyTerror666]

rebuilding THAT in one day? wow respect if they made it

[ifab2holeshot]

Looks like the left rear went before the front left ever hit the curbing to me . It appears he was through the hard G's area of the corner and exiting when the back end wiggled right sending the front left tire to the curb. A failure in the rear of the car as he said , the video tells the story ??

[Dietpepsivanilla]

I remember this shunt. Saw it live on ESPN-TV. It was the afternoon after the Indy 500 race.

[naibafrocker]

I was there! (live)

and after that  when I think about a french F 1 driver, Alliot is the first pop in my mind.... more than prost

[Fastbikkel]

Its so simple to see what happened.

WHen he exits the corner, the front left tire hits the kerbs, creating friction. That is why the car suddenly twitches to the left.

He is either stupid or not telling the truth here. Probably scared to lose his face.

[megahurtz30]

It doesn't. The tire is over the white line. Only then, it starts to drift left to the kerb. But it could be a driver error, sure. All it takes is for him to steer very slightly to the left.

[Kw12345ff]

Don't try to clarify simple accidents to Youtube racers. They ever will flag you down. Arguee to idiots is a task for Saints.

[megahurtz30]

What a shunt !!!! And he simply walks out !! :o

[FormulaUnos]

the amazing cockpit of carbono saves his life.

[Tubbs888]

looks like he just got too my tyre on the paint...

[deeb1978]

What a fucking idiot Alliot is. Mexico City circuit is built (like most of the city) on a lake bed, so it's gonna be very bumpy, which is where this part of the circuit differs from Monza.

He looks as if he thought he was driving a 2003 Ferrari or something!

[karl46]

how to get a driver to get out of a crashed car very quickly,fire your extinguisher and make him think it's on fire.

[regcer]

Damb they are good. Rebuild the hole car for the next day.

[copperhead29]

He is a very LUCKY man

[TripleDistilled73]

eventually he just climbs out and walks away...incredible

[murph2u]

It kind of appears the left rear tire let go . Anyone els see that ?

[kzbxvz]

Luckily not a nearly 90 degree impact in the wall, therefore he's still alive today. R Ratzenbergers & A Sennas fatal accidents 5 years later shows us just that.

[kzbxvz]

Luckily not a nearly 90 degree impact in the wall, therefore he's still alive today. R Ratzenbergers & A Sennas fatal accidents 6 years later (1994) shows us just that.

[mattgotowned]

looks like the initial hit absorbed alot of the impact, hitting like it did, still, a big! hit.

[philstheking]

bloody hell even in the most modern cars the driver wouldn't walk away as relaxed as that......the mans made from steel!

[tompow]

It also had to take a fair amount of luck also to walk away from it.

[JackKenobi]

I hope that no race-fan was hurt in the impact.

[versaillervertrag]

incredible!!

[dansak1234]

A lucky escape.

[odr752]

I think this is one of the worst non-injural F1 crash I've ever seen, but luckily non-injural indeed.

[DonaldRumsfailed]

I think he's right about something breaking to push that car right.

[skynet0912]

Don't really like Alliot as a driver, but the name has a nice ring to it ;)

[punkyvic182]

Poor mexican. His friend requests to the red/white dude was denied. :D

[punkyvic182]

Whoops. Not mexican, he is french.

[fran812]

right... it was at mexico, but he's french

[LanciaS4]

Methinks its cos he touched that kerb.

Wasn't that Larousse just a jumped up f3000 car? :P

[dwarande]

thanks to my monocock.. i also have only one.. .-)

[7UpJordan]

I reckon Alliot's rear left will have failed coming out of the peraltada due to the g forces of that corner and similar to the Michelin problems at Indy 2005.

[punkyvic182]

lol... it's de cesaris trying to kill someone again.

[DLFerrariFan]

gotta love old Andre DeCrasheris

[minardi1]

...but this is Phillippe Alliot...

[gilmour70]

Look at Andrea de Cesaris in the Rial at 1:12!

[rdtli]

always a crazy driver remember him and piquet at loews ????!!! so funny and so italian mood , hug from brazil!! sao paulo

[Tomspeed1]

Very funny french accent !!

lol

[back2frinky]

There appeared to be marshals running across the track at 1:22 - they should never do this, no matter how bad the accident. Look up Tom Pryce on Wikipedia for the reason why.

[mbdxecw2]

Yes, agreed, but if you look carefully, that Arrows (Cheever?) has come to a complete stop in order to let that marshall across the track

[MsFarQ2]

marshals came from the outside of the track, not pit wall as far as I can tell. I'd imagine that car, dosnt look like an arrows, was just avoiding the debris as a wheel is in the middle of the track

[holicman]

Nice comments from the moving chicane himself.