Priest: *Gives final rights in hospital* Lauda: *Wakes up, grabs helmet and goes back to racing nearly winning the championship* Everyone: "Wait hold up"
Absolutely, truly extraordinary. And while they rightly noted that he won he championship twice more, the missed the fact that he only lost that 1976 season by a single point!
My dad was sitting at the turn 10 hairpin when kubica crashed. He said everyone stood up in shock, and everyone went silent, to the point where you could here not a single person. Scary stuff
I get angry every time I hear somone says any bad words about a driver if there outstanding or not. It's not the puplic in that race seat and they have no idea how hard it is to drive fast and safe. I don't care if it's Lewis winning all the time or Ricardo getting a 5th. It's all the same to me. Them driver's put it on the line every time they get into a race car! Just to entertain us. Also the guy's on the video are all amazing people and racing driver's.
@@hell5torm no because without fan's being entertained by it the sport it self would of died. Like all sport's back though history was developed to entertain the masses.
Probably the worst crash I can ever remember seeing. I didn't even feel as sick when I watch Kubica crash in Canada. To go top of the head first into something at speed like she did and survive was incredible.
She fractured her neck or back quite high up her back, I’m pretty sure, insane luck she didn’t tear any nerves, or she would be wheelchair-bound forever.
Honourable mention: Kyle Busch 2015. He slammed a non safer barrier in a nascar race, his car safety features saved his life. And 11 races later. He returned, and in that season, he won the championship
NASCAR have some strange rules these days. I used to watch it back when Marcos Ambrose was still racing, but they stopped showing it on Australian TV after he left at the end of 2014.
-Terry Labonte finished the last two races of the 1996 season with a broken hand, and managed to secure the championship by doing so. -In 1992, Davey Allison crashed during the Winston when fighting for the win. Despite winning, he crashed so hard he apparently had an out-of-body expierence. Despite this, he returned to the track the next week, and completed the 600 mile event with a fourth place finish. A few weeks later, he barrel rolled his car at Pocono, with many assuming this crash would end his career. Despite a severe concussion, broken arm, wrist, and collar bone, he started the DieHard 500 the following week before a relief driver took over for him. -Dale Earnhardt crashed badly in 1993. A crash that many thought was fatal "only" gave him a broken collar bone. He started the Brickyard 400 the next week, and surrendered after the first pit stop to a relief driver. The following week, he won the pole award at Watkins Glen (remember: a road course). Despite leading towards the end of the race and refusing to leave the car, fatigue took a toll on him towards the end, and he only managed to get a sixth place finish out of it. -Richard Petty slammed a wall at Pocono in 1980 so hard he broke his neck. Despite knowing fully well that another crash, even a minor accident, could kill him, he hid the injury from officials and kept racing for the next several weeks. (Yeah, not really a "recovery" so much as being stupid, but...) While the next race he only got a 18th, the next four races he got 5th, 4th, 9th, and 2nd.
He broke his left foot all the way across (brake pedal) and both bones in his lower right leg (engine being pushed back). Doctors didn't expect him back in a car to start testing until late summer and he was back in competition by early summer. Oh, and him and his wife welcomed their first child while he was out, after a long and public battle with fertility issues. What a year for them lol
I hope he'll have a long and successful carreer, but honestly I think the fact that he's back racing after that horriffic accident is a huge comeback on its own... Not only the physical injuries, but to be mentally able to get back in the car. I am just speechless...
@@WTF1official Lovely to see him back where he belongs. Never saw the best of him in F1 in my opinion it he will always be remembered within the community.
@@WTF1official I know and I’m very interested to see how that goes, hopefully he can get his reputation of being a joke off his back if he really still is as talented as he showed when he was back at lotus.
A word as well for Kenny Bräck - He experienced 214 g in a crash in CART in 2003 and somehow survived and came back to racing at the Indy 500 eighteen months later only to set the fastest qualifying time of anyone and later winning the X Games
These guys are insanely determined. I think that Zanardi is really underrated and relatively unknown so it is good that people will learn about him. He is a true legend, a never-say-die attitude like no other. Best wishes to him and all driversthat have suffered a crash
Honourable Mention: Michael Schumacher in 1999, Fernando Alonso in 2015 and 2016, Sergio Pérez in 2011, Jenson Button in 2003, Ralf Schumacher in 2003 and 2004, Juan Pablo Montoya in 2005 and Olivier Panis in 1997
Schumacher? From memory the only injury he ever had was a broken leg from hitting a barrier at Silverstone. That hardly compares to Zanardi loosing his legs or Kubica turning the Williams into Swiss Cheese in Canada.
1996 Die Hard 500 Dale Earnhardt crashes and hit in the roof of his car, breaking his collarbone and sternum. The next week qualified and started the Brickyard 400, but swapped out seven laps in. Qualified on pole at Watkins Glen the following week. Finished fourth in the championship, 330 points behind having not missed a race.
AJ Foyt at Road America in 1990. Was going down the main straight at 200 mph and his brakes fail going straight off unto the barriers. His bones from his waist down were basically destroyed and his legs were wrapped around his body. He managed to fully recover and was on the front row for the Indy 500 in 1991, creating what many consider the most iconic Indy 500 front row of Rick Mears, AJ Foyt and Mario Andretti.
i feel sad for billy monger who knew this upcomming driver could have been taken in by ferrari in future when he could debut in f1 , really my prayers are with him
He's currently training for a triathlon. He's got a UA-cam channel, go sub to him. He's not got a moment of looking for sympathy. At most he explains why he's hurting on one bit of a stump that particular day, but it's just an explanation, not a whine. I've been watching him since his first race on the BTCC card in his mid-teens and he's always been a very positive young man.
Johnny Herbert could also be on this list, and perhaps Andrea Montermini. Also, Alex Zanardi is apparently communicative again after his awful handcycle crash. All the very best to him.
I recently listened to beyond the grid with Alex Zanardi and I think there are no words for explanation of my respect and adoration for this man. Lauda's comeback doubtlessly was a miracle, but this man's story is a fairytale, and it's only it because of his positivity and courage.
Great quality and truly appreciate you not putting in the horrific but ultimately survived crashes. Really makes the video focused on comebacks rather than the crashes. Keep the quality videos up WTF1!
Let's be honest it can be a long list, then again there's also Sebastien Bourdais after his crash at Indy in 2017. There's also a couple of incidents with James Hinchcliffe, one being hit by debris, and the other being pierced by his own suspension parts in another crash at Indy.
I was kinda hoping Kenny Bräck would be on here. The guy nearly died in one of the most spectacular crashes in all of motorsport and experienced 214 G! 214!! He broke so many bones in his body and has the inenviable world record of surviving the highest Gs ever. He came back a mere two years later as a replacement to his replacement after the original crash because said replacement had gotten injured. He qualified fastest but started 23rd on the grid due to not qualifying on the first day and then retired with mechanical problems. A miraculous comeback to say the least.
Then you move across to football, gotta remember the horrible injuries they get, yano a flick on there ear and there rolling around everywhere. These guys are legends to come back after a serious accident especially one where medical staff reckon things are looking bleak is a just inspirational 🙏🏻
I'd like to mention Tiago Monteiro, 3rd place finisher of the 2005 US GP. In 2017, during a test for the Honda world touring car team at Barcelona, his brakes went off completely at the end of the start finish straight and hit the wall at around 250 km/h. This all happened in the multiple month break in the WTCC calendar so he originally wanted to come back with missing no races at all. (which he couldn't do) He was leading the championship, so his crash left it wide open, only for it to be lost by his teammate because of another brake issue on the final weekend. Monteiro eventually came back more than a year later in Suzuka and is racing with Honda ever since.
The most chilling, frightening, any -ing word you can think of, part of Kubica's Canada crash is that if you look closely at the moment of impact, you see he hit the concrete with so much force, he *dislodged* it from the grass. It's crazy to think about that in the context of Grosjean's fireball. If that stat is correct, and I assume it is, then it had more G in the impact than Grosjean's did, maybe due to the wall being concrete rather than Armco, plus he clipped the outer wall before impact, crucially taking some of that force down. Anyone who saw the latter but not the former may understandably wonder how the hell Robert is still alive when you point out that his accident was 13 years before Romain's. That is F1 safety right there. Never ending, always improving.
Honestly, doesn't each of these and many more deserve more in depth stand alone videos, like a series? With a breakdown of the accident, the road to recovery, and what they went on to achieve? Maybe with quotes on why they chose to keep racing and maybe interviews where possible? I would watch that!
Two I think could be added to this list: Ernie Irvan and James Hinchcliffe. Irvan had a crash while practicing at the Michigan International Speedway and suffered a basilar skull fracture and lung injuries. He was only given a 10% chance to live the night. He came back into racing a year later, ending up in the top 10 in points, and a year after that, winning at the same track that nearly killed him. Hinchcliffe was involved in a practice crash at Indy in 2015, where a suspension rod punched though the drivers pod and into his pelvis and left leg. And while the safety crew got to him very fast, on the way to the hospitol, the medics actually lost his pulse several times, and ended up needing about 3 quarts of blood replaced. A year later, he was back racing, and took the 2016 Indy 500 pole, and has won several races afterward.
Johnny Herbert is one of the greatest comebacks, severed his feet in a horrible F3000 race at Brandshatch, returned to racing in F1 and in sheer pain and agony out qualified his teammate for 10th place and finished 4th
I would also mention Sophia Flörsch, that Macau crash was beyond scary, and definitely on a similar level of how bad Kubica's Canada crash looked. And she's already back racing too
Will Power broke his back in an IndyCar practice session at Sonoma in 2009. He made a full recovery and won the first 2 races in 2010 (ironically in Sao Paulo he shared the podium with Vitor Meira who broke his back in a crash during the 09 Indy 500) won the IndyCar Championship in '14 and the 500 in 2018
Here's three more for you: James Hinchcliffe in 2015, Josef Newgarden in 2016, and Sebastien Bourdais in 2017. Hinchcliffe suffered a crash in practice for the 2015 Indy 500 caused by a rocker failure. A piece of suspension punctured the tub and went into his leg. He suffered massive blood loss and the doctors helping him lost his pulse on the way to the operating room. He recovered and was able to come back at the beginning of the 2016 season and won the pole for the 2016 Indy 500. Josef Newgarden was involved in an crash at the 2016 Texas race before it was ultimately suspended due to rain. He broke his hand and clavicle in the crash but he was able to race in the next race two weeks later. Four weeks after his crash, he won in Iowa in dominant fashion and he would've very much been able to partake in the resumtion of the Texas race two months later if Indycar had allowed cars that were out of the race to resume the race. Sebastien Bourdais suffered a crash in qualifying for the 2017 Indy 500 in which he suffered multiple fractures to his pelvis and right hip. He was able to return for the final three races of the season and won the opening race of the 2018 season.
Immediately after Billy Monger's crash a new rule in F1 said, that the part, where the lifting device is being placed at pit stops can't have sharp edges, cause that's what caused Billy's injuries.
I think an honorable mention is sophia floershc. Having had that crash in Macau she recovered from spinal injuries and races in f3 and i think wec with a richard mille team if i remember correctly.
Mikka received a trackside tracheotomy and is still alive today thanks in large part to Sir Jackie Stewart. Jackie campaigned for a qualified doctor and surgeon to travel with the F1 championship and it was that doctor he pushed for that saved Mikka's life.
Here in the United States we used to have a series of videos titled, "And They Walked Away." That would be a good subject for a video. Crashes that were so spectacular and brutal that you would not have believed they walked away uninjured.
I know this is an f1 channel and video, but Ryan Newman's crash at the 2020 Daytona 500 has be included in the best motorsport comebacks of all time. Not saying it should have been in the video, just saying.
Frank Williams was an idiot who thought he could drive on a public road in a road spec car the way his drivers drove on close circuit race tracks in custom built racing cars. He certainly doesn't deserve to be on this list.
One of the most bizarre was the story of Michael Schumacher's return from breaking his leg at Silverstone in 1999. At the time he broke his leg, it was round 8 of 16, about halfway through the season. He had surgery to reduce the breaks to his Tibia and Fibula (lower leg bones) on the day of his accident, but from there things get weird and hazy in terms of what happened. In the lead up to the Belgian and Italian Grands Prix, he tested at Fiorano and lapped the track significantly quicker than either Eddie Irvine or the driver substituting for Schumacher, Mika Salo. However, as the story goes, he said that he wouldn't return as he was feeling pain in his leg. After the European Grand Prix, where Ferrari fitted components from the 2000 car to boost their realistic championship prospects and failed to score any points in a messy weekend for the title contenders, Luca Di Montezemolo called Schumacher on the phone. On the other end was (apparently) his daughter, Gina and when asked where he was, she said he was playing fottball in the garden. I don't know if it's true, but the story goes that Montezemolo was livid and arm twisted Schumacher to return to racing for the final 2 races of 1999. In public, he dismissed the rumours of Montezemolo arm twisting him into returning by assuring, "... I think I'm independent enough to take my own decision,"
Colin McRae in 2000 would be another example you could have used. He had a massive accident in Corsica, and was trapped in the car for 45 minutes before being taken to hospital. The only injuries he sustained were to his eye and a broken cheekbone. He recovered in time to participate in the next round at Sanremo and finished 6th, earning a crucial point for his title hopes. Sadly, it wasn't to be as in the Rally of Australia his engine failed, thus ruling him out of championship contention.
Short story: When Lauda was given the last rights by a priest, he got asked by the nurse whether he wanted or not, he agreed. The priest came, made a cross symbol with his hands and left, didn't said a single word or gave Lauda the prayer he expected, he said he got so mad he said to himself, "I need to get back in that car" (referring to his Ferrari)
Nascar had some amazing comebacks as well, in 2015 Kyle Busch had compound fractures on his Left foot and right Leg after a bad crash at Daytona, he missed 13 races, and came back and won the Championship. Then in 2017 Aric Almirola suffered a compression fracture in his T5 vertabrae after his car hit the ground after going airborne, he returned to racing after missing only 8 races. It doesn't matter what motor sport it is. Racing Drivers are just built different
Rick Mears shattered both of his feet in an Indy Car crash at Sanair in 1984. There was concern of amputation. However, he recovered and went on to win two more Indy 500s in 1988 and 1991. Nelson Piquet had devastating lower leg and feet injuries in 1992 at Indianapolis and came back to race there in 1993. Ditto for Jeff Andretti who was seriously injured during the 1992 Indy 500.
Hey Matt Din't you miss Jason Watt!! He is a danish driver and was set to become a formula 1 driver but he had an accident with both his legs paralyzed. He then began a comeback and ended up winning the danish DTC championship. Just think it was worth mentioning and otherwise a great video as usual!!
James Hinchcliffe was another, coming back to win pole at Indy in 2016 a year after having been impaled by his own suspension in a practice crash at the same track
Some honorable mentions from the states Kyle busch breaking his leg and foot during the first race of the season in 2015 missing a third of the races, and still coming back to win the championship And Ryan Newman, getting hit at 200 mph while upside down right in the driver's side window, he walked out of the hospital within 48 hours and returned to racing when nascar came back from the covid break
Grosjean's crash is the Lauda Crash of our generation And damn it should we all be extremely grateful that it was "just" his hands in the end. So many people were ripped straight out of the middle of their lives in the past and it is amazing to see that as we've seen that a severe crash like this is not deadly anymore and even not too bad impact on their lives. All these people who are in this list and who are racing owe their lives to the paramedics, engineers, doctors and legislators that made the sport as relatively safe as it is now and hopefully we can make it even safer in the future
I feel like Jorge Lorenzo should be here in place of one of the FOUR F1 picks. Breaking his collarbone on the Friday, flying to Spain for surgery on Saturday, racing and finishing fifth (I think it was) on Sunday.
Denny Hulme should get a mention. he severely burned his hands in practice for the indy 500 in 1970. a couple weeks later his team leader Bruce McLaren was killed and he felt a duty to sub in for him for at the CanAm race only 2 weeks after . they had to tape his hands to the wheel for him to hang on with his severely burned and painful hands. he got 2nd behind Dan Gurney at the first race in Mosport and went on to win the CanAm Championship.
You didn't mention that Billy Monger won the Pau GP in the rain _from the back of the grid!_ Go give him support on his YT channel and be in awe of his latest quest!
Honourable mentions Johnny Herbert, David Purley, Kenny Brack, then there is one of the most mind blowing stories in my mind anyway of Jim Hurtubise who burned his hands severely in 1964, when asked how he wanted his hands shaped permanently he got the doctors to "just make em so I can hold a steering wheel"
I know this channel is about f1 but we can’t forget about other Motorsport comebacks. One that Comes to mind is Ryan Newman and his crash at the 2020 Daytona 500 in Nascar
At the start of the 2015 NASCAR season: Kyle Busch broke both of his legs. He missed the first 3rd of the season. He came back and worked his way into the top 30 in points with multiple wins to qualify for the chase. He went on to win the championship that year.
I bet no one will comment this comment, Lewis is one of the best drivers racing in one of the most dangerous sport while winning and risking his all the time. This should make him a deserve driver to be liked to all fans, no matter if you hate him or not
Geoffrey Bodine had a nearly fatal & violent truck wreck at Daytona in 2000. No one believed he would live, let alone race again, which he did. He would actually finish 3rd in the Daytona 500 in 2002!
75 G ! Bro , that is massive... I knew that kubica was in a massive crash , but 75 G is a hell lot of G force... As someone whose relatives work in airforce , I would say kubica is a superhuman...
James Hinchclif also survived a horrible accident during the Month of May for the Indy 500 where a piece of suspension impailed him.. and he had lots of blood loss. He did somehow survived and is still racing today!..... It's talked about very much though
You could of had Mick Doohan who had a nasty crash at Assen in 1992 and nearly lost his leg if it hadn’t been for Dr Costa attaching his 2 legs together. He returned for the final 2 races of the season, missing out on the championship by 4 points. He then went on to win 5 MotoGP (500 Grand Prix) championships from 1994-98 before suffering a crash at Jerez in 1999 ending his career
Priest: *Gives final rights in hospital*
Lauda: *Wakes up, grabs helmet and goes back to racing nearly winning the championship*
Everyone: "Wait hold up"
And then wins 2 world titles and 13 wins.
And 3 Poles with 34 podiums
In german there is the saying "Totgesagte leben länger". It roughly translates to "those pronounced dead, live longer."
Let’s go headshot btw its Nemesiz
“Tell the priest to fuck off, I’m not dead yet” The guy was a one off. We won’t see his like again.
Lauda's story is absolutely insane
Rest in peace
Absolutely, truly extraordinary.
And while they rightly noted that he won he championship twice more, the missed the fact that he only lost that 1976 season by a single point!
Bertrand Gachot missed more races by being in jail than Lauda missed by being so badly injured that he was given last rites.
My dad was sitting at the turn 10 hairpin when kubica crashed. He said everyone stood up in shock, and everyone went silent, to the point where you could here not a single person. Scary stuff
I feel that not many people recognize how much these drivers put at risk for our entertainment. Superheroes.
Yeah. I get really angry when people say they just drive around circles or everybody can do that.
I get angry every time I hear somone says any bad words about a driver if there outstanding or not. It's not the puplic in that race seat and they have no idea how hard it is to drive fast and safe. I don't care if it's Lewis winning all the time or Ricardo getting a 5th. It's all the same to me. Them driver's put it on the line every time they get into a race car! Just to entertain us. Also the guy's on the video are all amazing people and racing driver's.
They don’t do it to entertain you. They do it because they are competitive and passionate, you just are entertained by them doing so.
@@hell5torm no because without fan's being entertained by it the sport it self would of died. Like all sport's back though history was developed to entertain the masses.
@Declan Edgecombe I think you missed understand my answer. Or you have my message mix up with the last person.
sophia florsch is a good example as well, she had that massive crash in macau i think and came back in racing in lemans and other series
Raced in F3 last year I think
Probably the worst crash I can ever remember seeing. I didn't even feel as sick when I watch Kubica crash in Canada. To go top of the head first into something at speed like she did and survive was incredible.
Yes
She fractured her neck or back quite high up her back, I’m pretty sure, insane luck she didn’t tear any nerves, or she would be wheelchair-bound forever.
I forgot that was her
RIP to those that sadly can’t be on this list
That is a very fair point you've got there...
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I'm having Jules flashbacks :c
@@user-lf3zx3rc3p oh...
Honourable mention: Kyle Busch 2015. He slammed a non safer barrier in a nascar race, his car safety features saved his life. And 11 races later. He returned, and in that season, he won the championship
NASCAR have some strange rules these days. I used to watch it back when Marcos Ambrose was still racing, but they stopped showing it on Australian TV after he left at the end of 2014.
And broke he leg
-Terry Labonte finished the last two races of the 1996 season with a broken hand, and managed to secure the championship by doing so.
-In 1992, Davey Allison crashed during the Winston when fighting for the win. Despite winning, he crashed so hard he apparently had an out-of-body expierence. Despite this, he returned to the track the next week, and completed the 600 mile event with a fourth place finish. A few weeks later, he barrel rolled his car at Pocono, with many assuming this crash would end his career. Despite a severe concussion, broken arm, wrist, and collar bone, he started the DieHard 500 the following week before a relief driver took over for him.
-Dale Earnhardt crashed badly in 1993. A crash that many thought was fatal "only" gave him a broken collar bone. He started the Brickyard 400 the next week, and surrendered after the first pit stop to a relief driver. The following week, he won the pole award at Watkins Glen (remember: a road course). Despite leading towards the end of the race and refusing to leave the car, fatigue took a toll on him towards the end, and he only managed to get a sixth place finish out of it.
-Richard Petty slammed a wall at Pocono in 1980 so hard he broke his neck. Despite knowing fully well that another crash, even a minor accident, could kill him, he hid the injury from officials and kept racing for the next several weeks. (Yeah, not really a "recovery" so much as being stupid, but...) While the next race he only got a 18th, the next four races he got 5th, 4th, 9th, and 2nd.
He broke his left foot all the way across (brake pedal) and both bones in his lower right leg (engine being pushed back). Doctors didn't expect him back in a car to start testing until late summer and he was back in competition by early summer. Oh, and him and his wife welcomed their first child while he was out, after a long and public battle with fertility issues.
What a year for them lol
Yeah that's right ,but no one mentions that because 90% of NASCAR fans despise him
I wonder if this year in F3, there will be a huge comeback by JMC
I hope he'll have a long and successful carreer, but honestly I think the fact that he's back racing after that horriffic accident is a huge comeback on its own... Not only the physical injuries, but to be mentally able to get back in the car. I am just speechless...
For anthoine
@@charamia9402 yeah, but I’m happy to see an American back in the mix, and he will have the country behind him
@@soupisamyth He'll have everybody behind him, I think.
I was at the billy crash at donnington
Johnny Herbert is another inspirational story
Grosjean He fought for his life and his kids ❤
Didn’t come back though
@@KitKata507 He will be to IndyCar very soon!
@@WTF1official Lovely to see him back where he belongs. Never saw the best of him in F1 in my opinion it he will always be remembered within the community.
@@WTF1official I know and I’m very interested to see how that goes, hopefully he can get his reputation of being a joke off his back if he really still is as talented as he showed when he was back at lotus.
Also, he is said to drive a Mercedes F1 car at the Preseason testing
A word as well for Kenny Bräck - He experienced 214 g in a crash in CART in 2003 and somehow survived and came back to racing at the Indy 500 eighteen months later only to set the fastest qualifying time of anyone and later winning the X Games
Can we take a moment to apriciate the hours of work the FIA puts in to ensure the drivers are safe
Only after accidents happen.
These guys are insanely determined. I think that Zanardi is really underrated and relatively unknown so it is good that people will learn about him. He is a true legend, a never-say-die attitude like no other. Best wishes to him and all driversthat have suffered a crash
Honourable Mention: Michael Schumacher in 1999, Fernando Alonso in 2015 and 2016, Sergio Pérez in 2011, Jenson Button in 2003, Ralf Schumacher in 2003 and 2004, Juan Pablo Montoya in 2005 and Olivier Panis in 1997
Schumacher? From memory the only injury he ever had was a broken leg from hitting a barrier at Silverstone. That hardly compares to Zanardi loosing his legs or Kubica turning the Williams into Swiss Cheese in Canada.
@@SomeUA-camGuy Yes, but when he returned at Sepang, he got pole position with almost a second faster than Irvine. And that's pretty impressive
1996 Die Hard 500 Dale Earnhardt crashes and hit in the roof of his car, breaking his collarbone and sternum. The next week qualified and started the Brickyard 400, but swapped out seven laps in. Qualified on pole at Watkins Glen the following week. Finished fourth in the championship, 330 points behind having not missed a race.
All of these people are so inspirational that if I ever meet anyone of them I am just going to give them a hug and say thank you.
Listening to Billy on the C4 F1 coverage, he sounds like he's got the head of someone 10 years older bolted to his shoulders. Awesome stuff
You forgot the comeback of Sophia Floersch! ;)
Totally agree
Her accident was the worst I’ve seen ... ever!
I mean .... her car flew through the air like an airplane 😱
AJ Foyt at Road America in 1990. Was going down the main straight at 200 mph and his brakes fail going straight off unto the barriers. His bones from his waist down were basically destroyed and his legs were wrapped around his body. He managed to fully recover and was on the front row for the Indy 500 in 1991, creating what many consider the most iconic Indy 500 front row of Rick Mears, AJ Foyt and Mario Andretti.
i feel sad for billy monger who knew this upcomming driver could have been taken in by ferrari in future when he could debut in f1 , really my prayers are with him
He’s not lost his spirit. He’ll keep going
He's currently training for a triathlon. He's got a UA-cam channel, go sub to him. He's not got a moment of looking for sympathy. At most he explains why he's hurting on one bit of a stump that particular day, but it's just an explanation, not a whine. I've been watching him since his first race on the BTCC card in his mid-teens and he's always been a very positive young man.
He’s only 21 guys I wouldn’t be surprised if he starts going into F2 soon
Johnny Herbert could also be on this list, and perhaps Andrea Montermini. Also, Alex Zanardi is apparently communicative again after his awful handcycle crash. All the very best to him.
But didn't johnny crash before f1??
@@achmadfadhillah5859 he did, it was a F3000 race in 1988 which he crashed in
I recently listened to beyond the grid with Alex Zanardi and I think there are no words for explanation of my respect and adoration for this man. Lauda's comeback doubtlessly was a miracle, but this man's story is a fairytale, and it's only it because of his positivity and courage.
So happy you talked about Alex Zanardi, he's a true hero and we all love him. Forza Alex ❤
Great quality and truly appreciate you not putting in the horrific but ultimately survived crashes. Really makes the video focused on comebacks rather than the crashes. Keep the quality videos up WTF1!
I hope we'll see Robert Wickens on this list someday
Let's be honest it can be a long list, then again there's also Sebastien Bourdais after his crash at Indy in 2017. There's also a couple of incidents with James Hinchcliffe, one being hit by debris, and the other being pierced by his own suspension parts in another crash at Indy.
Alex Zanardi and Lauda are pure legends
God bless these champions
I was kinda hoping Kenny Bräck would be on here. The guy nearly died in one of the most spectacular crashes in all of motorsport and experienced 214 G! 214!! He broke so many bones in his body and has the inenviable world record of surviving the highest Gs ever. He came back a mere two years later as a replacement to his replacement after the original crash because said replacement had gotten injured. He qualified fastest but started 23rd on the grid due to not qualifying on the first day and then retired with mechanical problems. A miraculous comeback to say the least.
gave me chills. champions, all of them
What would we like to see next? An interview by Matt with Billy Monger
Kubica on the list
Me : Widoczne szczęście
Witam w klubie!
Imagine if he raced in Ferrari.. no doubt they'd bring a F1 race to Poland too.
Then you move across to football, gotta remember the horrible injuries they get, yano a flick on there ear and there rolling around everywhere. These guys are legends to come back after a serious accident especially one where medical staff reckon things are looking bleak is a just inspirational 🙏🏻
I'd like to mention Tiago Monteiro, 3rd place finisher of the 2005 US GP.
In 2017, during a test for the Honda world touring car team at Barcelona, his brakes went off completely at the end of the start finish straight and hit the wall at around 250 km/h.
This all happened in the multiple month break in the WTCC calendar so he originally wanted to come back with missing no races at all. (which he couldn't do)
He was leading the championship, so his crash left it wide open, only for it to be lost by his teammate because of another brake issue on the final weekend.
Monteiro eventually came back more than a year later in Suzuka and is racing with Honda ever since.
Glad to see Monger in there 🔥🔥
Rest in peace anthoine hubert and jules bianchi.
3:31 - "French GP"
WTF1: *shows Turn 7 & 8 in Spain.*
Zanardi.....the man built his own prosthetic legs........absolute legend
Very fitting this is uploaded on what would have been Laudas 72th birthday. An absolute legend of the Sport
Race drivers are like horse riders: no matter the risk and no matter how much they suffer, they’ll just want back
Kenny Brack could also be included here, as he came back from his crash in Texas to set the fastest qualifying lap for the 2005 Indy 500.
Mark Dismore during practice at Indianapolis in 1991 too. He had a good comeback story also.
The most chilling, frightening, any -ing word you can think of, part of Kubica's Canada crash is that if you look closely at the moment of impact, you see he hit the concrete with so much force, he *dislodged* it from the grass. It's crazy to think about that in the context of Grosjean's fireball. If that stat is correct, and I assume it is, then it had more G in the impact than Grosjean's did, maybe due to the wall being concrete rather than Armco, plus he clipped the outer wall before impact, crucially taking some of that force down. Anyone who saw the latter but not the former may understandably wonder how the hell Robert is still alive when you point out that his accident was 13 years before Romain's. That is F1 safety right there. Never ending, always improving.
Honestly, doesn't each of these and many more deserve more in depth stand alone videos, like a series? With a breakdown of the accident, the road to recovery, and what they went on to achieve? Maybe with quotes on why they chose to keep racing and maybe interviews where possible? I would watch that!
I bet the comeback of tobacco ads in formula 1 would be a good one, start with wtf1
Sophia Flörschs Story is insane aswell!
Matt, what about shumacer 1999? He broke his leg at silverstone!
Two I think could be added to this list: Ernie Irvan and James Hinchcliffe. Irvan had a crash while practicing at the Michigan International Speedway and suffered a basilar skull fracture and lung injuries. He was only given a 10% chance to live the night. He came back into racing a year later, ending up in the top 10 in points, and a year after that, winning at the same track that nearly killed him.
Hinchcliffe was involved in a practice crash at Indy in 2015, where a suspension rod punched though the drivers pod and into his pelvis and left leg. And while the safety crew got to him very fast, on the way to the hospitol, the medics actually lost his pulse several times, and ended up needing about 3 quarts of blood replaced. A year later, he was back racing, and took the 2016 Indy 500 pole, and has won several races afterward.
When the video started and I saw it wasn't solely about Lauda I was disappointed but by the end I was applauding an outstanding video. Loved it.
Johnny Herbert is one of the greatest comebacks, severed his feet in a horrible F3000 race at Brandshatch, returned to racing in F1 and in sheer pain and agony out qualified his teammate for 10th place and finished 4th
I would also mention Sophia Flörsch, that Macau crash was beyond scary, and definitely on a similar level of how bad Kubica's Canada crash looked. And she's already back racing too
Will Power broke his back in an IndyCar practice session at Sonoma in 2009. He made a full recovery and won the first 2 races in 2010 (ironically in Sao Paulo he shared the podium with Vitor Meira who broke his back in a crash during the 09 Indy 500) won the IndyCar Championship in '14 and the 500 in 2018
Here's three more for you: James Hinchcliffe in 2015, Josef Newgarden in 2016, and Sebastien Bourdais in 2017.
Hinchcliffe suffered a crash in practice for the 2015 Indy 500 caused by a rocker failure. A piece of suspension punctured the tub and went into his leg. He suffered massive blood loss and the doctors helping him lost his pulse on the way to the operating room. He recovered and was able to come back at the beginning of the 2016 season and won the pole for the 2016 Indy 500.
Josef Newgarden was involved in an crash at the 2016 Texas race before it was ultimately suspended due to rain. He broke his hand and clavicle in the crash but he was able to race in the next race two weeks later. Four weeks after his crash, he won in Iowa in dominant fashion and he would've very much been able to partake in the resumtion of the Texas race two months later if Indycar had allowed cars that were out of the race to resume the race.
Sebastien Bourdais suffered a crash in qualifying for the 2017 Indy 500 in which he suffered multiple fractures to his pelvis and right hip. He was able to return for the final three races of the season and won the opening race of the 2018 season.
Immediately after Billy Monger's crash a new rule in F1 said, that the part, where the lifting device is being placed at pit stops can't have sharp edges, cause that's what caused Billy's injuries.
I think an honorable mention is sophia floershc. Having had that crash in Macau she recovered from spinal injuries and races in f3 and i think wec with a richard mille team if i remember correctly.
It's amazing they did come back after these incidents. Zanardi and Lauda are perhaps the most impressive ones, but all of them did great.
Mikka received a trackside tracheotomy and is still alive today thanks in large part to Sir Jackie Stewart. Jackie campaigned for a qualified doctor and surgeon to travel with the F1 championship and it was that doctor he pushed for that saved Mikka's life.
Here in the United States we used to have a series of videos titled, "And They Walked Away." That would be a good subject for a video. Crashes that were so spectacular and brutal that you would not have believed they walked away uninjured.
I know this is an f1 channel and video, but Ryan Newman's crash at the 2020 Daytona 500 has be included in the best motorsport comebacks of all time. Not saying it should have been in the video, just saying.
Well, the video title does say Motorsport, not F1, so you have every right to say that.
Frank Williams should have been on this list. The man literally breaks a record every day.
Frank Williams was an idiot who thought he could drive on a public road in a road spec car the way his drivers drove on close circuit race tracks in custom built racing cars. He certainly doesn't deserve to be on this list.
Wow I forgot about Juan Manuel Correa! Good to see he is ok
One of the most bizarre was the story of Michael Schumacher's return from breaking his leg at Silverstone in 1999. At the time he broke his leg, it was round 8 of 16, about halfway through the season. He had surgery to reduce the breaks to his Tibia and Fibula (lower leg bones) on the day of his accident, but from there things get weird and hazy in terms of what happened. In the lead up to the Belgian and Italian Grands Prix, he tested at Fiorano and lapped the track significantly quicker than either Eddie Irvine or the driver substituting for Schumacher, Mika Salo. However, as the story goes, he said that he wouldn't return as he was feeling pain in his leg. After the European Grand Prix, where Ferrari fitted components from the 2000 car to boost their realistic championship prospects and failed to score any points in a messy weekend for the title contenders, Luca Di Montezemolo called Schumacher on the phone. On the other end was (apparently) his daughter, Gina and when asked where he was, she said he was playing fottball in the garden.
I don't know if it's true, but the story goes that Montezemolo was livid and arm twisted Schumacher to return to racing for the final 2 races of 1999. In public, he dismissed the rumours of Montezemolo arm twisting him into returning by assuring, "... I think I'm independent enough to take my own decision,"
Colin McRae in 2000 would be another example you could have used. He had a massive accident in Corsica, and was trapped in the car for 45 minutes before being taken to hospital.
The only injuries he sustained were to his eye and a broken cheekbone. He recovered in time to participate in the next round at Sanremo and finished 6th, earning a crucial point for his title hopes.
Sadly, it wasn't to be as in the Rally of Australia his engine failed, thus ruling him out of championship contention.
"Everyone loves a good comeback story"
Andy Dwyer: Kim Kardashian
Short story: When Lauda was given the last rights by a priest, he got asked by the nurse whether he wanted or not, he agreed. The priest came, made a cross symbol with his hands and left, didn't said a single word or gave Lauda the prayer he expected, he said he got so mad he said to himself, "I need to get back in that car" (referring to his Ferrari)
And so he did, winning two more World Championships in the years following and became a 3-time world champ. RIP Niki
Nascar had some amazing comebacks as well, in 2015 Kyle Busch had compound fractures on his Left foot and right Leg after a bad crash at Daytona, he missed 13 races, and came back and won the Championship. Then in 2017 Aric Almirola suffered a compression fracture in his T5 vertabrae after his car hit the ground after going airborne, he returned to racing after missing only 8 races. It doesn't matter what motor sport it is. Racing Drivers are just built different
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"little did he know...........HE F*CK*D UP"
Rick Mears shattered both of his feet in an Indy Car crash at Sanair in 1984. There was concern of amputation. However, he recovered and went on to win two more Indy 500s in 1988 and 1991.
Nelson Piquet had devastating lower leg and feet injuries in 1992 at Indianapolis and came back to race there in 1993. Ditto for Jeff Andretti who was seriously injured during the 1992 Indy 500.
Rush is an amazing movie, one of my favorite movies of all time.
Not F1 per se but Sofia Floersh's recovery from her Maccau Grand Prix accident in F3 was quite impressive
Hey Matt
Din't you miss Jason Watt!!
He is a danish driver and was set to become a formula 1 driver but he had an accident with both his legs paralyzed. He then began a comeback and ended up winning the danish DTC championship.
Just think it was worth mentioning and otherwise a great video as usual!!
James Hinchcliffe was another, coming back to win pole at Indy in 2016 a year after having been impaled by his own suspension in a practice crash at the same track
Alex Zanardi is one of my motorsports and life heroes. Absolute legend, get well.
I was waiting for Sophia Flörsch story, horrific crash at Macau and returned to racing
Some honorable mentions from the states
Kyle busch breaking his leg and foot during the first race of the season in 2015 missing a third of the races, and still coming back to win the championship
And Ryan Newman, getting hit at 200 mph while upside down right in the driver's side window, he walked out of the hospital within 48 hours and returned to racing when nascar came back from the covid break
Grosjean's crash is the Lauda Crash of our generation
And damn it should we all be extremely grateful that it was "just" his hands in the end.
So many people were ripped straight out of the middle of their lives in the past and it is amazing to see that as we've seen that a severe crash like this is not deadly anymore and even not too bad impact on their lives.
All these people who are in this list and who are racing owe their lives to the paramedics, engineers, doctors and legislators that made the sport as relatively safe as it is now and hopefully we can make it even safer in the future
Something that doesn't make me cry, please.
I feel like Jorge Lorenzo should be here in place of one of the FOUR F1 picks. Breaking his collarbone on the Friday, flying to Spain for surgery on Saturday, racing and finishing fifth (I think it was) on Sunday.
Denny Hulme should get a mention. he severely burned his hands in practice for the indy 500 in 1970. a couple weeks later his team leader Bruce McLaren was killed and he felt a duty to sub in for him for at the CanAm race only 2 weeks after . they had to tape his hands to the wheel for him to hang on with his severely burned and painful hands. he got 2nd behind Dan Gurney at the first race in Mosport and went on to win the CanAm Championship.
Kubica’s crash reminded me of Roland ratzenburger’s and Rubens Barrichello’ crash at imola 1994
best fights for championship driver as well as constructors
This just proves how safe motorsport is
You didn't mention that Billy Monger won the Pau GP in the rain _from the back of the grid!_ Go give him support on his YT channel and be in awe of his latest quest!
Honourable mentions Johnny Herbert, David Purley, Kenny Brack, then there is one of the most mind blowing stories in my mind anyway of Jim Hurtubise who burned his hands severely in 1964, when asked how he wanted his hands shaped permanently he got the doctors to "just make em so I can hold a steering wheel"
I know this channel is about f1 but we can’t forget about other Motorsport comebacks. One that Comes to mind is Ryan Newman and his crash at the 2020 Daytona 500 in Nascar
I think Rubens also had a good return after the Imola 93 accident, making great races and giving Jordan the first pole position in the team's history
5:06 the suit is crazy
Kubica is as resilient as a polish tank and just as underrated
At the start of the 2015 NASCAR season: Kyle Busch broke both of his legs. He missed the first 3rd of the season. He came back and worked his way into the top 30 in points with multiple wins to qualify for the chase. He went on to win the championship that year.
Happy 72th Birthday, Niki! Race In Peace.
Billy Monger doesn't want to see himself as a disabled person. He's a strong lad. I hope he achieves a lot more in his career
I bet no one will comment this comment,
Lewis is one of the best drivers racing in one of the most dangerous sport while winning and risking his all the time.
This should make him a deserve driver to be liked to all fans, no matter if you hate him or not
Geoffrey Bodine had a nearly fatal & violent truck wreck at Daytona in 2000. No one believed he would live, let alone race again, which he did. He would actually finish 3rd in the Daytona 500 in 2002!
Piquet easily makes into this list. 1987 near-death crash at Tamburello, broke several bones, yet won the WC that year by a landslide.
i think you can pick only the second Kubica comeback.. that was more mindblowing , yes the Canada crash was a big one, but had only minor injuries..
I really wish Kubica raced for Ferrari in 2012. He has so much talent.
75 G ! Bro , that is massive... I knew that kubica was in a massive crash , but 75 G is a hell lot of G force... As someone whose relatives work in airforce , I would say kubica is a superhuman...
inspirational
James Hinchclif also survived a horrible accident during the Month of May for the Indy 500 where a piece of suspension impailed him.. and he had lots of blood loss. He did somehow survived and is still racing today!..... It's talked about very much though
The only reason Niki woke from the coma was because Enzo came to his bedside and whispered in his ear "if you miss Monza I'll void your contract"
You could of had Mick Doohan who had a nasty crash at Assen in 1992 and nearly lost his leg if it hadn’t been for Dr Costa attaching his 2 legs together. He returned for the final 2 races of the season, missing out on the championship by 4 points. He then went on to win 5 MotoGP (500 Grand Prix) championships from 1994-98 before suffering a crash at Jerez in 1999 ending his career
Really surprised Matt didn't include Schumi's comeback lol
Matt and Tommy you make legendary and informative content. Thank you so much for making me get interested in f1. :)