this is how i want to die im going down in a blaze of glory as bon jovi said better than dying of cancer then again any death is better than dying from cancer
back in these days drivers were being killed too often.. it was up to the drivers to save eachother, and they had a hell load more respect than what it seems now..
@Nordligast i see what you tried to do, but it doesnt work.. the fact i speak in multipuls clearly indicates more than one, so to try and make a joke about a guy dieing more than once fell on its arse ...
Glömmer aldrig den morgonen! På Söndagen hade vi i familjen tittat på loppet och sett olyckan.
Jag gick i femman, och alla pratade om att Ronnie hade kraschat. En stund senare (Detta var Måndag morgon) Så sa någon att Ronnie var död! Detta avfärdades först som trams, men efter en stund fick vi höra på nyheterna att han faktiskt hade gått bort. Hela skolan stod still den dagen! Detta var långt innan man fick nyheter i realtid!
@Schrecklassnach38 I've just been reading the wiki page about Professor Sid Watkins and it states that for 18mins he was prevented from entering the crash site by the Italian police.
@Schrecklassnach38 Untrue. He did not die due to an infection. The doctors had pre-warned him about the risk of a fat embolism in case he did no agree to having his right leg amputated (which was broken seven(!) times). He declined, that was his death sentence. This is also probably the reason why Barbro Peterson never filed a lawsuit due to malpractice. Fat embolisms are a potential consequence of the trauma. I still remember how sad I was the day he died. my favourite driver of the 70ies.
What killed Ronnie was the italian doctors who almost immediately did too many operations at once on his legs and foot ,,, fat globules got into his system , even into his eyes and brain , better medical care could have saved his life.Doctors kill as many as they cure, hospitals are still dangerous places
@tazio2 "Unfortunately, during the night, bone marrow went into Peterson's bloodstream through the fractures, forming fat globules on his major organs including lungs, liver and brain. By morning he was in full renal failure and was declared dead a few hours later. The cause of death was given as fat embolism"
@tazio2 There was no error, unfortunately the embolism is a possible event, due to serious fractures. Nowadays it is common practice to act with drugs that may limit this possibility, and especially the patient is monitored 24 hours, in 78, unfortunately, a common post-fracture embolism (which can still kill even today) was able to kill the poor Ronnie.
ronnie peterson had a chance at the championship too, but his death guaranteed the championship for mario andretti (his teamate). the race starter turned on all the red lights signaling the start of the race, this ended up causing a huge wreck, in which a great driver lost his life
SÅ HÄR ÄR DET HAR INTE FATTAT DENNA KRASCH FÖRR NU FATTAR JAG DEN RONNIE MÄRKER ATT DET ÄR NÅGOT FEL PÅ BILEN ÅKER IN TILL SARGEN ELLER VAD DET KALLAS PÅ VÄGGEN DIT SÅ RÅKAR HA KÖRA IN I EN ANNAN BIL SOM ÅKER IN I EN ANDRA SIDAN SARGEN OCH RONNIE S´BIL GÅR I SNABB FART IN I SARGEN!!!!! SE
Esto era Fórmula 1 en los años 70s, como lo dijo en alguna ocasión el polémico piloto argentino Marcos di Palma antes había tener huevos para subirse a un auto de competición. Realmente las imagenes son impactantes.
he died of fat embolism the next day, the marrow from his leg bones (he had multiple fractures) entered his bloodstream and pasted into his internal organs, lungs kidney :) it's a pity cause he could have been saved if he was given addequate medical care.
That was James Hunt at the start there if I remember correctly who jumped out of his Marlboro car, abandoning the race to try and save his friend.
He said later about it words to the effect that it was the most horrific experience, that Ronnie's face bore all the horror and realisation of a man who knew he was about to die.
@brown9708 Nobody died in F1 for a long time, in fact, nobody was even injured badly for long time because of a crash. F1 is the safest motorsport at the moment. Nowhere else can you crash into a solid wall at 300 kmh and walk away. Indy cars or Nascar would split into atoms if they were in same crashes from which f1 drivers walked away.
If this is shown as it happened in real time, then they got him out of the car less than 38 seconds after impact. Not bad for 1978. Consider that 5 years earlier, David Purley was pretty much left alone to try to save Roger Williamson while everyone else puttered around incoherently.
@danieldeibler In Italy we have always taken very seriously relief efforts on track, if you have not already seen, take a look at the Gherard Bergher's crash at Imola in 1989.
ProTip: Pay better attention when trying to be a dick on the Internet. I didn't say "pull". I said "got". If it weren't for what "they" were doing, he wouldn't have been able to pull him out.
Jesus Christ.....before the Internet came along I was optimistic and assumed the amount of stupid people in the world was lower. But here on youtube....here you are. This place is like a dumping ground for retards with keyboards. It's depressing.
@danieldeibler still, without the fellow drivers effort, Ronnie would not be out of his car this fast & the same with Niki Lauda 1976 nurburg ring crash!
robotguy67 you are right he did help, but he also helped to cause the accident in the first place , whereas all the blame was attributed to poor old Patrese but I guess in the heat of the moment these guys are faced with split second decisions that us lounge potatos could easily pass judgement on, I guess that's why it is called an ACCIDENT.
I liked James Hunt, he was probably the last of the true rat pack , lived life to the full and raced hard for the raw passion of the sport.
planimal, you'd have to be able to afford it first you white racist trash, your shithole is so poor they couldn't afford an $ 2.00 o-ring to seal the booster rockets on the space shuttle , although it did make for a great fire cracker !! Oh we have free health insurance where I come from, maybe you should come visit although I doubt you would pass quarantine.
He didn't die of an infection, it was bone marrow and bone splinters that clotted his kidneys &lungs, his official cause of death being renal failure. It was as difficult a trauma to treat back then as it would be today . Who says Italian hospitals are bad, Doohan, Rossi, Nannini, Berger etc can all attest to this not being true at all. At apprx $1000 for a blood test in the USA, now there is a country I wouldn't like to get sick in cause even with all the technology u just couldnt afford it.
RIP "Il Re di Monza", I was at the race when it happened but at the end of the day it was just that, an ACCIDENT. Quite ironic that Brambilla whom everyone thought was going to die after that crash ended up surviving then died of a heart attack many years later whilst cutting the grass in his garden. Well Ronnie I am sure you are in God's loving arms with your Wife, Gilles, James, Pironi, Aryton,Alboreto,De Angelis, Brambilla et al, havinga great time :) All of you true warriors of a great era
The reason why you dont see drivers leaping out of their cars to help out today, is because of two important factors: 1) the rupture-proof fuel tanks we use today have eliminted the fire hazard, so there is no risk of a driver getting seriously burnt and so no hurry to get him out. 2) extracting a driver with neck/spinal injuries from a car requires expert training, or you risk aggravating the injury. It could even kill the injured driver.
@cinemapower yes,despite all the blaming about how the crash occurred, it seemed that night that he was going to survive. He was not burned badly, the fireproof suit and work putting out the fire prevented that, but his legs were broken badly in many places. He died from infection when marrow went to the blood, which should have been preventable with antibotic given up front. Nikki Lauda got in trouble for saying that no F1 driver wants to crash in Italy or Spain because hospitals are bad.
What a shambles the starts were!!! The front row barely got to their mark which means those behind definitely didn't and they were even stationary before the race was started.
I don't know what tosser added the music but it's totally inappropriate for this horrific event, which speaks for itself. Although safety standards had improved considerably in 1978 compared with the early 1970s, they were still woefully inadequate compared with today. Ronnie would certainly have survived if this had happened in 2010 and probably raced again.
this is why the FIA employed their own physicians after this unfortunate slip up.
Sid Watkins is the chief, and he saved Mika Hakkinen's life in his crash in Adelaide 1995. Without him Hakkinen would have suffocated and died. Had they had likes of Sid Watkins in 1978, Peterson would no doubt have lived.
@Senj1n fuck off!! i'm italian and i'm from monza.I know the doctors weren't good but a lot of drivres died in '70 and they weren't in italy. the medical methods weren't advanced and I don't think if he was in america he survived!
Looked like a racing accident, pure and simple. Peterson got boxed in, 2 cars in front, 2 cars in back, with 3 other cars in his row. He was trapped, wheels touched. Same thing happens with today's races, tracks are designed better today, more run off, less guardrails with more tire barriers instead. Old tracks have been redesigned. Cars with fuel cells. It'll never be perfect, but it's improved greatly!
I admit that James Hunt was in an infinitely better position to blame Riccardo Patrese if that's the way he saw it, but was there ever a more poorly managed start to an F1 race? It was a complete and utter mess! Were the drivers supposed to be able to overcome any eventuality? Why no mention of the starter's responsibility in all this (that I can find, anyway).
@Ilko2007 Peterson and James Hunt collided when the cars got bunched up with cars that were behind them. Peterson survived the crash with fractured bones in both his legs. The doctors operated but he died the next day due to bone marrow (and fat) that went into his bloodstream...
@robotguy67 Yes, a clear proof of gentlemanliness, when F1 was a real sport (not racing politics or computers as nowadays is...) As far as I can remember, the last case of this noble behaviour in F1 (a driver helping another in trouble) was in 2000 or in 2001 in Spa, when Irvine (Jaguar) tried to get Burti (Prost), with whom he crashed, from below the tyres wall...
The bald skinny guy walking right behind the coffin at 1:50 is Gunnar Nilsson hugely devasted by the chemyotherapy, who was coming at the end of his own days. Very sad indeed
I saw his daughter in Anderstorp 2 years ago on Anderstorp raceway when me and my dad was on the Ronnie Petterson Memorial Grand Prix and Stig "Lill Lövis" Johanson drove his Lotus and from every persons eye fell a tear
Kakav splet nesrecnih okolnosti,kako inace samo zivot zna da izrezira ! A bio je najbolji vozac svog vremena i jedan od najboljih vozaca F1 ikada.Velika steta ! Nek ti je laka zemlja Roni !
Question: Ronnie broke both of his foot and ankles in that accident but yet he died a day later, Rick Mears, Nelson Piquet injuries were 10 times worse legs than Peterson and Alex Zarnardi lost both of his legs but survived and is still race. Why couldn't they save Ronnie?
Well the same thing happen to Rick Mears in 1984 when bone splinters went into his blood stream but he manage to survive and he came back to racing the following year. Zarnardi lost 65% of blood and but survived.
@paulboggan When Mears had his accident and the same thing that happen to him in which doctors thought of amputated in his right lower leg but saved it and another round of surgery thanks to Dr. Terry Trammel.
ok, didnt realise that about rick..i know that ronnies death was very sudden and very unexpected...maybe the poisioning took hold very quickly. i remember seeing an interview with mario and he said they were all happy with his recovery and were on their way home when they got the news.
actually his bones had broken and the marrow had entered the blood stream creating an embolus in his kidneys. His death was acute renal failure, because his kidneys had been clogged up by the embolus. The physicians were well aware of such things happening but opted to observe him during the night.
It wasent really the crash that killed ronnie , he died of medical complications called fat emboli .
i have seen people die becouse of that after a simple knee operation , the surgeons working on him where to eager becouse he was a VIP patient . a normal patient would probably have been better off.
i know this resulted in his death but everytime i see this its funny the way patrick depailler ma on far left for most of the time is almost useless in the rescue!
Wasn't Patrese absolved; I believe it was determined that Hunt initiated the crash and Patrese was the first person he hit which hit him intp Peterson
This video footage is much clearer than any version I've seen before, perhaps a little too clear...the image of them turning Ronnie into what I presume is the recovery position is a little more than I can take. Thank God we're now in safer times, I never want to see something like this happen again.
It's sad how this destroyed Sweden's ambitions of becoming a great formula 1 nation. Ronie was a beloved national hero and his horrific death meant that people simply repressed their passion for formula 1 and Sweden hasn't had a decent driver since. If this haden't happend Sweden might had been like the great motor sport nation Finland.
Watching this makes me so sad, mainly for Ronie and his family and friends but also for the negative consequenses it had on swedish motor sport.
sorry but i have to correct you, dont forget about Stefan "Lill-lövis" Johansson (Ferrari, McLaren and so on) 79 starts in F1. Do your homework - mr Laserman
scared
dwiparibasa 5 days ago
this is how i want to die im going down in a blaze of glory as bon jovi said better than dying of cancer then again any death is better than dying from cancer
shredmaster100 1 month ago
argue elsewhere kids.
your ranting is inapproprite here.
RFreigeldorff 2 months ago
My English isn't that good, so I didn't knew how to say. I meant a fat embolism...xD
Schrecklassnach38 2 months ago
back in these days drivers were being killed too often.. it was up to the drivers to save eachother, and they had a hell load more respect than what it seems now..
wo0dy1 3 months ago
@wo0dy1 Nah, they only got killed one time each. That is not often
Nordligast 3 months ago 5
@Nordligast i see what you tried to do, but it doesnt work.. the fact i speak in multipuls clearly indicates more than one, so to try and make a joke about a guy dieing more than once fell on its arse ...
wo0dy1 3 months ago
Glömmer aldrig den morgonen! På Söndagen hade vi i familjen tittat på loppet och sett olyckan.
Jag gick i femman, och alla pratade om att Ronnie hade kraschat. En stund senare (Detta var Måndag morgon) Så sa någon att Ronnie var död! Detta avfärdades först som trams, men efter en stund fick vi höra på nyheterna att han faktiskt hade gått bort. Hela skolan stod still den dagen! Detta var långt innan man fick nyheter i realtid!
R.I.P Ronnie
campingkillen 4 months ago
@xUKxiReaPeR Maybe, but the doctors let the press in the OP just before the surgery. So in the end he died on a infection. Sorry for my English xD
Schrecklassnach38 4 months ago
Unfortunately he would have survived, if the doctors haven't been that "stupid".
R.I.P.
Schrecklassnach38 4 months ago 3
@Schrecklassnach38 I've just been reading the wiki page about Professor Sid Watkins and it states that for 18mins he was prevented from entering the crash site by the Italian police.
ssssroryssss 3 months ago
@Schrecklassnach38 Untrue. He did not die due to an infection. The doctors had pre-warned him about the risk of a fat embolism in case he did no agree to having his right leg amputated (which was broken seven(!) times). He declined, that was his death sentence. This is also probably the reason why Barbro Peterson never filed a lawsuit due to malpractice. Fat embolisms are a potential consequence of the trauma. I still remember how sad I was the day he died. my favourite driver of the 70ies.
TheColinChapman 2 months ago
James Hunt is a hero.
EntertainmentBySam 5 months ago
@EntertainmentBySam Yes He certainly was
WELLBRAN 4 months ago
@EntertainmentBySam Yeah he is, because he saved him out of his car, but he caused the collision...
Schrecklassnach38 3 months ago
@ 1:26 wtf is that his leg?
Jonazfromgermany 5 months ago
vila i frid Ronnie, Sverige kommer aldrig glömma dig
daggamer 5 months ago
september 11th... RIP
pollemar 5 months ago
HAJ PÅ DAJ ANNA
OstpannkakaLoL 5 months ago
RIP Ronnie.
JRCrowley 5 months ago
33 years ago today! vila i frid
McKnee1 5 months ago 11
STUPID ASS FUCKING CUNT SURGENTS WHO KILLED HIM.
Rest in peace Ronnie! One of the very best drivers of all time and one of the most skilled ones!
Got4borgar4n 5 months ago
What killed Ronnie was the italian doctors who almost immediately did too many operations at once on his legs and foot ,,, fat globules got into his system , even into his eyes and brain , better medical care could have saved his life.Doctors kill as many as they cure, hospitals are still dangerous places
tazio2 6 months ago
@tazio2 "Unfortunately, during the night, bone marrow went into Peterson's bloodstream through the fractures, forming fat globules on his major organs including lungs, liver and brain. By morning he was in full renal failure and was declared dead a few hours later. The cause of death was given as fat embolism"
NOXXism 6 months ago
@tazio2 There was no error, unfortunately the embolism is a possible event, due to serious fractures. Nowadays it is common practice to act with drugs that may limit this possibility, and especially the patient is monitored 24 hours, in 78, unfortunately, a common post-fracture embolism (which can still kill even today) was able to kill the poor Ronnie.
manero170869 5 months ago
vi glömmer dig aldrig Ronnie
nicknamecharlston 6 months ago
How many cars were there?
brzezio96 6 months ago
@brzezio96 3 Cars crashed, James Hunt, Ronnie Peterson and Riccardo Patrese. Riccardo crashed into James who crashed into Ronnie,
OnT: Ronnie still is the best swedish driver in Formula One even after his death, Just think what could've happened if he survived :(
feffecrazy 5 months ago
ronnie peterson had a chance at the championship too, but his death guaranteed the championship for mario andretti (his teamate). the race starter turned on all the red lights signaling the start of the race, this ended up causing a huge wreck, in which a great driver lost his life
xXhtownrocketsxX 7 months ago 2
se 0:22 nästan 0:23 där går smällen som Ronnie bär en del av problemet till !!!!!
tyvärrr trist men sant fy fan!!!!!
CLOWNEN82 7 months ago
SÅ HÄR ÄR DET HAR INTE FATTAT DENNA KRASCH FÖRR NU FATTAR JAG DEN RONNIE MÄRKER ATT DET ÄR NÅGOT FEL PÅ BILEN ÅKER IN TILL SARGEN ELLER VAD DET KALLAS PÅ VÄGGEN DIT SÅ RÅKAR HA KÖRA IN I EN ANNAN BIL SOM ÅKER IN I EN ANDRA SIDAN SARGEN OCH RONNIE S´BIL GÅR I SNABB FART IN I SARGEN!!!!! SE
CLOWNEN82 7 months ago
@MultiTorte
500,000,000,000,000,000,000?
Don't make numbers up. Not even that much money exists.
Obliverate15 7 months ago
anyone know what the song playing at the end was?
martaferreira91 7 months ago
@martaferreira91 It is the opening bars of 'Heard it through the grapevine'. M Gaye.
marcomelandri33 7 months ago
:O At 1:27, is that his broken leg?
RIP Ronnie!
AlaselSerpentGA 7 months ago
@AlaselSerpentGA
Ouuuu :(
TommyF1RM 7 months ago
@AlaselSerpentGA Yes it is
manero170869 6 months ago
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look at 1:23 u can see his leg is broken and going the wrong way
willibanili 7 months ago
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willibanili 7 months ago
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willibanili 7 months ago
11 september first ronnie 1978 then world trade center 11 september that i call the black day
skumman1 8 months ago
hats off the the driver that risks his butt to pull ronnie out. wow.
SGDeGalvez 8 months ago
Heres a better song to use, the address is below,
/watch?v=WltRFhB6y38
ExtraGloves240 8 months ago
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009 Sound System is even worse than this song
ExtraGloves240 8 months ago
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ExtraGloves240 8 months ago
Esto era Fórmula 1 en los años 70s, como lo dijo en alguna ocasión el polémico piloto argentino Marcos di Palma antes había tener huevos para subirse a un auto de competición. Realmente las imagenes son impactantes.
Freddy Blanco Lázaro (Lima - Perú)
FreddyBlancoF1 9 months ago
he died of fat embolism the next day, the marrow from his leg bones (he had multiple fractures) entered his bloodstream and pasted into his internal organs, lungs kidney :) it's a pity cause he could have been saved if he was given addequate medical care.
kristimetal10 9 months ago
Ah, Ronnie Peterson, my childhood idol. Big trauma for a 5-year old to experience.
MelkerJ 9 months ago
did he died ??
MrBMGFan 9 months ago
@MrBMGFan he died because of complications during surgery of his broken leg :(
adnanbayern 8 months ago
That was James Hunt at the start there if I remember correctly who jumped out of his Marlboro car, abandoning the race to try and save his friend.
He said later about it words to the effect that it was the most horrific experience, that Ronnie's face bore all the horror and realisation of a man who knew he was about to die.
KenfromDublin 9 months ago
thanks to Depailler & Hunt he got out of the car , not get burned alive as Williamson
did in 1973 GP at zandvoort .the track marshals was more interested in putting out the fire of the burning car fuel on Ronnies lotus. RIP superswede.
thenicedudejay 10 months ago
@ooUooUoo oohhhhh......Sorry my bad :)
kimi450 10 months ago
Jo, det stämmer. Må han vila i frid, precis som Ronny.
imaginosable 11 months ago
är inte Jan Svanlund en av kommentatorerna?
lpedy 11 months ago
open wheel kills more drivers and that includes Indy, IRL, F1 than GTP, ALMS, Group C or any closed wheel.
brown9708 11 months ago
@brown9708 i dont think indycar is closed wheel
kimi450 10 months ago
@brown9708 Nobody died in F1 for a long time, in fact, nobody was even injured badly for long time because of a crash. F1 is the safest motorsport at the moment. Nowhere else can you crash into a solid wall at 300 kmh and walk away. Indy cars or Nascar would split into atoms if they were in same crashes from which f1 drivers walked away.
derbigpr500 10 months ago
@derbigpr500 Sure, I agree. Kubica, Massa, Webber, Alonso (2003 (I Think)) comes to mind!
TheRandomVids101 10 months ago
@derbigpr500 u r bad because felipe massa's injury was in 2009
yerall1 9 months ago
11 sep ronnie peterson dog wtc kollapsade o pentagon blev bombat
2hum4n 11 months ago
i went to the races in the 70s with my dad saw all the action i think most of all of your comments are without any real understanding
reeceymarshy 1 year ago
Date of birth 14 February 1944
Date of death 11 September 1978 (aged 34)
Habbosdify 1 year ago
Ronnie died within 24 hours later on september 11th!!
kzbxvz 1 year ago
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scaniavabis94 1 year ago
If this is shown as it happened in real time, then they got him out of the car less than 38 seconds after impact. Not bad for 1978. Consider that 5 years earlier, David Purley was pretty much left alone to try to save Roger Williamson while everyone else puttered around incoherently.
danieldeibler 1 year ago 34
@danieldeibler In Italy we have always taken very seriously relief efforts on track, if you have not already seen, take a look at the Gherard Bergher's crash at Imola in 1989.
manero170869 5 months ago
@danieldeibler "they" didn't pull him out, James Hunt did.
joshgeake 2 months ago
@joshgeake
ProTip: Pay better attention when trying to be a dick on the Internet. I didn't say "pull". I said "got". If it weren't for what "they" were doing, he wouldn't have been able to pull him out.
Jesus Christ.....before the Internet came along I was optimistic and assumed the amount of stupid people in the world was lower. But here on youtube....here you are. This place is like a dumping ground for retards with keyboards. It's depressing.
danieldeibler 2 months ago
@danieldeibler woah there, you need to take that great big cock out of your face, retard...
joshgeake 2 months ago
@danieldeibler still, without the fellow drivers effort, Ronnie would not be out of his car this fast & the same with Niki Lauda 1976 nurburg ring crash!
thenicedudejay 2 months ago
@thenicedudejay agreed
danieldeibler 2 months ago
robotguy67 you are right he did help, but he also helped to cause the accident in the first place , whereas all the blame was attributed to poor old Patrese but I guess in the heat of the moment these guys are faced with split second decisions that us lounge potatos could easily pass judgement on, I guess that's why it is called an ACCIDENT.
I liked James Hunt, he was probably the last of the true rat pack , lived life to the full and raced hard for the raw passion of the sport.
opticwhitepx 1 year ago
planimal, you'd have to be able to afford it first you white racist trash, your shithole is so poor they couldn't afford an $ 2.00 o-ring to seal the booster rockets on the space shuttle , although it did make for a great fire cracker !! Oh we have free health insurance where I come from, maybe you should come visit although I doubt you would pass quarantine.
opticwhitepx 1 year ago
He didn't die of an infection, it was bone marrow and bone splinters that clotted his kidneys &lungs, his official cause of death being renal failure. It was as difficult a trauma to treat back then as it would be today . Who says Italian hospitals are bad, Doohan, Rossi, Nannini, Berger etc can all attest to this not being true at all. At apprx $1000 for a blood test in the USA, now there is a country I wouldn't like to get sick in cause even with all the technology u just couldnt afford it.
opticwhitepx 1 year ago
@opticwhitepx it's called health insurance you dumb nigger. murhicas health care is better than whatever third world country you live in.
planimal 1 year ago
They did'nt help that much,he died they did;nt.Lets not bullshit ourselves
councilglasses 1 year ago
@councilglasses Yes, even the best doctors can't always save everyone. After all that's why we are all mortals. Even you.
Marillionado 1 year ago
@Marillionado Please point out part of the script where I say I am a god / vampire.I am fully aware of my coming death.
councilglasses 1 year ago
RIP "Il Re di Monza", I was at the race when it happened but at the end of the day it was just that, an ACCIDENT. Quite ironic that Brambilla whom everyone thought was going to die after that crash ended up surviving then died of a heart attack many years later whilst cutting the grass in his garden. Well Ronnie I am sure you are in God's loving arms with your Wife, Gilles, James, Pironi, Aryton,Alboreto,De Angelis, Brambilla et al, havinga great time :) All of you true warriors of a great era
opticwhitepx 1 year ago
fake..
bourlivak88 1 year ago
@bourlivak88 Whats fake?
cyanidesusie 1 year ago
rip ronnie peterson
buonomaxi 1 year ago
RIP Jonnie Peterson
scaniavabis94 1 year ago
THE END OF THE CLIP THEYE SAY THE FOUND RONNIES WIFE DEATH IN BATHROOM IN 1988
GurhanBagci 1 year ago
One of the most heroic efforts during one of the most horrific wrecks.
Depailler kicking at the body work and James Hunt undoing the 5 point
harness and lifting Ronnie out of the car. A feat of brute strength and guts.
vetri38 1 year ago 2
on i tak umarł w szpitalu szkoda go ,tylko tamci mogli by sie chociarz zatrzymać i sprubować mu pomóc
Mr666PIOS 1 year ago
The reason why you dont see drivers leaping out of their cars to help out today, is because of two important factors: 1) the rupture-proof fuel tanks we use today have eliminted the fire hazard, so there is no risk of a driver getting seriously burnt and so no hurry to get him out. 2) extracting a driver with neck/spinal injuries from a car requires expert training, or you risk aggravating the injury. It could even kill the injured driver.
krotma 1 year ago 4
@krotma , So how do you explain the Lotus going up in flames in Singapore this year then?
lammiura 1 year ago
According to Heiki Kovalainen, it was a ruptured fuel release valve that caused an airbox fire. The actual fuel tank remained intact.
krotma 1 year ago
good video,horrible crash
catoiracity 1 year ago
Does anyone have Murray Walker's commentary from this race?
mulcajbm 1 year ago
hes alive at 1:25 hes moving
insignia95 1 year ago
@insignia95 hes died in hospital
cinemapower 1 year ago
@cinemapower yes,despite all the blaming about how the crash occurred, it seemed that night that he was going to survive. He was not burned badly, the fireproof suit and work putting out the fire prevented that, but his legs were broken badly in many places. He died from infection when marrow went to the blood, which should have been preventable with antibotic given up front. Nikki Lauda got in trouble for saying that no F1 driver wants to crash in Italy or Spain because hospitals are bad.
gurlsingerfan 1 year ago
What a shambles the starts were!!! The front row barely got to their mark which means those behind definitely didn't and they were even stationary before the race was started.
213HBK 1 year ago
I don't know what tosser added the music but it's totally inappropriate for this horrific event, which speaks for itself. Although safety standards had improved considerably in 1978 compared with the early 1970s, they were still woefully inadequate compared with today. Ronnie would certainly have survived if this had happened in 2010 and probably raced again.
n01rationalist 1 year ago
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rusoope 1 year ago
What a stupid ass song to use.
iskra6419 1 year ago 96
@iskra6419 yes i thought the very same thing..
macgiver351 1 year ago
italian doctors killed peterson! italian doctors = fail!
Senj1n 1 year ago
@Senj1n
this is why the FIA employed their own physicians after this unfortunate slip up.
Sid Watkins is the chief, and he saved Mika Hakkinen's life in his crash in Adelaide 1995. Without him Hakkinen would have suffocated and died. Had they had likes of Sid Watkins in 1978, Peterson would no doubt have lived.
McLarenMercedes 1 year ago 2
@Senj1n fuck off!! i'm italian and i'm from monza.I know the doctors weren't good but a lot of drivres died in '70 and they weren't in italy. the medical methods weren't advanced and I don't think if he was in america he survived!
suxmax 1 year ago
RiP Ronnie
SunriseFestival 1 year ago
Looked like a racing accident, pure and simple. Peterson got boxed in, 2 cars in front, 2 cars in back, with 3 other cars in his row. He was trapped, wheels touched. Same thing happens with today's races, tracks are designed better today, more run off, less guardrails with more tire barriers instead. Old tracks have been redesigned. Cars with fuel cells. It'll never be perfect, but it's improved greatly!
surfing636 1 year ago
@surfing636 that was a direction mistake to allow the racing to keep on going while the cars on the back havent stopped totally.
guilhermecarneiro1 1 year ago
@surfing636 yeah exacly, plus not just the tracks are safer, even the cars are
SniperSwe 1 year ago
god bless Ronnie Petersson and James Hunt.....
StraussSunrise 1 year ago
james hunt was died for cancer disease some years after...
markesajanus 1 year ago
@markesajanus
some 15 years later. Hunt died in 1993. He was a heavy smoker and lived a playboy lifestyle.
McLarenMercedes 1 year ago
noch einer .....................
salvatorearcilesi 1 year ago
R.I.P Ronnie Peterson
MegaPRO9 1 year ago
If it had happened in another Country he would live today!
PatrickLindberg2 1 year ago
I admit that James Hunt was in an infinitely better position to blame Riccardo Patrese if that's the way he saw it, but was there ever a more poorly managed start to an F1 race? It was a complete and utter mess! Were the drivers supposed to be able to overcome any eventuality? Why no mention of the starter's responsibility in all this (that I can find, anyway).
rherbert57 1 year ago 2
The main fault rests on the starter. He started the race before all the cars had even come to a full stop. That caused the bunch up at the back.
Zoomer30 1 year ago
Can somebody tell me, what exactly happened?
Ilko2007 1 year ago
@Ilko2007 Peterson and James Hunt collided when the cars got bunched up with cars that were behind them. Peterson survived the crash with fractured bones in both his legs. The doctors operated but he died the next day due to bone marrow (and fat) that went into his bloodstream...
R.I.P. Peterson
MaurizioBustos 1 year ago
R.I.P Ronny
oisfan98 2 years ago
Sweden!!!!!!!!! R.I.P Ronnie
AlexanderUltimate 2 years ago 2
The 70s was a decade of serious accidents and deaths in F1.
DC322 2 years ago
what a hero james hunt is. pulls him out of the burning car
muki1016 2 years ago 12
The others help him!That is what friends are for
robotguy67 2 years ago 125
@robotguy67 It so sad :'(
SuperHockey56 1 year ago
@robotguy67 Yes, a clear proof of gentlemanliness, when F1 was a real sport (not racing politics or computers as nowadays is...) As far as I can remember, the last case of this noble behaviour in F1 (a driver helping another in trouble) was in 2000 or in 2001 in Spa, when Irvine (Jaguar) tried to get Burti (Prost), with whom he crashed, from below the tyres wall...
AlanMartinNala 1 year ago
@AlanMartinNala And....Your Right!
robotguy67 1 year ago
@AlanMartinNala I remember that - it was august 2001
planstore 1 year ago
@robotguy67 Well, James Hunt helped!
flipsidedogchop 1 year ago
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why did he die on 9/11
mindcux 2 years ago
The bald skinny guy walking right behind the coffin at 1:50 is Gunnar Nilsson hugely devasted by the chemyotherapy, who was coming at the end of his own days. Very sad indeed
mellilore 2 years ago
I saw his daughter in Anderstorp 2 years ago on Anderstorp raceway when me and my dad was on the Ronnie Petterson Memorial Grand Prix and Stig "Lill Lövis" Johanson drove his Lotus and from every persons eye fell a tear
R.I.P Ronnie
theGizmo100 2 years ago 2
@theGizmo100 its not Stig "Lill Lövis" Johanson its Stefan " Lill Lövis" Johansson!!!!!!!
smiskarn2009 2 years ago
The last text says: Barbro Peterson (his wife), was found dead in her bathtub in 1987 :/
Zobzon69 2 years ago
aaw he had a 3 year old daughter :(
tarded55 2 years ago
At the time it was said that Patrese was responsible for the accident, but I do not think he has been blamed for the death of Peterson.
Fernandes9672 2 years ago
Ronnie´s wife comitted suicide 9 years after, people say she never could get over it.
Tibberia 2 years ago
Kakav splet nesrecnih okolnosti,kako inace samo zivot zna da izrezira ! A bio je najbolji vozac svog vremena i jedan od najboljih vozaca F1 ikada.Velika steta ! Nek ti je laka zemlja Roni !
vrangel71 2 years ago
ysgol3 - it was a racing accident, but Hunt was never to blame in this. Patrese moved right over into Hunt, who collected Peterson.
weallfollowmanutd 2 years ago 2
@weallfollowmanutd I agree with you. but mostly everybody is blaming hunt.
franksiciliano1 2 years ago
Question: Ronnie broke both of his foot and ankles in that accident but yet he died a day later, Rick Mears, Nelson Piquet injuries were 10 times worse legs than Peterson and Alex Zarnardi lost both of his legs but survived and is still race. Why couldn't they save Ronnie?
afannell 2 years ago
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themanwhocanbemoved 2 years ago
If i can remember correctly, bones splinters went into his blood and and then stroke his heart. I think that was what my father told me..
R.I.P Ronnie!
carlssonkung 2 years ago 2
@carlssonkung
Well the same thing happen to Rick Mears in 1984 when bone splinters went into his blood stream but he manage to survive and he came back to racing the following year. Zarnardi lost 65% of blood and but survived.
afannell 2 years ago
he died of complications including poisioning of the blood from some bone marrow infection....
secondary cause of death, not his actual crash injuries
paulboggan 2 years ago 2
@paulboggan When Mears had his accident and the same thing that happen to him in which doctors thought of amputated in his right lower leg but saved it and another round of surgery thanks to Dr. Terry Trammel.
afannell 2 years ago
ok, didnt realise that about rick..i know that ronnies death was very sudden and very unexpected...maybe the poisioning took hold very quickly. i remember seeing an interview with mario and he said they were all happy with his recovery and were on their way home when they got the news.
paulboggan 2 years ago
@paulboggan
Did the family of Ronnie Peterson every sued the doctors that took care of him?
afannell 2 years ago
@paulboggan
actually his bones had broken and the marrow had entered the blood stream creating an embolus in his kidneys. His death was acute renal failure, because his kidneys had been clogged up by the embolus. The physicians were well aware of such things happening but opted to observe him during the night.
McLarenMercedes 1 year ago
@McLarenMercedes
cool! yep sorry. my memory failed me there on the injuries! good call!
paulboggan 1 year ago
Peterson suddenly developed blood lumps which killed him
Teigokane 2 years ago 3
some where critical about that they had not hooked him up to a blood filtering machine for just that reason
OtantalizingO 2 years ago 3
Hunt the Cunt caused the crash and then disgustingly tried to blame Patrese.
Interesting to just see at the end Hunt, Lauda, Scheckter and Fittippaldi carrying the coffin
ysgol3 2 years ago
there was an error in starting the race
T1carus 2 years ago
the start doesn't look so regular in according to the current rules
yepheth 2 years ago 3
Slutet får en att bli tårögd, RIP ronnie du var den bästa!
petergriffen12345 2 years ago 3
It wasent really the crash that killed ronnie , he died of medical complications called fat emboli .
i have seen people die becouse of that after a simple knee operation , the surgeons working on him where to eager becouse he was a VIP patient . a normal patient would probably have been better off.
klinger75 2 years ago
Vila i frid Ronnie, 31 år sen idag. 31 years today
Ducesweden 2 years ago
I had the Jps Lotus corgi car when I was six and recently bought it again.
This made me think of Ronnie and Emerson.
This makes me realise how brave these guys are sitting in a small cockpit at these speeds!
This is a Tragic loss but I suppose its a risk they are well aware off.
Bless you Ronnie and rest in peace. A man prepared to push himself to the extremes of what man is capable of. An Achievement to be proud of!
Joyriser 2 years ago
I remember him...
tonymm6491 2 years ago
he died on 9/11
gotohell66666 2 years ago
i know this resulted in his death but everytime i see this its funny the way patrick depailler ma on far left for most of the time is almost useless in the rescue!
NewYankee01 2 years ago
I recall the scene from a different wiev:
Patrese was not the only guilty driver
(if ever we can talk of fault in such a
hurried start).
Imho the starter was the first and main cause of this fatal event.
indigoblue555 2 years ago
Wasn't Patrese absolved; I believe it was determined that Hunt initiated the crash and Patrese was the first person he hit which hit him intp Peterson
lympog 2 years ago
to lympog - copy and paste ....
" Imho the starter was the first and main cause of this fatal event "
In addition I dare say that his move was
staged to back up Villeneuve's burn out.
Obv. suddenly the cover up got started .....
indigoblue555 2 years ago
yes he was cleared of causing the accident...Patrese was treated very badly at Monza 78, wrongly blamed for this accident
stadioazteca 2 years ago
This video footage is much clearer than any version I've seen before, perhaps a little too clear...the image of them turning Ronnie into what I presume is the recovery position is a little more than I can take. Thank God we're now in safer times, I never want to see something like this happen again.
alisa2002000 2 years ago
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alisa2002000 2 years ago
Is this song I heard through the grapevine??
jokerit911 2 years ago
Yes it is!
afannell 2 years ago
ok....well-known song for me:D
jokerit911 2 years ago
It's sad how this destroyed Sweden's ambitions of becoming a great formula 1 nation. Ronie was a beloved national hero and his horrific death meant that people simply repressed their passion for formula 1 and Sweden hasn't had a decent driver since. If this haden't happend Sweden might had been like the great motor sport nation Finland.
Watching this makes me so sad, mainly for Ronie and his family and friends but also for the negative consequenses it had on swedish motor sport.
Lasermannen 2 years ago
sorry but i have to correct you, dont forget about Stefan "Lill-lövis" Johansson (Ferrari, McLaren and so on) 79 starts in F1. Do your homework - mr Laserman
BajenNicklas 2 years ago