Tom Wood's savage crash at Kentucky in 2003

Tom Wood broke his back in over 50 places in this Indy Racing League Infinity Pro Series crash at Kentucky Speedway in 2003. Following another broken back at Milwaukee in 2007, Tom retired from driving. Good choice.

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• Kentucky
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[Gforcebond]

For anybody saying it's impossible to survive 133g's the car takes most of the impact. U also have to remember when they say it's 133 g's that 133 g's was only for a hundreath if not a thousandth of a second. That was the peak g recording in other words.

[SwanKong11]

Jim Malloy's crash looked the same, that God Tom survived.

[PhilipTheBigOne]

@Gforcebond: Still, it's a LOT!!!

Thank GOD he survived!!!

[Boblina]

@bryceb3ar That's funny, have you watched a recent F1 race? Driver aids are little to none, the "Playstation Controllers" have a lot to do with engine settings for conserving fuel, something I'm pretty sure NASCAR drivers do as well. Not to mention to various differential settings, aero controls and brake bias controls they have to micromanage while flying around a circuit averaging 130 MPH. By the way, there's plenty of overtaking.

[Frigus5]

@F1IsSuperior Well, if you dipshits over in F1 would come back to Indy and stay away from that shitty place called 'Circuit of the Americas" maybe we Americans would have more respect for you. But, we're going to build a brand new world class facility in Austin, Texas and you are going to just dump it when your damn contract is up. F1 is run by dumbfucks. Don't get me wrong, I like to watch F1. I like Vettel and Webber. But Jesus, you people are idiots.

[bryceb3ar]

@F1IsSuperior

Oh my god listen to this Elitist moron.

bla bla bla we're superior bla bla bla intellectual. Lmfao, you are sooooo retarded. At least NASCARs and Indy Cars don't drive themselves. Road courses are boring because there's not passing the whole damn race.

I'm sorry, you're French, you haven't won any wars lately, so you most likely won't win this comment war.

[erasetoimprove]

plus Europeans have oval racing too, and their oval cars are 100 times more dangerous than American race cars. And don't even get me started on NZ Stock Cars.... aka "wreck others on purpose" racing.

[erasetoimprove]

@F1IsSuperior actually I have been watching all types of racing for decades. I know a lot. F1 has not had a death since Senna and that is surely something to be proud of. But America does have road racing, even NASCAR races on road courses so your argument is invalid. Oval racing is exciting and difficult in its own way.... I don't see how just because Americans race on some ovals means their road racing skills don't matter. Personally I think Formula 1 continues to get more boring every year

[F1IsSuperior]

@erasetoimprove You know shit Amerikkkan auto racing death trap fan boy. Our drivers do not get into these kinds of wrecks because they are much more superior and intellectual than you shitty American drivers turning left all of the time.

[Racecarwrecks]

@DaNi3594 Well, 214Gs actually. And Chris van der Drift got out of the car (with help) after about 2 minutes of unconciousness after 210Gs, and that blackbox was destroyed.

[erasetoimprove]

@bigt1nyhatch it's not suicide. Very few deaths actually occur.

[bigt1nyhatch]

American open wheel racing is suicide. 200mph+ on most oval tracks..

these cars are oversized go-carts, not cars!