Mark Webber Crash Valencia '10

[sammieboj]

What he says: *He throws out his steering wheel*

What I hear: *He throws out 15,000 euro*

[RoLLWithITOasis1]

Just shows how strong F1 cars are. I remember seeing the 1999 European GP and someone got trapped in their car after a pretty minor crash - im comparison to this - as the roll-over hoop failed. And yet here, it doesn't make a dent, aside from the camera.

[TheAirsoftmadman]

@dazleeders Are you fucking retarded ?

[dazleeders]

can sum1 explain how his shoulder injury at the end of 2010 would have affected his performance?

[pucksaver95]

Fuckin backmarkers

[flutgos]

RIP DHL sign

[baileys60]

strewth

[thehughis]

imagine if there was no run off ... he would have probs fucked himself a little more 

[ScuderiaF3rrari]

Defo Hamilton was to blame! Loo

[samb68999]

Technical regulations for 2012 include the reprofiling of the car's nose. The pre-2012 regulations allow the nose to be as high as 62.5 cm above ground, but the revisions to the sporting code lower the maximum allowable height to 55 cm

[MichielViaene]

Hamilton's fault

[jamiroquai01fan]

@MichielViaene LOL! Usually is, but not this time haha, he was no where near them :).

[Lights0ut1109]

I saw this on ESPN back then. It's the only time ESPN will ever show F1 footage. When there's a spectacular crash.

[RustyRazor2010]

WIRED Autopia sent me here...

[xDeadmauZx]

if this was indycars his car would've gone up in flames like nagasaki

[geckoisgiko]

Indy should learn from this, RIP Dan Wheldon

[deggis4]

@geckoisgiko They should learn a lot of things but what they should learn from THIS crash? This might have been similar, but Webber didn't hit the catch fence.

[geckoisgiko]

@deggis4 True but if this happened in any other car, he would be dead or severely injured. Catch fence or not, he flipped straight up into the air and then smashed into a wall.

[KingsPowerSteel]

@geckoisgiko

Wheldon's crash had absolutely nothing to do with this, as Wheldon went head first into the barrier at a speed of over 300 kph. Webber didn't hit anything with his head, except when rolling (and rolling over is better than hitting something, as you decrease speed) If Wheldon had crashed in a F1 car, it wouldn't have helped him at all, because there is no way that the airbox of a F1 or an Indycar could absorb this incredible energy, tha surely must have been 100+g!

[geckoisgiko]

@KingsPowerSteel Webber hit his head on the track and also got whiplash from smashing into the wall going about 100kph

[KingsPowerSteel]

@geckoisgiko

He hit it while rolling over. Dan Wheldon flew into the wall straight ahead. It's a totally different type of crash.

[TheRabbitFear]

0:07 good view under the car

[TittyTittyBangBangXX]

Can someone explain to me what a slipsteam is?

[flexxfit]

@TittyTittyBangBangXX Slipsteaming is when an object is taking advantage of space that's just been dispersed of air by another object to avoid wind resistance. In this video, Heikki's car is punching a hole through the air and Mark's car is going through the same hole before the air closes up again, thus Mark is slipstreaming. Hope that helps.

[TittyTittyBangBangXX]

@flexxfit Thx a lot man

[MaxVengence]

Is it inappropriate to say Weeeeee that looks like fun?

[Spaninator]

Is it possible that they say "Oh no" one nano second before it really happens?^^

[Mirozenx]

hamilton could have done to massa last weekend 

[DreamCalifornia26]

Red Bull gives you wings

[Bangoustine]

@DreamCalifornia26 nice ^^

[n33dw33d3333]

the tyre should not come off

[SingaporeF1Race]

Car is flying on the air. Looking video to be in liked :)

[SingaporeF1Race]

Car on fly really awesome. Fighting on first car & gone at last rank.

[XxCrazygal2007xX]

He was really lucky

[vjunior27]

at least he overtook him



[0000kris0000]

Formula 1 safety, i bow down to to thee! Im not religious, but this has to be divine intervention??

[lemmor6791civ]

Webber has a bad habit of flipping over cars...

[FingerElevenRULEZ]

BBC Commentary is Best!! CMON Webber!!

[00100Killer]

Red Bull gives you wings!

[Ctiradloss]

I would like to hear M. Walker commentating that :)

[forbzy89]

I own the rear left rim off this crash,  The wheel just crumpled under impact. Its an awesome memorabilia item :) Pretty Unique

[3wide4checkers]

This what happens when the FIA let rollling chicanes like lotus into the sport.

[NYRafa2011]

Red ull gives you wings

[beastlyshins]

0:09 If that wheel detached, i would have likely been fatal.

[hercegovac00]

@beastlyshins

actually wheels in modern F1 cars can't detach, that is their safety feature so they wouldn't hit the driver

[stryfe420]

@hercegovac00 Most of the time they don't detach anyway. Schumacher's wheel came completely off in qualifying at Spa last week. I've seen several other incidents as well

[iPodAppsInDaHouse]

how did he survive that? 

[FingerElevenRULEZ]

@iPodAppsInDaHouse because hes an Aussie! they eat snakes for breakfast!

[iPodAppsInDaHouse]

@FingerElevenRULEZ lol

[FingerElevenRULEZ]

@iPodAppsInDaHouse Webber is my favorite driver CMON Mark!!

[fastfiddler1625]

Webber should count himself lucky he was ABLE to throw out his wheel there. That on-board shot is mesmerizing.

[iPodAppsInDaHouse]

FINALLY THE VIDEO I WAS LOOKING FOR WITH COMMENTRY :)!

[Reiterj3]

RED BULL GIVES YOU WINGS!!!

[ursuss100]

@Reiterj3 Add the NAZA sponsorship on these Lotus, lmao.

[zionravescene]

@Reiterj3 at Silverstone 2010, Red Bull gives your team-mate the wings!

[Mello7211]

Imaging the g force on that horrible

[YouthEnergy]

This is exactly what happened to Gilles Villeneuve.

[PeskyBadger92]

Cheeky view of the underside of a RBR

[Dogman36]

didn't mark do this in a porsche earlier?

[outlawtzar]

@everythingman987

Senna's crash was at 220kph not mph, but speed was not his downfall. It was the suspension arm which came through the cockpit and hit him in the head. He didn't have a single bruise or broken bone from the crash.

Better safety standards have prevented any deaths in F1 since that horror weekend.

[2206411411]

@outlawtzar Speed was a factor in that the suspension arm should not have ripped off the car. The bigger contributions, in my personal opinion, were the concrete wall (partly because it's concrete but also because the angle was bad) and the nature of the runoff (as with Berger's accident, the dynamics of how it came to a halt was definitely off).

[WildcatWiiman]

The only good video of the crash in English! That said, the camera control was smooth and focused on the drivers and their cars. The cut to replay was also nice.

[PalkiaLova112]

Not bad for a number two driver.

[journalistgirl07]

Thumbs up if you miss Murray Walker commentating F1!

[robbo1911]

@journalistgirl07 Not really he used to annoy me

[everythingman987]

he learned well fron christian fittipaldi (monza '93)

[sarrison12]

Hahaha ababa

[taketoshibc]

Mark Webber is used to these flying car crashes. He flipped in a mercedes at the 24 hours of Le Mons race before he was in F1.

[Braddersj32]

RED BULL GIVES YOU WINGSSS !!!

[frenchonionxsunchips]

@Braddersj32 lmfao

[youpoptube1]

thank god for seat belts

[errorbts1]

legard is gay

[DAVIDAF12]

I always knew F1 Cars could fly, they just needed some RedBull :D

[bigp737]

It gives you wings!!! Did you notice he hit a DHL sign?

2 sponsors in 1 crash :)

[andystevens22]

As Martin Brundle said, all credit to the design of the car and the regulations.

[WayfstrthnU]

Red bull gives you wings

[CorvetteZr1S]

Man that tyre was VERY close to roliing backwards and smacking him on the head, cant help but make me think of senna

[neeemojsrat]

i crash like that for breakfast.

[AlexOoiue]

i have to admit, when Legard said "OH NO! MARK WEBBER'S GONE RIGHT UP THERE!", it was a memorable line :D

[UltimatePhoenix]

I saw this again earlier today, and the announcers had a theory that he was trying to overtake as opposed to being greedy with the slipstreaming

[AC1F]

HES GONE RIGHT UP THERE!

what a choice of words... could you imagine if he died and Legard just said

"hes gone right up there".. fail.

[ThePhantomMajor]

Bet it reminded Brundle of his crash, a similar one which I consider to have been more dangerous given the safety standards then compared to now.

[mattridout]

ahahahaahahahahahahahahahahaha­ahahahahahahhahahahahahahaa

[zionravescene]

This looked worse than the similar crash of Riccardo Patrese in Estoril 1992.

[RBRTeamEagle]

Red Bull gives you wings!!!

[Jownak]

"Oh no, Mark Webbers gone right up there".

Thanks for telling us that Legard. Where would we be without your brilliant commentary describing everything in detail?

If only we were watching a live feed of the race on television or something....

[Bungle2010]

@Jownak Yeah, why don't commentators keep quiet when there's action happening on on screen. It's not like they're being pad to describe it is.....oh wait.

[RoLLWithITOasis1]

I saw footage of a crash @ the Nurburgring in 1999, which was very minor in comparison to this, and the engine cover where the role-over hoop is actually gave way, so the driver was trapped in the car.

Had this been back then, well, Mark would've scraped his head on the tarmac @ 190mph. He wouldn't be here, there's no question.

You can knock the FIA for many things, but at least F1 now is a lot safer than it was.

[RoLLWithITOasis1]

@RoLLWithITOasis1 And again, the accident looks horrific, but there's hardly any crash damage at all. Both wheels, the front wing, nose, and camera came off. That's it. The structure of the car itself is intact, and that's what's key

[tompwh]

This shows how well made f1 cars are these days, as he walked away. If this happened 10 years ago it would be fatal. Ayrton senna's crash was not as bad as this :s

[To1letR0ll]

@tompwh Good point man. But then it wasn't the car's design that killed Senna, it was the front right wheel that catapulted up and smashed into his head. Webber's wheel too came dangerously close to colliding with him also.

It's the debris that causes the most damage. i.e Le Mans 1955, Senna and of course Massa.

[longshot14]

@To1letR0ll What? The wheel didn't kill him it was the suspension that pierced his helmet and skull that killed Senna.

[MortifiedPenguin275]

@To1letR0ll Not to mention Surtees just a few years ago

[hayashiyuuzen]

@To1letR0ll the wheels aren't really a concern these days... the FIA have made it mandatory to have 2 or 3 tethers to tie them down so they don't go flying away... if you watch the vid carefully you'll see the wheel still being attach when he was in the air via a tether...

[Jayskater001]

@To1letR0ll

Actually, what almost hit Mr. Webber was a piece of carbon fibre. The tyres are attached to the chassis by nylon rope because of what happened to Mr. Senna.

[osfponikhths]

@To1letR0ll

massa hitted by an object when he was driving from barichelo car and he got hit in his head through the helmet

[mikeymike1792]

@To1letR0ll I still think he'd have survived a wheel strike. He'd be hospitalised but the helmets are so strong now. He'd live.

[mvfF1Fanatic]

@tompwh I wouldn't be so sure it would've been fatal in 2000. The only real contact in the crash was the role-over hoop hitting the ground when he was upside down, and that would've easily stood up 20 years ago, nevermind 10. OK the following shunt with the tyres was fairly hefty, but again I don't think it would've been fatal (not with a tyre wall anyway). Perhaps concrete would be a different story. These crashes often look spectacular, but can be less serious than other ones that look calmer.

[tri400]

@tompwh he crashed into a wall of rubber tyres....we should have rubber tyres along all our main roads.

[haldir140]

@tri400

good use of all those tyres we get through- saving lives n all that!

[Tomasch]

@tompwh What the fuck are you talking about? Senna hit a concrete wall at 280 km/h. Webbers impact was maximum half the speed. Just flying high doesn't hurt you.

[JDeguara]

@Tomasch Closer to 200.

[cocorocks88]

@tompwh Senna's was a 160mph+ impact into a concrete wall, marks flip really isn't that bad in the grand scheme of things it just looked spectacular and as scary as his impact looked it was not anywhere near as quick as senna's and it was into a thick tyre barrier that absorbed all the energy, concrete doesn't absorb.

[everythingman987]

@tompwh actually this DID happen 10 years ago at the last lap at monza in 1993, and the driver survived without a scratch. and yes senna's crash was worse. because his car hit a concrete wall at 200 mph. this crash was at about 180 mph. also a huge goodyear tyre (bigger and heavier than that bridgestone) hit senna in the head.

[AndyG123456789123456]

@tompwh yeah but at sennas crash there was something that crashed into his head

like that thing masse hits at the head

so its ain't the same

webbers crash is quit different to sennas

look at hockenheimring 2001 schumacher burti or australien 2001 r schumache and villneuve or 2002 barichello schumacher this crashes you can compare to this one and they are 10 years old

masse got hurt bad

so you have to show respect to tnhe helmet nowadays :)

[erasetoimprove]

@tompwh yeah right.... Senna's wreck was 100 times worse than this.... much more impact much more G-Force. Remember, Webber hit a tire barrier at a somewhat slowed speed. Senna hit concrete at nearly top speed. BIG difference.

[Fenyx6]

@tompwh senna hit a cement wall doing 190mph, senna's crash was way worse than this. Most crashes like Mark's or crashes where every part of the car falls off before an impact aren't usually as bad because the force is being dispersed through the whole car, rather than directly into the driver. Mark lost alot of speed by going airborne

but you are right the safety in these cars is light years ahead of what it used to be.

[Kozzy06]

@tompwh This would have been fatal in 2001?

No it wouldnt, what you talking about?

20 years ago, you would be more accurate, 10 years ago, they would have still survived.

[rock54326789]

@tompwh so tru.....