I have seen a possible fatal crash in real time before. Here is the story on 1-13-2012:
It was a pretty sunny day at a private test. Me and another 4 of my buddies were about to watch an Unknown driver an some type of Studebaker. So yeah we're chatting while the driver's blowing down the track at 200 MPH and we hear this raspy sound (crumple up a piece of tinfoil) that's the sound I heard. He broke through the Armco, Jumped A River And Hit The Bank. He is in a coma as of now.
@Ryank733 With all respect to you, you have obviously never driven a racing car. Gordon died because he was a road racer on a superfast oval. On a road course or traditional circuit if the rear steps out you countersteer to balance that, so when that happened to Gordon that was his instinctive reaction. On an oval as you can see, that doesn't work. The front tyres bite and throw you into the wall. Consider it as redneck as you like, the top drivers in the world think different.
With all respect to the driver, but i still don't understand how he has died on turn 3 in an oval, which is not at daytona (just a rounded triangle). Just shows how its all from a redneck sport really.
@RyanK733 you idiot.... his car used the ground effect, an aerodynamic exploit that made possible for cars to do corners at an amazing speed by lowering air pressure under the car thus lowering the car to the ground and giving it more traction, however if the ground effect fails, like what you se in the vid, by just a small amount of air pressure lifting just an inch of the cars corners thats enough for it to lift the car and for the pilot to lose total control of the car... its not a redneck sp
@boofles no, his helmet was ripped of of him and he was scalped by the fence, gray matter was spewn over the track near the crash site, it turned out to be smiley's brain
look at all the people there just for practice. Smiley was a terrible driver but still I have to say, "rest in peace' my fellow racing friend. I will remember your smile more than your driving inabilities.
its hard to understand for me?? seeing the car bank hard right knowing that was the last moment of his life...atleast he didnt burn..it was really fast!!
One of the medics wrote in his autobiography that he noticed a mysterious grey substance on the track near the wreckage.
Turns out it was the liquified remains of Smiley's brain that had melted in the accident and splattered all over the track. Smiley's corpse was almost in one piece surprisingly, although his helmet and part of his skull were completely missing
@wayartio Do you think your funny or something? I personally wouldn't wish that on anybody. You do realize that every bone in his body was broken and there was very little left of him after that right? How you could wish that on someone else is beyond me and just plain sick!!
@buckeyes771 No he wasn't decapitated, but the G-forces had ripped the helmet off his head and the chinstrap was even still buckled. (Very violent impact) He got scalped by the catch fence. The head medical doctor at the time wrote a book and made mention of this accident. Said he saw grey pieces of matter on the track as he made his way out to Smiley and realized it was brain matter. Said he broke every bone in his body and had a large chunk torn out of his side, looked like a sharkbite.
@Irik1984 There's been some others. Look up Tom Pryce when he hits the fire marshall trying to cross the track and kills him, who in turn has his extinguisher smack Pryce in the head also killing him. Hits the marshall and it's just like a dishrag of skin, the impact even pants him. He flies to the left of the screen doing a few flips.
@rastamees I'll tell you the same thing I tell all the other TROLLS who find it necessary to say stupid shit like this. Without motor racing we wouldn't have: seat belts, side impact protection, fuel injection, DISC BRAKES, anti-lock braking, traction control, independent suspension, tires that work, I could go on shall I idiot stick?
@rastamees As a daughter of a race car driver let me say, yes, it's dangerous, but they know every time they go on the track that this could happen. It's in their blood to race, and they love it with their heart and soul... and I can guarantee you, (as wierd as this may sound) there is no other way this man would have chosen to die besides on the track. (Well..except maybe old age)
my dad was there right where the accident happened, he had a full view.. hes a huge race fan, and told me the graphic details of how he just let go of the wheel before he hit the wall, knowing hes going to impact it very fast.. its sad..and the music is totally wrong for the event, this is tragic..no music needed for someones death like this.. even after 29 years
There are three motorsports racing crashes ive seen that left me thinking, my god, he never stood a chance. Smiley's crash at Indy, Greg Moore's crash at AutoClub and Nascar's Don MacTavish's (cant remeber where). To me, those three are the worst wrecks ive ever seen
yeah i was there he was drivin a march offy a tire flew ff his car and killed lyle kurtenbach from wisconsin what else you wanna know vern schuppans shoe size
the top of his skull had been ripped off and a grey substance was scattered across track near the remains of his car. That substance was his brain. I rode to the care center with the body. On the way in I performed a cursory examination and realized that nearly every bone in his body was shattered. He had a gaping wound in his side that looked as if he had been attacked by a large shark. I had never seen such trauma."
I got this from the internet by a doctor at the track :¬( R.I.P
@nightmare2271 - That is just a shocking and absolutely sad thing to hear. The good news, if anything, is that he wasn't in pain and died doing what he loved. He must have been killed instantly after veering into the wall like that; I was a baby when this took place, but had I seen a crash like this today, I would not expect the driver to be alive at the end of it. Just a tragic crash, and makes Dale's fatal NASCAR crash in 2001 seem like child's play.
Yup, you have no friends. You got raped by Michael Jackson when you were 2. Your an overweight 19 year old with no friends Your youtube account details are probably your life experiences. You Jack off to Japanese porn in your free time, which is actually all your time, then after that, you go on this channel and make fun of a dead guy so you don't feel bad about people making fun of how you will never get laid.
I don't want any negativity about this comment, but as tragic as it is, it was his choice to take that career and he knew the dangers of racing so i have no sympathy for him. However i do have sympathy for his family who have had to live with his decision and with stupid people putting videos of someones tragic death on youtube for dickheads like gordonsmileyscorpse to get a sick thrill out of. You should be ashamed of yourself.
In his book, "Rapid Response", Dr Steve Olvey, Indycar Medical Director between 1979 and 2003, made the following comments about the incident:"During an attempt to qualify for the Indy 500, Gordon Smiley, a cocky young driver from Texas, was determined to break 200 mph or die trying.
@dirtyspic: Dr.Olvey may be qualified to describe Smiley's injuries, but not the man. He wasn't cocky (he was successful for many years in many forms of racing, and everyone said he was a nice guy), nor young (either 33 or 36 years old-his birthdate is variously listed as 1946 & 1949), & he was from Nebraska, not Texas. He was neither new to Indy cars (he had run most of the past two seasons) nor to the Indy 500, as he had qualified for and raced in the previous two; he wasn't "over his head."
@dirtyspic: Smiley also raced indycars several times @ Ontario, an exact copy of Indy (only differences I know are it was 1 lane wider & short chutes were banked, but banking in the turns was actually a hair LESS), and notched a couplel top ten finishes there. His style at Indy was a bit unusual (he consistently "dirt-tracked" slightly through the turns), so it's true that his strongly-ingrained road course instinct to oversteer may have been what betrayed him, it was simply a momentary mistake.
Several veteran drivers...had warned him that he was in way over his head, driving all wrong for the Speedway. Smiley was a road racer and was used to counter-steering his car to avoid a crash if the rear wheels broke traction.
While rushing to the car, I noticed small splotches of a peculiar gray substance marking a trail on the asphalt leading up to the driver. When I reached the car, I was shocked to see that Smiley's helmet was gone, along with the top of his skull. He had essentially been scalped by the debris fence. The material on the race track was most of his brain. His helmet, due to massive centrifugal force, was literally pulled from his head on impact...I rode to the care center with the body.
@dirtyspic I offer condolences for him, but now that you told me how he died, I replayed the video, and kinda saw that happen. I never want to do that again...
On the way in I performed a cursory examination and realized that nearly every bone in his body was shattered. He had a gaping wound in his side that looked as if he had been attacked by a large shark. I had never seen such trauma."
...well I think this song is more than appropriate if you think of it a little bit differently...Gordon Smiley was obviously doing what he loved most when he was killed in this terrible accident...he was racing...so the lyrics: ''..oh it's such a perfect day, I'm glad I spent it with you...'' can actually mean that it was perfect for Gordon that he died on track racing, which was his no.1 passion...
@AndyPhelan - It's irony, it's not meant to be literal--i.e., the poster of this surely didn't mean the untimely death of a pretty good Indy driver makes for a perfect day. They meant exactly the opposite. Have you ever used irony?
@Miketheprofessor , yes I have. However, when I use irony I make it 100% crystal clear that I'm being ironic, something the poster has failed to do. Furthermore, I really don't think that this form of "irony" has any place on a video showing somebody's tragic death.
Had this been a tribute video with clips of highlights from Gordon Smiley's career as well as his crash then I could maybe understand why Perfect Day is being used, but currently it comes across as something quite offensive.
@flipsidedogchop I for one would have played some sort of instrumental piece. Just a sombre Piano, or something to that effect. Or, if I had to pick a piece of "popular music", something like Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt", or Carole King's "So Far Away". Not saying they're great choices, but at least there's less chance of those songs being misinterpreted as something disrespectful. I accept that this is probably a case of misinterpretation with Perfect Day, but for that reason - bad choice
@AndyPhelan well, i personally remember this song from the movie "Trainspotting" when he was trying to get himself off heroin and i never thought it was disrespectful to those individuals who've ruined their lives on the junk...so its obviously not meant to be a happy song!...in fact i remember going to a friends funeral and his final song was "Today is the greatest day" by The Smashing Pumpkins... GS was doin his dream job that day and up until 2 seconds before impact, it was a perfect day...
@flipsidedogchop Yeah, I understand what you're saying, like I said it was misinterpreted. The number of positive responses I got for my comment suggests that I was not alone in this. This song, played against this video, is easily misinterpreted. The uploaded should have either reconsidered their song choice before posting, or should have done more to make this seem like a tribute. A nice message at the end of the video would have been a nice touch. But no, nothing.
You have to remember that gordon smiley was a track racer and not use to oval circuits. He was young and niave and tried to hard to go for the top speed. He made a fatal era when he tried to correct the car when he lost control. Unfortunately resulting in his death. He was scalped in the accident and one side of his body had a huge tear from top to bottom. Thankfully cars are alot more sturdy and from his mistake many others have learned and will not face the same fate. Tragic loss.
@Ilovemetal777 Indeed it does, just make sure you have a fake license and your good to go! Also, make sure you don't get high on meth while driving. Or else you may end up like me.
I will never forget sitting on board the M/V Osprey ( a San Diego based tuna seiner) at pier 7a in Balboa, Panama watching this live on local TV when he hit the wall, all of us watching in the galley jumped out of our seats in AWE. Its a momment out of many that I will never forget as to which of many ports I was in when many dramatic things happend around the world
His helmet was blown off on impact and the top of his head cut off by the catch fence...he also had a huge hole in his side and nearly everyone of his bones were broken....what an awful way to go...they warned him not to try and break the 200mph mark, but he thought for sure he could...he was a road racer who naturally counter steered when he was about to wreck...which is what he did here...
@CourtyardPigeon i seen the counter steer are you not suppose to on a track like this, it violently redirected the car, So when i he in this turn he was accelerating to break 200 the ass started to walk and he should have just left it come around? If that were the case crashing with that technology at that speed your chances would be low id say the entire car crushed nothing staying intact not even the drivers cockpit tragic. I bet this changed rules forever. i bet those car were unreal
Wow, I bet the heckler in the crowd never thought Smiley would try and drive through the wall to take him out! You can actually see Smiley flick the v's at him 1 tenth of a second before he hit the wall.
You miss the point. I did see it and found it quite shocking. I was interested to know whether others shared my sense of shock. Many did. There was certainly nothing funny about it and I thought the comments from the person who calls himself "GordonSmileyCorpse" were appalling. Are you suggesting the comments of "GordonSmileyCorpse" are funny?
@Bullzeye95 well there's no way he's going to be ok after that kind of impact. he never stood a chance, but atleast if it was instant he wouldn't feel it.
He tragically died from De-Capitation and Impact :"{ RIP Gordon Smiley... Look on 0:40, if you look at the ground you can see the helmet and in that helmet is his...head
A little reminiscent of Earnhardt's, though so much worse. Dale's I didn't even expect to have grave consequences for him, whereas here one's breath and words are just taken away.
Sad stuff..One second your gone...I guess that's why they say don't try and correct into the turns just let the car spin and back into the wall...So many good drivers are gone...Racing is not the same anymore.. To many rules now.. Soon they will have cops with radar guns giving tickets....
I feel sorry for Gordon Smiley's family who have to live with this being on the net for all to watch and see. It was truly shocking to watch. As for the person who calls himself 'GordonSmileyCorpse' - You are a pathetic crettin if ever there was one. You must have a brain the size of a pea to think you your comments are funny. I suspect you are a friendless gollum-like character who has nothing better to do than titillate yourself with your peurile commentary.
You miss the point. I did see it and found it quite shocking. I was interested to know whether others shared my sense of shock. Many did. There was certainly nothing funny about it and I thought the comments from the person who calls himself "GordonSmileyCorpse" were appalling. Are you suggesting the comments of "GordonSmileyCorpse" are funny?
Yup, you have no friends. You got raped by Michael Jackson when you were 2. Your an overweight 19 year old with no friends Your youtube account details are probably your life experiences. You Jack off to Japanese porn in your free time, which is actually all your time, then after that, you go on this channel and make fun of a dead guy so you don't feel bad about people making fun of you.
LOU REED! This is a ballad though, he pretty much invented punk with Alice Cooper. He also can be credited for inventing glam rock, although that mostly goes to Marc Bolan and T.Rex
@Schumifreak9 For me, one of the worst I ever saw was Stan Fox. Man, when his car came to a stop, and the cockpit was sitting there on the track in its own piece and you could see his legs hanging out, and then WHAM another car hits him. Most of the crashes, you don't actually see the driver get the hit, but not this one. Haunts me to this day and I can't watch a single race without thinking of that wreck...whether it's kids on quarter midgets or dirt track modifieds in my small town. hats off
don't even react to gordonsimileyscorpse... he is just a sade little figure who been beaten up by small girls several times in his life,I know cause my little sister is one of them she is 8 years old and still seeking him
"While rushing to the car, I noticed small splotches of a peculiar gray substance marking a trail on the asphalt leading up to the driver. When I reached the car, I was shocked to see that Smiley's helmet was gone, along with the top of his skull. He had essentially been scalped by the debris fence. The material on the race track was most of his brain. His helmet, due to massive centrifugal force, was literally pulled from his head on impact...
I rode to the care center with the body. On the way in I performed a cursory examination and realized that nearly every bone in his body was shattered. He had a gaping wound in his side that looked as if he had been attacked by a large shark. I had never seen such trauma." (Rapid Response, p98-99).
Maybe we should start asking why concrete walls are being allowed to cause the death of so many racing drivers. Can't the organizers put walls of cardboard boxes or other similar soft materials ? Anything but concrete walls. Senna, Ratzenberger and so many others including Gordon Smiley died because of shit.
I was there watching the practice. Years later I got speak with one of the first doctors on the 'resuce' scene. What he discribed was horrific and I still think about it. I don't even want to repeat it here.
@SunsetSupermanRMB No, he just got in over his head. In the end, it was a late entry into the turn on the second to last turn before he started his qualification run. He realized he was late and tried to 'horse' the car back down towards the apex. He oversteered and made the instinctive right turn to try to get the back end back in step. The front end 'caught' and he veered off to the wall.
I have seen a possible fatal crash in real time before. Here is the story on 1-13-2012:
It was a pretty sunny day at a private test. Me and another 4 of my buddies were about to watch an Unknown driver an some type of Studebaker. So yeah we're chatting while the driver's blowing down the track at 200 MPH and we hear this raspy sound (crumple up a piece of tinfoil) that's the sound I heard. He broke through the Armco, Jumped A River And Hit The Bank. He is in a coma as of now.
NR2003Wrecker 4 days ago
This most certainly was NOT a "perfect day" you sick fuck!
yodog678 3 weeks ago
At :35 is that his body spinning in the air?
Ncharlestun 3 weeks ago
He exploded.
renegadehockey27 1 month ago
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miisu 1 month ago
Damn so sad I think that was his 3 try at Indy
nascarrulz1000 1 month ago
Breaks my Heart
Sean86676 1 month ago
Strange song choice...
1980Grafik 1 month ago
I think my parents were there
trdidion 2 months ago
Who did this song
111820nascar 2 months ago
Dislike because of the inappropriate music!!
mohawkman251988 3 months ago
@Ryank733 With all respect to you, you have obviously never driven a racing car. Gordon died because he was a road racer on a superfast oval. On a road course or traditional circuit if the rear steps out you countersteer to balance that, so when that happened to Gordon that was his instinctive reaction. On an oval as you can see, that doesn't work. The front tyres bite and throw you into the wall. Consider it as redneck as you like, the top drivers in the world think different.
rpmV8 3 months ago
WTF this BGM
Zheidentified 3 months ago
With all respect to the driver, but i still don't understand how he has died on turn 3 in an oval, which is not at daytona (just a rounded triangle). Just shows how its all from a redneck sport really.
RyanK733 3 months ago
@RyanK733 you idiot.... his car used the ground effect, an aerodynamic exploit that made possible for cars to do corners at an amazing speed by lowering air pressure under the car thus lowering the car to the ground and giving it more traction, however if the ground effect fails, like what you se in the vid, by just a small amount of air pressure lifting just an inch of the cars corners thats enough for it to lift the car and for the pilot to lose total control of the car... its not a redneck sp
fidchel 3 months ago
wow what a sick song choice. the uploader must be into morbid humor.
xXxmtdoomxXx 3 months ago
Seems like a crazy song choice for a guy dying a horrific death to me
KevE63 3 months ago
he died not killed...
MultiNathan66 4 months ago
@MultiNathan66 you die of natural causes you get killed when you crash your car
duckkillerclydeclyde 3 months ago
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RIP
FedorTheDestructor 5 months ago
"Perfect Day"? Did the Grim Reaper put this together?
90cadillacowner 5 months ago
@MrMizka
His head bounced down the track inside his helmet. Ended up in pit lane apparently.
boofles 6 months ago
@boofles no, his helmet was ripped of of him and he was scalped by the fence, gray matter was spewn over the track near the crash site, it turned out to be smiley's brain
randumbvids11 5 months ago
this clip is realy sad but stil amazing emotional music with it.
Racing is cool and shit always happen.
That live! Its a perfect day because he loves racing!
R.I.P, Gordon and race forever!
Wespie75 6 months ago
look at all the people there just for practice. Smiley was a terrible driver but still I have to say, "rest in peace' my fellow racing friend. I will remember your smile more than your driving inabilities.
gbop63 7 months ago
its hard to understand for me?? seeing the car bank hard right knowing that was the last moment of his life...atleast he didnt burn..it was really fast!!
sickboyy2012 7 months ago
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Course he died.
One of the medics wrote in his autobiography that he noticed a mysterious grey substance on the track near the wreckage.
Turns out it was the liquified remains of Smiley's brain that had melted in the accident and splattered all over the track. Smiley's corpse was almost in one piece surprisingly, although his helmet and part of his skull were completely missing
Genuinely true
ZoranQasanov 7 months ago
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ZoranQasanov 7 months ago
horrific crash.
Deltarally92 7 months ago
Did he die?
EduardvanBeinum 7 months ago
@EduardvanBeinum no hes fine you fuctard.
ItsKristinSparklez 7 months ago
@ItsKristinSparklez
I know......what a fucktard!
This seems to be the new craze at the moment with idiots asking the complete obvious on youtube!
hearts76100 7 months ago
@EduardvanBeinum Yes Instantly :-(
Wespie75 6 months ago
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To bad, I wish it was Justin Bieber in the car instead.
wayartio 7 months ago 30
@wayartio hoo is Justin Bieber all talkabout is he gay
tompa666 7 months ago
@wayartio Do you think your funny or something? I personally wouldn't wish that on anybody. You do realize that every bone in his body was broken and there was very little left of him after that right? How you could wish that on someone else is beyond me and just plain sick!!
mohawkman251988 3 months ago
i find this hard to masturbate to.
ThePukkaClan 7 months ago
@ThePukkaClan I hope satan rapes your ass, dry with no lube, in hell you fucking sick cunt!!!
admiraldma 7 months ago
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Oh noes.... This is so horrible ;(
Niggenaggex 8 months ago
" Oh, he's flying... Sort of. "
YaredCinema 8 months ago
Bet he wasnt smiling after that. Poor nigga.
zzzgdap 8 months ago
Where is his body ?
KTO150 8 months ago
@KTO150 It got totally destroyed the body wasnt at 1 piece. It was just horrible!!
MrMizka 8 months ago
this is the dumbest song for this video dumbass
jcnit2winit 8 months ago
thumbsup if you tried freezing it 10 times to see dudes body.
oldjizzy 8 months ago
@oldjizzy youre seriously sick
mattysowls 8 months ago
This crash is just terrible. It reminds me of the crash of Don Mctavish at the Daytona Permatex 300 in 1968. I was there that day. Very sad.
DARKFALL57 8 months ago
me and my friends were at Indy that horrible day..we say the crash. it was heartbreaking
garyfan1954 8 months ago
They found his head inside the helmet in the middle of the track
buckeyes771 8 months ago
@buckeyes771 No he wasn't decapitated, but the G-forces had ripped the helmet off his head and the chinstrap was even still buckled. (Very violent impact) He got scalped by the catch fence. The head medical doctor at the time wrote a book and made mention of this accident. Said he saw grey pieces of matter on the track as he made his way out to Smiley and realized it was brain matter. Said he broke every bone in his body and had a large chunk torn out of his side, looked like a sharkbite.
T33V33 8 months ago
Can somebody tell me what trolls and trolling means ?
oneinamillion232 8 months ago
I agree that it was THE MOST HORRIBLE accident of all motorsport history
Irik1984 8 months ago
@Irik1984 There's been some others. Look up Tom Pryce when he hits the fire marshall trying to cross the track and kills him, who in turn has his extinguisher smack Pryce in the head also killing him. Hits the marshall and it's just like a dishrag of skin, the impact even pants him. He flies to the left of the screen doing a few flips.
T33V33 8 months ago
LIFE is dangerous. Now go and dislike my video.
xXdoctorXXGoNzOXx 8 months ago
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"what a retarded sport" rastamees
This is what I am talking about.
xXdoctorXXGoNzOXx 8 months ago
And Gordon was killed in QUALIFYING, NOT practice retard.
xXdoctorXXGoNzOXx 8 months ago
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irishguy200007 8 months ago
Now you see him .. now you dont
CosmicKush420 8 months ago
this is the worst crash i ever seen
juampech 9 months ago
crazy men
MrPanzergrenadier 9 months ago
perfect day??? idiocy.
rogett909 9 months ago
don mctavishes wreck at daytone was BRUTAL u can see it in you tube type in Fatal nascar accidents an look for the one witht he lynard skynard music
QuikdrawlMcgraw 9 months ago
this is as bad as it gets rip smiley.x
steviebod72 9 months ago
what a retarded sport
rastamees 9 months ago
@rastamees I'll tell you the same thing I tell all the other TROLLS who find it necessary to say stupid shit like this. Without motor racing we wouldn't have: seat belts, side impact protection, fuel injection, DISC BRAKES, anti-lock braking, traction control, independent suspension, tires that work, I could go on shall I idiot stick?
xXdoctorXXGoNzOXx 8 months ago
@xXdoctorXXGoNzOXx
what on earth are you talking about.
im just saying look at how many fatal indy500 crash videos there are here, this sport is clearly too dangerous..
rastamees 8 months ago
@rastamees As a daughter of a race car driver let me say, yes, it's dangerous, but they know every time they go on the track that this could happen. It's in their blood to race, and they love it with their heart and soul... and I can guarantee you, (as wierd as this may sound) there is no other way this man would have chosen to die besides on the track. (Well..except maybe old age)
andie361 8 months ago 11
R.I.P. gordon
thehockeyones1191 9 months ago
heros are rememberd but legends life forever... R.I.P
nintendonerdgoodbad2 10 months ago
this is soooo sad..... its a good thing modern day tracks have more protective barriers and stuff......
idkidc1233 10 months ago
my dad was there right where the accident happened, he had a full view.. hes a huge race fan, and told me the graphic details of how he just let go of the wheel before he hit the wall, knowing hes going to impact it very fast.. its sad..and the music is totally wrong for the event, this is tragic..no music needed for someones death like this.. even after 29 years
getowned84able 10 months ago
There are three motorsports racing crashes ive seen that left me thinking, my god, he never stood a chance. Smiley's crash at Indy, Greg Moore's crash at AutoClub and Nascar's Don MacTavish's (cant remeber where). To me, those three are the worst wrecks ive ever seen
msullivan85 10 months ago
@msullivan85 and Russell Phillips.
westridgemattlyman 10 months ago
The most shocking crash I ever seen ...
Hunorrrr 10 months ago
yeah i was there he was drivin a march offy a tire flew ff his car and killed lyle kurtenbach from wisconsin what else you wanna know vern schuppans shoe size
chrisjco2man 10 months ago
holyyyyyyyyyy
valaryder 11 months ago
Where did it go??
JoelxFrantz 11 months ago
thts horrible. did they ever figure out what caused the crash?
mattrrtt99 11 months ago
the top of his skull had been ripped off and a grey substance was scattered across track near the remains of his car. That substance was his brain. I rode to the care center with the body. On the way in I performed a cursory examination and realized that nearly every bone in his body was shattered. He had a gaping wound in his side that looked as if he had been attacked by a large shark. I had never seen such trauma."
I got this from the internet by a doctor at the track :¬( R.I.P
nightmare2271 11 months ago
@nightmare2271 - That is just a shocking and absolutely sad thing to hear. The good news, if anything, is that he wasn't in pain and died doing what he loved. He must have been killed instantly after veering into the wall like that; I was a baby when this took place, but had I seen a crash like this today, I would not expect the driver to be alive at the end of it. Just a tragic crash, and makes Dale's fatal NASCAR crash in 2001 seem like child's play.
CycloneGU 11 months ago
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@GordonSmileysCorpse
Yup, you have no friends. You got raped by Michael Jackson when you were 2. Your an overweight 19 year old with no friends Your youtube account details are probably your life experiences. You Jack off to Japanese porn in your free time, which is actually all your time, then after that, you go on this channel and make fun of a dead guy so you don't feel bad about people making fun of how you will never get laid.
Nascarfan880 11 months ago
was his body torn to pieces? look at that impact! that is horrible. R.I.P
jewforfood 11 months ago
I don't want any negativity about this comment, but as tragic as it is, it was his choice to take that career and he knew the dangers of racing so i have no sympathy for him. However i do have sympathy for his family who have had to live with his decision and with stupid people putting videos of someones tragic death on youtube for dickheads like gordonsmileyscorpse to get a sick thrill out of. You should be ashamed of yourself.
mayolicious69 11 months ago
In his book, "Rapid Response", Dr Steve Olvey, Indycar Medical Director between 1979 and 2003, made the following comments about the incident:"During an attempt to qualify for the Indy 500, Gordon Smiley, a cocky young driver from Texas, was determined to break 200 mph or die trying.
dirtyspic 1 year ago
@dirtyspic: Dr.Olvey may be qualified to describe Smiley's injuries, but not the man. He wasn't cocky (he was successful for many years in many forms of racing, and everyone said he was a nice guy), nor young (either 33 or 36 years old-his birthdate is variously listed as 1946 & 1949), & he was from Nebraska, not Texas. He was neither new to Indy cars (he had run most of the past two seasons) nor to the Indy 500, as he had qualified for and raced in the previous two; he wasn't "over his head."
jb4peace1 11 months ago
@dirtyspic: Smiley also raced indycars several times @ Ontario, an exact copy of Indy (only differences I know are it was 1 lane wider & short chutes were banked, but banking in the turns was actually a hair LESS), and notched a couplel top ten finishes there. His style at Indy was a bit unusual (he consistently "dirt-tracked" slightly through the turns), so it's true that his strongly-ingrained road course instinct to oversteer may have been what betrayed him, it was simply a momentary mistake.
jb4peace1 11 months ago
Several veteran drivers...had warned him that he was in way over his head, driving all wrong for the Speedway. Smiley was a road racer and was used to counter-steering his car to avoid a crash if the rear wheels broke traction.
dirtyspic 1 year ago
While rushing to the car, I noticed small splotches of a peculiar gray substance marking a trail on the asphalt leading up to the driver. When I reached the car, I was shocked to see that Smiley's helmet was gone, along with the top of his skull. He had essentially been scalped by the debris fence. The material on the race track was most of his brain. His helmet, due to massive centrifugal force, was literally pulled from his head on impact...I rode to the care center with the body.
dirtyspic 1 year ago
@dirtyspic I offer condolences for him, but now that you told me how he died, I replayed the video, and kinda saw that happen. I never want to do that again...
CanIPlayWithMadness4 1 year ago
On the way in I performed a cursory examination and realized that nearly every bone in his body was shattered. He had a gaping wound in his side that looked as if he had been attacked by a large shark. I had never seen such trauma."
dirtyspic 1 year ago
...well I think this song is more than appropriate if you think of it a little bit differently...Gordon Smiley was obviously doing what he loved most when he was killed in this terrible accident...he was racing...so the lyrics: ''..oh it's such a perfect day, I'm glad I spent it with you...'' can actually mean that it was perfect for Gordon that he died on track racing, which was his no.1 passion...
GCn64 1 year ago
He was born in 1946 not 1949, as you incorrectly state near the end of this video.
Get your facts straight.
ChefTommyTucker 1 year ago
And how is "Perfect Day" an appropriate song? Shameful.
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Miketheprofessor 1 year ago
@AndyPhelan - It's irony, it's not meant to be literal--i.e., the poster of this surely didn't mean the untimely death of a pretty good Indy driver makes for a perfect day. They meant exactly the opposite. Have you ever used irony?
Miketheprofessor 1 year ago
@Miketheprofessor , yes I have. However, when I use irony I make it 100% crystal clear that I'm being ironic, something the poster has failed to do. Furthermore, I really don't think that this form of "irony" has any place on a video showing somebody's tragic death.
Had this been a tribute video with clips of highlights from Gordon Smiley's career as well as his crash then I could maybe understand why Perfect Day is being used, but currently it comes across as something quite offensive.
AndyPhelan 1 year ago
@AndyPhelan
I think it was meant to be ironic...didn't sit well w/ a lot of you I guess, but I get it....but a better song could have been chosen
cmgww 8 months ago
@AndyPhelan Never understood why idiots think they should take a sports clip and add a dumb song to it and become youtube stars in their own eyes
ShortTrackNews 8 months ago
@AndyPhelan what would you recommend?
flipsidedogchop 5 months ago
@flipsidedogchop I for one would have played some sort of instrumental piece. Just a sombre Piano, or something to that effect. Or, if I had to pick a piece of "popular music", something like Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt", or Carole King's "So Far Away". Not saying they're great choices, but at least there's less chance of those songs being misinterpreted as something disrespectful. I accept that this is probably a case of misinterpretation with Perfect Day, but for that reason - bad choice
AndyPhelan 5 months ago
@AndyPhelan well, i personally remember this song from the movie "Trainspotting" when he was trying to get himself off heroin and i never thought it was disrespectful to those individuals who've ruined their lives on the junk...so its obviously not meant to be a happy song!...in fact i remember going to a friends funeral and his final song was "Today is the greatest day" by The Smashing Pumpkins... GS was doin his dream job that day and up until 2 seconds before impact, it was a perfect day...
flipsidedogchop 5 months ago
@flipsidedogchop Yeah, I understand what you're saying, like I said it was misinterpreted. The number of positive responses I got for my comment suggests that I was not alone in this. This song, played against this video, is easily misinterpreted. The uploaded should have either reconsidered their song choice before posting, or should have done more to make this seem like a tribute. A nice message at the end of the video would have been a nice touch. But no, nothing.
AndyPhelan 5 months ago
@flipsidedogchop I would recommend you being cold dead, you fugfaced prick.
thylegion 5 months ago
@thylegion Oh , not the stalker again!
Fuck off you sad cunt!
flipsidedogchop 5 months ago
@flipsidedogchop You want a sad cunt? Go to yo ma's room, you wee poof.
thylegion 5 months ago
Music is not cool!
Cruddy76 1 year ago
@Cruddy76 you're right bit heartless if you ask me.
marijuanamanful 1 year ago
You have to remember that gordon smiley was a track racer and not use to oval circuits. He was young and niave and tried to hard to go for the top speed. He made a fatal era when he tried to correct the car when he lost control. Unfortunately resulting in his death. He was scalped in the accident and one side of his body had a huge tear from top to bottom. Thankfully cars are alot more sturdy and from his mistake many others have learned and will not face the same fate. Tragic loss.
andy3949 1 year ago
That's sad man
zak4829 1 year ago
The most horrible crash I ever seen ...
Hunorrrr 1 year ago
for him it wasnt a perfec day...
TheACDC96 1 year ago
Steers into a slide on an oval. Deserves what he gets.
kgr00 1 year ago
@kgr00 That's screwed up.
WolfEverstone 1 year ago
@kgr00 NO ONE DESERVES TO DIE LIKE THAT!!!!
arpadpihes 1 year ago
@arpadpihes I'm not so sure. At least it happened instantly. There are much worse ways to go that include a lot of pain, suffering, and "lingering".
2014cwajts71 11 months ago
Back then you needed balls of steel to race.
TopRamenKickAss 1 year ago
Nossa
LeonardoDaPiedade 1 year ago
what the hell was he thinking???
Jange4ROCKS 1 year ago
RIP. It takes a real man to compete in a sport this dangerous.
Ilovemetal777 1 year ago
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GordonSmileysCorpse 1 year ago
@GordonSmileysCorpse i see, mental asylum got internet connection too....
urmo345 1 year ago
I will never forget sitting on board the M/V Osprey ( a San Diego based tuna seiner) at pier 7a in Balboa, Panama watching this live on local TV when he hit the wall, all of us watching in the galley jumped out of our seats in AWE. Its a momment out of many that I will never forget as to which of many ports I was in when many dramatic things happend around the world
gringoloccco 1 year ago
His helmet was blown off on impact and the top of his head cut off by the catch fence...he also had a huge hole in his side and nearly everyone of his bones were broken....what an awful way to go...they warned him not to try and break the 200mph mark, but he thought for sure he could...he was a road racer who naturally counter steered when he was about to wreck...which is what he did here...
CourtyardPigeon 1 year ago
@CourtyardPigeon i seen the counter steer are you not suppose to on a track like this, it violently redirected the car, So when i he in this turn he was accelerating to break 200 the ass started to walk and he should have just left it come around? If that were the case crashing with that technology at that speed your chances would be low id say the entire car crushed nothing staying intact not even the drivers cockpit tragic. I bet this changed rules forever. i bet those car were unreal
Fu113r420 1 year ago
@CourtyardPigeon he died instantly so he knew fuck all about it.good way 2 go ,i dont like the way u will go lol,ive seen it .hahahahahaha.
sunkcontrol 1 year ago
The most terrifying incident in the history of racing
Calu1195 1 year ago 9
@Calu1195 nope, its one when Senna got killed
swamigal 1 year ago
@swamigal
Senna's accident was not so terrifying. Would stay alive if the suspension had not hit his head and pierced his brain.
(Sorry for my English)
Calu1195 1 year ago
@Calu1195 I would MUCH rather die instantly like this than be trapped in the car in some of the 1960-80s fireballs
MrRaggamuffins 7 months ago
Wow, I bet the heckler in the crowd never thought Smiley would try and drive through the wall to take him out! You can actually see Smiley flick the v's at him 1 tenth of a second before he hit the wall.
kgr00 1 year ago
@kgr00 who?
gobackto82 1 year ago
The music and the video, love the combination!
lassehag 1 year ago
What a tragic video. At least his family can take comfort from knowing that he didn't have dandruff: they found his head and shoulders on the track.
PandaDelight 1 year ago
@PandaDelight You're a real piece of shit, buddy
ibeaputa 5 months ago
@equalcharliebrown
You miss the point. I did see it and found it quite shocking. I was interested to know whether others shared my sense of shock. Many did. There was certainly nothing funny about it and I thought the comments from the person who calls himself "GordonSmileyCorpse" were appalling. Are you suggesting the comments of "GordonSmileyCorpse" are funny?
bertieboynash 1 year ago
holy shit i saw his head.
TheZonda5002 1 year ago
It was a terrible crash. I saw it when it happened. Never forget Gordon Smiley.
faronthefiddler 1 year ago
i sure hope he died instand=tly so he didn't have to suffer untill he died
dirtkart73 1 year ago
@dirtkart73 instantly sorry i hit= instead of backspace...
dirtkart73 1 year ago
@dirtkart73 One small step up from "OMG IS HE OKAY"
Bullzeye95 1 year ago
@Bullzeye95 well there's no way he's going to be ok after that kind of impact. he never stood a chance, but atleast if it was instant he wouldn't feel it.
dirtkart73 1 year ago
@dirtkart73 God I hate Youtube.
Bullzeye95 1 year ago
@Bullzeye95 then stop using it...
dirtkart73 1 year ago
He tragically died from De-Capitation and Impact :"{ RIP Gordon Smiley... Look on 0:40, if you look at the ground you can see the helmet and in that helmet is his...head
sakimom99 1 year ago
RIP gordon! at least he died how hed want ot, doing what he loved, racing.
nintendonerdgoodbad2 1 year ago
brutal crashes back then
juvmol 1 year ago
I remember watching this on the day it happened and it struck me with sadness.............still does.
Paddyllfixit 1 year ago
A little reminiscent of Earnhardt's, though so much worse. Dale's I didn't even expect to have grave consequences for him, whereas here one's breath and words are just taken away.
pnutbutrncrackers 1 year ago
Sad stuff..One second your gone...I guess that's why they say don't try and correct into the turns just let the car spin and back into the wall...So many good drivers are gone...Racing is not the same anymore.. To many rules now.. Soon they will have cops with radar guns giving tickets....
How5by5 1 year ago
sad
junkmanu2 1 year ago
Word has it that Smiley's body defecated so severely, post-rigor, that actual intestines were forced out of the cavity.
3338MAN 1 year ago
This is why INDY is sacred grounds. I cry every year at the 500, remembering the past drivers who paid the ultimate price at the BrickYard.
babyshambles4life 1 year ago
oh my god...
tornadoguitarclutz 1 year ago
what a bad song video mix....
depailler80 1 year ago
@andromeda78f
Smiley wasn´t just at 200 MPH.He crashed at 220-230 MPH!
GordoManz 1 year ago
I feel sorry for Gordon Smiley's family who have to live with this being on the net for all to watch and see. It was truly shocking to watch. As for the person who calls himself 'GordonSmileyCorpse' - You are a pathetic crettin if ever there was one. You must have a brain the size of a pea to think you your comments are funny. I suspect you are a friendless gollum-like character who has nothing better to do than titillate yourself with your peurile commentary.
bertieboynash 1 year ago 41
@bertieboynash hey man, you came on here and watched it too.
equalcharliebrown 1 year ago
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@equalcharliebrown
You miss the point. I did see it and found it quite shocking. I was interested to know whether others shared my sense of shock. Many did. There was certainly nothing funny about it and I thought the comments from the person who calls himself "GordonSmileyCorpse" were appalling. Are you suggesting the comments of "GordonSmileyCorpse" are funny?
bertieboynash 1 year ago
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@bertieboynash True. I never had any friends when I was alive :(
GordonSmileysCorpse 1 year ago
@GordonSmileysCorpse and you dont now you wortless loser... get ff youtube. faggot
nintendonerdgoodbad2 1 year ago
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@nintendonerdgoodbad2 I have tons of friends in hell right now, Greg Moore,Hitler,Kurt Cobain,Freddie Mercury,etc.....
GordonSmileysCorpse 1 year ago
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@GordonSmileysCorpse get off youtube faggot... he is in heaven YOU are going to hell you worthless turd
nintendonerdgoodbad2 1 year ago
@GordonSmileysCorpse
Yup, you have no friends. You got raped by Michael Jackson when you were 2. Your an overweight 19 year old with no friends Your youtube account details are probably your life experiences. You Jack off to Japanese porn in your free time, which is actually all your time, then after that, you go on this channel and make fun of a dead guy so you don't feel bad about people making fun of you.
Nascarfan880 1 year ago
LOU REED! This is a ballad though, he pretty much invented punk with Alice Cooper. He also can be credited for inventing glam rock, although that mostly goes to Marc Bolan and T.Rex
MasterofGuitarsolos 1 year ago
@Schumifreak9 For me, one of the worst I ever saw was Stan Fox. Man, when his car came to a stop, and the cockpit was sitting there on the track in its own piece and you could see his legs hanging out, and then WHAM another car hits him. Most of the crashes, you don't actually see the driver get the hit, but not this one. Haunts me to this day and I can't watch a single race without thinking of that wreck...whether it's kids on quarter midgets or dirt track modifieds in my small town. hats off
GreatNorthWeb 1 year ago
I heard that he walked out of the crash .
Is that true?
LoopInc 1 year ago
@LoopInc NO! he deat at this and you are stubit
XpessMusic 1 year ago
don't even react to gordonsimileyscorpse... he is just a sade little figure who been beaten up by small girls several times in his life,I know cause my little sister is one of them she is 8 years old and still seeking him
yordostube 1 year ago
kreepy music
Jelsick 1 year ago
"While rushing to the car, I noticed small splotches of a peculiar gray substance marking a trail on the asphalt leading up to the driver. When I reached the car, I was shocked to see that Smiley's helmet was gone, along with the top of his skull. He had essentially been scalped by the debris fence. The material on the race track was most of his brain. His helmet, due to massive centrifugal force, was literally pulled from his head on impact...
SunsetSupermanRMB 1 year ago
I rode to the care center with the body. On the way in I performed a cursory examination and realized that nearly every bone in his body was shattered. He had a gaping wound in his side that looked as if he had been attacked by a large shark. I had never seen such trauma." (Rapid Response, p98-99).
SunsetSupermanRMB 1 year ago
Maybe we should start asking why concrete walls are being allowed to cause the death of so many racing drivers. Can't the organizers put walls of cardboard boxes or other similar soft materials ? Anything but concrete walls. Senna, Ratzenberger and so many others including Gordon Smiley died because of shit.
MeMrecious 1 year ago
@MeMrecious i agree-- tear down every concrete wall in racing and replace them walls of marshmallows
TheMikerex 1 year ago
I was there watching the practice. Years later I got speak with one of the first doctors on the 'resuce' scene. What he discribed was horrific and I still think about it. I don't even want to repeat it here.
sdmagn 1 year ago
terrific crash..
slikkar 1 year ago
@slikkar the man died. i hope you die in a car fire for saying that....
lemans24fan 1 year ago
I don't get it, did he hit a patch of oil?
SunsetSupermanRMB 1 year ago
@SunsetSupermanRMB No, he just got in over his head. In the end, it was a late entry into the turn on the second to last turn before he started his qualification run. He realized he was late and tried to 'horse' the car back down towards the apex. He oversteered and made the instinctive right turn to try to get the back end back in step. The front end 'caught' and he veered off to the wall.