Simona De Silvestro wreck at the Firestone 550 (HD)

[karticaHAACKER]

nothing good can happen when a woman is behind a wheel!!

[nolifemerc]

maybe next time u gonna bring a buqet of water in your hand, 1 each maybe...

[TheTourlous]

if it wasn't for that one brave man she'd be cooked. Damn where do they pick these guys?????????????how can they go on like that??????

[KingCuervo88]

did they hire a bunch of limping butt fucking retards from walmart earlier that day?

[codered2448]

the firestone 550 huh?

[OldSchoolNascar]

"Let's get the flames retarded huh?" You said it Bob

[GeneralTyler4]

she probably got hurt more by the offical than the impact....just man handling her like an idiot...

[miguelrzo1]

que demora para retirar o cara do carro, a água que não sai da camionete, meu Deus.

[zzap999]

Morons can't operate a fire hose.

[Stllno]

I can't believe how useless the marshalls were in the case of this fire... All show and no go! Every marshall should carry an extinguisher by his / her side.

[djpeppe18]

ma non li avevano ancora inventati gli estintori?

[gelo64]

40 secondi per uscire dalla monoposto, perchè non adottano anche in America i criteri di sicurezza che ha adottato già da tempo la F1? e per fortuna che era cosciente e quindi non un perso morto... DA VERGOGNARSI..

[alinv86]

@gelo64 lasciamo da parte il tempo x uscire, guarda come l'hanno tirata fuori che era incastrata sembra proprio che lei gli dicesse CAZZO nn vedi che sono incastrata! che cazzo tiri!!! e poi ci mettono una vita a tirare fuori la manichetta che alla fine nemmeno la usano! vergognosi è dir poco.

se ho le forze mi tolgo il casco e glielo sbatto in testa uno per uno!

[TPBX225]

Why do you think the marshalls always have exstiguishers with them at F1 race? Whenever there's a fire they almost always manage to put it out instantly. I was watching this race with my family and we were all disgusted with the "safety team's" response.

[pballaddict]

The hose doesn't work, so let's just stand there. Good one!

[GoldSilverLead]

I have watched this clip several times today and it shocks me more every time I see it. No functioning extinguishers anywhere until the last asshole out of the SECOND vehicle emerges with one, and looks like he forgot his walker on the way to the fire. Is this guy fucking ninety. What a pathetic. They should all be very ashamed of their performance and give up doing this kind of work.

[Addicted2OILau]

@GoldSilverLead no he's only 87 . ha ha

[kawa1135]

un petit stage à Monaco s'impose!!! 

[awesomerocketdonut]

i was there in the bleachers when that happened and everyone was shocked about how long it took to get her out.

[ogrebattle22763]

This is one of the worse response crews I have ever seen they look like the keystone cops for christ sake... unbelievable.... they couldn't do anything right.... they look ed like a bunch of retards who had no clue what the fuck they were doing!

[hotstep12345]

you wanna rock that body ??

[sweens06]

The Indy Safety crew at TMS was investigated about a year ago now on another similar incident and the fact that the fire wasn't attacked with extinguishers first. They tried to get that damn hose out and it malfunctioned, much in the same way it did last year. I think they have some serious issues to fix there

[MikeyTheBoucher87]

shouldnt every truck have a fire extinguisher. Wow, what a scary moment for Simona plus the hard crash at Indy she cant catch a break poor girl.

[rogeresv]

y los extintores apa???? 

[Fullents]

the safety team is usually spot on and really good at what they do - man, what a fuck up this time though. painful to watch.

[nocalsteve]

I think the announcers are prohibited from criticizing the safety crew. They started out saying "get her out of there," and then once the safety crew started screwing up they started making excuses for them. Yet, this is completely inexcusable for two safety crews to have malfunctioning fire fighting equipment and not know how to use portable fire extinguishers.

[Leandrof1100]

Como Sempre a equipe de segurança da formula Indy muito lenta aff.Precisam treinar ++++++++++++!!!!!!!!!!!

[ilferrari]

What a FUCKUP. These guys should do regular practice runs so they get the response time down to an acceptable level

[roydpg]

SHAME ON THE SAFETY CREWS AND ALL THOSE INVOLVED

[silkEluv]

UN F****ING BELIEVABLE! The driver of the first truck gets out and is in no hurry whatsoever. The rest is self-explanatory – and quite PATHETIC!

[mbarje]

The "safety crew" needs to be FIRED NOW and NEVER allowed to be near a race track again,  if this was an F1 race the crew would of been on the spot before the car even stopped and first priority would of been to put the fire out, that's why they run to the cars with extinguishers in hand, are the INDY crews actually trained or just friends of Tony George that get to play fireman once a year ?.

[Javy2727]

wow, hope theres not a union for them cause those fools need to be fired!!!! (pun not intended)

[tmwnat]

Keystone Cops ....

[DoctorMeatDic]

ridiculous stuff....I would expect this 50 years ago, but not in 2011

[arunbainsuk]

Those guys sucked!

[joemx25]

This is kind of similar to Nick Heidfeld's car on fire incident in FP3 of this weekends Spanish F1, the fire wasnt as bad but still, he was able to get out the car in about 3 seconds flat from when he stopped, does Indy car not have the same 'have to be able to get out the car in 5 seconds rule' like in F1?

[drewski31683]

@joemx25 I don't think there is a rule in IndyCar that says you have to get out of the car in X amount of time, however, the crew or the team owner might have a rule for the driver than he is to be fit and quick enough to get out of the car in X amount of time. Its a good rule to have.

[fiveojoe]

Can't believe how bad theat crew performed. There is no reason for that, NONE. They make extinguishers that will supress a LOT of fire and they should have been deployed within 3- 5 seconds of that truck stopping. Disgraceful. I worked a quad loaded with extinguishers at a sprint car track and we were fast as hell, or we got thrown off the crew.

[drewski31683]

Um...this could have been a lot worse. I've been watching indycars for about 10 years and I've seen these guys make heroic moves to get drivers out of their cars. You want to see complete stupid idiotic safety crews absolutely not helping a driver?? Then watch Roger Wiliamson burn to death in front of crew and a fellow driver. Like I said...this could have been a lot worse. ...and don't tell me that Wiliamson's wreck was so long ago they couldn't do any better... guys can turn the car over

[burton0078]

they need to hire some younger people they're probly using the same safety crew since the 80's..... hope they were fired, ha if they were the irony... fire, fired lol

[manuntd2009]

fucking idiots.

[b0b4lh40]

Etanol é outra história amigo...

[Mark1Tom8Travis2]

Sometimes less help is better than more help. You can see her trying to pull herself stright up out of the cockpit, while that idiot is trying to pull her out sideways. The body doesnt bend that way buddy.

[33kalam]

simona looked so helpless the way the fire is blazing

[Fizban321]

A complete and total fucking fail on the safety team's part.

[JSugianto11]

That old guy with that extinguisher sucks dick!!! These guys are fucking mental!!!!!

[guitarsurfer2010]

The old man with the fire extinguisher could hardly even run.

The first guy out should be fast and carrying an extinguisher

when there is fire

[ditz259]

any driver should be able to exit the car on their own, she was making bad things worse. I like her but if sarah fisher with her wide butt can get out in 10 seconds so should she.

[washington95]

@ditz259 That may be one of the most idiotic things I've ever heard. Drivers can almost always get out by them selves but in this situation she obviously couldn't. It's not important to think about what she could have done, the blame needs to fall on the safety crew and there fuck up. They couldn't figure out how to operate the damn thing and it wouldn't have been to much longer before she could have been killed.

[darthbandon10]

@washington95 Indeed, if the plastic clips on the harness were melted, then it isn't her fault.

[ROONTANG]

Wow, fucking hopeless response by those marshals.

[Nickmasies87]

Yankees have a lot to learn from European..in particular from Italian safety man...remember Imola 89 and Berger's flame..??

[SISI0887]

IN NASCAR THERE ARE FIRE BOTLLES NOT HOESES

[dirtracer4life63]

The lovely honda truck failed them... then again... why not just use a REAL FIRETRUCK since this failed?

[betoruz]

Muy peligroso el fuego ajeno al combustible del carro , ademas la salida del cockpit fue muy problematica , por el tamano del mismo . Medidas que deberian ser tomadas para la proxima temporada

[SiskaLeen]

Lots of big words here, mostly from people who propably haven't even seen a formula car up close in their life, plus haven't used any fire equipment I bet. Well, won't even try to explain, as I'm sure no one would listen. ;-)

[memilesb1]

The Marshell who operated his extinguisher yards from the fire was doing the right thing. It is good practice to test your extinguisher before you run up to the fire.

Also good practice to split the crew and have one with a bottle.

In road accidents we are taught to put the fire out rather than extract the passenger.

All in all a piss poor performance.

[juhdiakathat]

wtf?? how it was so hard to get out off that car and taking fire extinguisers to get fire off.. in F1 theres tests that in 5seconds u must get out the car and they practice it a lot.. looks like its necessary in indycar also (?)

[jraybay]

She was stuck :( then the guys has difficulty taking her out of the car very bad marshalls.

[fuckoffah]

That's TOTAL BS!!!!!!!!!! 

[raGe27576]

this is the sickest safety crew ive ever seen on a indycar race, lucky for the series she didnt get hurt badly

[anjohnel]

why they bring water extinguisher on oil fire? why not bring co2 or dry powder...

[elclinclin2004]

What a shame, if you want to see how a trained rescue team works, then look for Gerhard Berger's Imola Crash. It happened back in 1989, at the Imola F1 circuit. Now wonder why that crew was known as the "Imola Angels"

[elclinclin2004]

What a shame, look for Gerhard Berger's 1989 F1 crash in You Tube to watch how a safety team should work... no wonder why the were named "The Imola Angels"

[apcharman]

The worst thing about this is watching her fighting off the stupid macho fire marshalls as she tries to get her legs out and they just keep tugging her sideways. They look as if they're all sixty and about 200lbs overweight.

[lakelandchief]

What a bunch of safety idiots. Was she OK? I missed this race. Nascar would of done a hell of a lot better. DAMN

[lemans24fan]

those track workers should all be fired... if she died it would of been all their fault.....

[mazzatello2010]

She is to long in the car, to dangerous!!!!

[rivotrich7]

Im not an expert on safety crews, but the response to the fire does appear to be slower than it could have been. The video of Danny Ongias' crash from '81 shows the guy with the extinguisher on top of the fire in like 2 sec.

[jerryaltman]

The fire was in the right side of the car, but the first marshal with hand extinguisher was positioned on the left side to fight the fire. Also the

What smart people this guys !!! (irony)

This without mention how slow they were.

[okani2000]

I think the 'minor' injuries she got was in majority from the safety crew yanking her out. Hope they're better next time.

[eleno1055]

THIS CREW NEEDS MORE TRAINING WE ARE TALKING ABOUT SAVING LIVES HERE!!!!

[RealRunner7]

Watching this live was painful. We cannot have another Swede Savage since learning how to put out fires after 1973. Yet, two of those guys did not seem to know which end was up. At least one took initiative to get her out. We are glad she did not have ohter injuries. Her only burn was on her right hand when she tried to push herself out.

[crashman434]

Worst rescue attempt EVER! If she was injured in the crash all the pulling would have killed her.

[CGFootball5307]

This is a black eye on IndyCar and the Safety Team to be more specific. That was really unbelievable when I was watching it live. I think that she burned herself at 1:06 when she tried to get out almost unassisted. Lets do a lot better next time shall we.

[gio59con]

...how they move, seen as all are very intelligent ...

[kewlfx]

What if she had been unconscious and it was all on them to get her out......she'd have been burned far worse.  Check your equipment before the race guys and act like you've done this before!

[crv26]

holy fucking shit. looks like a bunch of monkeys trying to fuck a football. why don't you check your equipment before the race begins.......................

[tomson600]

wtf? don't they PRACTICE putting out a fire?

We can get a school of 1400 students out of a building in less than 2 minutes.

They do not know how to open the hatch?

You got a guy standing at a burning car without any pressure in the hose for how long... ummm, turn on the hose!

This driver has put up with roaring flames long enough to get out of everyone's way, now get her the hell out of the flames!

[bufallobiff]

Indycar used to pride itself on its' safety crews and rightly so. These guys couldn't hit their ass with both hands. There will be repercussions from this you can be sure.

[booobbobo]

Let's get those flames retarded!

Haha... Americans...

[ABCDEH11]

@booobbobo ummm not sure why you think this is so funny.... it is the correct term

[booobbobo]

@ABCDEH11 I think a stupid, poorly versed American autosport commentator urging the emergency crews to get flames 'retarded' is a the kind of flagrant mis-use of the English language that should have kept him off the air in the first place.

You have no more standards, you under-educated, over-eating man-whales.

[ABCDEH11]

@booobbobo firstly sir, I am Canadian. Secondly, yes, you retard flames. You use flame retardant. You are clearly confusing the word with its coloquial usage, with is both innaccurate and offensive to large portions of the populations.

[booobbobo]

@ABCDEH11 You can retard flames (correct use) but you cannot make/get flames retarded (idiot use).

As for your "offensive to large portions of bleeding heart faggots" I find your uppity presumptions offensive and so would a large portion of the population.

[acescribe]

Like something from the 1970's. Very poor.

[anonymous1man]

lmao....wow these guys are trained.........lol...........­i think they pulled them out of the crowd for volunteers.......and i see that the driver didnt try very hard to get out as well until the damn thing went up in flames.......lol

[DTrainExpress]

Wow. This was the first time I've actually seen the crash in full and this might be the most inept attempt to put out a fire or even assisting a driver from a burning race car that I've ever seen.....and this includes F1, NASCAR, CART, etc.

[daniellap03]

espectacularrrrrrrrrrr



[escapeochlqd]

uhm auf der suche nach jemanden der mich von meiner andauernden einsamkeit erlösen kann

[chrisbalton]

Terrible PR for Holmatro Incorporated, and who decided to replace the Delphi Safety Team with the Holmatro Safety Crew ?

Nice work Speedway EMS - rolling into frame at 01:58, the EMS technician shuts the door & casually strolls over to attend to the driver. at 2:06 .

[48Gijo]

What a GREAT rescue crew, she could have burned in front of millions

[old912]

Painful to watch! Not suprised with the poor performance by the IRL safety crew. They have been consistently slow to respond for years! Wonder if they drug test those dudes? They act like stoner potheads.

And no portable fire bottles? What moron thought of that?

The dumbing down of America, IRL style! Thanks again Tony.

[ap0115]

seen a lot of crashes and fires, but this is one of the scariest i've seen

[AWSmith1955]

They need to take lessons from NHRA's safety safari. Looks to me like they didn't want to get close enough to get their shiny red Honda sponsored trucks all smokey and dirty. And why is that joke of a fire hose concealed being the grill of both trucks? The fire fighting systems (or personnel) failed on both trucks, The safety safari arrives almost on top of the wreckage before it even comes to a stop!

[gmcjetpilot]

The rescue crew looks OLD and decrepit. 0:57 fire hose fail; 1:04 the guy can't get the extinguisher going. 1:07 They run to the front bumper of the rescue truck for their SHOW fire extinguisher that was strapped down like it was an engine. Than grandpa running at 1:10 looks sad. He shoots his extinguisher 30 feet away, IDIOT. You have to shoot at the base of the flame. WHAT THE HECK. Key Stone Cops.

[toryjamescastillo]

Unexcusable. Horrible. Go back and look at each member of the safety teams. Look at each one. What they do. It was the last guy out of the second truck to properly operate the fire extinguisher. Wow! Looks like an old 60 yr old guy as well Look at him "jump" over the hose. Sad IRL. I hope you address it publicly

[OmniNamaste]

They called "yellow, yellow" at 11 sec into the clip. By the time she got out, it's 1:13. It's over one minute to get her out. One whole minute! During all this time, the fire extinguisher from the first emergency car never got to work.

[unrealyourock]

Stupid Marshals.. indeed 

[grrrldoc]

It's all there on the tape!!! She pulls into the apron at :27 seconds into the video. First safely crew stops at the scene at :35. The f***cking idiots get out of the truck and WALK, trying to get the hose and extinguisher working. It takes a FULL 25 SECONDS (it's at the 1:00 mark, exactly) before the portable extinguisher is ready to be used! They should have had AT THE VERY LEAST the portable extinguisher READY TO USE and someone should have quickly gotten to the car to PUT OUT THE FIRE!!

[ArgPanchito]

Thats an appropriate response time if the entire safety crew is wheelchair-bound.

[OSUCop]

If it is like the Champ Car Safety Trucks (Nelson Ledges Road Course has 2 of them) it is an electric gear driven pump. The Champ Car trucks had a hose reel, where these trucks have a soft-sided hose that lays in a tray. It looks to me like a kink was in the hose that prevented the water from getting into it and the pump did not have enough pressure to overcome it. One of the safety team members might have considered a portable extinguisher which is better than nothing.

[hotzx6]

Don't know exactly how the pumps work on those vehicles. Are they PTO's or what? The way both drivers jumped out of those trucks, I'd be willing to bet neither one of them put the pumps into gear.

[abimike629]

On Face BookI described this fiasco like watching the Keystone Kops!

Either the hoses failed on BOTH trucks and/or the crews did not know how to charge & use them. Then, the first dufus to bring an extinguisher to the car appeared to not know how to use it either! He puts it down and helps try to pull Simona from the car. When she has time to view this she will be horrified.

IRL- your safety teams are in SERIOUS need of training!

[11000john]

Very, very angry - a random bunch of spectators could have done a better job than the safety team. So glad Simona got away with just a hand injury, she easily could have had very serious burns. I hope that entire crew is canned

[yvr76]

Absolutely appalled at the Safety Team. I counted at least 30 seconds before the flames were doused, while Simona was left in there burning. Hindsight or not they should've extinguished the flames first THEN extract the driver. The way they were violently yanking her out I'm surprised she didn't suffer further injuries other than a burned hand.

[ORNGCNTY]

Two safety trucks and the fire hoses didn't work on either one of them. Time for a meeting in the pits between car owners and the sanctioning body. In todays day and age there is absolutely no call for safety stuff not working. The teams have to pass tech and adhire to the rules but it looks like the only rule the safety trucks have is to not block the Honda logos.

[yargh92]

@ORNGCNTY My guess is the trucks are just fine... and that the safety crews are the one that needs to revisit their training. Seems like a few of them were asleep at the wheel.

[mickyhunt]

they even almost broke his leg, stupid dickheads

[Proxanon]

@mickyhunt Wow aren't you a sterling spectacle of perception. Simona is a FEMALE driver you nitwit.

[memberFU]

Those worthless assholes were a friggin embarassment!......why do they always seem to have out of shape old timers working on the emergency response teams?? If I was her husband I would kick all those dummies asses all over the street. I cant believe she was in the car that long. Fire those idiots.. No pun intended.

[JBOreo]

the indy safety crews need to take lessons from nascar crews

[relfel66]

Pretty sad job by the safety crew for a "major racing series" I am a huge fan of open wheel racing but that was BAD,BAD,BAD. Roger Williamson died in a fire years ago, and I bet that is every drivers fear. This took way to long,get rid of your crappy fire hose deal, 3 extinguishers on the fire would have helped. I was starting to get concerned, I've seen enough crash video.

[cieflyingsnail]

OMG, worst safety crew ever, she burned for 30 seconds while they were messing about with a hose

ALWAYS HAVE A FIRE EXTUNGISHER AT THE READY

[vuetube]

Wow, no offense to the IRL, but the Champ Car Safety team would have doused that fire a tad faster. Check out how fast they were attending to Catherine Legge after her Road America crash.

[mcgingm]

Dallara Chassis are death traps, always have been, always will be!

[UncleDeluxe]

@mcgingm I don't agree with that, these morons just couldn't get the head restraint out. Inexcusable performance. I can't believe two separate hoses wouldn't go on. You'd think those would be primed and ready before the race even starts.

[CPMaverick]

@mcgingm Get your facts straight. Nobody has EVER died in a Dallara chassis in 14 years. You are an ignorant moron. This incident was terrible but had nothing to do with the chassis.

[dwtidman]

@CPMaverick - Tony Renna's family may disagree with your analysis, not ot mention the number of spines that have been realigned by the longitudinally mounted gearboxes...

[CPMaverick]

@dwtidman Renna died in a Panoz / GForce. Not a Dallara. Get your facts straight before drawing a conclusion.

[lemans24fan]

@CPMaverick im pretty sure all the irl drivers that have been killed or suffered serious injuries were driving a panoz when they crashed... panozs were so unsafe im suprised they didnt phase them out sooner....

[GDPargentinean]

I've seen this live and it was one of the most epic safety crew work I've ever seen. The safety crew work is impecable at every race track in every race, it's a shame that in this exactly situation they couldn't show that stopping the flames, but even after they've stopped the fire they were working so professionally. Despite this, congrats for them!

[lovedan73]

When did Indy safety crews start using fire hoses? This was ridiculous! There is no excuse for not having two or more guys with a fire extinguisher as soon as that car stops while another person helps her out. These guys looked like they had no idea what was going on and should be embarrassed. Simona was a class act for not putting them down, I would have had some words for them.

[XxCyanexX]

@lovedan73 I winded up writing a "letter of driver safety" to IZOD / Indycar series. The best I can tell niether hose from either truck worked, only the bottle extinguishers.

[XxCyanexX]

From my decades of watching motorsports it took WAY to long to get fire supression equipment onto the car. Who ever signed off on the fancy hose on the trucks didn't work for (censored). A bottle fire extinguisher did the job at the end. Thankfully shes ok from the interview from the medical care field center & suffered burns to her right hand when she placed it into the fire trying to push her way out of the car.

[YTrnb65]

Total incompetence by the safety crew. They couldn't figure out how to make their foam hose work and let the driver burn for almost 30 seconds before giving up on the hose and finally grabbing a fire extinguisher. It's a miracle the girl didn't burn to death while those fools did their Chinese fire drill. Disgraceful.