Scott Sharp Crash @ Indy 500 2001 onboard Accident

[Porrly]

Hahaha, American racing at its best... left...left....left...left...l­eft....left

[keepitwitmine]

@Porrly well we pretty much invented or perfected every good and useful thing in the modern age... so we kinda do what ever the fuck we want

[Porrly]

@keepitwitmine sure you did! Typical septic attitude to the world! I suppose you 'saved our asses' in WW2 as well, not the Russians?!

[keepitwitmine]

@Porrly nah... ur trying to complicate things. if we wanna go left we go left, pretty simple

[ursuss100]

Can be a driver error but it really looks like a tire or suspension failure though...the car really wobbled hard.

[JeffGordon24Dupont]

It would suck to be that crew guy at the end there.

[JoshuaJohnKnight]

Scott Sharp indy 500 metre champion

[andrewlawrence2209]

He did better than Roberto Guerrero. At least Sharp crashed on Lap 1.

[londongamer]

That wasn't a crash, that was a slight knock. If ya wanna see what a REAL crash looks like, just look up Gordon Smileys crash. THAT was a crash!

[dkw12002]

So lucky with that wobble that he didn't head straight into the wall.

[Porygonseizureman]

Scott Sharp vs. Matsushita Hiroyuki! Panasonic/Matsushita Kaisha wins everytime for awfulness!

[valerioventura]

wow, I was there on turn 1 watching it... my first job at the 500, that was a great experience...

[Harlingtonjnr3]

LOL I love it when all they have to do is go round a long bend and they still balls it up.

[SonicXisnow2009]

Scott, this is the Indy 500, not ".500"

[gmoneyq]

Calm down there, you're driving like your in the front row at the indy 500!

[PihaSandDunes]

One of the funniest moments in 500 history. Talk about red face.

[IMS181]

i guess thats a big whoops

[KuzhelTigerzhe]

he not even got T1 right^^

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shortest race (for a driver) in Indy ever^^

[Porygonseizureman]

@KuzhelTigerzhe Tom Sneva smoke bomb, Roberto Guerrero pace lap spin, Kevin Cogan halfshaft spin, tons of shorter 500 appearances!

[3Stalker3]

green, green,green!!!!

[friskycurtain]

Hard to believe Scott ever won.

[Sonzo96]

Che teste di cazzo!

[DavidSkywalker01]

Whats the music?

[jkbnumber1]

This guy's a waste.

[penske369]

Fail

[jbracer86]

He lost it similar to how stan fox lost it going into 1 on the first lap but sharp almost had it saved but over corrected into the wall.

[sharpy171]

my names scott sharp

[KOSTAS22R]

Hey look, he crashed AGAIN. He wrote off one of only two Acura ARX 02a's in existence yesterday.

Nice going dolt.

[saltiremini]

thanks for the support!!

[tmwnat]

The guy is absolutely worthless...how he continued to find rides was always a mysery to me...

[saltiremini]

How can you be worthless if you put it on pole? He obviously does somethings right.

[tmwnat]

Any dope can drive fast for 4 laps....Its keeping it off the wall for 3 & a half hours and 500 miles that takes talent....THAT, he cant ever seem to do

[saltiremini]

how can any dope do it for 4 laps? when there are over 20 drivers who want pole position? To get a pole lap everything has be slightly better than the other 20+drivers.

[tmwnat]

Theres 33 drivers in the Indy 500 (btw)...And past pole winners have been Roberto Guerro (Mr. crash your car from pole while ALL BY YOURSELF on the WARM-UP LAP), Billy Boat, Greg Ray, and Buddy Rice......Now if you can honestly sit there and say that any of those fellas I just mentioned above have any more driving talent than someone just randomly plucked off any street corner in America....Well... I'll have to question whether you've ever watched an open wheel race in your entire life..

[saltiremini]

I have watched many races and I have actually met Dario Franchetti (fellow Scottish Driver) several times. I also race closed wheel cars in a same make series and I know what goes on in race do you? Qualifying is a skill and if you don't think so, give it a try and see for yourself....until then keep your armchair views to yourself.

[tmwnat]

Yes..I've been watching open wheel racing for about 35 years...and have been to several dozen in person...have you??..I've met Al Unser Jr, Rick Mears, Mario Andretti, to name a few...have you???...I've also raced in 7 different forms of open wheel racing..At races in such places as Long Beach & Michigan..I'll assume you havent done that..Cause had you..You'd agree with my original statement. You may want to know who youre speaking with before you start vomiting out your measly credentials, son

[saltiremini]

ha ha ha I believe you don't worry....not!! I have never raced an open wheel car but I guess that makes 2 of us lol. I see from other comments that you have left on youtube that you just like to upset people to get a reaction. I think that makes you an attention seeker. If you think that it takes no skill to put a car on pole then please keep that to yourself as you are in the minority. FYI if you take out the m and n from your user name then it spells out exactly what you are :o)

[f1diva]

lol this tmwnat is kind of a jerk it seems, agree with you totally, he listed a number of guys who have been on pole that didnt get a true break in racing, but he fails to mention all of the greats that have been on pole doesnt he lol

[JoshuaJohnKnight]

@saltiremini 40+ drivers which gets cut down to 33 to take the green flag

[hanoitwin]

bet his asshole puckerd up on that 1.

[mad122780]

Pretty bad but nothing sucks as bad as Roberto Guerrero's parade lap accident before the race began. He seemed to just turn left right into the wall. Roberto always had bad luck at the Brickyard.

[aspectofgongarg]

jim guthrie's accident was worse, he faced over 1000g's of force, highest in history.

^ still alive, my uncle as well :)

[BFRPetrucci]

1000G's would liquefy internal organs and crush all the bones in his body.

Kenny Brack's crash at Texas currently holds the highest rated G rating at 214 if i am not mistaken.

[japs209]

To think...I was right there on Turn 1 to witness this......

[PhilBlythe25]

Lol. 270 Degrees of Lock, sideways, is never a good idea...

[AndronicusRy]

Sharp has no one to blame except himself. He drove the car far too low into the turn. The car isn't going to stick there.

[sammywright1]

Ahhh, nothing like an epic fail.

[Fastbikkel]

hahaha indeed.

[CharlesMSchulz]

lol, we were at the race and in september, my dad went to a mellencamp concert in indy. the highlights of the race were playing on a video board and was telling people how teh pole sitter crashed on the first lap. my dad turned around and Scott Sharp was standing there. He was cool about it and was really nice.

[csuxxxeee57]

It was a nice correction, what he did. A rookie driver can't do this...

[vir123456]

Nothing he could do about it. At that speed when you hit the grass, you are pretty much a passenger. His only hope would have been to drastically reduce speed, but if he did that he has 32 cars behind him that he could potentially collide with.

[panictactics]

dumb

[iRacerMatt]

He actually got loose before he went into the grass but yea it was at least a nice effort for his recorrection.

[Banger82]

lol, How embarrassing to crash in the first turn of the first lap after sitting on the pole. And yes, as embarrassing this was, Gurerrero's was much more embarrassing.

[penske13]

Banger82 , why? why would guerreros' accident be embarrassing at all? was it embarrassing for mears ,crawford ,gache ,fox ,andreti sr. , jeff andretti , luyendyk ,bettenhausen, fittipaldi , vasser , sneva , bonner....etc. i absolutely DESPISE people who don't take into consideration how difficult that day was for all of the drivers. to lay that at robertos' feet is completely unfair and misjudges the day entirely.

[Banger82]

Sorry Penske, but it was embarrassing. I mean he didn't even take the green flag.

[penske13]

i know it had to be embarrassing on some level but he was one of many victims on the day. he wasn't the only guy to ever spin on the pace lap or the parade lap. GEEEEEZ!!

[Banger82]

dude, he spun out BY HIMSELF on the back stretch! It wasn't even in a turn.... SAD!

[penske13]

no he didn't. the buick v6 has one butterfly for the injectors. they were notorious for delivering too much power at once. it was 46 degrees on the pace lap. it was nearly impossible to put heat in the tires with the ambient being that low. i was watching that when it happened and my reaction wasn't embarrassement......i was heartbroken for him and his team. maybe you should be more of a fan and inform yourself before you go defaming people.

[Banger82]

Well, the other 32 cars didn't spin out on the pace lap... hmmmmmmm

Trust me, I felt sorry for him, too, lol. How embarassing

[penske13]

well, there were only five buick powered cars in the field, and only one which powered the pole car. something like this is only embarrassing to those who are ignorant to this sport and most likely just enjoy seeing their bullshit in print. your turn.

[penske13]

correction: there were 12 buicks in the race.

[sammywright1]

Penske all the way!

[penske13]

believe it!!

[Tactical300]

I remember this being one of the big stories of that race, because Scott was quickest in every practice session, obviously on pole AND his pit crew won the pit stop challenge that month as well.

This is just more positive proof that you may not win a race in Turn 1, but you most certainly can lose one.

[harleydog5555]

Almost the best save at Indy ever. ALMOST!!!!

What a heartbreakerl. He had an awesome car that year.

Still not as embarrasing as Geurrero 92, but close.

[NialoF2]

First corner FAIL

[juhazz]

As soon as he hits the white line, his rear goes loose.

[scooter18k]

Wow, Sharp as the Pole sitter didn't even finish 2 turns. That had to be the worst 500start ever (even the 1909 pole had to do better if he pushed his car) LOL.

[Indy1977TX]

This and 1992 have to be two of the worst. In 1992, Roberto Guerrero spun and crashed his car on the parade laps - pole sitter didn't even take the green flag!

[PeterMayer]

Scott Sharp wrecked at LePetit LeMans as well. Shock of shockers...

[jkbnumber1]

the guy was the best..... at blocking.

[Dimage25]

Wow on the replay you can see that Robby Gordon was very fortunet that he did not get involoved in the accident, he just missed sharps car by inches

[alkcc37]

That crash broke my heart I worked for ILMORE racing engines and we worked 12 to 15 hours a day for

weeks on the on aroura engines. My good friend

worked his ass off to build that engine and was robbed.

[liobeking]

Nice save, pitty he didn't make it all the way. I once had a slip in my own car at 50km/h and couldn't save it.

[SimoFY]

t'è gida ben

[gr8guy71]

i bet on him in that race and all i asked for was that he finish the race and finish first.now was that too much to ask for.

[ChrisRamses1973]

Wow, the magical disappearing tire.

[99dndd]

Well you can't win the race in the 1st corner, but you can lose it there. He seemed to build up quite a lead in the 1st corner, may have been going flat out on coldish tyres.

[Dimage25]

Wow incredible he almost got it back under control, but it is so difficult to control these cars on cold tires. Of course a major dissapointment for Scott, this could have been the year where it had been time for him to win the 500.

[Clausfarre]

I'll stick with my Toyota Corolla...

[rch701]

One second the tire was there...the next it was gone. Scary thought.

[j1j2k3k4]

He almost succesfully finished the drift. There was no shortage of talent, just a shortage of road.

[hamzterix]

I agree with u

[oscarpink]

he over corrected

[wpsracing108]

Great save though for a second...couldve easily gone sideways/backwards into the wall = worse wreck and probly a pile up...so much for the indy handbook - "dont try and correct a slide"

[JoshuaJohnKnight]

tell sam hornish that. he was the best at saving cars.

[jkbnumber1]

too bad T.G. added in those darn road courses.. poor Sam

[southernracer41]

FAIL!

[ztv]

lucky guy

[sundevils7]

thank you for racing in the indianapolis half mile race

[wolffan94044]

@sundevils7

Probably not as long as that, but it is still a funny comment

[Dimage25]

Wow this must have been disappointing for him and the team, because they've worked so long for this day and then the driver ends up in the wall of the first turn

[Zxzm]

To finish first, you must first finish. You're only the pole and you have 200 laps to win the race.  Take it easy, geez.

[AyrtonS111]

That's too bad for him, lost everything after one turn...

But you need big balls to turn to the right when the car starts spinning like this.

It would have been a Gordon Smiley replay, if the car got grip too early.

[alouistheman]

nah, not in the short chute like that. if he was full speed down the backstretch going into turn 3, thats a different story.

[interestingusername]

dullest crash ever

[luigikong]

He's my favorite driver. I remember that, that sucked.

[Troubledmindz]

Im not a fan of Scott, But this is just one of them things that happen in racing somtimes, He wants to win, so he pushes hard, he pushed to hard. All the best drivers have done this at somepoint in there career, and will probably do it again. Has he ever won a indy 500 race?

[thechad4493]

no but i think hes got pole twice

[CRacer15]

Not stress, not grass, not a bump...he drove it in too deep on cold tires...it happens to the best of us

[JRracing0116]

haha.....man that would sux!!!

[JJKRacing]

There is a positive side to this. At least he got the Pole sitter money.

[Youngelite]

no he hit the bump in turn 1 they fixed it the next year he didnt have any pressure he just brought it too low in to the turn and hit the bump

[johnnystir]

Looked like he got into the grass.

[cerberus1981]

Probably cold tires. That could easily have been a replay of Stan Fox's 1995 wreck. :(

[lesliegriffenderek]

That scottie is but sharp. Unable to handle the pole pressure. Got stressed.

[L8nitedave]

Same thing appened to Roberto Garrera, and he not only won the pole but set a track record doing it.

[stattic6]

Guerrero was on cold tires on a 36 degree day, the car just lost control. As for Sharp, I don't think he couldn't handle the pressure, he won the first IRL championship so...