@gretzkysyotes Good eye, your right. she lost her wing just past Suzuki Bridge and hit just at the exit to The Kink. Flat out there in 5th, hit 6th through the turn about 170mph in hopes of taking the speed through kettle. Open wheel cars ABSOLUTELY need their wings on turns..
don't get me wrong, i'd probably have a heart attack or something, or at least shit myself, but that wasn't a very bad crash, mighty spectacular, but not much of an impact as far as high end motor racing goes. the cars are designed to fly apart, it dissipates the energy. most of the really bad crashes in modern motor sport don't look like much, sudden stops hurt the fragile human body much more. in general.
@MrTautologist Hey yea wrecking at 170 mph into a concrete wall is not much of an impact, go ahead and tell yourself it wasnt much of an impact, good one! And do you tell yourself that Robert Kubica's accident in canada wasnt much of an impact as well? LoL . Yes they're desinged to dissipate energy but you dont see a modern day car get smashed into oblivion and have only the cockpit remaining unless its a massive impact, what a joke.
@jraybay (1)regardless of whether you're hitting a concrete wall at 170 or not, how "bad" the "impact" is is much more to do with the angle of incidence, not necessarily the results, whether the car's smashed to oblivion. kubica's impact in canada was much worse, yet the car stayed much more intact,only 3wheels off(ok 4th held by tether) but1of those broke prior to the impact and, more pertinently, tub and engine remained firmly attached. less energy disipated. kubica's impact was much more...
@MrTautologist aha this is brutal, I really hope you dont expect me to read all of this I'm sorrry but I didnt ask for a freaking short story for a reply back. I skimmed through it but I really couldnt read accidents brought up from the 90's as examples with legge and Kubica and talking about the point of impact like you are a the guru of accidents. I'm really not saying this was the biggest accident ever in the history but to take away from it's severity like you have is kind of foolish.
@jraybay (2)... head on into the concrete wall at 170mph, seeing as he hit the bit where the wall bends in, so only the nose cone to absorb the impact, thus he didn't walk away, and wasn't allowed to race for a while by professor sid watkins. yes he bounced off to the side to slide along the track, but if you look at the impact with legge's incident, it is much more a glancing blow along the wall, thus, relatively speaking, a lesser impact, not to mention the additional, yet compared to the...
@MrTautologist The wreck here, It's quite "violent" I think thats the keyword here and I dont think anyone " in any capacity" categorize the sseverity of accidents based on injuries. You cant just share a bogus opinion like that because she walked away unhurt. Check the Gforces she sustained and how much speed was scrubbed off at the point of impact then talk about merely glancing off of the wall.
@jraybay (3)... angle of impact, relatively minor benefit of the entire side of the car absorbing the impact. if the air hadn't got under, and lifted the rear end, she'd probably have only done relatively minor damage. it's the tumbling and hooking the fence that broke everything up, but that's lots of smaller impacts consecutively, with the in built safety measures working to deal with that as they're meant to, as such she walked away and was absolutely fine. don't get me wrong, i never said...
@jraybay (4)...it was a piffling little nothing of a crash, merely that it "wasn't a very bad crash, mighty spectacular, but not much of an impact as far as high end motor racing goes", which is true. to use some other examples, remember brundle's crash at melborne in 1996, that was spectacular too, but not really much of an impact to be seen anywhere, so much so that he ran back to the pits to get into the spare car to take the restart, but if memory serves the medics wouldn't let him, just...
@jraybay (5)...in case, and sent him off to the hospital for a scan which confirmed he completely fine. senna's in '94, irrespective of the outcome for the purposes of this point, the impact was much worse, yet the crash didn't look that bad. and from the world of btcc, gabrielli tarquini's crash in '94 at knockhill, what would commonly be regarded as a biggie, but not much of an impact, and he got out and walked away, compared to nigel mansell's crash in btcc at donnington in 94(i think...
@jraybay (6)...though it may have been 93, i cant remember), not that impressive a crash, but he woke up an hour latter in hospital. in all of these examples the cars that were worse off were the result of the least severe incident, the lighter impact, but the drivers were worse off from the incidents with higher energy impacts. think of all the nascar crashes that resulted in the development of the hans device, they weren't the biggies that nascar's famous for, but people were literally...
@jraybay (7)..snapping their heads off of their necks, because they were the less impressive head on sudden stops, big impacts, yet everyone watching couldn't understand why the guys hadn't got out of their cars. so no, my viewpoint is not a joke, merely the entirely reasonable statement that it was not a "very" bad crash, and not "much of an impact, as far as high end motor racing goes", because, quite frankly, it wasn't a particularly bad impact, and i, and anyone involved with motor racing...
@MrTautologist Wasn't the HANS device mainly developed by Mercedes through their F1 effort from '94 to '99? I know Downing had the idea back in the early '80s for IMSA, but never implemented it. from the mid 90s it was available in NHRA, F1, Cart, Indy and others, but so few used it until Dale's crash. I know at least one current IRL driver who hates the thing, and would drive without it if they would let him.
@jraybay (8)... in any capacity, regard the worse crashes to be those where people get hurt, not necessarily where everyone watching gets scared for them. sorry, i didn't mean for that to go on quite so long, just trying to explain how there's a difference between a huge crash and a huge impact, and that there's also a difference between a huge crash and a bad crash. this was a huge crash, but it was neither a particularly huge impact nor a particularly bad crash.
@MrTautologist You have to look at the data and statistics, as you mentioned some dont look bad but the energy tavelled through the car, obviously undetectable with the naked eye, could be quite severe. you've mentioned Ayrton sennas impact was hard but looked survivable, I think that guy is trying to make a case for the legge accident here but vice versa.
This might sound weird but this crash happen during "Dirty Jobs" filming at Road America. Mike Rowe was spending a day as a pit crew for some driver and this crash was shown during Dirty Jobs
People who have the right stuff to do this sort of thing in the first place don't have TIME to shit their suits; they're too busy crashing a race car.
Was this going into the Kink heading to Kettle Bottoms? Absolute worst place for a wing failure at Road America if that's the case........
And to the douche who said she was texting............well needless to say you're a loser.
gretzkysyotes 1 year ago
@gretzkysyotes Good eye, your right. she lost her wing just past Suzuki Bridge and hit just at the exit to The Kink. Flat out there in 5th, hit 6th through the turn about 170mph in hopes of taking the speed through kettle. Open wheel cars ABSOLUTELY need their wings on turns..
Brantoc 1 year ago
don't get me wrong, i'd probably have a heart attack or something, or at least shit myself, but that wasn't a very bad crash, mighty spectacular, but not much of an impact as far as high end motor racing goes. the cars are designed to fly apart, it dissipates the energy. most of the really bad crashes in modern motor sport don't look like much, sudden stops hurt the fragile human body much more. in general.
MrTautologist 1 year ago
@MrTautologist Hey yea wrecking at 170 mph into a concrete wall is not much of an impact, go ahead and tell yourself it wasnt much of an impact, good one! And do you tell yourself that Robert Kubica's accident in canada wasnt much of an impact as well? LoL . Yes they're desinged to dissipate energy but you dont see a modern day car get smashed into oblivion and have only the cockpit remaining unless its a massive impact, what a joke.
jraybay 1 year ago
@jraybay (1)regardless of whether you're hitting a concrete wall at 170 or not, how "bad" the "impact" is is much more to do with the angle of incidence, not necessarily the results, whether the car's smashed to oblivion. kubica's impact in canada was much worse, yet the car stayed much more intact,only 3wheels off(ok 4th held by tether) but1of those broke prior to the impact and, more pertinently, tub and engine remained firmly attached. less energy disipated. kubica's impact was much more...
MrTautologist 1 year ago
@MrTautologist aha this is brutal, I really hope you dont expect me to read all of this I'm sorrry but I didnt ask for a freaking short story for a reply back. I skimmed through it but I really couldnt read accidents brought up from the 90's as examples with legge and Kubica and talking about the point of impact like you are a the guru of accidents. I'm really not saying this was the biggest accident ever in the history but to take away from it's severity like you have is kind of foolish.
jraybay 1 year ago
@jraybay (2)... head on into the concrete wall at 170mph, seeing as he hit the bit where the wall bends in, so only the nose cone to absorb the impact, thus he didn't walk away, and wasn't allowed to race for a while by professor sid watkins. yes he bounced off to the side to slide along the track, but if you look at the impact with legge's incident, it is much more a glancing blow along the wall, thus, relatively speaking, a lesser impact, not to mention the additional, yet compared to the...
MrTautologist 1 year ago
@MrTautologist The wreck here, It's quite "violent" I think thats the keyword here and I dont think anyone " in any capacity" categorize the sseverity of accidents based on injuries. You cant just share a bogus opinion like that because she walked away unhurt. Check the Gforces she sustained and how much speed was scrubbed off at the point of impact then talk about merely glancing off of the wall.
jraybay 1 year ago
@jraybay Crackhead...
puddingpants7 1 year ago
@jraybay (3)... angle of impact, relatively minor benefit of the entire side of the car absorbing the impact. if the air hadn't got under, and lifted the rear end, she'd probably have only done relatively minor damage. it's the tumbling and hooking the fence that broke everything up, but that's lots of smaller impacts consecutively, with the in built safety measures working to deal with that as they're meant to, as such she walked away and was absolutely fine. don't get me wrong, i never said...
MrTautologist 1 year ago
@jraybay (4)...it was a piffling little nothing of a crash, merely that it "wasn't a very bad crash, mighty spectacular, but not much of an impact as far as high end motor racing goes", which is true. to use some other examples, remember brundle's crash at melborne in 1996, that was spectacular too, but not really much of an impact to be seen anywhere, so much so that he ran back to the pits to get into the spare car to take the restart, but if memory serves the medics wouldn't let him, just...
MrTautologist 1 year ago
@jraybay (5)...in case, and sent him off to the hospital for a scan which confirmed he completely fine. senna's in '94, irrespective of the outcome for the purposes of this point, the impact was much worse, yet the crash didn't look that bad. and from the world of btcc, gabrielli tarquini's crash in '94 at knockhill, what would commonly be regarded as a biggie, but not much of an impact, and he got out and walked away, compared to nigel mansell's crash in btcc at donnington in 94(i think...
MrTautologist 1 year ago
@jraybay (6)...though it may have been 93, i cant remember), not that impressive a crash, but he woke up an hour latter in hospital. in all of these examples the cars that were worse off were the result of the least severe incident, the lighter impact, but the drivers were worse off from the incidents with higher energy impacts. think of all the nascar crashes that resulted in the development of the hans device, they weren't the biggies that nascar's famous for, but people were literally...
MrTautologist 1 year ago
@jraybay (7)..snapping their heads off of their necks, because they were the less impressive head on sudden stops, big impacts, yet everyone watching couldn't understand why the guys hadn't got out of their cars. so no, my viewpoint is not a joke, merely the entirely reasonable statement that it was not a "very" bad crash, and not "much of an impact, as far as high end motor racing goes", because, quite frankly, it wasn't a particularly bad impact, and i, and anyone involved with motor racing...
MrTautologist 1 year ago
@MrTautologist Wasn't the HANS device mainly developed by Mercedes through their F1 effort from '94 to '99? I know Downing had the idea back in the early '80s for IMSA, but never implemented it. from the mid 90s it was available in NHRA, F1, Cart, Indy and others, but so few used it until Dale's crash. I know at least one current IRL driver who hates the thing, and would drive without it if they would let him.
Brantoc 1 year ago
@jraybay (8)... in any capacity, regard the worse crashes to be those where people get hurt, not necessarily where everyone watching gets scared for them. sorry, i didn't mean for that to go on quite so long, just trying to explain how there's a difference between a huge crash and a huge impact, and that there's also a difference between a huge crash and a bad crash. this was a huge crash, but it was neither a particularly huge impact nor a particularly bad crash.
MrTautologist 1 year ago
@MrTautologist You have to look at the data and statistics, as you mentioned some dont look bad but the energy tavelled through the car, obviously undetectable with the naked eye, could be quite severe. you've mentioned Ayrton sennas impact was hard but looked survivable, I think that guy is trying to make a case for the legge accident here but vice versa.
puddingpants7 1 year ago
This might sound weird but this crash happen during "Dirty Jobs" filming at Road America. Mike Rowe was spending a day as a pit crew for some driver and this crash was shown during Dirty Jobs
Bluestorm5 1 year ago
@Bluestorm5 I didnt even know he did an episode at Road America lol thanks im gona look for it .
jraybay 1 year ago
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Since she is a women...she must have been on the cell phone or texting.
shadowmanzx1 1 year ago
I like her so much better than that whiny little bitch Danica
pdesil 1 year ago
"All my bits are intact" hahahhahaha....wow...
CourtyardPigeon 1 year ago
HONESTLY you're thinking "Fuck!" It took her a beat to hold that back, but she managed admirably.
IsaacBickerstaffEsq 1 year ago
Where is she now? All this talk about Danika Patrick & this girl has a bigger pair of stones than most guys.
ursavostock 2 years ago
@ursavostock She races in DTM.
Willum 2 years ago
She has luck!
PhoenixFirebreath 2 years ago
Women are tough but I would love too have one like this too be my bodyguard girl friend !
1968DodgePolara 2 years ago
unbelievable.. such a heavy crash, and she just comes out smiling.. just incredible!
pocketdynamo87 2 years ago
Road America? hehehe The irony.... Katherine Legge is obviously English and the repporter who interviews her is Irish!
ssssroryssss2 2 years ago
Oops! I mean one of the commentators is Irish.
ssssroryssss2 2 years ago
thats not derek daly.
paulboggan 2 years ago
what a doll
rwb043 2 years ago
I'm betting she shat in her race suit, i know i would have.
TheClaw70 5 years ago
People who have the right stuff to do this sort of thing in the first place don't have TIME to shit their suits; they're too busy crashing a race car.
IsaacBickerstaffEsq 1 year ago
Good reason for me to NOT drive a racecar..
Brantoc 1 year ago
Exactly
CourtyardPigeon 1 year ago
shes is a one very lucky girl
miketran47 5 years ago
inacreditável...
kballah 5 years ago