1961 Indy 500 crash

[QuikdrawlMcgraw]

wowo i never saw this oen ty for teh video

[CRWrestlingfan]

what kind of idiot gets out of the car with cars coming full speed at him and just jogs in the middle of the track, that moron started this crash

[nobumatsu1853]

マシンが、ミニカーみたいだ

[altfactor]

Was the audio from the radio broadcast of the race??

[PAXTONF1ob]

@altfactor yes it was. I recorded it from an ESPN show names "Voices of the 500" which talked about the different IMS Radio announcers over the years

[PineTreeAndCone]

SIIIICK!

[goodwilltubing]

Did you know that a firefighter died there at this crash?

He's called John Masariu.

In the last seconds of the video you see the fire engine with two guys on it.

Masariu lost balance and fell of the truck. The driver reversed and drove over him, killing him.

RIP John Masariu

[dsriggs]

@goodwilltubing That was a different wreck

[SwanKong11]

Wow a series of bad coincidence.

[alexander1485]

how did it end? it just got cut off.

[fatriani]

the 500 took longer than today, drivers get in a rhythm and frankly just get tired

[kobusinski96fan]

get the glasses on men and see who they are. lol you dont hear people talk like that anymore.

[Agentproasm]

this is a dumb crash, half the guys weren't paying attention... you could see the stopped car from a mile, everything was clear... the last guy who rolls over must have been reading the newspaper instead of watching where we was going.

[qwasd0r]

I don't think any of us has the right to doubt the driving abilities of race drivers...

[Agentproasm]

I usually wouldn't, i have a lot of respect for them, but in this particular situation, they failed at staying focused.

Besides, let's be honest, racing in 1961 was no more of an expensive hobby and than fully professional activity as it is now. The drivers weren't fit like today, only raced a few times a year, and even less at indy which always accepted one-off drivers at the time.

[gcrav]

The pileup started when one guy tried to pass another instead of focusing on getting around the car in the middle of the road. The track was on yellow. He would be heavily penalized today.

[timr387]

@Agentproasm lol, but what is there to read in the newspaper in 1961... xD

[gcrav]

@Agentproasm

The overall skill level of Indy drivers was lower back then. This shows it.

[stubbyguy]

i wonder if Indy racing has ever considered a compettion kill switch to all race cars once a car has crashed and left vunerable on the race track like what happened to Alex Zarnardi. This to me would immediately reduce their speeds if they cant see or hear the accident in front or around the corners from them. Safety first right?

[quasiphatpaul]

if you're in the middle of turn 2 or 4 and your engine quits usually the back tires lock up and you spin. Even just getting off the gas too quickly in these turns can induce spins. I only mention this because I've had the exact same idea and been shouted down in comments when I suggested it.

[tomateiro]

How can a so heavy car fli like that?

[PAXTONF1ob]

The heavier the car, the more inertia it has at a certain speed.

[YeLlPr]

@tomateiro the cars weren't that heavy back then, the car was actually probably sort of light.

[tomateiro]

@YeLlPr I can't belive you're able to read what i wrote! My english a year ago was sp bad... "fli"? roflmao.

[sHarris167]

Ouch, I hope nobody got injured, especially if we imagine how unsafe those cars were.

[zzboobzz]

The jerk is the dumbass that wasnt paying attention and swerved the wrong way, got sideways and started the whole pile up. That or the damn race wasn't yellow or red flagged.

[texonthebeach]

he was behind another car and the view was blocked. These cars sit very low to the ground too.

[teenscream49]

why dont they through the caution

[geek49203]

They might've thrown it, but the cars of that era barely had brakes. I don't know if they had caution lights. And, I'm betting that the rules were that one ran until they took the caution at the start line.

[sbmrunning]

and heavier too!

[jneruda68]

dam..thats wicked..i would hate to flip one of those..scary

[smacky12235]

cool

[Zoomer30]

Those wrecks did not look bad becasue the cars were made NOT to lose parts, so all that wreck energy was slammed on the driver. that wreck looked like Sunday night at my local race track in the 70s, not Indy :)

[drinklime]

jesus christ those cars are like tanks... the body absorbs all the energy instead :(

[imagemangler]

Back then they barely had walls and guys are just walking around 5' from the track in a bit of a Darwinism experiment. Unbelievable.

[geek49203]

Back then, it wasn't uncommon for an F1 car to go off course and hit a taxi cab full of people. Back then, the life expectancy of an Indy or F1 driver was 5 years. It was commonly accepted that someone would die at every major auto race.

[dlracer2]

They were immortals back then. Racing is so safe now, anybody's grandmother can drive a race car

[McLarenMercedes]

really? today they experience a lot higher g forces in the corners, not to mention higher speeds (meaning better reflexes to surviv)

of course the cars are extremely cramped today too

[texonthebeach]

Indy guys didn't die as much as you think. Sure a few of them did through the years, but the death rate was fairly low there because the stupid and unlucky were killed off in the midgets and sprints. Only the best of the survivors got to the Brickyard. After that, they still took chances to keep their skills sharp, but the chances were fewer.

[LB1973]

Jack Turner is the car that flipped this is the first of three flips in consecutive years he was unhurt in the first two but the third led to career ending injuries

[kingofrunescapepking]

u talk about luck, thats bad

[schumisatokubica]

big crash,but doesnt look that serious,noone got hurt.

[Jyllenberg]

Holy smoke