Michael McDowell Huge Flip In Texas 2008

[legohalonascarfan3]

that 00 has taken some bad hits California 2007, Texas 2008, Watkins Glen 2011

[1959GKevin]

According to reports, the crash sounded like a cannon shot, heard, in the suites, thankfully, he walked away.

[thechamp9254]

One word...HORIBLE! I am a big Nascar Fan but...I never saw this Crasch on Tv! Thank Godness he walked out of this wreck...first he crasched with the front with over 190 mph into the safer barrier & then he flipped multitiple times!!!

[TheROFLTRAINDUDE2456]

at least he qualified for the race...

[zackfan]

how in the hell did he walk away from that?? you got to be kidding me???????

[bassfishing060]

@Justinpatsfanatic

I think 4 years ago (still mainly the old car, testing COT) that crash would have been really serious and possibly fatal. The drivers compartment would have crumbled on the old car after that. If you look at Elliott Sadler's big flip at Talladega the cockpit partially collapsed and he had nowhere near the impact McDowell had. All I can say is thank God for technology. (safer barrier, containment seats, stronger cages, most of all the hans device)

[Justinpatsfanatic]

If this same crash happened 10 years earlier he would have been dead. No doubt in my mind

[Weezy10580]

Micheal McDowell is a horrible driver, he couldnt even get a top 30 finish in the #18

[MwrRacingSeries]

0:00 ftw

[redraider4b40]

Well now we know the Car of Tomorrow is actually the car of tomorrow.

[jingman3]

im sorry but that is something u never seen really bad wreck like this at teaxs wow O_O

[waterfordjim]

.....Just like what Gordon Smiley did in 1982 at Indy. Only he didnt fare so well in his mishap.

[KingDarkCoven]

Man he hit the wall Hard..

[MrFALLOUT1439]

This was the start of Toyota's stuck throttle problems

[reverenfender]

@MrFALLOUT1439 amen to that

[felixuokk]

the rolling bar save him. god blessed

[Sabotoge432]

Holy CRAP!



[rybird101]

haha i went tht year but didnt go to qualifying because i thought it would be boring i was wrong haha im glad hes ok :P

[kmgouin]

jesus



[barronsheila25]

omg!!!!!!!!!!!

[pieman5ooo]

who the fuck dislikes this, better yet who would serch this to hate on this, thanks to nascar this guy survied the crash of his life, and meny others have thanks to the improvments nascar has made and still is making.

[GamingMatt]

@pieman5ooo NASCAR did make the right decision to change the car to be like that. The video is the best example of the major changes since it's predecessor (Car of Yesterday) and was utilized to also change the Nationwide to the new generation cars. The Car of Tomorrow made the huge step into driver safety.

[pieman5ooo]

@GamingMatt i cant tell if u thought my comment was a dumb one or a good one? lol watching the nationwide race tonght at richmond though, ya i have noticed the changes in the cars, deffently nascar steping up in saftey of the drivers.

[RuneMacer55]

i remember watching this live.

[buddyboy68]

Its reminiscent of gordon smiley's crash , poor gordon wasn't so lucky though.

[rudolfas7]

DAMN! Nascar cars lights us so fast...

[Tylersvideos8]

I wonder what it's like being inside while that's happening.

[ohbobsaget22]

oh my fg

[p1k4nurxp13sr]

another man that lives because earnhardt died. even in death, dale lets us keep racing. its sad that sr. died, but how many lives has he saved? carl, 09 at dega? brad, '10 at atlanta? newman, '09 at dega? logano at dover?

[PorygonFanatics]

@p1k4nurxp13sr Need to add Clint Bowyer '11 Dover!

[TyceShadow24]

Do a barrel roll....

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[xAmRDeUcEx]

Turn on captions @ 1:05... "...that he walked away and waved to the crowd while walking their dogs."

[trellascales6]

Has anyone turned on the captions? It rediculously funny.

[lovellracing181]

i watched that on t.v.

[BrandoninBigD]

thats insane cause i was there

[radngnarlysk8]

Speed Wobble... hate em'.

[youlox123456789]

You know what this reminds me of? DO A BARREL ROLL!

[TopThrillDan]

It looks like Micheal's car got lose when it ran over the so called speedy dry.

[tsharpmac420]

the only undamaged part of the car was the driver cacoon aroud the driver......driver saftey was the number one specification for the Car Of Today and the drive walked away but sadly it is immune to freak fatal wrecks that has plagued nascar from the its inception

[psykick77]

a video of someone farting brought me here

[twistedrules1]

dude you could hear a huge smack when he hits the wall

[Minnesotan114]

i remember watching this i was like :O hes on fire!

[MrRazz36]

Holy shit!

[jeffsig4]

i was there!!

[RansomCowboy]

Crash and burn...just like Toyota...

[rrrjjjmmm100]

this guy sucks at driving big time

[ShaneWalters9]

@rrrjjjmmm100 your an idiot

[Looktowardsthesky]

@rrrjjjmmm100 how does this guy suck? his car got loose goin into the turn.. on qualifying day ur supposed to go as fast as possible to get that pole. and also the pole bonus money.. so how in the world does this guy suck at driving.. ?? are u a pro if not keep ur mouth shut.. these guys are professional race car drivers they know what thier doing.. they have no control over the car when it gets loose like that.. the only control is possibly to try and keep it from spinning out of control..

[TopRamenKickAss]

Chuck Norris once did this in his Geo Metro.

[TheGoldeneagle1]

@ racinroo62 this is Michael McDowell, he drove that car before David

[7249xxl]

hes just lukky the cars are save but every human boddy is diferent an othere driver probably died how manny times you see a driver dies from what looks to a relativly soft crash

[7249xxl]

@GeorgetownRailfan907 only here you cant restart the race and every thing is good stupid compare

[The99DODGER]

I hope the barriers okay

[autophenom]

help me tom cruise!

[lamboboy001]

listen at :47 you hear a boom when he hits

[2tallbrandon]

The shade kept the track cool? hard to tell where the shade was from this short clip

[placer007]

im flying through the air this is not good

[GoGoGamble]

when you watch this impact and compare it to that of what killed dale earnhardt, you realize how far safety has come along since 2001, and thank god for that!

[SSJ4BlackGohan]

nascar is made fun of alot, im a curcuit guy myself but the cars are prolly some of best built... thats onehell of a impact, didnt Dale Ern. have a head on hit similar?

[josh19852008]

@SSJ4BlackGohan Yes but the impact was not near as hard for Earnhardt R.I.P

[ProfessorIgor]

@josh19852008 yes, this hit was MUCH harder than Dale's... two things saved McDowell... the fact that he his a "safer" barrier, and that he was properly restrained inside the car.

[josh19852008]

@ProfessorIgor No offense but there is still to many unknowns in Dales crash. To many people and to many stories to fully understand what the reason was.

[Thetjknapp]

WOW~!

[Boblina]

Looks just like Gordon Smiley's crash...shows how far car safety has come.

[Nachotype908]

if i was in dat car i wouldve been like "HOLY CRAP HOLY CRAP DAAAAAAAA OMFG OMFG OMFG"

[Imrooot]

Brutal racing and brutal tracks.

[buddyandollie]

he pulled what gordon smiley did

:(

[Jelsick]

Elliot Sadler's crash at Pocono was not this bad....almost.. but not quite.

[MobileSpies]

That'll buff out.

[AirRaider56]

Way worse then dale sr's crash..

[belgref]

rally cars are safer

[weaverracing96]

@belgref Yeah right. I don't recall any rally cars getting to 200 mph, and taking a brutal hit like this. you hear about rally drivers dieing in sub150mph wrecks. This was 180+ and the guy walked away.

[scottN1980]

@weaverracing96 You are right about the speed, I don't agree with belgref saying rally cars are safer just because the driver in these cars is more central than the driver in a rally and the tracks here are designed with these cars in mind where as rallys are on public roads, so a 150mph rally crash can result in an impact with a tree or something not designed to help disipate the energy of the impact. Given a choice, I'ld rather be in a 180mph nascar crash

[weaverracing96]

@scottN1980 Yep, look for fatal rally crashes vs fatal nascar crashes. See which turns up more vids. Road racing in general has more deaths. The last death in NASCAR was 2001 (not counting sub series like modifieds. RIP Tom Baldwin). Ashley Cooper got killed in the Australian V8 supercar series pretty recently, and there are always rally deaths to hear about.

[immortalclaws]

and nascar went with toyota why??

[350z350zify]

@immortalclaws because, toyota took the oppurtinity. 

[AIRSTAR23JORDAN]

haha M1SHOOTER72 probly

[Beavis2828]

McDowell drove into turn 1 and ran out of tallent

[narco2taz]

when i flipped my micro my hans saved me when i did a nosedive.

[hyperacti]

Lucky dog got smasheddddddddd

[K9shibby]

if he would have drove on dirt before maybe he would know how to counter steer

[Racingnut24]

@K9shibby I dont think he had time to do anything K9 it happened so fast..prolly not even to say oh shit...was more like oh....BANG

Seeing stuff like this, I say major Kudos to NASCAR for all the safety improvements, a few years ago he would not of walked away

[thorntonater]

That was one hell of a ride...

[GAS1594]

I remember watching this on tv

[masterlinkxblooperfa]

If nascar's are that SAFE! why cant other cars have what ever is inside their cars to keep other people safe?

[SaintBEEP]

@masterlinkxblooperfa because regular cars shouldn't be going at these speeds or be surrounded by concrete walls....

[ZZZeyad]

The car is Toyota?

[alex2xxx]

How could he survive that if Dale Earnhardt couldn't?

[SillyGoofy101]

@alex2xxx Dale raced before the mandatory implementation of HANS device, CoT, and SAFER barriers.. he had nothing supporting his head and neck.

[SaintBEEP]

@SillyGoofy101, he died beacuse when he crahed, his seatbelt broke, causing his body a split second before he hit the wall (you see his seatbelt broke whe nhe colided with Ken Schrader) and turned his body sideays in the car, whether he was when a HANS device or not, he would have hit his head and died.

[Racingnut24]

@alex2xxx Sr's crash was directly head-on into the wall he had little to no forward momentum once he hit and he backed down the track nothing to absorb the energy except the driver sadly.

McDowell's crash if you watch again was more of a glancing blow albeit a very hard one he still had a lot of forward momentum that was dissipated first by smacking the wall HARD and then barrel rolling down the track. Still amazes me what they go through and still walk away from now.

[SaintBEEP]

@alex2xxx Dale Earnhardt didn't survive because the cars weeren't as safe and his seatbelt broke, he would have lived if his seatbelt hadn't broke. this is 8 years later, NASCAR has the head and Neck Restraints (HANS Device), safer barriers and these new cars.

[Civiprotection]

@SaintBEEP the cars were fine however since Dale Earnhardt was not wearing the hans devise it caused his head to move forward essentialy giving him fatal whiplash. THe seatbelt did its job but his head was still moving.

[SaintBEEP]

@Civiprotection no, his seatbelt broke, he would have lived if his seatbelt had have held, we have seen wrecks exactly the smae as Dale Earnhardts before he died and they survived. his seatbelt broke and that is why he died, it had nothing ot do wihta HANS device.

[ilackedtheheart]

10 years ago, McDowell would have been a dead man. It's amazing how much safety has improved in NASCAR.

[mat2000100]

the car = write-off

[1yoyo105]

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

[zadok217]

hat tip ,to the man who invented the safe barrier....he saved a mans life.........!!

[AngryGundamGamer]

The safety features on the car were never in question, because of how good it is, he walked away, but the thing does not turn, thankfully they're going back to the rear spoiler.

[Pendleburyy]

biffle

[CATATTACK98]

old car that is a dead person props on NASCAR

[kaseykahnefan2009]

for Michael McDowell to walk away from that was absolutely shoking! Props to NASCAR on making these race cars safe. cause he could have been killed in that crash!

[PatrickRocks98]

That was a hard hit.

[sacrario]

Where was Superman? Didn't this happen in the States?

[foleylionheart08]

He should see his dealership about that problem.

[duncaann]

haahhahahah, omg best comment outta here xd!

[imtarheelborn509]

hahaha

[TOPGUNCANADA00]

@M1AShooter72 lol now we know what went wrong at this wreck it all makes sense

[supercrapnstuff11]

@M1AShooter72 brakes might of failed simultaneously 

[goarmysinknavy]

@M1AShooter72 a lmao.

[SCRTChannel]

the car of tomorrow, wtf is he talking about. Nascars just look like stock cars, nothing else.

[cincydirk]

@SCRTChannel the car of tomorow is the new nascar design that is mandated by the raceing body NASCAR

they aint drivin cars you buy of the floor dude

[SCRTChannel]

@cincydirk

I guess you are right, I didn't understand.

Thanks,

[crakajack3]

that was almost the same exact hit that gordon smiley took, without those safer barriers, who knows what would have happened

[MONSTERJULES]

I dont know why he didnt die?I can't believe that earnhard die in a litle crash and that guy survive the most brutal impact in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Roushfan5]

Because Dale had an open faced helmet. In Dales crash he suffered most of the energy of the crash, but here the car and the new SAFER barriers take most of the force of the impact. Allowing amazing wrecks like this one, but thankfully the drivers walking away.

I also think Dales seatbelt broke or become undone somehow.

[ChevyCamaro33]

this crash, as far as praising the COT for driver safety, is overrated. There's been many worse crashes than this with the COT. This crash however, would have been ten times worse if he didn't start flipping. If he just hit the wall head on and the car stayed on the ground, then that would have been way worse.

People say this crash is way worse than Earnhardt's. It's not even close. Earnhardts car stopped when it hit the wall. Mcdowells kept going. If you understand the physics, it makes sense

[jonesmic001]

i couldve saved that

[43labontepetty]

no you couldnt have. if you turn the steering wheel about 1/4 of an inch back to correct the car thats what it does going 190.

[7249xxl]

@jonesmic001 what do you mean

[Zoomer30]

To any one who questions the skill of the driver: GOD could not have saved that car doing 190 and having a tire go down.

[PatrickRocks98]

That was a hard hit into the wall.

[McGregor1921]

at the left, people did not notice when the cars stop turnning. Fking basters, open your eyes and watch, stupid journalist or whatever,

[coolzykid25]

holy crap he bent the safer bearer

[BrookssRobinsonn]

first thing u hear is dw saying about the safer barrier. well yea thats a video game type crash and its nuts that he walked away from that, but it was the people in indycar safety that came up with the safer barrier, and the hans device, which would have saved dale earnhardt 9 years ago, when it was available

[Roushfan5]

You will also notice that that DW did not give credit to NASCAR for inventing those things, he thanked them for putting them in.

Besides NASCAR doesn't own the tracks, its more up to track management to install things like SAFER barriers. NASCAR has also invented things like roof flaps (I want to say Jack Roush invented them, but I am not sure)

Besides NASCAR's last death was Dale Earnheart ten years ago. When was Indy car's last death? Dose not seem to long ago.

[BrookssRobinsonn]

yea i havent heard what he said about the wreck in a long time, but pretty much everytime theres some crazy crash in nascar or theres heavy impact with the wall someone on that group that includes DW and jimmy spencer (or at least used to, i havent seen that show in years, as you can assume im and indycar fan) gives props to nascar for the safer barriers, hans device, bla bla bla that nascar didnt invent. as for roof flaps, ICS doesnt need roof flaps. and the last death was in 2006, in which...

[Roushfan5]

I have never heard them give NASCAR the credit for inventing those things, they give credit to NASCAR for making them required. Which for the longest time they weren't.

[BrookssRobinsonn]

@Roushfan5 they have before and i havent seen anything nascar safety related in a long time, so maybe they havent, but admit it they try harder than any other league to seem like they are so smart and have such great drivers. Example: just before the daytona 500 dw was talking up nascar drivers by saying dario came and raced nascar, didnt do so well, then went back to ICS and won a championship, solely on the experience of nascar, however he had won the chamionship the season before nascar too

[BrookssRobinsonn]

we still dont know why paul dana didnt slow down after seeing a car spinning well ahead of him (R.I.P. Paul Dana), but he had all the equipment to keep him safe, it was just one of those siuations where ICS couldnt do anything more to prevent that other than slow the car down for him, whereas with dale he chose against a full helmet and a hans device, which both would have contributed to saving his life, belt malfunction or not. And anyway ICS is a whole lot more dangerous, faster, no roof, etc.

[JamesH4K]

Thank God for the safer COT cars.

[22Angst]

I cant believe he just walked away from that and Earnhardt looked like he barely bumped the wall compared to this slam - and yet it killed him.

[TyVulpine]

Mainly because Earnhardt's belt broke, McDowell's didn't. And McDowell's car, the energy disappaited (sp) as it went, Earnhardt's car hit and the energy had nowhere to go.

[7249xxl]

@22Angst michael McDowell's car slide trough and didnt suden stop from the inpact decreasing his Gforce but whit the other crash the car made a sudden or aprupt stop increasing the Gforce to its point the human boddy cant resist it killing him these smal things can make a day end so bad i hope crashes on the scale never hapen unles the driver walks away whit it

[ChevyCamaro33]

that wreck looks worse than earnhardts, but it wasn't even close. it would have been worse if he hit the wall head on with the nose like earnhardt. earnhardt hit it head on forcing the car to almost stop, and all the kinetic energy in the car was absorbed by the stuff in the car. thats what killed him. mcdowells car turning over and flipping was a good thing. if he hit the wall and stopped it would have been a worse crash for the driver.

[Fyuzseion]

thank god for the haans device.

[fordwindsor351]

@Fyuzseion Hans not haans

[Racingnut24]

@Fyuzseion Amen to that and the safer barrier and improvements to the drivers seat

[johnlovesmoney]

@Fyuzseion and the safer barriers!

[pimp18904]

do u think i can have his car? haha it would be good yard art dont ya think?

[jwdundon]

I LOVE nascar, BUt it needs to be boycotted, TILL they ban the imports!

NASCAR needs to be for NORTH AMERICAN CARS! NOT rice-burners!

[racefan1]

you know that the camry is the only one of the nascar cars made in america..the other three arent mad in america.

[wilatemodel]

what r u gunna do when honda & bmw submit engines next year,......get over it,its part of nascars plans 2 go global....

[Gforcebond]

Yea, American manufacturers are behind technology in terms of fuel efficiency by 20 years. They deserve to fail i'm sorry to say.

[upstatecowboy]

@wilatemodel i will stop whatching nascar

[wilatemodel]

y?...u dont think it would b more exciting?....

[rcvxl24]

i saw this live it was crazy

[megacountryboy13]

thats what you get when you drive a toyota

[7249xxl]

@megacountryboy13 

[18sux29rox]

its weird that 2 of the cot flips were both rookies. Watch out Danica Patrick!

[NASCARWWEclubpenguin]

actually there's 3,Casey mears even had a flip yet he's not a rookie that time which that year he flipped was 2008.

[warkeq]

this is just a car fault...

[rhett443]

Thats one of those "Slapper" hits where it hits Front left/right then Rear left/right

[ChiBriE30]

wish those commentators would shut the hell up so I could hear the entire thing

[carmgn56]

thats what he gets for driving a toyota, hehehe

[AnthonyAI8552]

TRUE THAT!

[corvettefan96]

wow. proves how safe those cars are i guess.

[LeHylton]

HOW THE FUCK DID HE MANAGED NOT TO FECKIN' DIE?!?!?!!? he is one lucky driver.

[Poncho4NCVox]

Holy shit. And to think that if that happened 10 yrs ago he would have been dead.

[joshjake93]

Not necesarily i mean remeber richard pettys bad wreck dale earnhardt and rusty wallace have all had scary crashes like tht and waled away

[Poncho4NCVox]

I never thought about those, but yes you are right.

[PokerPunk64]

YEs but Dale Earnhardt Died from a Crash so not the best example

[EarnhardtsYear08]

You cant compare Dales crash and this on. Dales car stopped and the 00's bounced off the wall so the driver didnt take the brunt of the crash as Dale did, God rest his soal

[jwdundon]

the wall didn't kil dale, his head was 'turned' looking at martins car, and the wall 'hyper-extended' his neck. Everything went wroing for dale. and may he rest in peace.

[DavidOrtiz36]

wow... so i have to ask... how did you survive the crash? i mean the only way you could know THAT is if you were sitting right next to him, way to sound smart.

But i do agree, everything went wrong for Dale, (like his not wearing the HAANS device) and may he rest in peace. It was his death that has saved many since, it was not in vain

[jwdundon]

I am a certified genius... and a mechanical engineer. Plus I do drive hi-performance test cars. - I have seen 180+ speeds form INSIDE a race car. I also have a degree in sociology, with a minor in psychology.... I don't have to be in the car with Dale, to know whats happened... --you could say understanding the crash is important to me.

[DavidOrtiz36]

I dont care if you have a 200 IQ, theres no way in hell you could be that detailed about something you were (probably) miles away from without blowing a bit of smock out of your ass. I heard, from a certified genious, that worked with NASCAR in the late 90s and early 2000s before retiring that Dale died via a broken neck and a massive brain contusion. And considering his credentials over yours, ill have to believe him. No disrespect to you, i respect your job and your mind, but i mean come on...

[jwdundon]

only 1 thing remains... what does the official autopsy say? I am getting tired of hearing experts different reports on the death. Where can that be found??????

[AKerkadilly]

@jwdundon By Martin, you mean Marlin.

[joshjake93]

also ryan newman in 03

[AKerkadilly]

@joshjake93 Newman's '03 crash was different in several ways which made it non life-threatening.

[7249xxl]

@Poncho4NCVox and 9 years a go and 8 years ago and 7 years ago actual until 5 to 4 years ago he would have survived