Maybe old, 8 minutes of 1970's crashes at the ring.

[Piepiepie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xwc54G2Ur8

[nottyash]

The guy that falls out at 1 min 37

[diddly69]

I've see this before, so many people flying out of cars without any seatbelts!
The Porsche going off the track down the ditch must've been a hell of a ride!

[stefan1]

The thing that strikes me the most is just how weak the cars were in the those days. Rollover protection was virtually non existent. And of course the fact that so few people were wearing seatbelts. Scary.

[buggalugs]

They were playing this clip on a loop in the ring museum last time I was there, it's quality!

[Flipatron]

I think the 911 was the car to be in.............................the beetle wasn't!

[saaby93]

Armco looks great for seating

[Mr2Mike]

Flipatron said:

I think the 911 was the car to be in.............................the beetle wasn't!

That's still the case I believe

[cragswinter]

fkin hell i've seen this loads of times before but this must be some uneditted version? that girl that's flung out at circ 30 sec cannot have survived that??


made me feel a little sick

[Terminator X]

People really used to drive / race with no belts ... f*cking amazing

TX.

PS. Why on earth are the doors flying open?

PPS. Is that corner still as bad

Edited by Terminator X on Saturday 10th September 11:26

[marcosgt]

I hadn't noticed that, but she looks to grab the roof and pull herself back in, so hopefully she was ok...

M

[judas]

Was I just imagining it or did every single Beetle in that clip end up rolling?

[TazR6]

First time I have seen that. What an eye opener. It shows how far car construction has come on in the last few years.
They were very brave people back then, but they would not have known they were brave as they knew no different.
I was bought up with cars like those. Thank you Mom and Dad for not killing me/us

[cragswinter]

marcosgt said:

I hadn't noticed that, but she looks to grab the roof and pull herself back in, so hopefully she was ok...

M

to be honest i thought it looked more like the driver grabbed hold of her & pulled her back in after the car landed back on it's wheels.

no matter how many laps i've done of the place or how many accidents i've seen i still don't have a very strong stomach for these things caught on camera

[marcosgt]

cragswinter said:

marcosgt said:

I hadn't noticed that, but she looks to grab the roof and pull herself back in, so hopefully she was ok...

M

to be honest i thought it looked more like the driver grabbed hold of her & pulled her back in after the car landed back on it's wheels.

I agree, that looks like what happens right at the end, but before that her arms look to come up and grip the roof and pull her in, at which point it does look like the driver pulls her in.

At least, that's what I HOPE happened

M

[anonymous-user]

A fantastic reminder of how 30years or more of engineering effort has transformed the ride and handling (and the crash worthyness) of modern cars, something we pretty much take for granted tbh!

(i can see why the very first car in that clip crashed, he probably got his flares caught on the accelerator or brake pedal......... ;-)

[Conian]

Terminator X said:

PS. Why on earth are the doors flying open?

PPS. Is that corner still as bad

lots of flex in the bodies means the door catches no longer line up to hold the door closed
and ive seen more recent videos of that same corner catching people out nicely

[VeeDub Geezer]

So many aircooled VWs

That Beetle cabrio was the one I actually had to look away for. So glad that didn't roll!

[Dr Jekyll]

Has anyone ever taken a Reliant Robin round that bed I wonder?

[iva cosworth]

Terminator X said:

PPS. Is that corner still as bad

I have seen that vid before ,funny and shocking at the same time.

If you enter that corner too fast [many do][me included]you may be lucky and go straight

over the grass,without hopefully ripping sump off.