Lost confidence and self doubt following accident

[mad4amanda]

Carnage said:

I broke my neck in an accident at Mallory in 2009. Totally my fault.

Was really nervous the first race back the following year, but was fine after. I think you just have to accept that accidents happen, learn why you made the error, and just accept its part of motorsport. If you can’t, you won’t enjoy yourself so find another hobby. Bert seems to have a suitably pragmatic attitude!

750 mc?

[Carnage]

Yep! Did you dig me out? You’re probably in one of these.

[cookracing]

Chris Sideways said:

Hi Miles

I’ve just sent you an email

quote=smiles1]

Hi Chris, I can't find a PM function unfortunately.

Could you drop me an email from my profile and I'll email you back (or let me know a way to contact you).

Cheers

Edited by smiles1 on Sunday 4th March 20:06

Not got your email, will pm you

[mad4amanda]

I was part of the rescue team in the Chevy Ambulance remember it well

[Carnage]

I don’t! I remember putting on as much lock as I could then waking up being cut out.

Thanks very much, I probably didn’t thank you at time!

[grumpy52]

mad4amanda said:

I was part of the rescue team in the Chevy Ambulance remember it well

Is that ambulance getting on a bit now ?
I remember very similar when the 750MC used to visit us bumpkins down near Dover .
I'm ex post 10 mafia don , occasionally Red Range Rover crew and sometimes recovery driver .

[geeks]

Not a big one but I managed to end up on my roof all by myself at Old Hairpin at Donington in 2016, still not really sure what went wrong, I remember the back following me round and then skipping into the gravel and going over! It was most likely my fault however on return to the pits the car had a broken engine mount and it looks like that might have been the cause of me losing the back end! Having only done a couple of races prior to this really shook me up, next time I went back out was Anglesey some 3 months later for a 9 hour endurance race, took a number of laps before I settled back in, adrenaline focuses the mind somewhat!

[PJI]

This was my accident at Brands last year in July.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uUBLU8F5iEc

Tested on the Friday before the last race of the season and was very undecided about racing the following day. In the end I made myself do it mainly because I didn't want the accident to be my last ever race. I was nervous and more than once questioned why I was putting myself through it. It felt like an ordeal rather than something I should be enjoying. The race results were crap but I did enough to get back some confidence. I'm racing again this year and to be honest I'm more annoyed about the money lost due to the car being destroyed rather than the physical damage I endured from the accident.

Expect to be nervous first time out but if it's in your blood to race/track a car you'll get through it and enjoy it again.

[ruggedscotty]

it takes a while, it isn't an easy task but it is one that you do get over, that you find your mojo.

I was unfortunate enough to be involved in a really bad accident while working overseas, was over in Bosnia working on the british army camps as a maintenance engineer. this was way back in 1998. Anyways I was based in Banja Luka and then was home for my mid tour break and then back over for my second stint. was moved to another camp, Sipovo.

This was the British field military hospital, anyways I was a passenger in a Landrover and the driver struck a parked truck. I was injured and knocked unconscious ended up being taken to Sarajevo to the German field military where they had a CT scanner. They found a bleed in my brain and that caused them some worry. I was medivacced out of Bosnia back to the UK where they operated at the Wessex nurological to remove blood clots from my brain. Was a close run thing, burr hole surgery instead of the flap, lost my licence for 6 months and I can tell you it did take me a while to get over what happened.

Trouble is your mind takes a bit to catch up with what has happened and then it sort of hits you in a delayed fashion. its almost like the bottom falls out your world. not a care in the world to realising that you were almost not here and you realise just how fragile life is. Headaches and nerves all shot, it took some dealing with.

The most important thing ? You cant deal with this on your own, you need to take advice, speak to your doctor and see if you can get an appointment to talk to someone that knows about what you are going through and adjust to what has happened. take it easy and slowly and you do come out the other side. You will find your confidence again and the doubt does go, When I went for my first drive after the accident it took a hell of a lot of nerve to pick up the pieces and get on with it.

You do come out the other side different. but that's not actually a bad thing really.....

[The Selfish Gene]

PJI said:

This was my accident at Brands last year in July.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uUBLU8F5iEc

Tested on the Friday before the last race of the season and was very undecided about racing the following day. In the end I made myself do it mainly because I didn't want the accident to be my last ever race. I was nervous and more than once questioned why I was putting myself through it. It felt like an ordeal rather than something I should be enjoying. The race results were crap but I did enough to get back some confidence. I'm racing again this year and to be honest I'm more annoyed about the money lost due to the car being destroyed rather than the physical damage I endured from the accident.

Expect to be nervous first time out but if it's in your blood to race/track a car you'll get through it and enjoy it again.

holy st mate - were you in car 17? That's massive. That was a really unlucky one the way the car pitched into the roll. Were you badly injured (if it isn't too painful to discuss)