1987 - Vallelunga - Yannick Dalmas's accident

Yannick Dalmas who had not taken full advantage of his pole position at the start was not unduly worried. For his cockpit he could see that Stefano Modena's car's handling was graudually disimproving, thus the young Frenchman carefully bided hi stime.

Suddenly Modena came out of the quickest part of the circuit alone! In fact a rear suspension joint had broken sending Dalmas into the guardrail at nearly 150mph, speading panic amongst the pack following the leaders. Dalmas ended up in the middoe of the road with the car's monocoque as, such the force of the impact, that the engine, gearbox and wheels has all been torn off.

Miraculously he was almost unhurt apart from bruised kness and left hospital in the next morning.

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• 1987
• Vallelunga
• F3000
• Yannick
• Dalmas
• car
• accident
• crash

[stewux]

Holy shit , he'd have been killed instantly if any of those other cars had hit, Dalmas must have been sitting in that wreckage saying a prayer and preparing himself for death.

[nothreal]

I don't understand...

In that age yellow flag was like nothing????

Oh my god!!!

[reading70]

@Troyster21 Believe me, I've seen much worse in some F1 circuit

[gp4nut]

Incredible they didn't red flag in those days. And looked like nobody lifted for the yellow!

[olym1968]

Real Respect to those Mashalls. They risk their life to save that Driver. Real Man!

[chicagocub1988]

@fistysticks they do. Each steering wheel has 2 LED displays that alert the driver of a caution, stoppage, penalty or other flagman signals

[fistysticks]

in this age of technologies , why can't somone design a system that * in the case of an accident like this one * . the flag man would Push a Button and a BRIGHT FLASHING YELLOW LIGHT be seen in each Car in the race . i mean these cars have all types of Compter equipment onboard , i just know a simple Light System could be installed to each car Alerting Every Driver that a FULL COARSE CAUTION is in place , field frozen until race resumes.

[Clownface125]

I don't care what u guys say, those drivers seem to be real asses, jesus christ man............

[daletheguvnor]

@nothreal It still is in some classes, the way some people ride or drive when i've been marshalling! : (

[daletheguvnor]

@nothreal It still is in sime classes, belioeve me! : )

[LB1973]

@SwanKong11 more those race drivers are ignorant ignoring the waved yellows that were clearly flying

[ultrahenk]

@pvtdangles F3000