1964 was a bad year in "Big Car" racing (or Indy Cars), as a whole. Sachs and MacDonald killed at Indy, Parnelli Jones suffered moderate burns in a fire while leaving the pits during the race..Jim Hurtibise was badly burned a week later in an accident at Milwaukee..but "the Last Straw" over Gasoline as a fuel, came when Bobby Marshman was involved in a crash during Testing at Phoenix on Nov 27,1964. The car went up in a blazing fireball. Marshman died on Dec 4, succumbing to his injuries
i feel bad with every driver that dies, its like us drivers and race enthusiast are like a race of our own.We are like our own species or clan,it hurts us to see a deadly crash.
Probably one of the most horrifying crashes I've ever seen involving fire. The whole turn 4 area looks like a war zone!! RIP Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald.
Dave is my grandpa. It's really upsetting to read comments like "I wish i could have pissed on their crispy corpses" or "hahaha burn mother fuckers"... I'm not sure what part of a fatal crash that completely devastated 2 families is funny. Grow up and have some respect.
I was in the stands when he hit the wall right in front of me. Nothing funny about any of it. Really ruined the rest of the race but they went on as they should have.
Will have to go back and double check but this looks like a copy of the film my dad shot back when he was on the Indiana State Police in their command center for this race. I still have the original 8mm film.
To make matters even worse...as if they could...this was the first year the 500 was covered on closed-circuit television. So, not only did most of the "paying" have to wait out a LONG red flag but they were treated to about the worst accident one could imagine. Rather amazing that MCA-TV was brought back for the next 6 years.
I remember listening to this race on the radio when I was a sophomore in HS. Eddie was my favorite to win because he was a friend of a classmate of mine. We weere all devistated because he had a connection to Arcadia High School and my classmate John Rowe. RIP Eddie sand Dave.
@smokey1255 For 9.99 you can hear it again. Got to indianapolicmotorspeedway dot com and check out the multimedia tab for Radio Broadcasts. I ordered 1964 and it is chilling.
@Radar19792006 You can also hear Donald Davidson's first stint on the radio in that 1964 broadcast. While it's a terrible day, at least a new Indy star was born.
@jin010342 Indy car has had a very good safety record with the current car. Aside from the Paul Dana crash -- which probably wasn't survivable in any open-wheel car -- the record has been quite good. The new car, built to new FIA standards, should be even better.
F1 likewise has come a long, long way in recent years.
people making fun of this,what brave people you are,behind a computer screen posting your diseased opinions,the facts are if you had to get into a race car,you would soil your nappies because unlike these 2 guys who lost their lives doing what they loved,you are cowards
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Eddie sachs lost his nutsack in this crash... the fence severed his testicles and actually left them in his mouth... I read this on the back of a pack of crisps so I assume its true. Anyhoo rest in pieces you silly wanker.
@SharkysDeathVids That's the funniest troll comment I've seen so far. Meanwhile, it's been a month, so you're probably where all niggers belong, in hell, getting raped in the ass by Satan.
@legoproductions1100 Although its shocking, Id have to disagree and say that the Roger Williamson crash is by far the worst crash in racing if just for the sickening and heart wrenching state of it. RIP to all the men and women who've lost their lives for the sakes of a 'sport'
well if i were yall id feel very ashamed of making fun of this im only 14 but my grandpa, great grandpa and great grandma were there. dont make fun of something the enjoyed doing what ever R.I.P Eddie Sachs and Dave Macdonald
I saw the big crash at the Milwaukee mile the week after Indy. It was either 1964 or 1965. I was eight. Foyt won in car number 1 (which makes me think it was 65) Jim Hurtubise hit the wall right in front of me (inside of 25 ft . I was in row 2 behind the wall, turn #1.). My dad threw himself over my mom to shield her and I remember droplets of gas landing on my face and closed eyelids. I opened my eyes to a fire ball going around the track. In turn 4 Jim's car vaulted over Foyt's seconds before.
Man, I remember my dad and my uncles talking about these wrecks. It was the talk at Memorial Day. Stories of the Indy 500 which they almost always went to.
1964 was a tragic year in racing - with Fireball Roberts and Joe Weatherby being killed on the NASCAR circuit.
Seeing that crash and in the cars they were driving at the time, i have even more respect for the heroes who sacrificed themself all for the competition and our entertainment.
@varjaurban sorry but u're totally wrong, oval track may looks simple, but it is actually pretty intense, people who feel no fear racing on it are totally crazy, normal people without the chance to try it will probably never understand.
@varjaurban You are an idiot. IMS is not a "circle". It most surely has 4 distinct turns. I live in Indy and have been there more times than you have watched races on TV. Do a little research before you post utter nonsense. When F1 raced here many of the F1 drivers were very fearful that portions of the circuit were too fast for their liking. Real men race here, not like the pansy-ass you are.
@delmer221 It was actually because the tires couldnt withsatnd the load of the banked high g turns, and they gave out during these turns. Thats why in the (possibly last) race from my recent memory, only six cars started, because their tire brand dindt have the high g problem.
@Bushby23 . Thanks for the reply. Most certainly there were tire problems that were not the teams or drivers faults. But, in the first couple of F1 races at Indy comments were made by drivers/teams that indicated they were not used to the high speeds of the front stretch & some of the turns.
My post was not a dig at the F1 drivers, but a reply to a doofus who has no knowledge of IMS. Still you made good points.
@delmer221 ok my bad it has 4 bends non the less it is still not racing. nascar, formula indy, formula and drag is NOT racing. the only thing that matters here is the power of the engine. nascar cars still has solid atlas rear axle. that says more than enough that there is no need for good suspention, becouse u can't make a good competitve suspention with atlas axle. if u want to see real racing to the edge go fuck your self and watch DTM, WTCC or non-.american rally series
@varjaurban Indy, just as the majority of the "non-D" ovals have 4 turns linked by 2 main straight and 2 short ones. It's not about just flat accel and turn the wheel. Just like road courses, you must judge the correct aceleration and in some cases, properly tilt-braking. It's just different concepts of the same thing: in ovals you will always paying atention to how much speed you carry on a turn, while in road courses you pay more atention to the trajectory inside the corner.
@barneynward: my father watched MacDonalds car hit the inside wall and skid across the track to the outside wall on turn four, then at full speed Eddie Sachs hit McDonald's Car in front of my fathers seat. Apparently Sachs expected the track to clean to the inside and kept his car high on the outside, but MacDonald's car was forced up the track for his second wall impact.
My father was on turn four about seven rows back and he had small spot fuel burns on his face. The seats were wood folding chairs in new expansion turn four seating. He said people fell to the ground as the fire went over their heads, and when they got up all of the chairs and coolers were broken. We still have the newpapers reporting the tragic crash.
put up any kind of barrier you want..it doesnt matter, when you're driving cars @ 180+ mph..people are gonna die..at least he went out doing what he loved, we should all be soo luckey. Whats all the arguing about? You people should all be used as slave laborers and sperm recepticles..I am the best person in the world..PERIOD! Suck a dick you whiney little bitches.
@barneynward McDonald lost control of his car as he exited turn 4, it exploded as it rebounded off the retaining wall, Sachs broadsided him and it was like 2 bombs going off since their tanks were full. McDonald's car was an accident waiting to happen because of its design and the fact that the cars back then used pure gasoline, ethanol is what's used now
@PYLrulz1984 I think you're right, I can never remember the corrrect name of the fuel but it wouldn't surprise me if that was true. Seems like any crashes you saw after this don't have that kind of sustained burning of fuel.
Yet racing driver dies in a race after hitting a cement/concrete wall. Others include Senna and Ratzenberger. How many more deaths are we going to have before organizers of F1 start putting walls of cardboard boxes or other impact deadening materials ?! It is not the spot that kills these drivers., the organizers of F! are killing them !!
@MeMrecious the race in the video is not Formula 1 it is the Indy 500 which is not a F1 race. On the US ovals they have what is called the Safer Barriers which is a deformable wall attached to the Concrete wall
@AEMoreira81 read my comment properly and you will see that i was rponding to a comment in which the author was commenting on F1. I know that the SAFER barrier wasn't around when this incident happened
@MeMrecious What are you talking about you muppet? The safety regulators of F1 have done amazingly over the last 10 or so years, in which time there hasn't been a single death.
Did you see Webber's crash at Valencia? It was three times worse than this, but the brilliant safety standards meant he could walk away without so much as a scratch.
a hero?! sorry to be rude, but how is driving a car a couple of times in the circle even remotely close to heroic? and what for? for money and fame? LOL! and what about those 1 MILLION DEAD Iraqis, YOUR PRECIOUS GOV MURDERED, huh? what about Afgans? or Vietnamese? when you will mourn THEM, you piece of fascist satan cock swollowing m'f*cks! the driver's dead! he knew he will be eventually! good for him! he made his dream come true! now dont mourn - RESPECT HIS LIFE (LOL) DECISION!!!
@wrrrrrrrrrr you really are the sad m f~~~er. Why are there no Iraqi, Afghani or Vietnamese drivers? Because they don't get the chance..... think why that is and get back to me....
@wrrrrrrrrrr well. why the fuck do u bring all those third world countries into this? it has nothing to fucking do with this does it? its their fault wats happening to this country dont u understand this guy lost his life racing isnt about fame or fourtune its about getting to drive i would love to become an indy driver now before you have something shitty to say next time get ur head out of ur ass bitch..
All that black smoke is what caused the push for the use of methanol. The feeling was that no smoke but flames you cant see is better than seeing flames. hmmm.......Not a good trade off if you ask me. As Roger Mears how well that one worked out, took him 30 secs to get across to a saftey person that he was BLEEPING ON BLEEPING FIRE during that pit fire in the 500 in the 80s.
you all should be ashamed of yourselves, these people were killed doing what they loved to do and you people are making fun of it. why don't you grow a pair!
screw 'em probably some night clerks with no high school that have no better stuff to do than shit on dead people who got famous doing something they've loved .
I agree with you. Have some respect for the fallen. They fulfilled their dream, die for it, and should be praised doing what they could to entertain fans. It's unfortunate they lost their lives for it.
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@nanofriz12 What they loved was being selfish,their selfish drive gives them little regard for their own lives and little respect for the feelings of their loved ones.I feel for the relatives of these drivers who have the misfortune of being attatched emotionally to these driven,self worshippers who want to stand alone as acheivers of their own selfish desires.A sick minded ego driven pointless sport that will always end in needless tragic deaths.
@nanofriz12 Well, MacDonald actually asked for it. The Sears-Allstate was a blatant casket-on-wheels with "sucidial" written all over that flawly-enginereed body it had. Graham Hill tested it and just ran away from it; many other refused the team offerings.
@nanofriz12 'bout Sachs, he happened to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time; the wrong place being the cockpit of a car speeding at 280kph toward a fiery fireball, and the wrong time being the exact istant in which his only way through the inferno was closed by the car that caused it.
Yes, most definetely. His nutSACHS got toasted, for sure. Some marshmallows would have been handy to make a good time out of that fiery twisted metal coffin.
He had 44 gallons of fuel on board. He'd made up quite a few positions in the opening lap and a bit, but as he tried to overtake the car in 9th, that driver moved left to try to pass the 8th placed car coming off Turn 4 which forced MacDonald to steer further left, starting the spin. Sachs was just unlucky, he couldn't slow down too much due to the big roadsters bearing down on him and he literally had nowhere to go
Why don't they mention Dave MacDonald who was also killed and who was the car that exploded..Maybe because he was a rookie and Sachs was the fan favorite
sillysandnigger you are a cock man seriously iv just watched a few of these and all you do is take the piss out of the dead!! wtf, what sort of person does that you must be one sad fucker. anyway better go. hope your family all get cancer.bye.
People should get it through their thick heads that this shit is dangerous and life threatening. Instead people should stay home and smoke weed where its safe like I do.
Nice hollow comment there. But what can you expect from an irrational dumbass retard like you. What is that supposed to mean "you have no future". The only people who have no future are people that are dead or dying.
go fry yourself you motherfucking ass-licking douchebag. if your going to be neagtive about this sort of shit i suggest you go pour petrolium all over yourself feel the pain then. dickhead.
I was 13 yrs old & sitting less than 100 yds from crash.I was there to see Dave McDonald drive Mickey Thompsons car as Mickey was my childhood hero.Dave bounced off the wall & across the track to be hit by Eddie.The fire was hurting me from the great distance, there could have been no "feeling it" within the flames.This is one of the crashes that led to the development of the foam rubber inside rubber bladders for the fuel tanks so no gushing of fuel in a crash & water puts out alcohol instantly
@mrculo262 I read that car was something of a deathtrap from the beginning, I think it had a really weird center of gravity which made the handling very tricky.
I don't think it mattered what they used, it was how much of it was onboard. Back then, these cars were loaded to the brim and then some with gargantuan amounts of fuel. To make matters worse, this crash occurred on the first lap, so all that fuel's gotta go somewhere...
They used gasoline up until that year which is why the crash produced so much smoke. Starting in 1965 all races run at the Indianapolis 500 were required to run on methanol that burns with a near invisible flame and is smokeless.
LOL eddy sachs. I bet he licked ball sack.
Fire23eater 2 weeks ago
Worst of all indy 500 crashes
wittisy 1 month ago
1964 was a bad year in "Big Car" racing (or Indy Cars), as a whole. Sachs and MacDonald killed at Indy, Parnelli Jones suffered moderate burns in a fire while leaving the pits during the race..Jim Hurtibise was badly burned a week later in an accident at Milwaukee..but "the Last Straw" over Gasoline as a fuel, came when Bobby Marshman was involved in a crash during Testing at Phoenix on Nov 27,1964. The car went up in a blazing fireball. Marshman died on Dec 4, succumbing to his injuries
thevmanvj 1 month ago
would have liked to here the entire eulogy. you brought be in short, and never finished me off.....typical.
heathermillerdmz 1 month ago
the car just went up like a bomb when it hit the wall! very sad
kiuhy8 2 months ago
"Hitten"... I love it.
jperini1 2 months ago
Wow! that driver really SACHS! BHAHAAHAHHF
hartistry1957 2 months ago
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jblegend1000 3 months ago
Worst racing crash i have ever seen.
legoproductions1100 3 months ago
i feel bad with every driver that dies, its like us drivers and race enthusiast are like a race of our own.We are like our own species or clan,it hurts us to see a deadly crash.
MIGHTYSAMINYOURFACE 3 months ago
did he die? no shit. course he did. humans don't usually survive a fireball like that
jblegend1000 3 months ago
@jblegend1000 , one man survived...niki lauda.
KillerDreck89 3 months ago
@KillerDreck89 very true, tho the fire was smaller and they weren't using the lethal fuel they used in america
jblegend1000 3 months ago
Yep these cars were rolling bombs, and the drivers knew it - Thats real bravery.
TheJinwhang 4 months ago
man thats crazy, these cars were rolling bombs...
MrWurstmampfer 4 months ago
Hey it was hard to hear but did that crowd cheer when that car blew up?
lilbro209 5 months ago
@lilbro209 yes......especially the fans that were burnt..dont forget a flaming tire flew into the crowd as well
T1122w 1 month ago
Did he died?
Huntington12345678 5 months ago
Probably one of the most horrifying crashes I've ever seen involving fire. The whole turn 4 area looks like a war zone!! RIP Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald.
mohawkman251988 5 months ago
Dave is my grandpa. It's really upsetting to read comments like "I wish i could have pissed on their crispy corpses" or "hahaha burn mother fuckers"... I'm not sure what part of a fatal crash that completely devastated 2 families is funny. Grow up and have some respect.
kirramac 6 months ago
@kirramac Id t-bag your grandpa to death. The man on the video, is not your grandpa though.
jubjubhomie 5 months ago
@jubjubhomie You're an idiot
kirramac 5 months ago
I was in the stands when he hit the wall right in front of me. Nothing funny about any of it. Really ruined the rest of the race but they went on as they should have.
onfinal69 6 months ago
@MrRealist18 Get the fuck off youtube... You and your friend (wwecena0107) go have a gay orgy...
XDarkAfterLifeX 7 months ago
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XDarkAfterLifeX 7 months ago
What about MacDonald? He also died.
jmcfx3b2z 7 months ago
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HAHAH BOM HAHAHA
MrRealist18 7 months ago
@MrRealist18 Two drivers were killed and you find it funny? Shame on you
honda900000 7 months ago 17
@honda900000 he meant by it EXPLODING not by the drivers dying.andi can find it funny to like the WTF BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM XD
wwecena0107 7 months ago
@MrRealist18 SHAME.
Nachotype908 2 months ago
Thank goodness for the improvements to fuel requirements. These were two fine men who lost their lives.
JustRelaxing1 8 months ago 3
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I'm curious, if the vehicles here were fuelled with an alcohol instead of gasoline, would the two men still be alive? was there a study on this?
marmaladekamikaze 5 months ago
screw the state police!! a bunch of PIGS!!
zackfan 8 months ago
Will have to go back and double check but this looks like a copy of the film my dad shot back when he was on the Indiana State Police in their command center for this race. I still have the original 8mm film.
rslamdsr 8 months ago
To make matters even worse...as if they could...this was the first year the 500 was covered on closed-circuit television. So, not only did most of the "paying" have to wait out a LONG red flag but they were treated to about the worst accident one could imagine. Rather amazing that MCA-TV was brought back for the next 6 years.
Radar19792006 8 months ago
I remember listening to this race on the radio when I was a sophomore in HS. Eddie was my favorite to win because he was a friend of a classmate of mine. We weere all devistated because he had a connection to Arcadia High School and my classmate John Rowe. RIP Eddie sand Dave.
smokey1255 9 months ago
@smokey1255 For 9.99 you can hear it again. Got to indianapolicmotorspeedway dot com and check out the multimedia tab for Radio Broadcasts. I ordered 1964 and it is chilling.
Radar19792006 8 months ago
@Radar19792006 You can also hear Donald Davidson's first stint on the radio in that 1964 broadcast. While it's a terrible day, at least a new Indy star was born.
geek49203 8 months ago
gordon smileys is worse parts of him were stuck in the fence Greg moores is pretty bad also
QuikdrawlMcgraw 9 months ago
Can you imagine being the cameraman filming directly behind that wall in the first shot? Holy shit.
Starflite 9 months ago
F1 and indy racing are so dangerous =(, they should have better protection
jin010342 9 months ago
@jin010342 Indy car has had a very good safety record with the current car. Aside from the Paul Dana crash -- which probably wasn't survivable in any open-wheel car -- the record has been quite good. The new car, built to new FIA standards, should be even better.
F1 likewise has come a long, long way in recent years.
geek49203 8 months ago
hitten?
babblestock93 9 months ago
people making fun of this,what brave people you are,behind a computer screen posting your diseased opinions,the facts are if you had to get into a race car,you would soil your nappies because unlike these 2 guys who lost their lives doing what they loved,you are cowards
ellisqpr86 9 months ago
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Eddie sachs lost his nutsack in this crash... the fence severed his testicles and actually left them in his mouth... I read this on the back of a pack of crisps so I assume its true. Anyhoo rest in pieces you silly wanker.
SharkysDeathVids 9 months ago
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@SharkysDeathVids That's the funniest troll comment I've seen so far. Meanwhile, it's been a month, so you're probably where all niggers belong, in hell, getting raped in the ass by Satan.
RyanTheIncredible882 8 months ago
I remember this...I was listening to this on the radio. Never forgot it. This was my first time seeing it.
richard57watson 9 months ago
this was the worst crash I've ever seen.It probley is one of the worst in racing history.
legoproductions1100 10 months ago
@legoproductions1100 your mother is the worst smelling cunt in history
foilseal 9 months ago
@legoproductions1100 Although its shocking, Id have to disagree and say that the Roger Williamson crash is by far the worst crash in racing if just for the sickening and heart wrenching state of it. RIP to all the men and women who've lost their lives for the sakes of a 'sport'
Tufty89 6 months ago
well if i were yall id feel very ashamed of making fun of this im only 14 but my grandpa, great grandpa and great grandma were there. dont make fun of something the enjoyed doing what ever R.I.P Eddie Sachs and Dave Macdonald
ChaseWorley001 10 months ago
I saw the big crash at the Milwaukee mile the week after Indy. It was either 1964 or 1965. I was eight. Foyt won in car number 1 (which makes me think it was 65) Jim Hurtubise hit the wall right in front of me (inside of 25 ft . I was in row 2 behind the wall, turn #1.). My dad threw himself over my mom to shield her and I remember droplets of gas landing on my face and closed eyelids. I opened my eyes to a fire ball going around the track. In turn 4 Jim's car vaulted over Foyt's seconds before.
shhotput 10 months ago
That's why Indy cars haven't run of gasoline in 47 years
The1994Gforce 10 months ago
Man, I remember my dad and my uncles talking about these wrecks. It was the talk at Memorial Day. Stories of the Indy 500 which they almost always went to.
1964 was a tragic year in racing - with Fireball Roberts and Joe Weatherby being killed on the NASCAR circuit.
Tough sport.
1967mustanggta 11 months ago
Seeing that crash and in the cars they were driving at the time, i have even more respect for the heroes who sacrificed themself all for the competition and our entertainment.
WillHapgood2 11 months ago
Danmed pretty beauty Lotus driven by the great Jim Clark. R.I.P guys.
LuizSPK 1 year ago
the commentator couldn't be more wrong, it's Dave MacDonald who crashes and catches fire, Eddie Sachs hits Macdonald after the crash and dies
SaintBEEP 1 year ago
Feliz de quem escapava vivo a esses acidentes naquela época...
Happy man's escapes alive from crashes like this in this time...
anascimento 1 year ago
indy and nascar is not racing. it's going around in circles. AND THERE IS NO TURN 4 BECOUSE THERE ARE ONLY 2 BENDS ON THE ROAD
varjaurban 1 year ago
@varjaurban sorry but u're totally wrong, oval track may looks simple, but it is actually pretty intense, people who feel no fear racing on it are totally crazy, normal people without the chance to try it will probably never understand.
Kaizer147 1 year ago
@varjaurban You are an idiot. IMS is not a "circle". It most surely has 4 distinct turns. I live in Indy and have been there more times than you have watched races on TV. Do a little research before you post utter nonsense. When F1 raced here many of the F1 drivers were very fearful that portions of the circuit were too fast for their liking. Real men race here, not like the pansy-ass you are.
delmer221 1 year ago
@delmer221 It was actually because the tires couldnt withsatnd the load of the banked high g turns, and they gave out during these turns. Thats why in the (possibly last) race from my recent memory, only six cars started, because their tire brand dindt have the high g problem.
Bushby23 1 year ago
@Bushby23 . Thanks for the reply. Most certainly there were tire problems that were not the teams or drivers faults. But, in the first couple of F1 races at Indy comments were made by drivers/teams that indicated they were not used to the high speeds of the front stretch & some of the turns.
My post was not a dig at the F1 drivers, but a reply to a doofus who has no knowledge of IMS. Still you made good points.
delmer221 1 year ago
@delmer221 Thanks for clearing that up, as I was un aware of the initial rounds at ims, only their last round.
Bushby23 1 year ago
@delmer221 ok my bad it has 4 bends non the less it is still not racing. nascar, formula indy, formula and drag is NOT racing. the only thing that matters here is the power of the engine. nascar cars still has solid atlas rear axle. that says more than enough that there is no need for good suspention, becouse u can't make a good competitve suspention with atlas axle. if u want to see real racing to the edge go fuck your self and watch DTM, WTCC or non-.american rally series
varjaurban 10 months ago
@varjaurban if there are cars racing each other, then it is auto racing.
Hlover01 10 months ago
@varjaurban Indy, just as the majority of the "non-D" ovals have 4 turns linked by 2 main straight and 2 short ones. It's not about just flat accel and turn the wheel. Just like road courses, you must judge the correct aceleration and in some cases, properly tilt-braking. It's just different concepts of the same thing: in ovals you will always paying atention to how much speed you carry on a turn, while in road courses you pay more atention to the trajectory inside the corner.
LuizSPK 1 year ago
omg it looks more like a battlefield than a racetrack!
very nasty ... rip to those perished heros ...
Kuderer 1 year ago
Omg, that's a big explosion. If you look at other racing crashes almost none of them explodes that much.
Sweetforthesoul 1 year ago
@Sweetforthesoul yea, thats because of the kind of fuel they used back then and the amount of fuel (i think it was around 100 gal)
Megaman62889 1 year ago
r.i.p.
RAFfan93 1 year ago 2
@barneynward: my father watched MacDonalds car hit the inside wall and skid across the track to the outside wall on turn four, then at full speed Eddie Sachs hit McDonald's Car in front of my fathers seat. Apparently Sachs expected the track to clean to the inside and kept his car high on the outside, but MacDonald's car was forced up the track for his second wall impact.
irlcarfan 1 year ago
My father was on turn four about seven rows back and he had small spot fuel burns on his face. The seats were wood folding chairs in new expansion turn four seating. He said people fell to the ground as the fire went over their heads, and when they got up all of the chairs and coolers were broken. We still have the newpapers reporting the tragic crash.
irlcarfan 1 year ago
Were any spectators injured?
CaseyTheHedgehog1 1 year ago
Those fuckers were cheering when they saw the crash...
Claymore2408 1 year ago
wow holy crap
donstefano57 1 year ago
put up any kind of barrier you want..it doesnt matter, when you're driving cars @ 180+ mph..people are gonna die..at least he went out doing what he loved, we should all be soo luckey. Whats all the arguing about? You people should all be used as slave laborers and sperm recepticles..I am the best person in the world..PERIOD! Suck a dick you whiney little bitches.
whorebot325 1 year ago
Did Dave MacDonald drive into the flames which is what killed him?
barneynward 1 year ago
@barneynward McDonald lost control of his car as he exited turn 4, it exploded as it rebounded off the retaining wall, Sachs broadsided him and it was like 2 bombs going off since their tanks were full. McDonald's car was an accident waiting to happen because of its design and the fact that the cars back then used pure gasoline, ethanol is what's used now
jennifersman 1 year ago
@jennifersman
And if I am correct, this was the crash that forced the open wheelers for the Indy 500 to go to Methanol
PYLrulz1984 1 year ago
@PYLrulz1984 I think you're right, I can never remember the corrrect name of the fuel but it wouldn't surprise me if that was true. Seems like any crashes you saw after this don't have that kind of sustained burning of fuel.
jennifersman 1 year ago
Yet racing driver dies in a race after hitting a cement/concrete wall. Others include Senna and Ratzenberger. How many more deaths are we going to have before organizers of F1 start putting walls of cardboard boxes or other impact deadening materials ?! It is not the spot that kills these drivers., the organizers of F! are killing them !!
MeMrecious 1 year ago
@MeMrecious the race in the video is not Formula 1 it is the Indy 500 which is not a F1 race. On the US ovals they have what is called the Safer Barriers which is a deformable wall attached to the Concrete wall
farodealer 1 year ago
@farodealer However, the SAFER barrier (or soft wall) was more than four decades away by this point. It would not be installed at a track until 2002.
AEMoreira81 1 year ago
@AEMoreira81 read my comment properly and you will see that i was rponding to a comment in which the author was commenting on F1. I know that the SAFER barrier wasn't around when this incident happened
farodealer 1 year ago
@MeMrecious What are you talking about you muppet? The safety regulators of F1 have done amazingly over the last 10 or so years, in which time there hasn't been a single death.
Did you see Webber's crash at Valencia? It was three times worse than this, but the brilliant safety standards meant he could walk away without so much as a scratch.
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haha 2 crispy fried turds for the price of 1
i wish i had a chance to piss on their smoldering corpses lol
HUTUMAGIC 1 year ago
@HUTUMAGIC ill see you in hell
philtripe 1 year ago
i noticed that they never mentioned Dave MacDonald not even once. thats pretty messed up if you ask me
bluetoothboy24 1 year ago
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burn eddie sack you sack of shit.
SharkysDeathVids 1 year ago
@SharkysDeathVids wow if i ever find you your fucked
C0starulz 1 year ago
omg that was an absolutly horriblee horrible wreck. it must've been a sad loss
snikerscamry18 1 year ago
wow never seen so much smoke looked like a 3 alarm fire so sad
retroguy1976 1 year ago
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a hero?! sorry to be rude, but how is driving a car a couple of times in the circle even remotely close to heroic? and what for? for money and fame? LOL! and what about those 1 MILLION DEAD Iraqis, YOUR PRECIOUS GOV MURDERED, huh? what about Afgans? or Vietnamese? when you will mourn THEM, you piece of fascist satan cock swollowing m'f*cks! the driver's dead! he knew he will be eventually! good for him! he made his dream come true! now dont mourn - RESPECT HIS LIFE (LOL) DECISION!!!
wrrrrrrrrrr 1 year ago
@wrrrrrrrrrr you really are the sad m f~~~er. Why are there no Iraqi, Afghani or Vietnamese drivers? Because they don't get the chance..... think why that is and get back to me....
mattatdaw 1 year ago
@wrrrrrrrrrr well. why the fuck do u bring all those third world countries into this? it has nothing to fucking do with this does it? its their fault wats happening to this country dont u understand this guy lost his life racing isnt about fame or fourtune its about getting to drive i would love to become an indy driver now before you have something shitty to say next time get ur head out of ur ass bitch..
MadisonNicole001 1 year ago
one hell of a way to go out
these people certainly lived their lives to the fullest and if given a second chance
few would do things differently
Primorcon 1 year ago
Holy shit..
modjias 1 year ago
the cars today are so much safer - these guys would have survived in a modern car.
gotglasses 1 year ago
That can't be the whole eulogy. It would have been nice to hear the rest of it.
44032 1 year ago
R.I.P. Dave Mac Donald and Eddie Sachs. Thanks for everything you both did for the sport.
Bronco46tube 1 year ago
who to fuck write this subtitles???
In the nineteen sixty four race any sex lost his life??? It`s eddie Sachs and not any sex or saks, what ever...
i think the writer is still in the elementary school =)
the persons in the videos were great drivers and i think you should write out there names right!!! RIP
DrDoOom85 1 year ago
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Well... I guess his carrer really exploded since working in the speedway's caffeteriea.
XD
Junije1 1 year ago
All that black smoke is what caused the push for the use of methanol. The feeling was that no smoke but flames you cant see is better than seeing flames. hmmm.......Not a good trade off if you ask me. As Roger Mears how well that one worked out, took him 30 secs to get across to a saftey person that he was BLEEPING ON BLEEPING FIRE during that pit fire in the 500 in the 80s.
Zoomer30 1 year ago
@Zoomer30 You make a valid point ... but it was Rick Mears, not Roger.
vantalge 1 year ago
that is the most horrific crash that I have ever seen
Nxtl68 1 year ago
My parents were at this race and have pictures from it.
It was the year my older brother was born.
angeleyedboidan 1 year ago
I work with Eddie Sachs Jr. and he carry's on the racing spirit. Has a 7 sec rail in the office and many more race cars.
abrady1115 1 year ago
wiki has a pretty good write-up on this, with some information from reliable sources i'd never heard before. wiki 1964 indianapolis 500
deemilieu 1 year ago
you all should be ashamed of yourselves, these people were killed doing what they loved to do and you people are making fun of it. why don't you grow a pair!
nanofriz12 2 years ago 111
Don't exasperate yourself with comments from trolls , it's not worth it. ;)
tugatomsk 1 year ago 24
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@tugatomsk it spelled "egaggerate" you stupid fuck nigger
foilseal 9 months ago
screw 'em probably some night clerks with no high school that have no better stuff to do than shit on dead people who got famous doing something they've loved .
rip sachs
Thefallenraptor 1 year ago 2
@nanofriz12
I agree with you. Have some respect for the fallen. They fulfilled their dream, die for it, and should be praised doing what they could to entertain fans. It's unfortunate they lost their lives for it.
ratzinator1 1 year ago
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@nanofriz12 What they loved was being selfish,their selfish drive gives them little regard for their own lives and little respect for the feelings of their loved ones.I feel for the relatives of these drivers who have the misfortune of being attatched emotionally to these driven,self worshippers who want to stand alone as acheivers of their own selfish desires.A sick minded ego driven pointless sport that will always end in needless tragic deaths.
SKYLANDBAK 1 year ago
@nanofriz12 Well, MacDonald actually asked for it. The Sears-Allstate was a blatant casket-on-wheels with "sucidial" written all over that flawly-enginereed body it had. Graham Hill tested it and just ran away from it; many other refused the team offerings.
GuaranaClyde 1 year ago
@nanofriz12 'bout Sachs, he happened to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time; the wrong place being the cockpit of a car speeding at 280kph toward a fiery fireball, and the wrong time being the exact istant in which his only way through the inferno was closed by the car that caused it.
GuaranaClyde 1 year ago
@nanofriz12
Don't play God. People can say what they want.
Appleosu 1 year ago
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@xrocknroll24x
I have dreams too I dream that I was still alive and not in Hell thats what I dream of!
GordonSmileysCorpse 2 years ago
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@xrocknroll24x
Yes it was so horrible that Eddie's nutSACHS got burnt as well not only did he loose his life he also lost his man hood aswell!
GordonSmileysCorpse 2 years ago
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Yes, most definetely. His nutSACHS got toasted, for sure. Some marshmallows would have been handy to make a good time out of that fiery twisted metal coffin.
waterfordjim 2 years ago
at that time racing was like war.
adalbero 2 years ago
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u guys are so gay faggots he died
hughhater2020 2 years ago
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i wonder if he felt a hard slap on his sack when he hit the wall? or maybe he died like a sack full of wet flannels.
ItsYummyYumi 2 years ago
that is not funny at all. the guy is DEAD!
ratdude747yt 2 years ago 3
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i know, what a poor little humpty dumpty sack hehehe
ItsYummyYumi 2 years ago
@ItsYummyYumi DIRTY JAP! SHES JUST MAD SHE WORKS IN A SWEAT SHOP GETTING RAPED BY OLD MEN ALL DAY! ENOLA GAY!
talonted4g64 2 years ago 5
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Eddie before he died loved to put his Nut SACHS in TALONTED4G64 mouth rofl!
he loved it too!
GregMooreCorpse 2 years ago
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lol you dopey canadian, our economy is better than yours! why do you get so angry? it seems irrational to me. maybe you have downs syndrome?
ItsYummyYumi 2 years ago
He had 44 gallons of fuel on board. He'd made up quite a few positions in the opening lap and a bit, but as he tried to overtake the car in 9th, that driver moved left to try to pass the 8th placed car coming off Turn 4 which forced MacDonald to steer further left, starting the spin. Sachs was just unlucky, he couldn't slow down too much due to the big roadsters bearing down on him and he literally had nowhere to go
jonny15041983 2 years ago
how much fuel he had onbord....10.000 liters :O big fireball
Boocho88 2 years ago
Why don't they mention Dave MacDonald who was also killed and who was the car that exploded..Maybe because he was a rookie and Sachs was the fan favorite
Swartzie6 2 years ago 2
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did concrete barrier died?
TheMATTIST124 2 years ago
Did your intelligence die? Arsehole.
Lukeno52 2 years ago
@Lukeno52 yse ti did
TheMATTIST124 2 years ago
@TheMATTIST124 It didn't recover for posting that comment either.
Lukeno52 2 years ago
back then they had 50 gallon tanks , no tank foam , crush zone . it's a miracle that didn't happen in most crashes
virus56777 2 years ago
He had to have had a full tank of fuel for al those flames =(
bignfl09 2 years ago
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"exists this earth in a racecar" is no eulogy. Now if he would have said, "Eddie Saks died doing what he loved to do", that would have been a eulogy.
dkw12002 2 years ago
he said ''Ediie sachs exits this earth in aracecar
ltweedel 2 years ago
sillysandnigger you are a cock man seriously iv just watched a few of these and all you do is take the piss out of the dead!! wtf, what sort of person does that you must be one sad fucker. anyway better go. hope your family all get cancer.bye.
5scar 2 years ago
Wow! =-O
F1carlo 2 years ago
WOW i cant believe all of that come from one car WOW
R.I.P MAN
gamefile171 2 years ago 4
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LMAO Eddie Nut Sachs lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SillySandNigger 2 years ago
indy 500 is so save like riding with the blank ass on a rocket to space.
daredevils they are.
what a inferno. even the standards in that time which wherent really save...
real daredevils
TheSchaedelspalter 2 years ago
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eddie 'sacks' 'two time pole sucker' hahahahahaha fuck that sack of shit
MrCorpseNeverDies 2 years ago
Good videos, thanks... A minute of silence for all those racing heros.
canals22 2 years ago 33
Get that Goddam Utube survey off the top of the screen, as it interferes with the picture...sheesh
brewcity59 2 years ago
I attended this race along with my dad and brother,in fact we were sitting near the crash sight.
Rugr22Plinker 2 years ago
People should get it through their thick heads that this shit is dangerous and life threatening. Instead people should stay home and smoke weed where its safe like I do.
SpaceDOutSkitSo 2 years ago
I had to lol at this comment. Thumbs up! XD
Jesant13 2 years ago
Yes. Its safe, and you have no future.
SteamingObe 2 years ago
Nice hollow comment there. But what can you expect from an irrational dumbass retard like you. What is that supposed to mean "you have no future". The only people who have no future are people that are dead or dying.
SpaceDOutSkitSo 2 years ago
Go smoke some pot.
SteamingObe 2 years ago
thanks, I think I will.
SpaceDOutSkitSo 2 years ago
wow great idea man thanks
coconuthead900000 2 years ago
I might just go and do that.... later
MsFarQ2 2 years ago
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But if you would have been sitting in turn 4 that day....You would not have needed a lighter for you Bong
Swartzie6 2 years ago
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Fry you cunt.
TheDirtyMotherfucker 2 years ago
go fry yourself you motherfucking ass-licking douchebag. if your going to be neagtive about this sort of shit i suggest you go pour petrolium all over yourself feel the pain then. dickhead.
LeHylton 2 years ago
wow horible R.I.P Sachs
rcdrager 2 years ago
I've never saw Indy 500 but that is a horrible accident R.I.P to both of them
xHursty95x 2 years ago
The best homage for Eddie Sachs is that we can drive his 1961 car on Indy 500 legends
die996 2 years ago
damn RIP
fatas54 2 years ago 2
I was 13 yrs old & sitting less than 100 yds from crash.I was there to see Dave McDonald drive Mickey Thompsons car as Mickey was my childhood hero.Dave bounced off the wall & across the track to be hit by Eddie.The fire was hurting me from the great distance, there could have been no "feeling it" within the flames.This is one of the crashes that led to the development of the foam rubber inside rubber bladders for the fuel tanks so no gushing of fuel in a crash & water puts out alcohol instantly
mrculo262 2 years ago 3
@mrculo262 I read that car was something of a deathtrap from the beginning, I think it had a really weird center of gravity which made the handling very tricky.
jennifersman 1 year ago
R.I.P
cheatorboy 2 years ago
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wow, did they use rocket fuel back then?
blueslady77 2 years ago
I don't think it mattered what they used, it was how much of it was onboard. Back then, these cars were loaded to the brim and then some with gargantuan amounts of fuel. To make matters worse, this crash occurred on the first lap, so all that fuel's gotta go somewhere...
poprox101 2 years ago
skyhigh maybe R.I.P.
Elwiney 2 years ago
They used gasoline up until that year which is why the crash produced so much smoke. Starting in 1965 all races run at the Indianapolis 500 were required to run on methanol that burns with a near invisible flame and is smokeless.
mayorohara 2 years ago
rocket fuel for a race car.
WOW - lady77,
I guess your more stupid than a door knob.
SAMMYJS991 2 years ago
i hate it when these type of things happen to good peolpe
MLGxDOMINATORx24 2 years ago
HOLY SHIT! That is the worst crash I have seen ever, and I've seen a lot in a bunch of different motorsports.
My god
tiki2188 2 years ago
For me the worst fatal crash ;(
vmeridaj01 2 years ago
holy crap how did that catch on fire that much and big WTF???
cUin530 2 years ago
Because of the fuel use in those cars.
bedattack 2 years ago