I just uploaded a clip to my website that was furnished to me by "Marietta 8". This is a violent crash after coming out of turn 12 from an in-car cam in an open cockpit car. I don't have all the details yet but will update my site as I get them. This was years ago before the reconstruction of Road Atlanta.

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holy ****, its hard to tell but I dont think he slowed down much, if at all....he might have thought he could duct past...pretty bad crash, even though the drivers area didnt get crunched to bad...the force of slowing down that fast is really bad. Any clips from outside the car, im interested to know how each driver did after the crash. crazy stuff.

 

holy _ _ _ _ batman..........that guy got his bell rung!!

 

I'll follow up with info as I get it. This happened a long time ago so I suspect someone here will know something as well. Marietta 8 said he was there and watched it happen that day. I can't imagine anyone surviving. Anyway... details to come.

 

I slowed it down an watched it frame by frame, clicking the right arrow key..... JUST DAMN! I don't think the body can handle that kind of torquing without everything twisting out of joint, literally! Watch the helmet instantly on the steering wheel then back up facing right then back down and to the left... Christ... that ain't natural!

 

thanks for the vid..

 

He grabs the wheel after the impact, so he was at least conscious. Bad hit though. I used to live right behind that track. I could walk through the woods and overlook the hairpin turn. We would watch races for free. :-)

 

holy ****

 

ouch...is that fuel on the camera lens after the impact????

 

You don't slow down for that turn on Road Atlanta. It is supposed to be taken at full blast.
By the time he saw it... it was too late to get out the way. I'm not sure, but i think you can hear his revs coming down before the impact. It looks like he was trying to swerve, as braking would just cause a lock up and not allow him to swerve out the way.

 

Holy crap! Thats was not good at all. Was everyone ok?

 

yeah, what i was saying is that as he come into view of the car on the track/dust cloud it doesnt look like he slows down, my guess would be he was gonna duck to the left of the track and go under, but the car came accross the track to fast.

as for what sprays on the lens, while i could be gas, my guess is coolant, it looks like there may even be a coolant line in the left of the cocpit.

after the impact it looks like the driver reaches up and flips a swtich on the dash, maby an engine cut off or master kill switch, although it could just be reaching around, ive seen several times when a person gets knocked out they still reach for something, or move a leg, or even speak, but they are actualy out of it. that could be the case here.

no hans device it looks like this driver, if he survied would most likely has some severe neck damage/pain.

 

found on the "torontosun.com" website...

For the morbidly inclined, Jeremy Dale is best known as the driver in the crashesonline.com video clip that is to motorsports what Slovenian skier Vinko Bogataj is to the ABC television network's Wide World of Sports. You know, the "agony of defeat" guy.

With a click of a mouse, thousands of race fans have seen Dale's 1995 horrific crash at Road Atlanta where he ploughed his IMSA Spice Oldsmobile sports car full throttle into a Ferrari driven by Fabrizzio Barbassa.

The crash left Dale with leg injuries so severe that his career as a driver was over.

But the Toronto native never gave up on his dream of building a life in the racing business.

Dale, now 42 and president of the Champ Car World Series RuSport Racing entries of A.J. Allmendinger and Justin Wilson, will be back in his hometown the second week of July hoping to win the Toronto Molson Indy.

 

Holy Crap!, so he survived! Wow! Thanks for the find.

 

To see it from outside the car:

Go to crashesonline.com: http://www.crashesonline.com/menu_sports.htm

Choose: "1995 Jeremy Dale"

*** EDIT ***
I'm uploading it to my site which may be a little easier.

 

so now after seeing it from outside what about the yellow ferrari driver...Fabrizzio Barbassa... the name sounds farmiliar...like ive heard it recently watching road racing

 

Here is an interesting tid bit on the legal action that resulted from this crash: http://www.lawskills.com/case/ga/id/21648/