Hardest Impact ever, LIVE. w/ C.O.T. 185mph into wall

[Blackopsmw21]

thumbs up if you noticed that he wasnt going full throtle on the straightaway at 0:04

[rimetetube]

@Blackopsmw21 from video at 194mph/195mph at beginning of breaking loose and impact into the barrier at 187mph. That is the part of this video that is important since the direct impact @187mph and the flip(s). Without the safety that has finally made it's way in all of motor-sports from F1-Nascar and the upcoming 2013 IRL car this driver walked away.

That is all that matters and to keep pushing the limit on the safety, engineers always find speed.

[erasetoimprove]

@MrBenjamin1112 it was far from a minor crash. People think it was a minor crash just because the car wasn't flipping, but if you look closely you can see the impact twist the body work of the entire car even though only the front of the car his. Plus knocking the front suspension off in one hit is no easy task. It was indeed a very serious looking crash to all except the casual viewer.

[erasetoimprove]

this was turn 1, and he didn't blow a tire he just got loose.

[KidWithShades98]

@BassGuitar079 I was scrolling through the comments and saw yours, I was literally just about to write that! Lol poor Darrel :(

[nicisideprojekt]

IGO TO NASCAR TOO AND I HOPE FOR A SPONSOR LIKE VAGISIL WITH ERIC CARTMAN

[DrSaxxy]

Hardest hit I've seen as it happened is probably Kubica in the Canadian GP a couple years back.. thought that was a fatality for sure. o.0

[JAMESRACER65]

not only is that turn 1 but he got into the speedy dry the put on the track

[WolfEverstone]

You can not imagine how many accidents in NR2003 online racing occur like this.

[jeremytalladega]

actually this was at 187 mph. and it was the hardest hit i have ever seen besides elliot sadlers wreck at pocono

[Warthog32695]

@jeremytalladega im sorry this is the hardest with the COT but michael waltrip bristol 1990 i think is the hardest hit ive ever seen

[jeremytalladega]

@Warthog32695 u r right about that

[Foxx1981]

Kenny Bräck had a way harder impact

[gp75motorsports]

@Foxx1981 This is the hardest impact ever *nor the NASCAR Car of Tomorrow*.

[Foxx1981]

@gp75motorsports I'm sorry but I am having difficulty to understand your comment. Could you rephrase it please?

Also, from wikipedia about Kenny Bräcks crash - "Kenny's crash saw the highest recorded g-forces since the introduction of crash violence recording systems, peaking at 240 g's"

[Warthog32695]

i was watching this live and i thought "OH SHIT"!

[Jardbig]

@Warthog32695 i said the same thing

[twonine3]

Poor DW honestly thought he just saw someone die on live TV again.

[aure232]

it was 180, but luckily he was sliding so it was not 180 to zero impact

[erasetoimprove]

@aure232 considering they top out at over 200MPH at the end of the front stretch, think it's safe to say the impact occurred at least at 180MPH if not slightly more.

[Tapenak]

@ black ur right 

[BlackOpsFlare]

Elliot saddler has the hardest impact at Pocono......

[MrBrennan008]

he hit the at 70 mph and was sliding at 185 mph

[Ebsteins31653]

I wonder if this driver spilled his milkshake...yes...probably did.

[workshop77777]

WTF, there was no blow out, he over created when the car over steered?

[SteeevoooLapeer]

No blown tire...turn one done period

[flubber342]

he walks away from the crash, but he will feel it and be beggin for pain killers the next day

[youngdones]

He lived?

[allthatremains2009]

@youngdones yea he was on ellen like the next day or a little later. said he was shooken up and a little sore but otherwise fine

[brandundundunn]

idk mike joy i dont think the flipping helped anything.. if it wasnt for the flipping he would have just been sliding down the banking..

[88cjd88]

@brandundundunn actually, when the car flips, it's losing the energy of the crash by losing pieces of the car. just like when indy cars crash, the car looks like it exploded because thats how it is designed. If the car slides, it is better. but to have the car roll and lose energy by losing pieces then to instantly stop is how the car is designed.

[emilymae2016]

OMG this is horrible!!!!!!!1

[chevyc10man]

well yea the cot or whatever you call them now but on the 06 and before cars could you just bend the bumper back yea with a hammer or by hand but with the spliters you hurt those our done for and im glad they rid of the wing but they made the spoilers cheap now watch every wreck with the car backing into it the spoiler just falls off and its sad yes i like the older cars more better drafting and passing and faster times and they look like they belong somewhere overseas just opinion...

[NickWood07]

He never blew a tire, he simply got loose going into the first turn. He entered the turn too early and over corrected, he never blew a tire, if he did he would go straight into the walls without getting sideways

[mougneau]

my gosssshhh??? what an idiot!!!.-

[TransformersFan34869]

someone said a crash in F! was a 120 Gs. does anyone know that name of that crash? and how many Gs was this crash?

[dleonard34]

so much for the things on the top of the car that suposedly keep the car from flipping over, but at least they have helmets.

[fatchumatchu]

@dleonard34 the fins on the top only deploy when the car in going backwards

[lamboboy001]

2:08 just listen to the car slamming the wall wow

[surprisebutsecks1]

awww dude

[boutitbenza699]

looking back now as of March 2010, this wreck was as a result of air getting into that wing, no wonder why NASCAR is going back to the spoiler in the Cup Series next week at Martinsville.

[a7racing]

@boutitbenza699 no the wing had nothing to do with the wreck. He lost control of the car on turn in. Spoiler probly won't help stop these cars takeing off, its really the greenhouse and splitter thats causeing that because they trap air under the car causeing lift. They only put the spoiler on for fans approvel. I personally liked the wing better for looks but I would rather see the fan base go up then down

[lamboboy001]

@boutitbenza699 no that was just him losing control of his car, slamming the wall and the impact caused the car to flip, he was never backwards until after he was upside down how could air under the wing have caused the wreck?

[davidallenroth]

Kenny schraders head on at Talladega was worse. nobody ever talks about it or remembers it. it was in the mid 90's when it happened.  i looked around here and didn't find anything on schraders wreck.

[ghostdude123456]

description is wrong, he hit the wall on turn 1.

[crazeejosh]

HE should have a ride just because he lived through that....that was amazing. and 174 mph at point of impact.

[Eddie1171]

at the end of 0:28 you can hear the hit!!!!!!! glade he walked away from thing one. Good job on COT part

[Zoomer30]

The HANS can do only so much. The sad thing about NASCAR is this: if Dale had not died we would not have the HANS mandatory and we would not have the SAFER walls.

NASCAR AND NASA: They don't fix stuff till ppl die.

[nr2002vidz]

and they put the no going under the yellow rule at dega to make it "safer" and yet it almost killed a bunch of people when carl almost flew into the stands, i swear NASCAR needs to make this sport how it used to be

[supercomet32]

@Zoomer30 it take testing to figure out what to create to prevent injury....that is the way things are developed. innovation is driven through necessity

[erasetoimprove]

@Zoomer30 that's not true. The HANS Device was just starting to make headway in auto racing when Earnhardt died. It is quite likely that the HANS device would have become mandatory within the next couple of years. A few drivers were already using it. Also the SAFER Barriers were already a work in progress, which was encouraged by NASCAR. So, Earnhardt's death simply rushed these features into implementation without waiting for further testing.

[maverickfa14]

@Zoomer30 add the entire airline transportation industry to that list too

[erasetoimprove]

@Zoomer30 actually the very race Earnhardt died in, 5 drivers had volenteered to test the hans device (or at least use it and see how it worked if they got into an accident). The SAFER Barriers were already in the process of being developed, the first version of them were introduced at the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis and were placed on the inside walls. However the original SAFER Barrier shattered upon impact and needed more work.

[erasetoimprove]

@Zoomer30 really all Earnhardt's death did was rush safety features which were slated to be phased in over a 5 to 10 year period upon more testing.... and instead some of them were introduced immediately, while others came in a couple years later.

[penske13]

@erasetoimprove that is a load of crap. there was no rush in nascar to do ANYTHING differently. if it had been ANYONE other than dale who passed on the sport wouldn't have moved an inch. period.

[erasetoimprove]

@penske13 that is absolutely not true. 90% of what you see in today's COT was purposed in a 15 year plan in 1998 in a state of the sport press conference held by Bill France Jr, and the Hans Device was being tested at the 2001 Daytona 500 by five drivers.... and was rumored to be made mandatory in 2002 (at Earnhardt's displeasure). Earnhardt's death is surely what put all this on rush order, but it is NOT what inspired most of the safety innovations. SAFER Barriers were already being tested too

[penske13]

@erasetoimprove i'm sorry. i disagree with you. nascar moved at a snails pace concerning testing......driver safety and track safety. the most memorable line from that time was..." well, it's just a racin deal." nascar was LAST in the world as far as driver safety was concerned. formula 1 followed c.a.r.t. with the hans and similar devices to improve their drivers chances in an accident. they were the leaders. nascar did nothing to stem it's fatality record untill adam petty died. period.

[penske13]

@penske13 i don't care what they say they had in the pipe. they were saying shit like that for 20 years. it doesn't take 15 years to become safer. the hans and the hutchins devices were out and about in the middle 80's. they are perrinial foot draggers and it caught up with them and dale earnhardt. nemecheck, alexander, martin, irwin, petty.....goddamn man. those all happened within months of one another. they were just talkin. the talkin stopped when big e died.

[ccBallistic]

@Zoomer30 Its not until people die that you know there is a real problem to fix.

[dash662]

@Zoomer30 sadly enough thats so true

[Zoomer30]

Dale dales hit was not near as bad as this. And he died. Mainly due to his belt breaking. This guy in the vid should be dead. Plainanx simple. But hoops out like DAAMN the boss is gonn be ticked I wrecked the car and stuff

You can hear him on the radio just before the wreck about the car being tight.

[BADASSED88]

he is one tall as mother fucker his head must have hit the roof

[gentryracing]

@smackythefrog23... If Earnhardt had been wearing a HANS, he would have been a dead guy wearing a HANS. It would not have kept the steering wheel from going through his face.

[BADASSED88]

his neck jerked back and snapped if he had a hans device he maybe would of broke his jaw but he would still be here! get ur facts straight!

[clutchfan88]

i was there and it sounded like a bomb went off

[gentryracing]

I can't believe someone is crediting the Hans Device with saving him. How about starting with the SAFER barrier that took away a huge amount of the energy, then the safety features of the car (roll cage, shedding parts, etc). Without those things, he would have been a corpse wearing a Hans,

[smackythefrog23]

@gentryracing say what you want, but if Dale Earnhardt had been wearing a HANS, Jimmy Johnson wouldnt have just won 4 championshps in a row.

[RunerRacerPeniguin5]

8 years ago - he'd be dead on impact and had a half face helmet and no HANNS devise.

[breaderb16lag]

This wasn't due to a blown tire. This is an example of why the drivers debate whether or not to correct a slide, because if you overcorrect you are going back up the track into the wall like he did

[Slyther1337]

If this was 6 years ago he'd be dead.

[cartman0804]

when i was watchin this i said "how is he ALIVE???????" "that is UNBELIEVABLE!!!!"

[NolimitdpgTRU1]

I suppose when pushing the limit of speed.... things like this do happen... but we see the best of the best race and the good ones come out of it sometimes

[NolimitdpgTRU1]

For all you young drivers out there.... see at 0:26 he is at full throttle .... if he is at 1/4 throttle or something... or maybe even no gass.. and he rides it out... he may have not gotten so loose... I guaruntee that

[619time2619]

this track was one of thoght like u can go full troughtle all the way around kinda track

[BADASSED88]

until you get to turn two the banking drops and ur ass is in the fence lol

[NolimitdpgTRU1]

thats the craziest think i have ever seen,,,, the wall was everything....without that give in the wall.... his legs would have been were the engine is

[aaronbartlett]

did he die?

[BADASSED88]

did u not just see him walk away?

[DjMagnificien]

omg

[owoyowoyowoyowoy]

what the hell?

[dmancam72]

he didnt blow a tire?? he got loose and over corrected it

[jdb1986jdb1986]

you have to give the safer barrier some credit for him walking away also though.

[REECH321]

what a fake...

[ShamRock1938]

what in the world are you babbling about ? I can't even imagine what the hell anyone could claim is fake about this wreck, Im most likely wasting my time even asking ...

[BoberMcBoberson]

Trooooollll!!!!! Run for your lives!! LOL! Look dude, This "Fake" B.S quit being original about Two days after YouTube opened. Get a Life.

[nascarnate3]

@REECH321 dude i was there i am the 1 standing on the camper in the video

[brando37brando]

@REECH321 troll

[kevinsapimp5693]

thats turn 1,not 4

[ShamRock1938]

shhhh, that changes EVERYTHING !! lol k,thanks

[okracing06]

bit of a correction in the video titles it says he blew a tire, in fact he went in to hard and over corrected thus nose fucking the wall. and the cot is the slowest but safest car any other platform and that would have been his last race.

[ShamRock1938]

your absolutely right,

[nascarnate3]

@okracing06 he over corrected after he went over the speedy dry on the track that got him loose

[Airsoftmonkey2]

i saw a website that said "bann the cot cars go back to the original platform" if that was the original platform he wouldnt get out of the car by him self

[ShamRock1938]

"GOT OUT BY HIMSELF" he'd be lucky if there was enuff of him left to recognize,

and im sure you agree that all the people that run off about going back to the old style car would say different if they were told that they would be racing and everyone had the c.o.t. but they would be driving the standard model, old style stock car,

[CooterPuppet]

it di da hook an go up da hill man

i love darrell

[hogwash2nd]

cool video, massive crash. and how the hell did he walk away...damn...