the medical car and the 4 doctors in it saved him. read about how the medical car and team came to be. It is an amazing story. One year earlier and two other lives might have been saved.
wot an hight kerb that was and only 1 layed tyre wall and wow how much head and neck movement there was, its amazin to think how much f1 took for granted and after 18 from sennas death. and we owe it all to jackie stewart and how he was explainin what happened, he should present f1 i think
Unbelievable that organisers only had one row of tyres on this wall, at such a fast corner. Mika was incredibly lucky this was Australia, not some of the circuits with more dubious quality marshalls and medical teams. The first few minutes of medical intervention saved his life for sure. Also amazing that even after the Senna accident that circuits could still be so dangerous.
Häkkinen is just such a lovable driver. I personally like watching his commercials here in Germany. Brilliant person! Now here we can clearly see why F1 cars need high shoulder protection. Wondering why they never thought of it before....
Mika Hakkinen is one of the nicest blokes I ever met. I asked him about the crash, and why he went back to driving after that - he told me this "when I was small boy, something like 8 years old, I went into my first go-cart race, with my family watching, and in my first race that day I had very bad crash, very bad, I hit the tyres and it flipped over. My parents had a big shock of course, it was a serious accident. As you can see I was driving after that"
terrible editing!! Mikka is one of the great Finns, along with Kekkonen, MATTI NYKANEN AND MATTI AND PEKKA. Mikka has humour and he is funny talking to Capt FAST (slow) about rally in finland. But the really crazy bastards do WRC like Petter and Henning Solberg. Makes F1 look like gocart racing, and Schumi wet his pants after riding shotgun in Petter Solbergs Subaru. Perkele! :-) Aussies are praying,but Mikka you are atheist right? YOU ALWAYS FINNISH FIRST! Kimmi Raikonnen is Mikka 2.0
One of the most exciting and exhilarating drivers ever to grace a race track - a McLaren and F1 legend! He almost made a comeback a few years ago with Williams and even McLaren were in discussions prior to announcing Hamilton as their team mate to Alonso. Flying Finn Forever!
i agree, every1 talkes about senna-not that i dont like him i respect him a lot and was extremly sad when he died but what about poor roland ratzenberger!!! he deserved just as much respect!!! sennas death could have been provented if they had stopped the race from carrying on the next day-after rolands death!! :( its a sad sad world. great vid by the way :)
R.I.P to the 2 drivers who lost their lives in a catastrophic way :(
I've heard that cry of "Why didn't they call the race off?" many times. But, as Murray Walker said at the time, "The drivers race because they accept that risk." (At least when the weather conditions are at a certain standard.)
As callous as it may sound, I don't think the sport should be sanitised to the degree that it could never happen again. Which, when you remember that Senna was not killed by the impact but by flying debris, is impossible to achieve anyway.
well,that's because Senna was pretty much the face of formula one at that time,he was and maybe still is the most famous driver in the sport..it was to be expected that people would talk more about him,but RIP to both of them.
Ratzenberger didn't have the support and adoration of Senna, which I suppose makes it all the more tragic. Austria didn't come to a stand-still the way Brazil did in the week following the crash.
Kudos to Berger and, I think, Herbert, who attented both funerals.
It's really annoying that because Senna died at Imola, no one pays any attention to Roland Ratzenberger dying the day before. It's almost as if it was like people thought he didn't matter
You're right. Senna himself would have been disgusted at Ratzenberger - a hugely popular driver in the pitlane at the time - being forgotten. Remember that the wreckage of his Williams was found to contain an Austrian flag that he was gonna unfurl on the podium. One good thing you can say about Max Mosley was that he turned up at Roland's funeral, unlike almost everyone else.
Ratzenberger was a courageous, fast driver driving a car which he had to peddle faster than it cared to go.......never forgotten!!! But I know what u mean, it was a terrible weekend for all F1, even 16 years on it still hurts, luckiest man that weekend...Barrichello? Maybe the almost head on nature of Roland's crash makes it less aesthetic for TV....christ what a term!!! Sorely miss them both>
@Bryan2799 Yes obviously real F1 fans know about him. In the same way that real football fans know about Justin Fashanu who came out as gay and then committed suicide after all the aggro he got because of it . However, when i said "people" thought he didn't matter, the people to whom I refer are the media. I believe it's a media responsibility to inform those who aren't highly versed in the issues raised, rather than just putting Senna up on a pedestal by himself.
@jaryd12345 yea but how many people... even racing people remember what happened to Michele Alboreto... I'm just saying the media who cover the sport remember Roland... but lets be honest... when Senna died it transcended all sport and went all over the world because of who he was... Roland was a racer and deserves a racers respect... but it is just not possible to have anywhere near the same effect and it isn't the media's, or anyone else's responsibility to do so.
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@Bryan2799 It depends what you mean by remembered. I mean the only one of those crashes I have seen is Greg Moore as I saw it as it happend on TV at the time, as I like to make a point of not watching death crashes unless I have some sort of personal feeling towards them.
But those are all irrelevent as they are from all different creeds of motorsport as well as dates etc.
I refer to just this weekend with these two guys and the fact that some reports didn't even mention Ratzenberger :-)
the problem here is not the head in contact with the sides of the cockpit or the wall. here the problem is the hyperflexion of the neck which causes basilar skull fracture and the rupture of the brain arteries that go through the base of the skull. as a result blood comes out from ears, nose and mouth, clot forms, you are unconscious and with no breathing. the fact that hakkinen is alive and then became 2 time f1 champion is a real miracle.
its just shows how violent these impacts are, Thankfully now with the hans device and the head and kneck protections in the seat reduce the violent movements of the kneck.
I remember the accident but that's the first time I've seen the footage of it. That was savage; it's a wonder his head didn't come off. Miraculous recovery, Mika went on to win two F1 world titles. Thanks for posting the clip.
at this age of formula one car evolution the cockpits didn't come up as high as they do now, and they didn't wear the HANS safety device to stop the head moving around as much. probably other changes were made since this accident.
which is great cos as well all know Mika came back and gave Schumacher a run for his money on World Championships!
to Stupido95 -of course spinning made the car loose speed.Had he crashed head on I guess we could be talking of a fatal event.Fortunately he did fully recover.
thank god for Jackie, if it wasn't for him, and his legendary safety campaigns,there would've been so many more fatalaties. Thank god Mika was lucky, the head movement brings back Roland Ratzenberger's terrible fatal accident. R.I.P Roland.
Im happy that cars are now really much safer than those days and earlier but it really took a man to drive those things up to 300km/h when u know that one litle mistake or braking of the tyre can easily kill you even in litle lower speeds.
woah. in all of the years since this horrific crash this is the first time i've seen an onboard view and it is gut wrenching! it is a testament to the medics that he survived this accident and went on to be the champion he is. but far out i am also absolutely shocked that there was only one row of tyres at such a high speed corner...
Having Jackie Stewart commentating was probably one of the better things to do. I like how Jackie approaches and presents things, a very professional manner about him. Who would think, with how serious the injuries sounded, that Mika would go on to become a 2-time world champion? Perhaps, if not for this crash, there could have been more?
We nearly lost a great man. Mika was as fast as anyone has ever been over one lap at his peak. That aside-he was and remains a wonderful man-cool, and with a really great dry sense of humour.That wry smile of his says it all. It's only idiots who try to convince you he lacked charisma. Thanks for the memories, Mika! (but not this one...lol)
Dead right Stereo - Hakkinen was certainly a match 4 Schumacher and was a much better team player than Michael - had he been more selfish and ruthless who knows what he could've achieved. I think in hindsight, the crash enabled him to adapt his drving style to allow him 2 win 2 world titles. He was, however, exciting 2 watch in his slightly reckless and unpredictable days!I also agree that as a bloke, he was misunderstood by commentators who were quick 2 brand him humourless-he had expression!
i am glad something like that could never happen again in these days. the monocoque is very absorbing the impact and the only thing where drivers get hurt nowadays is when they crash backwards because they are always dizzy and such after these crashes but i dont think anyone could die in an accident ever again. non-the-less we lost too many in formula 1 over the years. sorry for my english.
Never say never. Kubica was lucky at Canada the other year. If the angle he struck the wall either time had been more acute, it could have taken his legs. They were hanging out the broken end of the car when he finally came to a stop.
You can clearly see his head hit the steering wheel very hard as it has a big chunk punched out of its circumference after his head moves back. I would deduce that this is the impact that injured him, smashing his nose and mouth such that he needed a tracheotomy to survive the immediate aftermath. Its also likely that the same impact caused the brain damage.
So, a HANS device would probably have prevented his head moving forward that far and meant that he could have walked away from this crash.
Makes me think that if FIA had acted after this and made HANS device mandatory and other motorsports bodies had followed suit, maybe Dale Earnhardt and other drivers would still be alive. Oh well.....hindsight is always 20/20
No way! in 1995 F1 drivers didnt have the HANS device and the monocoque wasnt nearly as strong as it is today, and lets not mention that weak tyre barrier Mika crashed into, Heikki had a thicker one..
After Mika had a serious crash in practice for some GP in 2001 he decided he would quit after 2001. He had survived two heavy crashes and reasoned the third might kill him so it was better not to push his luck.
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I was at the Melbourne F1 GP 3 days ago; the whole city smells like piss, the track sux and your city runs it at a loss every year. Don't forget how disgrunted all the drivers at the time were when it moved to Melbourne. I hope it stays in Australia, but I hold no such loyalty to Albert Park.
PS: The Melbourne-crowd at the KISS concert after the race sucked too.
well then how about you come back to melbourne so we can really settle this then ey? why the fuck would anyone want to go up to adelaide, a town full of fuckin drongos and bogans when they can come to the worlds most livable city?
man just notice how little the frame of Mika's car broke... not a lot o debris... this means that the driver had a creater force from the crash acting on him, which was perhaps why this accident was so serious... and thas why today's F1 cars are designed to have their frame break down intantly at crashes, to absorb energy from the crash...
Hell, that must have been a terrible strike on Mika's body...
hmm.....something tells me you have to be pretty much the opposite of thick-headed to drive an f1 car for a living. (and since mika won 2 titles.....i'm betting he's quite intelligent... :) )
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I beg to differ.
Posting a video of someone dying in a car crash, and posting a video of your girlfriend being pounded on like a porn star by some other guy are EXACTLY the same thing.
Both generate an adverse reaction, and both can be traumatic and take some time to get over.
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It didn't take me much time to get over watching senna crash, and it wouldn't take me much time to get over seeing my girlfreind cheating on me seeing as i don't have one and if i did i'd just knife her and get it over with.
this & senna's accident paved the way for changes in the cars track & safety features for the driver that make for safer racing. mika's accident today would only merit slight injury than mika's unconsciousness.
Yeah, but that wasn't enough... They really improved it after experiencing that their safety regulation after imola is still to week for this racing standards...
My god - twelve years have passed and Mika recovered to win two championships, and yet this crash still sends a shiver down my spine, knowing that he walked the line of life and death that day and was only just brought back.
Watch how Häkkinen steers hard left at 3:20: the left tyre isn't turning at all. It keeps rolling all right, but it's pointing straight forward. It makes me wonder...two wheels misfunctioning at the same time, but in different ways? Is such a coincidence possible? I think there's just something here that I can't understand. But curious...very curious.
His head accelerates towards the 11 o'clock position. The 1995 'post Senna' cockpit redesign which raised the shoulders of the cockpit a little with padding attempting restrict the lateral acceleration of the head in a side impact.His helmet moves forward of these measures and appears to impact the front left cockpit edge . A HANS device would have lessened injury considerably.
The reason why the safety was getting to better levels, now go f*ck you selves who say that they started gettin safety up after Sennas fatal, It did not happen, it happened after Häkkinens accident in adelaide, so think aout that.
they did in fact get the safety up, as of the spainish gp they made the cockpits longer, and made the teams cut extra air holes in the engine covers - trust me i used to work in f1
Very informative, Sir Jackie is reflective and gets to the point. Thank god he didn't strike the tire barriers from the side. It would have been fatal.
I remember seeing a press photograph before Hakkinen was moved into the ambulance. His eyes were open and it seemed like he was looking at the camera, even though he was probably unconscious, it was just a blank stare. Blood was pouring out of his mouth and nostrils. That was nasty. They've made a lot of improvements to the cockpit of F1 car. Kubica and likes should thank Hakkinen that they are still alive.
Häkkinen vai? Vuonna 1995? No ei, kyllähän tuo on vieläkin elossa. Voitti vielä kaksi mestaruuttakin sen jälkeen. Missä sinä olet ollut? Senna menehtyi 1994.
eiku nous kait nokka ilmaan tosta radan reunuksesta juuri kääntämis hetkellä, sama voi myös tapahtua jos samaan aikaan pistää jarrut ihan pohjaan(mutta lukkimatta renkaita) ja kääntää nopeesti ja voimakkaasti. eli sillon lähtee perä irti, tossahan se ei voinu jarruttaa yhtää ku se lenti melkein koko matkan
when they say responding, apparently when he woke, he checked his 'kit' and smiled.
jim1590 2 weeks ago
Is that Jennifer Keyte?
oxyiscool 5 months ago
That news presenter still works today! oh how hairstyles have changed!!
lolaroflmao 6 months ago 3
Just enormous!! Later he deserves F1 WC! My respect MIka! Greetings from Georgia.
kakha1974 7 months ago
thank god mika survived, and got the chance to show how great driver he is.
juvoboi 7 months ago
the medical car and the 4 doctors in it saved him. read about how the medical car and team came to be. It is an amazing story. One year earlier and two other lives might have been saved.
hotmercedes 7 months ago
i heard that he almost died in this crash does any1 no if that is true?
CLarKeZHD 8 months ago
@CLarKeZHD Yeah he had to have his heart restaarted twice
Pakokelso2011 8 months ago
Damn........this was before the hans device!
SHOULD HAVE KILLED HIM!
Thats what killed Dale Earnhardt!
hearts76100 8 months ago
Unbelievable at 3:39
Denilson24 8 months ago
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RIP MIKA HAKKINEN
metalmatthias 9 months ago
i miss the mika and schmaucher races from the late 90s
gspthortwo 10 months ago
wot an hight kerb that was and only 1 layed tyre wall and wow how much head and neck movement there was, its amazin to think how much f1 took for granted and after 18 from sennas death. and we owe it all to jackie stewart and how he was explainin what happened, he should present f1 i think
shirfield 11 months ago
stone the crows!
flipsidedogchop 11 months ago
I wonder if he yelled "STREUTH"! before hitting the wall! lol
imtheduke 1 year ago
they interview an eyewitness called S.Hunt...............it certainly was a big SHUNT.
timickan 1 year ago 2
THE BEST FINNISH F1 DRIVER EVER. DESPITE THE TRYING OF KIMI RAIKKONEN AND HEIKKI KOVALAINEN XD
Azonicable 1 year ago
luv the story of how when Mika woke, the first thing he did was check if his tackle was all there, so funny
Looshbaby 1 year ago
Unbelievable that organisers only had one row of tyres on this wall, at such a fast corner. Mika was incredibly lucky this was Australia, not some of the circuits with more dubious quality marshalls and medical teams. The first few minutes of medical intervention saved his life for sure. Also amazing that even after the Senna accident that circuits could still be so dangerous.
F1dude71 1 year ago
It's like a crime scene, this report - "Witness."
formulacountdown 1 year ago
Häkkinen is just such a lovable driver. I personally like watching his commercials here in Germany. Brilliant person! Now here we can clearly see why F1 cars need high shoulder protection. Wondering why they never thought of it before....
mossmusic 1 year ago
God bless you Hakkinen!
MaraneIIo 1 year ago
What caused the accident?
pixelsblack 1 year ago
@pixelsblack
Flat front tire.I don't remember was it right or left?
Zscheesus 9 months ago
Australians I'm proud of the care you gave mika. Saved his life mates =D
quasiphatpaul 1 year ago 13
That's a heavy impact, his head was fractured and then he recovered in record time before the 1996 season begins.
18PacWest 1 year ago
Yea I remember when this happen, here in Adelaide everyone hart went out for Mika
robinalexlewis 2 years ago
LOVE YA MIKA!
quasiphatpaul 2 years ago 9
The 1995 season was thought to be so exciting for McLaren fans. We saw Hakkinen and Mansell unveil the MP4/10 with the unique new center wing.
Thank God Mika got well, and soon became a double World Champion.
One of the best personalities in F1 and a treasure to the sport.
vdvsoldat 2 years ago 5
Yeah the HANS device more than likely would have saved Hakkinen from his head injuries.
Holden308 2 years ago 6
no HANS devices in 95
barcamufc 2 years ago
Mika Hakkinen is one of the nicest blokes I ever met. I asked him about the crash, and why he went back to driving after that - he told me this "when I was small boy, something like 8 years old, I went into my first go-cart race, with my family watching, and in my first race that day I had very bad crash, very bad, I hit the tyres and it flipped over. My parents had a big shock of course, it was a serious accident. As you can see I was driving after that"
MatSallehBoleh 2 years ago 16
you are 100% right about mika, imagine how the drivers must have felt when they were (thankfully) wrongly informes that mika HAD died.
still, he responded well and cemented a great legacy.
billabongodrum 2 years ago
Lol
jraybay 2 years ago
scary times in f1
superkindonmymind 2 years ago 6
ハッキネン～；；
死んでなくてよかったぁ～；；
Nukuaa 2 years ago
sure
sixtolojunior 2 years ago
Just one wall of tyres that's very bad I didn't realise how good the HANS device is until I saw that slow motion replay
cncondron 2 years ago 2
They didnt had any HANS device in '95
DutchRacing 2 years ago
Where did he say that they had it in 95?
Tibberia 2 years ago
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terrible editing!! Mikka is one of the great Finns, along with Kekkonen, MATTI NYKANEN AND MATTI AND PEKKA. Mikka has humour and he is funny talking to Capt FAST (slow) about rally in finland. But the really crazy bastards do WRC like Petter and Henning Solberg. Makes F1 look like gocart racing, and Schumi wet his pants after riding shotgun in Petter Solbergs Subaru. Perkele! :-) Aussies are praying,but Mikka you are atheist right? YOU ALWAYS FINNISH FIRST! Kimmi Raikonnen is Mikka 2.0
makiavelli999 2 years ago
One of the most exciting and exhilarating drivers ever to grace a race track - a McLaren and F1 legend! He almost made a comeback a few years ago with Williams and even McLaren were in discussions prior to announcing Hamilton as their team mate to Alonso. Flying Finn Forever!
leamgem 2 years ago 86
i agree, every1 talkes about senna-not that i dont like him i respect him a lot and was extremly sad when he died but what about poor roland ratzenberger!!! he deserved just as much respect!!! sennas death could have been provented if they had stopped the race from carrying on the next day-after rolands death!! :( its a sad sad world. great vid by the way :)
R.I.P to the 2 drivers who lost their lives in a catastrophic way :(
kitkatgwenacoxx 2 years ago 10
I've heard that cry of "Why didn't they call the race off?" many times. But, as Murray Walker said at the time, "The drivers race because they accept that risk." (At least when the weather conditions are at a certain standard.)
As callous as it may sound, I don't think the sport should be sanitised to the degree that it could never happen again. Which, when you remember that Senna was not killed by the impact but by flying debris, is impossible to achieve anyway.
kisbie 2 years ago 10
well,that's because Senna was pretty much the face of formula one at that time,he was and maybe still is the most famous driver in the sport..it was to be expected that people would talk more about him,but RIP to both of them.
DarkCrono100 2 years ago
Ratzenberger didn't have the support and adoration of Senna, which I suppose makes it all the more tragic. Austria didn't come to a stand-still the way Brazil did in the week following the crash.
Kudos to Berger and, I think, Herbert, who attented both funerals.
f1passion08 2 years ago 7
It's really annoying that because Senna died at Imola, no one pays any attention to Roland Ratzenberger dying the day before. It's almost as if it was like people thought he didn't matter
jaryd12345 2 years ago 94
You're right. Senna himself would have been disgusted at Ratzenberger - a hugely popular driver in the pitlane at the time - being forgotten. Remember that the wreckage of his Williams was found to contain an Austrian flag that he was gonna unfurl on the podium. One good thing you can say about Max Mosley was that he turned up at Roland's funeral, unlike almost everyone else.
kisbie 2 years ago 17
I suspect some are still trying to forget that horrific accident, I'm sure everyone who witnessed that live have been haunted by it ever since.
NateDawg80126 2 years ago
Berger did attend.
OnePieceSanjiRobin 2 years ago
Ratzenberger was a courageous, fast driver driving a car which he had to peddle faster than it cared to go.......never forgotten!!! But I know what u mean, it was a terrible weekend for all F1, even 16 years on it still hurts, luckiest man that weekend...Barrichello? Maybe the almost head on nature of Roland's crash makes it less aesthetic for TV....christ what a term!!! Sorely miss them both>
2zorro3 1 year ago
@jaryd12345 i agree
TheNodnarb66 1 year ago
@jaryd12345 for the people who know F1, who doesn't remember Roland???
Sorry if non racing fans don't remember him... but they didn't know in the first place...
Bryan2799 10 months ago
@Bryan2799 Yes obviously real F1 fans know about him. In the same way that real football fans know about Justin Fashanu who came out as gay and then committed suicide after all the aggro he got because of it . However, when i said "people" thought he didn't matter, the people to whom I refer are the media. I believe it's a media responsibility to inform those who aren't highly versed in the issues raised, rather than just putting Senna up on a pedestal by himself.
jaryd12345 10 months ago
@jaryd12345 yea but how many people... even racing people remember what happened to Michele Alboreto... I'm just saying the media who cover the sport remember Roland... but lets be honest... when Senna died it transcended all sport and went all over the world because of who he was... Roland was a racer and deserves a racers respect... but it is just not possible to have anywhere near the same effect and it isn't the media's, or anyone else's responsibility to do so.
Bryan2799 9 months ago
@Bryan2799 This is just gunna be a stalemate so rather than be typical youtubers and go back and forth from now till the end of time let's agree to disagree and end it now, yus? :-P
jaryd12345 9 months ago
@jaryd12345 cool but do you remember Paul Dana? Jeff Krosnoff? Scott Brayton? Gonzalo Rodriguez? Greg Moore? Tony Renna? Adam Petty? Kenny Irwin?
How about Ricardo Paletti?
I think we are mostly in agreement... but I do take issue with implying that people (media) don't think Ratzenberger "mattered"
Bryan2799 9 months ago 2
@Bryan2799 It depends what you mean by remembered. I mean the only one of those crashes I have seen is Greg Moore as I saw it as it happend on TV at the time, as I like to make a point of not watching death crashes unless I have some sort of personal feeling towards them.
But those are all irrelevent as they are from all different creeds of motorsport as well as dates etc.
I refer to just this weekend with these two guys and the fact that some reports didn't even mention Ratzenberger :-)
jaryd12345 9 months ago
@jaryd12345 some reports yes... not the ones that mattered themselves ;)
Bryan2799 9 months ago
@jaryd12345 agree
gspthortwo 10 months ago
the problem here is not the head in contact with the sides of the cockpit or the wall. here the problem is the hyperflexion of the neck which causes basilar skull fracture and the rupture of the brain arteries that go through the base of the skull. as a result blood comes out from ears, nose and mouth, clot forms, you are unconscious and with no breathing. the fact that hakkinen is alive and then became 2 time f1 champion is a real miracle.
evidencebasedliving 2 years ago 11
its just shows how violent these impacts are, Thankfully now with the hans device and the head and kneck protections in the seat reduce the violent movements of the kneck.
jbracer86 2 years ago 5
god was watching over him that day! A miracle that he was not permanently injured.
lilcat89 2 years ago 3
I remember the accident but that's the first time I've seen the footage of it. That was savage; it's a wonder his head didn't come off. Miraculous recovery, Mika went on to win two F1 world titles. Thanks for posting the clip.
TJW1979 2 years ago 2
very shocking to watch, especially the slow mo
hans device would have helped mika...
swavgav31 3 years ago 2
first time i ever seen this
at this age of formula one car evolution the cockpits didn't come up as high as they do now, and they didn't wear the HANS safety device to stop the head moving around as much. probably other changes were made since this accident.
which is great cos as well all know Mika came back and gave Schumacher a run for his money on World Championships!
rchan0 3 years ago
I was there, and it was a scary accident.
Shazzasaloon91 3 years ago
If he would have not spinned he would be dead.
Stupido95 3 years ago
if my arse could sing i would be a millionare. If if if...
villaperse 3 years ago 5
to Stupido95 -of course spinning made the car loose speed.Had he crashed head on I guess we could be talking of a fatal event.Fortunately he did fully recover.
indigoblue555 3 years ago
thank god for Jackie, if it wasn't for him, and his legendary safety campaigns,there would've been so many more fatalaties. Thank god Mika was lucky, the head movement brings back Roland Ratzenberger's terrible fatal accident. R.I.P Roland.
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030ladz 3 years ago
that was so violent damn
JR113FTW 3 years ago 2
hakkinen is my favorite driver ever
flixo92 3 years ago 11
He's a Hero Hakkinen!
Mika1998 3 years ago 16
Im happy that cars are now really much safer than those days and earlier but it really took a man to drive those things up to 300km/h when u know that one litle mistake or braking of the tyre can easily kill you even in litle lower speeds.
lumimies7 3 years ago 2
häkkinen rulez
stv93 3 years ago 7
woah. in all of the years since this horrific crash this is the first time i've seen an onboard view and it is gut wrenching! it is a testament to the medics that he survived this accident and went on to be the champion he is. but far out i am also absolutely shocked that there was only one row of tyres at such a high speed corner...
2o2y 3 years ago
Jeez, I was gasping at the impact now - how exposed did the car look and how much was his head moving around? woah...
PippinRally 3 years ago
Having Jackie Stewart commentating was probably one of the better things to do. I like how Jackie approaches and presents things, a very professional manner about him. Who would think, with how serious the injuries sounded, that Mika would go on to become a 2-time world champion? Perhaps, if not for this crash, there could have been more?
maverickfa14 3 years ago 7
We nearly lost a great man. Mika was as fast as anyone has ever been over one lap at his peak. That aside-he was and remains a wonderful man-cool, and with a really great dry sense of humour.That wry smile of his says it all. It's only idiots who try to convince you he lacked charisma. Thanks for the memories, Mika! (but not this one...lol)
Stereolabdream 3 years ago 17
Dead right Stereo - Hakkinen was certainly a match 4 Schumacher and was a much better team player than Michael - had he been more selfish and ruthless who knows what he could've achieved. I think in hindsight, the crash enabled him to adapt his drving style to allow him 2 win 2 world titles. He was, however, exciting 2 watch in his slightly reckless and unpredictable days!I also agree that as a bloke, he was misunderstood by commentators who were quick 2 brand him humourless-he had expression!
leamgem 3 years ago 2
Too bad the HANS Device was not invented yet at that time...
Hakkinen is a great driver and always will be.
h4m2421 3 years ago 11
It was invented, Just not used......
richaw11 2 years ago
Hakkinen was the best...
stselo 3 years ago 15
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Häkkinen diese Heulsuse!!Ich weiss noch wo der damals an der Strecke geheult hat.WEICHEI!!!!
Macgyver174 3 years ago
i am glad something like that could never happen again in these days. the monocoque is very absorbing the impact and the only thing where drivers get hurt nowadays is when they crash backwards because they are always dizzy and such after these crashes but i dont think anyone could die in an accident ever again. non-the-less we lost too many in formula 1 over the years. sorry for my english.
freeflow58 3 years ago
He would have benefited most from the HANS device.
jjflip 3 years ago
Never say never. Kubica was lucky at Canada the other year. If the angle he struck the wall either time had been more acute, it could have taken his legs. They were hanging out the broken end of the car when he finally came to a stop.
wannaseesumfun 3 years ago 3
Right at the end;
"Well, yeah, we're praying for him.."
Very convincing.
jellonasuolaa 3 years ago 2
What were they thinking designing the curbs to be so high, way too dangerous going over them at 150mph
NialoF1 3 years ago 3
No Prof Sid Watkins saved his life by giving him a tracheoscopy as he coudlnt breath!
hawkesybaby 3 years ago 6
aussie paramedics saved his life
Naughto001 3 years ago 4
Jackie Stewart has black hair..?
This was filmed a while ago.
qwertylockley 3 years ago
Actually in 1995.
Stupido95 3 years ago
absolutely horrible, never seen that before, thank god he lived.
monkeyboy85 3 years ago
You can clearly see his head hit the steering wheel very hard as it has a big chunk punched out of its circumference after his head moves back. I would deduce that this is the impact that injured him, smashing his nose and mouth such that he needed a tracheotomy to survive the immediate aftermath. Its also likely that the same impact caused the brain damage.
So, a HANS device would probably have prevented his head moving forward that far and meant that he could have walked away from this crash.
Austinspace75 3 years ago
Makes me think that if FIA had acted after this and made HANS device mandatory and other motorsports bodies had followed suit, maybe Dale Earnhardt and other drivers would still be alive. Oh well.....hindsight is always 20/20
bigaussie68 3 years ago
The HANS Device (might be wrong) was invented as a direct response to Dale Earnhardts death.
Rosssmith21 3 years ago
Actually it was invented in the early 80's. It was made compulsory by NASCAR after Dale was killed
bigaussie68 3 years ago
NASCAR didn't make it compulsory right after Dale's death. According to Mike Helton, they "didn't want to react for the sake of reacting."
However, in a different stock car curuit, ARCA, young Blaise Alexander was killed in October 2001.
After his death, NASCAR realized they should mandate it.
girlcandream 3 years ago
it was already invented, but earnhardt unfortunately refused to attach it.
MacTobey 3 years ago 3
Thx god, that this great sportsman survived this crash.
reini19 3 years ago 7
If Hakkinen would be died that day, ho would be more famous now.
By the way, if someone dosn't know,
Finland was chosen to best F1 country in 2007.
Why? Because there is only 7 drivers from Finland and they all are good. (3 has won championship)
From other countries come more drivers, but there is only few good.
Sorry, off topic.
warrior75369 3 years ago 3
Off topic, maybe, but very imformative! I had no idea... Interesting.
shodan73spike 3 years ago 3
Heikki Kovalainen crash was more terrible, but Max Mosley save he, but Mika Häkkinen crash was more damage.
Finland is the best F1 country in the world =).
Räikkönen, Kovalainen and Häkkinen <3
DIDDYJAKAABANAANII 3 years ago
No way! in 1995 F1 drivers didnt have the HANS device and the monocoque wasnt nearly as strong as it is today, and lets not mention that weak tyre barrier Mika crashed into, Heikki had a thicker one..
Gibberish1983 3 years ago
don't forget Rosberg
dextersno1fan 3 years ago
one tyre width thick! no wonder
NewYankee01 3 years ago
After Mika had a serious crash in practice for some GP in 2001 he decided he would quit after 2001. He had survived two heavy crashes and reasoned the third might kill him so it was better not to push his luck.
AlexDeLarge90 3 years ago 3
I think it was the crash during the Australia GP. He had to go to hospital for further checks because something hit his helmet.
It was this situation that retired him in his mind.
lindand 3 years ago 2
Heehee talk about a flashback...Kenny Suctliff, Jennifer Kyte and F150 ambulances...
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Spurkranz 3 years ago
at 2:58 you can see the right front wheel is an inch of the ground so it indicates a left rear puncture me thinks anyway
hr32gtr 3 years ago
Thank goodness he was alright in the end, this kind of accident is why that HANS device was introduced.
stattotheblade 3 years ago 2
Yeah, it's scary when you see how much his head moved.
Rosvolainen 3 years ago
Thank goodness he was alright in the end, this kind of accident is why that HANS device was introduced.
stattotheblade 3 years ago
hey i know simon hunt, i play tennis against him here in toowoomba qld.
trevorwinton 4 years ago
I believe that he met his wife-to-be in the hospital after this accident.
djmartinhodge 4 years ago
Royal Adelaide Hospital...my mum works there (no it wasn't her, lol)
Bring Adelaide back! F*ck Melbourne and f*ck St Petersburg!!
tnralliart2600 3 years ago
amen
samsemtex 3 years ago
and fuck you. its beter stayin in melbourne
bombers333 3 years ago
I was at the Melbourne F1 GP 3 days ago; the whole city smells like piss, the track sux and your city runs it at a loss every year. Don't forget how disgrunted all the drivers at the time were when it moved to Melbourne. I hope it stays in Australia, but I hold no such loyalty to Albert Park.
PS: The Melbourne-crowd at the KISS concert after the race sucked too.
tnralliart2600 3 years ago
well then how about you come back to melbourne so we can really settle this then ey? why the fuck would anyone want to go up to adelaide, a town full of fuckin drongos and bogans when they can come to the worlds most livable city?
bombers333 3 years ago
You know what they say, arguing on the internet...
tnralliart2600 3 years ago
no enlighten me. what do they say?
bombers333 3 years ago
...is like running in the special olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded.
tnralliart2600 3 years ago
ha ha ha ha ha ha, best joke i got in years.
tnralliart2006, you rule. who ever you are.
still laughing. hey bumbers333, i know nothing about what you guys arguying about but, you've been royally dissed.
spicegirl12006 3 years ago
lol yeh ill give ya that one. made me laugh.
bombers333 3 years ago
And Adelaide also has an idiotic pitlane on the track just to make cars spin in the pitlane. Good job the FIA did to change the track to Melbourne.
gokul009 3 years ago
suomi finland perkele
1001names 4 years ago
poor mika..i'm glad he recovered too.
dummblonde9 4 years ago
"er which gave him the err unconsciousness"
I'm so glad he recovered.
MagicAyrtonforever 4 years ago
man just notice how little the frame of Mika's car broke... not a lot o debris... this means that the driver had a creater force from the crash acting on him, which was perhaps why this accident was so serious... and thas why today's F1 cars are designed to have their frame break down intantly at crashes, to absorb energy from the crash...
Hell, that must have been a terrible strike on Mika's body...
zerosk8cy 4 years ago 2
Mika was lucky to survive. His a legend and a model of his 1999 F1 Car is in the Science Museum, London.
bloodsu 4 years ago 9
he also has slight deafness in his right ear.
6ensible 4 years ago
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jackie stewart's an idiot as well
aviatik 4 years ago
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mika's got a thick head - he's finnish
aviatik 4 years ago
hmm.....something tells me you have to be pretty much the opposite of thick-headed to drive an f1 car for a living. (and since mika won 2 titles.....i'm betting he's quite intelligent... :) )
goldielocks8 3 years ago 6
This is why Hakkinen quit F1. He didn't want to risk it any more.
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toplobbyist 4 years ago
he did not come back alright, he suffers from a speech impediment (stutterring).
crispixoo7 4 years ago 2
did he get the stutter from that crash?
ByronJenness 4 years ago
even if thats the case i consider him very lucky
oddba11 4 years ago
F***ing dangerous. Glad he came back alright.
dlmaniac 4 years ago 13
there was no need for them to show Senna dying.
Kerpunk909 4 years ago
what's wrong with them doing that?
JamesBCS 4 years ago 2
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What's wrong with broadcasting a video of your girlfriend cheating on you and having hot sex with another guy?
dpludwig 4 years ago
a lot of things, obviously, but that's hardly the same as posting a video of someone crashing a car and then dying.
JamesBCS 4 years ago 3
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I beg to differ.
Posting a video of someone dying in a car crash, and posting a video of your girlfriend being pounded on like a porn star by some other guy are EXACTLY the same thing.
Both generate an adverse reaction, and both can be traumatic and take some time to get over.
dpludwig 4 years ago
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It didn't take me much time to get over watching senna crash, and it wouldn't take me much time to get over seeing my girlfreind cheating on me seeing as i don't have one and if i did i'd just knife her and get it over with.
JamesBCS 4 years ago
I actually remember seeing this on the news. Chilling. If the regulations werent brought in after Imola, surely Mika would be dead.
Rosssmith21 4 years ago
this & senna's accident paved the way for changes in the cars track & safety features for the driver that make for safer racing. mika's accident today would only merit slight injury than mika's unconsciousness.
kuyaalx0310 4 years ago 3
Yeah, but that wasn't enough... They really improved it after experiencing that their safety regulation after imola is still to week for this racing standards...
benjaaaaaa 3 years ago
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haista paska!
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jamppu68 4 years ago
Et tainnut ymmärtää.. Jos sanoo että joku on "shit" niin se on kyllä loukkaavaa, mutta jos sanoo "the shit" niin tarkoittaa positiivista..
YouthEnergy 4 years ago
It's amazing that a couple of years later he won two Driver's World Championships. Amazing Driver.
Fede17 4 years ago 2
this acciident left mika partialy deaf.
6ensible 4 years ago
My god - twelve years have passed and Mika recovered to win two championships, and yet this crash still sends a shiver down my spine, knowing that he walked the line of life and death that day and was only just brought back.
aussiepassion 4 years ago 5
Right tyre seems locked all the time.
Watch how Häkkinen steers hard left at 3:20: the left tyre isn't turning at all. It keeps rolling all right, but it's pointing straight forward. It makes me wonder...two wheels misfunctioning at the same time, but in different ways? Is such a coincidence possible? I think there's just something here that I can't understand. But curious...very curious.
hiiiihto 4 years ago
The left tyre is turning. It's a perspective thing.
Vulle123 4 years ago
wow - 3:40 his arm might of been hurting aswell. good job adelaide marshalls and hospital!
wpsracing108 4 years ago
His head accelerates towards the 11 o'clock position. The 1995 'post Senna' cockpit redesign which raised the shoulders of the cockpit a little with padding attempting restrict the lateral acceleration of the head in a side impact.His helmet moves forward of these measures and appears to impact the front left cockpit edge . A HANS device would have lessened injury considerably.
pvtdangles 4 years ago
The reason why the safety was getting to better levels, now go f*ck you selves who say that they started gettin safety up after Sennas fatal, It did not happen, it happened after Häkkinens accident in adelaide, so think aout that.
92NB 4 years ago
they did in fact get the safety up, as of the spainish gp they made the cockpits longer, and made the teams cut extra air holes in the engine covers - trust me i used to work in f1
pumaf1979 4 years ago
Very informative, Sir Jackie is reflective and gets to the point. Thank god he didn't strike the tire barriers from the side. It would have been fatal.
brattsveen 4 years ago
on ninetys F1 cars looked cuite unsafe
splatter247 4 years ago
I remember seeing a press photograph before Hakkinen was moved into the ambulance. His eyes were open and it seemed like he was looking at the camera, even though he was probably unconscious, it was just a blank stare. Blood was pouring out of his mouth and nostrils. That was nasty. They've made a lot of improvements to the cockpit of F1 car. Kubica and likes should thank Hakkinen that they are still alive.
Hakkinen came back and won two championships.
TTi6272 4 years ago 2
Perkele!
E189Siemens 4 years ago
en tieda.. :(
mogirldotnet 4 years ago
kuoliko se!???!?!
batse89 4 years ago
Häkkinen vai? Vuonna 1995? No ei, kyllähän tuo on vieläkin elossa. Voitti vielä kaksi mestaruuttakin sen jälkeen. Missä sinä olet ollut? Senna menehtyi 1994.
catwoman8874 4 years ago
Hahahaha Tosissaanko kysyt??
riejuontykkii 4 years ago
No en :D:D:D
batse89 4 years ago
Häkkinen perkele.
What really caused he's accident? Tires?
Jourei91 4 years ago
eiku nous kait nokka ilmaan tosta radan reunuksesta juuri kääntämis hetkellä, sama voi myös tapahtua jos samaan aikaan pistää jarrut ihan pohjaan(mutta lukkimatta renkaita) ja kääntää nopeesti ja voimakkaasti. eli sillon lähtee perä irti, tossahan se ei voinu jarruttaa yhtää ku se lenti melkein koko matkan
tohtorigyro 4 years ago