Blaise Alexander Fatal Crash

[XyL0Ph0n3]

Instant Karma.

[anthonystuart69]

@bru1nsfox2433 this wasn't a NASCAR race

[mobass23]

damn near the same as dale :/

[TeRBoozooka]

I love how the camera kept focus on car 2, Kerry Earnhardt.

[Bru1nsFOX2433]

This was the first race that NASCAR made every driver wear a Hans device. 

[MrPortalReach]

i like 24

[Shanco4688]

he looks slow motion going int the wall....RIP

[handed2you04]

FIA just announced, Lewis Hamilton will be assessed a drive through penalty.

[MclarenGooner12]

@handed2you04 STFU someone died and the only thing you can say is an inside F1 joke.

R.I.P

[Ashair29]

He went out in a blaze of blood and death

[JOMO59]

Same type and angle of crash & cause of death as the #3 Dale Earnhardt fatal crash in Daytona 500.

[alexaka1000]

0:06 you don't say.... *sigh

[XxSiiCkXKiilZxX]

damn, another one dead

[NR2003Wrecker]

My uncle has a picture of the #75 car's remains.

That hood is smashed in so bad in that picture it looked to me like the engine could have been pushed into the cockpit.

[DesotellRacing62]

2001, 2011- Bad years in racing

[sdw3355]

How do you not get it. You can get whip lash barely going down a regular street and you can't figure how this can happen in a race going over 100 mph.? It's common sense. Unfortunately, some one has to suffer something like this for improvements to be made. Things are created after the fact of something happening and then devices are created. It takes time for those things to catch on when these men have been racing all their life a certain way.

[thisismark1]

Before the Hans Device when drivers went from 180 to 0 the head was not prevented from moving forward. It was not the head hitting something it was the head continuing to move forward causing tears in the membrane surrounding the brain and breaking bones at the base of the skull.

180 mph snap.

[k0nn0r]

I dont get it, the speed component into the wall isn't that great, the car is obviously built tough enough to withstand the crash without major damage, the driver is encased in a crash cage and wears a helmet.. how the fuck does this lead to a deadly head injury?

There are so many crashes in Indycar and Nascar that go like this.. it boggles the mind. I could see one or two crashes go this way but there's at least 20. Why doesn't anyone do anything? It can't be that hard, Formula 1 is doing it..

[thekswervedirt]

@k0nn0r Read thisismark's comment. He pretty much sums it up.

[k0nn0r]

@thekswervedirt I see, but even so, the 180mph are down the track, hitting the wall at angle means that only a part of that velocity is sideways so only a component of those 180mph is relevant. It looks to me as if the speed component relative to the wall is only like 50mph, tops. You're saying that causes mortal head injuries in a race car? A 50mph crash?

[grandmasterj5]

@k0nn0r sorry to butt in but, 50mph crash? Where did you get that from?

Do you have any idea of the kind of G-force he'd have pulled when he hit that wall?

(you can pull 3-4G in something as small as a Go-kart turning a corner)

Have another look at the angle the car hit the wall at, plus the impact, and plus the speed of the direction change the car makes. That's a serious amount of G right there.

I have no doubt that the HANS device has already saved many lives. Sould have been mandatory b4

[bubbat2308]

@k0nn0r dude shut up you dont know what the fuck yoru talking about. you tell me how a car going 180 miles in hour is going to slow down to 50 in lets say 100 feet. he impacted that wall at mimimum of 100 mphl. if you dont know what your talking about shut the fuck up and dont say anything so you dont make yourself look like a fool

[k0nn0r]

@bubbat2308 I didnt say the car decelerated to 50mph, I said the "speed component" was about 50mph.

@grandmasterj5 I agree with what you say about g-forces, but how is that any excuse? It's a race car with a driver in a cage and a helmet. Personally, I find it inconceivable how this accident was a deadly one, but I'm just a sorry european who occasionally watches F1. Nascar is probably too hardcore for my puny european brain to get my head around

[ml24jg]

@k0nn0r Ok... I'm gonna be nice. The driver who was killed in this crash wasn't wearing a HANS Device I believe (Head And Neck Support) and his seatbelts must have ripped off, causing him to fly forward. NASCAR definetly wasn't as safe back then, I think these days someone could survive a crash like this.

R.I.P.

[thekswervedirt]

@k0nn0r I think what you are missing is just how violent going from 50mph to 0mph really is. Sure, it doesn't sound like much but the weight of a human head being whipped (not just stopping) on a neck due to instant deceleration is totally different than getting in a street car wreck at 50mph. Most street car wrecks disperse energy in crumple zones, rotation, continued movement, etc. If it is only a 50mph drop the fact that it happens in a fraction of a second is what kills people.

[thekswervedirt]

@k0nn0r I hope this helps you understand. You seem to want to know and I am only trying to help.

"Head trauma" encompasses base of the skull fractures, which is what I believe happened here. The head moves forward on a body that doesn't and that whipping action actually separates the skull from the spine.  I have raced for a lot of years and you would be surprised to see that this can happen at a dirt track at 75mph. It takes some bad luck but it does happen.

[david09dw]

What really must have made him miserable was less than 9 months before that his father was killed in an accident. Then he is involved in a wreck that killed someone. That really messes with your head.

[upsidedownface1000]

@david09dw I was thinking the same thing, horrible.

[vicsje160]

is that guy in the car that burns dead ?

[david09dw]

@vicsje160 No he was unharmed. His father was Dale Earnhardt.

[wahaya2]

I'm sorry to say it, but with modern safety standards in many motorsports the way they are, this crash really should not have been fatal. It looks spectacular, yes, but the car remains pretty much intact and the initial impact whilst substantial is completely survivable with the right equipment - six-point harness, HANS device, and the right crash helmet. I don't know about NASCARs safety standards - was this just a freak occurrence or were there bigger problems? Would be interested to know.

[sanfranciscobay]

@wahaya2 The body can't take that kind of punishment. The brain does not like to be bumped. Messes up the computer control center.

[david09dw]

@wahaya2 Can't remember if they made HANS mandatory or not right after Dale Sr. was killed, I mean this was only 9 months after. Still had no safer barrier, did not have the safer impact zones on the cars yet. I mean when you hit a wall and go from aprox 178 maybe 180 in this case to probably 80mph in less then a blink of an eye on solid concrete. It's no surprise to me that this wreck killed him, sad but true.

[FlyingBoxHead]

Wow,turning left all day can be fatal.

[cobraf117]

this is a real sport

in my country (portugal) people only khow abouth football

in motor sport people are in danger,live danger in football they only are in social danger

im 14 and im the only boy in my school who don't like footballl

these mans are heroes

R.I.P

[myfriend123ful]

waaaaaaaaa so meny people are dying he was my best buddy

[goomba1982]

wow safer barrier and hans could've saved blaise, too bad cause he was gonna be a great one

[TheOblivionbeast]

the earnhardt family went through some real shit in 2001

[basich31]

Felt bad for Kerry (aside from the family and friends of Blaise obviously), so close to his fathers death.

[dugenou675]

LOL

[Arnechk]

Its tricky to go straight into a wall on a oval circuit. But everything is possible in 'merica.

[obamadontGymkhana]

@Arnechk have some respect you piece of shit

[Arnechk]

@obamadontGymkhana Incredible, you insult me and demand respect from me. You from states too?

[Weezy10580]

Exactly whats wrong with NA$CAR, these tools get rides because of there name. Kerry Earnhardt shouldnt even have a drivers license.

[erasetoimprove]

@Weezy10580 yeah you're right, Dale Sr should have never gotten a ride because of the last name his father Ralph made known.

[Weezy10580]

@erasetoimprove Ralph made his name known more as a mechanic fucktard. Do some research before you comment.

[14demonhunter]

@Weezy10580 u shouldnt even have a life.

[Weezy10580]

@14demonhunter Good one fag. I have a life and I own you. bitch.

[14demonhunter]

@Weezy10580 uh huh..... wat ever.

[gobackto82]

@Weezy10580 This is ARCA, not NASCAR...

[57SabresFan]

Rest In Peace Blaise Alexander. May your memory live on through racing and your family.

[benbaileymusic]

I'm so glad I hear less stories like this than I did 10 years ago. We've lost too many great drivers to crashes like this. Thank God for the HANS device. SAFER barriers and all the other safety enhancements over the years. R.I.P. Blaise Alexander, Adam Petty, Dale Earnhardt Sr., Ayrton Senna, Neil Bonnett, Jim Clark, Kenny Irwin Jr., Bruce McLaren, Greg Moore, John Nemechek, Jochen Rindt, Henry Surtees, Gilles Villeneuve and All the others over the years.

[ROBLOXdude95]

@benbaileymusic ..Almost Earnhardt BEFORE 01, Eric Martin, Tony Roper, Tiny Lund, Terry Schoonover, Grant Adcox, JD McDuffie, Bruce Jacobi, Don Williams...

We could have lost Nelson Piquet Jr., Elliott Sadler, Randy LaJoie, Earnhardt Jr., Kasey Kahne AND Martin Truex, Edwards, Jeff Green, Steve Park, David Ragan, David Reutimann, Kyle Petty, Brian Vickers, and Mark Martin.

[christmascreature13]

Tha was murder. No question about it.

[mulletsrule3388]

@christmascreature13 how was this a murder?

[Jmarsfan28]

@christmascreature13 no that was racing

[HRFTG]

I would imagine Kerry Earnhardt feels like shit, even though he obviously didn't mean to do it, or at least not cause that type of harm.

[rixtoons]

@HRFTG K Earnhardt didn't mean to kill him, but he definitely meant to wreck him.

[lamboboy001]

@rixtoons usually when you wreck somebody you make sure you dont get in it. This was not intentional. It was an accident

[rixtoons]

@lamboboy001 Obviously the object is to not get "in" the wreck. We're talking about KERRY Earnhardt... the least skilled driver of the Earnhardts. His father was master of the "wreck 'em and drive on" method. Of course it was intentional... Not intentional to kill him, but intentional to wreck him. You are correct though... it was an accident... he accidentally killed him, when he wrecked him ....on purpose.

[nascarfanatic2425]

@rixtoons Bud, that made no sense what-so-ever. I'm sorry, but you fail.

[nascarfanatic2425]

@rixtoons What are you talking about? Kerry was getting aggressive, misjudged Alexander, and clipped him by mistake. Watch the 2010 Samsung 500 The Big One, and watch how Tony clipped Jeff Gordon- same story, except Jeff had a safer barrier to save him, and more cars were involved.

[frieda1889]

So very heartbreaking.

[yojimba06]

r.i.p.

[lakelandchief]

is the full race on here?

[barneynward]

@lakelandchief it is now

[lakelandchief]

@barneynward can u send it to me?

[edsong97]

i was his fan :'(

[MrPortalReach]

@edsong97 sorry