David Besnard Massive Crash and Fire 2011 Bathurst 1000

[AshleyBrookShort]

I worked for bessy :D

[Potsey888]

look in the bottom left hand corner of the screen. Seems like a ciggy was thrown :/

[Potsey888]

@Potsey888 At 2:22

[Antifaith29]

Also remember getting woke up by my then girlfriends younger brother with " dick Johnson and Fatty Vaughton need you to move your car" They were shooting a road saftey add on her street and didnt want my shitty vk in it lol

[Antifaith29]

Oh thats steven johnsons car, i used to race him up and down springwood road in the 90's lol. He drove a tx5 turbo , i had a vk with a 307 in it and a 5 speed box. Both nothing full on flash but we both had some fun up and down that road. never actualy met the bloke though, just used to keep an eye for him .

[gillian67ec]

What happens at 1:50?

Look below right at the marshal in orange moving at right, there are a pair of fires coming from nowhere around is figure... strange!

[Niceboy3377]

awesome :D so cool

[simonkevnorris]

Apparently one of the two fire mashalls was at his first race.

Well done for the work they did. I don't understand why the fire started down the road rather than close to the hot exhausts.....

[killerbng]

This was SOO scary, just pit, driver still in car, fire all around.....SO SO happy everything turned out good! Had to come online and see it again, amazing no1 got hurt!

[macgibbon]

Wheres his 5 minute penalty for spilling fuel everywhere?

[Nemofishman]

@macgibbon What about the car?

[Antifaith29]

@macgibbon Pretty safe to say his race was over anyway lol.

[evesn1per]

It's common practice on a road course to give a short pump to the brakes before reaching a breaking zone. This makes sure the pads are flush to the rotors before going hard on and prevents uneven breaking, and makes sure there is fluid where it needs to be, which is to prevent these kinds of wrecks. Maybe the new pads grabbed harder than he expected or the peddle throw was off, this stuff happens.

[5ohfo]

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[bannanaskill]

Don't get what happen ?? Lol Haha

[RacingLineAustralia]

Was that petrol on the camera lens?...

[Kadoffel]

Does anyone have an idea what caused the fire at the right?

I would have expected the fire to start near the car, I guess there'd be plenty of heat to ignite the vapours there.

[w0lf65]

@Kadoffel Crash suprised the cameraman and he dropped his smoke :P

[Kadoffel]

@w0lf65

Can't imagine anything more realistic than that. :D

[tgm9991]

@Kadoffel it was prob started by some hot deris

[MichaelaFN]

COOL !

[tootsi17]

2:24 looks like someone threw a match on the left side lol

[bigbt31]

That will buff out!

[Prestostark]

Really great to see trained, effective reaction from the fire marshals. So often, track-side response is slow and almost worthless. This is how it is supposed to be done! Brilliant!

[aflsbrng]

that powder entinguisher seemed to work well. the flames were gone in seconds.

[LAJon51]

The fuel that is used in V8 supercars is ethanol

[bozobudz]

Whatever happened to communication. Surely David Besnard should have been aware that his brake pads were changed, If not, WHY NOT???? Massive breakdown in communication somewhere. Investigation needs to take place for sure. Had David had known new brake pads it's a long way to an accident being avoided. Lift your game team.

[rayjaymor85]

@bozobudz --- The JBR team already indicated (on Sunday afternoon) that something went wrong with Besnard's radio.

[genuineforce]

@bozobudz where you watching the race ? when they said radio had gone down a lap before hand.. they werent able to tell him they had a break change over the radio.. well thats what the team says.. still.. i dont see how as a professional driver.. you can make a mistake like pumping your breaks after a pit stop.. it wasnt so much the break pads as it was lack of brake fluid in the pistons

[koolbeans9696]

These marshals risked there lives for a driver, not only did they run out as fast as they could to fight the fire to save bezzy...but they also hopped out onto a live race track with cars still racing around...absolute bloody heroes, they deserve an award!

[dkavathas]

How long have you raced cars on Methonel and how many times flipped your arse off in a car and been covered in Methonel walover?? I think Indycar, USAC etc have it right and we the Holden v Ford expert (bogans) might just have it wrong pal, they have been doing it for just a little longer than we have. Burn's slower, giving you longer to get out of the car or the crash crew to get you out, much much much lower ignition point - you do your research dipshit!! Their fuel cells must be shit also!!

[walover165]

When they cut across to the accident and showed the flames...my heart just stopped. It didn't start beating again until Besnard jumped out of the car. Fire is just...no, I never want to see fire ever again. Too many great racers have burned to their deaths. That was such a huge impact, I'm not surprised the fuel cell ruptured. Gives me the chills.

[orange63chev]

Good on the safety crew! As for alcohol it burns clear and slowly, with just as much damage, larger capacities would be required due to the fuel -air ratio required, no gain to safety by changing fuel,

[dkavathas]

When are these so called V8 Supercar experts going to learn that High Octane racing fuel is nooooo good - unsafe!! Use Methenol you flogs!!

[walover165]

@dkavathas Oh yeah and have invisible fires instead! Learn your science dumbass!

[farodealer]

@dkavathas as a FIA licensed British marshal let me tell you methanol is the worst sort of fire to deal with as you can not see it burn. I have delt with many fires in my marshalling career and I prefer to fight normal petrol fire than a methanol. Most racing series use petrol to fuel their cars not methanol. In fact if a car is not using normal pump fuel in a championship has to have an orange disc near the fuel filler to let marshals know it is not normal fuel.

[cjam145]

Gotta give the fire marshals credit for their quick response.. or things could have been a lot worse.

[Thebibs]

Oh DB. You've done it again

just like 2003

[inpitlane]

Nervous time for the cameraman, you can see the fuel on his lens so you'd assume that he copped a soaking too.

Wow fire. Oh Oh!

Well done again to the fireies.

[jacobisawesome13]

That is the 2nd year in a row that Crompton has called the wrong name for a massive crash. Glad to see bezzy get out.

[Saikano2012]

I watched the event unfold live on TV and I was freaking out. Last think I want to watch happen is a driver burn alive in his car on live TV.

[PSIAce]

Glad no one was hurt, respect to the marshalls, what a horrible accident.

[karlwidakay]

I think the channel 7 camera man threw out his ciggie

[nickforthetitle]

any idea what ignited the fire?

[RuudE1988]

At 2.52 it almost looks like there's fuel flying in the air before the first impact, or is that just me?

[Mp3Astra]

Supreme skill and bravery from the marshals, absolute heroes.

[tpp969]

@Mp3Astra i agree. these marshals are legends

[MagnificentGeoffrey]

Perhaps THE thing you never, ever, ever want to see as a motorsports fan. Big respect to the marshals for reacting as quickly and as effectively as they did.

Massively relieved to hear that Besnard and everyone nearby is apparently perfectly alright after this. It could so easily have been much, much, worse.