Jos Accident Spa 1996

[noircluck]

I think its probably one of the worst accidents in F1 that most of us have never seen, its frightening, the sheer speed, its such a shame there was no proper film of it, its very spectacular, amazing Jos was not badly hurt.

[JRRacing85]

Joss the BOSS

[danthemanpatrick]

so he crashes into the outside retaining wall on the exit of Stavelot 2?

[Dannascarizod]

look at the car at the time he hits the car leaves the ground, reaches about 8 feet and then falls

sorry for my bad english :/

[shinbad21]

@Dannascarizod What bad English? I see kids with English as their first and only language that can barely form a sentence in the comment sections of youtube. You only forgot one word, no need to apologies.

[SanderScheffer]

This was the one crash that proved that the new safety rules in formula 1 really helped. Such a crash even a year before 1996 could have end up way more serious. Hakkinen 1995 - Adelaide, looks familiar to verstappens crash, Hakkinen was wounded, Jos could walk away from this. Not to mention 1994 ... Jos could have died here two years before 1996. Thank God that Jos Verstappenm was not hurted to much and could entertain us with more of his spectaculair driving skills for years ever since!

[hhJACK92]

Who's the guy talking on this? He sounds familiar and it's really bugging me!!

[CGBS2007]

@hhJACK92 I think it's probably Max Mosley.

[hhJACK92]

@CGBS2007 You're right. Thank you very much! :D

[CGBS2007]

@hhJACK92 No problem :-)

[JontieDesario]

you should try to upload it!

[F1owner]

I think im the only person in the world, who has a amateur footage of this crash in Spa! My dad filmed it...it recorderd on a videotape

[tugatomsk]

Would it be possible for you to upload it? I'd love to see it (and a lot more other youtube users, I bet). :D

[dazcouz]

Please upload it :-)

[Milanotjuh]

how much does it take to upload suck important piece of footage ?

[amweestwel]

@F1owner

dat moet je echt proberen te uploaden

[stevegek]

@F1owner So.... any place where we can find it? ^_^

[bubi8894]

@F1owner ....and you wont upload it?! :D

[dfsdfsdvxcvfds]

@F1owner where is it

[dfsdfsdvxcvfds]

@F1owner where is it

[Miskojones]

@F1owner what are you waiting to show us :)

[GoAround1]

@F1owner You're only trying to be interesting, you have nothing. The only one who has these images is byte1985 and he uploaded it.

[GreyBull88]

@F1owner Try to upload perhaps?

[MyCoolMac]

@F1owner don't suppose you've uploaded it?

[Tomasch]

@F1owner upload or it didnt happen

[djfryer2002]

@F1owner any chance of uploading it here?

[JohnsCoolVids]

@F1owner upload it I would love to see!

[RuudE1988]

@F1owner Share it with us please ;)

[Thecarcrashes2000]

@F1owner can u post it??

[JontieDesario]

@F1owner i'td be amazing if you could upload it!

[billabongodrum]

long time for a reply I know but...

I remember watching the police camera action racing special you refer to about racing safety, and when they told the story of Imola 1994 I found myself becoming so agitated about senna's accident that I had to leave the room.

[jraybay]

jos was really lucky here. the safety designs were probably nowhere near todays.

[patopajero]

pithcs

[muggesteek]

best dutch driver? jacky ickx is better

[Kenney1993]

Jacky Ickx is a Belgian driver...

[NialoF2]

lmao owned

[egdoh]

the best Dutch driver indeed.

Jaky Ickx is better but is not dutch he is belgian

lol

[RacingHeroes]

The best dutch driver Jos The Boss!!

[BMWizardofOz]

you´re right

I saw him in Hockenheim in his F3 days, when he was leading, early in the race he made a mistake in the Opel Kurve and was getting back on the track at the back. He then plowed through the whole field of F3 cars.

Sadly he was never really able to show his talent in F1, but I enjoy seeing him in the Porsche RS Spyder nowadays.

[billabongodrum]

michael schumacher once labelled Jos *the world's second best driver"

[jraybay]

I once labelled michael as *the worlds first best asshole"

[billabongodrum]

why be nasty?

they have both retired from F1

besides Lewis Hamilton is the new king of assholes

[jraybay]

it was a joke.

yep

besides lewis hamilton is good and you are one of those jealous haters. how he is an asshole??

[sixtolojunior]

Lewis Hamilton 0 out of 10

Jos Verstappen 10 out of 10

is my word versus the yours and the mine ever win. ;)

[jraybay]

..... you're a funny guy lol

[sixtolojunior]

hehehe, thank's. nobody says me that never.

[billabongodrum]

classy, my scores

Lewis -10 out of 10

Jos 4 out of 10

[sixtolojunior]

it's my word versus the yours and the mine ever wins

[charliegaze]

it ever loses more like

[Rickko8]

When did he do this?

[billabongodrum]

i first heard of him saying that in around july 1998

[sixtolojunior]

1996, that's a Footwork

[SjaakTrekhaak57]

This indeed was one of the most terrifying f1-crashes in the second half of the nineties.

Although not as 'famous' as some crashes.

The crash had serious consequences regarding Jos' career in Formula 1.

He was absolutely not a 'new Senna' as some around here tend to claim.

But the crash did change him at least physically. Up until his very last year in F1, Verstappen had chronic neck problems.

[DaszekPL]

Jos the Boss!

[markfsr]

He just had bad luck to get in that seat so quick, he was suposed to do a testing year and then driving untill the accident with Letho wich putted him in the seat. Many forget that Jos pretty much made the same step as Kimi did, only 2 years of openwheel racing and he got in F1. Jos had natural talent and speed, just not the experience yet and that ruined his career. But thats Jos, every change he gets he will take simple as that and thats why i like him. Even with the many mistakes he has made.

[penske13]

KennyKillah3, uh no. he was paired with schu in 94 with a very capable bennetton.

[IWillBelieve2]

His rookie year, wasn't it? And being teamed up with Michael Schumacher isn't an easy task to any driver, especially when Michael demands first driver status

[penske13]

while i agree with that, verstappen was still way out of his league. he never showed the promise that the bennetton and schumacher displayed.

[dizzydan111]

crapppppy video u twat

[KennyKillah3]

Verstappen was not a bad driver. He was just with non-winning teams.

Besides, his performance for Arrows and Minardi will never be forgotten.

[thatguywiththecodes]

@KennyKillah3 Non-winning teams? He was with Bennetton in 1994, right?

[erwinruys]

@thatguywiththecodes yeah but he was a rookie and had just the year before raced in F3 for the first time, so he wasn't completely ready for the task. For example Hamilton has been preparing for F1 ever since he was 10, Verstappen's F1 adventure was for him very surprising. He was a test driver until JJ Letho broke his neck.

[flipsidedogchop]

@KennyKillah3 benetton 94?

[darthbandon10]

@flipsidedogchop Indeed. He was definitely off the pace in that car, although Schumacher's influence probably didn't help.

[McLarenMercedes]

@KennyKillah3

He was in Benetton in 1994 when they have a very good car. They didn't re-sign him for 1995.

I agree he had a lot of talent, but he was just speed and very little "smart driving". Many says he lacked the wits to use his talent in a meaningful way.

[SjaanK85]

@McLarenMercedes You ever saw him race in the rain?? Rain was his favourite!

Check his race in Canada year 2000 in his arrows. When the rain came, and pure car speed didn't matter, that's when Jos really showed himself. 1994 in the benetton was his first year. To little experience.

Ferrari should've signed him in 2001.

[McLarenMercedes]

@SjaanK85

Yeah, I saw him pull off quite some spectacular drives with the Arrows in 2000. I rooted for him and Arrows, but sadly the team never really recovered and although showing great promise in the races, it almost never led to results.

I always hoped he would go to CART or IndyRacingLeague. In Formula 1 far too many talents don't get the chance their talents deserves.

[mybizuk]

The 1994 benneton was NOT a good car. It was desiged around michael thus worked for him.

Verstappen is a good driver.

ANYONE know where this footage/documentary is from with max mosley?

[Xillatem]

It's from a Police, Camera, Action special aired in 2000 on ITV focusing on road safety in comparison with motorsport (it was a two-part special, first part focused on F1 whereas part two focused on the American series).

Featured interviews with quite a few drivers along with some rare footage (such as a full-speed version of Ratzenberger's crash, although the car spinning to a stop was understantably cut)

[ECWDanSelby]

Do you know where I could retrieve this episode?

Thanks

[brainbox88]

seems to be a lot of accidents involving jos on youtube!!

[Rosssmith21]

No offence guys, but Verstappen had a good chance in a world championship winning car in 1994, and didnt take full advantage. If he had done, Herbert would not have had a Benetton seat in 1995 and Verstappen would have won races. But he didnt and his career was in trouble from that point.

[Elsparrow]

Actually thats not an Arrows. It's a Footwork Hart as he drove for them in 1996. Verstappen didn't drive an Arrows until 2000.

[smoK1NG]

the Arrows F1 team was renamed Footwork from 1991 till early 1996 because of a 'sponsor' agreement. Although the official name was Footwork it is very much an Arrows F1. When the team was sold in march 1996 to TWR, it was officially renamed Arrows.

[Frenkyoles]

HIS THROTTLE GOT STUCK, I KNOW FOR SURE I WATCHED IT LIVE.

And yes if anyone would have a stupid problem like this it has to be jos cause he had the most bad-luck with cars you can imagine.

[nzallblacksno1]

jos was never far away from an accident any comparison to senna is crazy

[FootworkF1]

He is now having surgery on his neck, the cause was this accident, after this his phenonenal speed went a bit down (he showed great stuff in the SimTec and Footwork before the crash!, the Benneton wasn't build to his style of driving). He probably wouldn't had survived it if the new 1996-how-to-build-a-F1-car rules weren't applied. That ment higher cockpit edges so if you crash your head can't go very far away, like what happend with Ratzenberger.

[schopfheim91]

Is that Max Mosley speaking there? It sounds a bit like that

[Xillatem]

It is indeed, this is from a special episode of Police Camera Action which was centred around F1 safety.

[davenewsome100]

Does anybody know why he crashed? Stavelot seems an odd place to go off like that. Mechanical failure?

[mayeballs]

He was into the pits a lap earlier complaining of an open throtle, looks like it may have been the cause.

[StevenQ74]

one of the front wheels had broken of in the corner.

[davenewsome100]

I'm not sure you can put Jos' poor results all down to this. He had already been trounced at Benetton in 94 and didn't exactly shine in 95 (granted, he was in the Simtek, but Schiatterella should have been an easy one). This is a big enough crash to shake anyone up...but I think Jos was always "a standard driver" except for the occassional flashes of speed.

[smoK1NG]

not shined in the Simtek? he put that backmarking car up to sixth in the Argentina GP of 1995, then the gearbox exploded.

That was noticed by everyone in F1 back then, cause it was simply a stunning drive.

[StevenQ74]

Indeed, the Benetton crew even aplauded him when he entered the pits.

[KlaasJacob]

That's right.....Never officially recorded but one of the most serious crashes of that decade! If you ask me personally it is after this that Verstappen lost his devastating pace (comparisons to Senna were normal back then) and became a standard driver

[mazza369]

Anyone who has ever compared Senna to Verstappen at any point in their respected careers, must have been smoking crack at the time. And lot's of it.

[thekenemy]

:D

Actually, his pre-f1 career was impressive enough, many people at the time saw him as a prodigy, someone special. Mostly the Dutch, ofcourse ;)

[svcxac]

Apparently Jos states this is his worst crash. I now see why! That's some serious deceleration there. I've waited 11 years to see this. I think this crash was never officially recorded. Knew someone, somewhere must have it on amateur recording. Now I see. Well done for posting it!