Car Flips Over the Wall NASCAR Crash at Talladega

[TheAwleksi]

My left ear enjoyed the video :D

[xJohnx228x]

Thus, Catch Fences were BORN!

[amer37365]

that crash smith olmost die in this crash

[lenkaivanondra]

omg nooooooooooooooooooo :-(

[1234Iloveguns]

my right ear is lonely :(

[goomba1982]

is that car on display anyway its a miracle he survived

[systematicchaos]

Jimmy Horton actually walked away from this crash, and it was Stanley Smith that was critically hurt, suffering a similar injury to the one that killed Dale Earnhardt.

[dbbd022]

This was 1993. It was also the race that Neil Bonnett took down the catch fence in the tri-oval....and the first race at Talladega after Davey Allison's died in a helicopter crash at the track.  It was a long, hot day. Jimmy Horton is still alive today and races DIRT Modifieds in the North East. Look up New Eqypt Speedway where he's 6th in the point standing.

[midatlanticcycle]

wasn't jimmy horton killed in this crash or died days later? thought it was a tree limb coming thru his windshield. poor bastard!

[PorygonFanatics]

@midatlanticcycle Jimmy Horton's still alive to this very day.

[L3GITxDnOsaRus]

@PorygonFanatics he still races dirt modifieds in new jersey, Pennysylvania and Delaware.

[erasetoimprove]

@midatlanticcycle nope, Jimmy Horton still is alive today. He raced quite a few more races after this, although not all in the Cup series.

[bmttiger09]

Wow just wow!

[iansucksbutt]

0:27 so wheres the car!

[PennyWisee14]

what date was this?

[HRFTG]

Looks like something wild has to happen before they think to add something as simple as a CATCH FENCE. I'm waiting for something worse than Elliott Sadler's crash at Pocono or David Ragan's wreck at the Glen for Nascar to fix wall. NO SHARP ANGLED WALLS and safer barriers everywhere. It's common sense, and people at the races buy enough beer in 3 laps to fund it.

[1337videoviewer]

Ahhh. My left ear!

[ATacticalTurtle]

Jimmy Horton the second? If it is his son and his grandson race dirt cars in Pa and Nj.

[GeneralTyler4]

Did he die?

[W1SEG4M3R]

@GeneralTyler4 No?

[nascargavin8]

that is jimmy horton.

[animedude953]

@bartbort1 just because your last name is mast doesnt mean your related to him my last names black and im not reladted to jack black

[Bartbort1]

im related to Rick Mast, cause my last name is Mast, iv seen him before, greatest driver ever to never win a race

[86HillyBilly]

@Garret0298: It stands for 76 gasoline, which used to be one of the main sponsors of NASCAR.

[Garret0298]

0:02 , 0:46 . orange 76 sign FTW!!! btw what does the 76 sign mean?

[ISmashYoDadHead]

@Garret0298 Are you fucking retarded?

[Garret0298]

@ISmashYoDadHead something like that

[scorpiovirgolibra]

ouch

[superka70]

I find it weird that they didnt even bother to put the whole car on the truck...

[MurphyMonster]

@superka70 What car!?

[superka70]

@MurphyMonster good point :p btw the one on thr truck thats half sticking out..

[Garret0298]

@superka70

they put that half of the car on the truck because that half of the car had the inside parts that usually stayed intact during the event of a crash that could be re-used again. :)

[primemover17]

What year was this?

[bigdaddyd1n07]

@primemover17 i believe 93

[solaire66]

this is probably the WILDEST ride ive ever seen in nascar

[natertater323]

i miss when talladega used to be like this. i live 5 minutes from there and we used to go up to the track and jump the wall and go inside

[natertater323]

yea stanley did almost die. he took a head on shot.he is from birmingham to. hometown boy. he didnt race to much longer after this.

[youngdones]

They need to put a fence there.

[Ikf99]

@youngdones that was a LONG time ago. they do now

[insanebackflip199]

i heard stanley smith almost died in this crash. his crash didnt even look that bad but glad he didnt die

[fourstar7]

this is exactly why all areas of the track have a fence around it.

[TheMagicalLemon01]

Thats a car? xD. It looks like a smashed can...

[setoguchifan16]

Guy in the blue car at :32: Wow, and I thought a little scratch was bad!

[tryithere]

I hope he din't kill a tree, that would be Carborcide.

[ochs42thethird]

Stanley Smith suffered injuries. He was not the driver who flipped. He got hit in the head by a tire. I think it was Hortons.

[88fanforlife]

i thought the same thing was going to happen to kasey kahne at pocono a couple of weeks back

[haynes1776]

Jeezz!!!! Not a pretty site. A miricle that there were no fatalities.

[RecurveBow1983]

jimmy horton still races in south jersey local dirt tracks

[monster271]

That'll buff right out.

[Stewart14rocks]

tht guy who owns the blue car must of been like "wat the-"

[cartryahoo]

Well, if I had looked it up I could have avoided this display of my ignorance. Wikipedia even has an article on Smith. Strange how his crash is eerily similar to Earnhardt's (or rather, the other way around, I suppose) with the force of his own crash being amplified by another car. I've always felt for guys like Smith, Jacobi, Adcox, and the others who soldiered on but just ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[talladegajunkie1439]

0:08 is that a part of Hortons car, or is it the car itself?

[ChevyCamaro33]

the car

[nintendoboy90091]

The crash was in 1993, spring race (i dont believe they had a fall race yet) but the one thing not many people remember is that there was a driver that had "serious" injuries from the wreck, but i dont remember who it was.

[cartryahoo]

It was Stanley Smith. He held on for a bit but unfortunately he didn't survive.

[HooverTuber]

What? No one died in that wreck. Smith was never the same after that and raced a few more years. He had a number of mishaps, including losing control in pit road and crashing into and injuring a crew around that same time.

[cartryahoo]

You know, you're right. He did get badly hurt and I don't know that he ever raced again after that, but he did survive the crash. I was thinking someone else, somewhere else, actually it was Bruce Jacobi who suffered a head injury and died from it years later. Probably wasn't even Talledega, either. Thanks for the correction.

[DJprofessork72]

Smith suffered a Basilar Skull Fracture, essentially the same thing that killed Earnhardt.

[DJprofessork72]

I'm pretty sure Jacobi's was at Daytona, in a coma for a few years if I am not mistaken

[nintendoboy90091]

@HooverTuber he never raced again, the pit road mishap was in his first race ever in the series, the 1990 diehard 500.

[nintendoboy90091]

@cartryahoo he did survive actually, he had a skull injury, the same that killed bonnett and earnhardt sr. smith is still alive today.

[supercomet32]

@cartryahoo he's still alive today

[AjMannpieWeekly]

when was that

[jda2m]

Holy shit i was at that race! First Nascar race i ever went to. It was in 91 i believe. 2 red flags during that race, and of course my man earnhardt beat ernie ervin by inches on the last lap. needless to say, i was a fan for life.

[jda2m]

Correction... It was the 1993 Diehard 500. August race. Hot as Hell. Watch the finish if you get a chance.

[notreallythatawesome]

This is only the second time I've seen this clip. I'm guessing this is the reason nascar put in catch fences? Btw, you should totally do a vid of nascar 08 or 09 since ps3 is sweet. That would be combining your best two things.

[PYLrulz1984]

Yeah, pretty much the primary reason they have catchfences go around the entire race track instead of spectator areas, though some tracks, like Pocono, still dont have that setup.

The thing is though, think of Ricky Craven's crash 3 years later.  Without catchfencing, he could of just ended up like Horton.

[Papoose888]

yea craven wouldve ended up in the woods, and your right pocono should at least have a catch fence on the straightaway next to the trees they cant have cars crashing into them at 150 or so mph

[TheDevilDriver1993]

think of what would have happened if there was no catch fence at talladega this year, without catch fencing several fans probably killed.

[supercomet32]

@TheDevilDriver1993 theirs always been catch fencing in front of the stands....quit being an emotional child

[RuneMacer55]

@PYLrulz1984 I think California doesn't have a backstretch wall either. But im not for sure.

[tshotrod]

I used to race at east windsor speedway in NJ,a dirt track, Jimmy Horton parked next to me every week. I saw this race on TV the day it happened. Horton still races dirt modifieds in NJ, PA.

[RSGVXStuntmanVx]

that's good quality. that was a scary crash.

[powersackers]

I watched this live when I was a kid. I've been looking for this video for a while. Thanks for posting.

[devenci]

What year was this?

[33clintbowyer33]

WOW that is scary

[torontoml036]

The part that no one ever talks about with this wreck is Stanley Smith. He was injured with a basilar skull fracture (same thing that killed Earnhardt, Petty, Roper, etc), BUT Smith lived. Crazy. There was a story online about it a few years ago.

[vidEvWill]

His name is Jimmy Horton, I may have been 5 years old, but I remember this...its crashes like this that got me into the sport. I remember the car it was like a skeleton all the sheet metal was torn off. I just hoped Jimmy was OK.

[daviszoo1]

I love Jimmy Horton! He's a vet of the dirt tracks of the Northeast- - he's used to being banged up! I just saw him 2 weekends ago at New Egypt Speedway in Jersey. Us Yankees are built tough!!!

[nascarguy45]

omg thats is freaky stuff

[mdpracerfan]

a ok video but mine are not very good so yer good video

[kahnefreak38]

i remember watching this race....i have a stanley smith die cast car!

[bubu1605]

i live like 5 minutes away from where he lives

[bubu1605]

i mean stanley smith not the other guy haha

[metalligimp]

This is interesting to see, as a Mainer and a fan of Craven while he was in Cup. I basically said "So THATS why that catch fence was there!", lol.

(craven had a near-identical wreck to this, except the catch fence dumped him back onto the track for those who havn't seen it)

[keeler101n02]

Wow, he lived?

[timothy240]

ive done that in nascar 2005 at dover

[carsme3]

how did that guy live

[pyromcr]

that is why they now have fences in the corners...

[Lloydo46]

bet he was gutted

[kingofrunescapepking]

his car was gutted, he sprained his ankle, thats it