FYI: Zhi Cong Li, the driver that flew through the air, ended up with both heels broken and four broken vertebrae. He had a long stay hospital, then resumed racing.
@Ricardo Porto Senna died from a broken suspension arm that went through his visor. When you see how the wheel tethers are not perfect today, I'm not sure modern advances could have stopped that freak accident. I do think those two corners that killed those drivers would be lined with a TecPro barrier though. A sprinkling of gravel and a concrete wall was an accident waiting to happen.
It's a tragic world; 150,000 people die each day worldwide. Should one be in a perpetual state of mourning? Some are, and they can become chronically depressed and add to the death toll, too. Oh, the irony!
no they were there almost instantly, but they focused on the second car that crashed into him since he didn't seem to move :/ was quiet shocking moment
Adrenaline is an insane chemical and can keep an injured person from outright falling over when they should be on the ground. I had an electrical accident working on 3 phase industrial power. It burned the skin off my arms and hands and neck and the side of my face. The skin was falling off of me in many places and I calmly walked to the nearest water source partially undressed and doused my body to remove any residual heat in the skin . I made a phone call and in the time it took me to walk from my work location to the front door I had someone there waiting for me in a vehicle for a direct drive to the local hospital. I walked myself into the emergency room during the height of local Covid restrictions explained my injuries ( as if it wasn't mostly obvious) signed a form and walked to a hospital bed in the emergency room. In all around 10 minutes had elapsed and as soon as I sat in that bed my body immediately crashed and I lost all ability to regulate my own blood pressure. Everyone there said I turned white as a dead man and my blood pressure didn't register on the heart monitor for a short period of time.
@@btwbrand How the hell are you even able to tell this story right now with such nonchalance? You are on another lever of super-patient if you've indeed suffered 3rd degree burns over a significant portion of your body. From what i've researched, 3rd & 4th degree burns over seemingly most of your body would mean you're in ICU for almost the entire recuperating from the dozen or more surgeries and grafts. What are we missing? I presume you are still hospitalized? Wishing you a pain-free and speedy recovery. God Speed.
The driver of the second car was coming off a curve and had about a second or slightly less to react. If you had watched the entire video, you would have heard the commentators pointing out that the combination of the curve and the dust meant that there was no time to react.
@@abaraviciusdominykas4584 They are drivers at that level because they exactly do have quick reaction times. He went into a cloud of dust with gravel on the road without deviating neither from the line nor from his speed. And the corner before is not that tight that you can't see what's ahead. In my book, the intensity of the crash is highly avoidable.
I was expecting the dust to clear and see another car in the gravel, not the Millenium Falcon drop out of lightspeed straight into the back of THAT car! :o
Without a doubt one of the heaviest shunts i have ever seen! This incident speaks volumes to the advances in technology and safety within formula race-cars.
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Kind of. I won't make this long, but it comes down to one main reason. The death at spa consisted of the car being hit twice with back to back hard hits. The cars are only meant to handle one hit, meaning it's structural integrity was gone at the first hit. Here, each car only took on one hit (aside form the one that caught air but that'd have damaged the floor). Hope that made sense.
@@GetawayFilms with all due respect... I said what I know about the spa crash and applied other things I knew to come up with my answer. Again not fighting you, but if there's something different going on I'm all ears. Genuinely I'd like to know.
@@GetawayFilms what the hell is wrong with you?? the guy just listed facts in an attempt to explain something and then you, who didn't even have anything to do with it, got offended by it....?!
@@nitanshkinger4465 But but but #3 was hit twice... I'm several years late but it's bothering me that no one has pointed this out lol. Luckily the second hit was more of a glancing blow.
I don't watch basically any sport, but two things confused me: 1. Why do they not care about the guy who went flying, and how were they so calm when it happened? 2. Why are those three people watching grinning?
Too dangerous to go out on the track. There's going to be more injuries and possibilities of death if they go out and help him while there are cars still returning to the pits/grid.
Ryan Tveter (who spun, stopped, got hit & jogged to the side of the track) was released from hospital after suffering a badly bruised knee. Peter Li Zhi Cong (the driver who goes airborne) was initially unconscious, but was conscious by the time he was airlifted to hospital and was diagnosed with broken bones in his heel, which will require surgery, and four fractured vertebrae in his back.
What an impact... Hope all drivers are alright. I think it might be Li's savior that the car got launched up into the air, meaning that most of the force got dissipated into the air instead of all the force coming from the front. Nonetheless an insane crash...
I think its more like he had a split of a second after the corner to see what happens. And he had someone behind him. slamming the brakes would result into him getting backcrashed. If you cant see shit and its too late to brake all you can do is hope.
I am sorry for being 10 months late but the guy who got hit in the back must have absorbed most of the energy from the crash, the flying car actually dispersed (hope it is the right word) a lot of the energy from the impact thanks to the air resistance and rotational forces. It is actually safer to be airborne than to absorb the whole impact when you compare the two cases.
They comment on him rather than the guy that flew because thats all that they could comment about. The only thing they saw for sure is that he got out and what he was doing, the rest is up to the track personel since the commentators have no information on anything else thus they cant commentate on it.
The guy behind was going fast and couldn't react at all, he saw the crashed car is out of the track then the dust came in while the crashed car came back to the track, the car behind was also still around the apex so he couldn't see clearly the next corner
In my experience in racing simulators, and by listening on TV to the professionals, the best chance to avoid a crash is to slow down. Sometimes though, like in this case, there just is no time to slow down, so you reduce what speed you can and hope that there is a gap when you get to the crash scene.
@@elgamerico Racing simulators are actually much more realistic than you might think if you have the right hardware. I spent about $1000 on my rig and it's not perfect, but I get a great feel for the car.
From +Redline Motors "Thankfully Zhi Cong Li is reported to have minor injuries including multiple broken heel bones and four fractured vertebrae which do not require surgery."
I cant see through that dust cloud that was just caused by a car that I cant see anywhere.... I know what to do, I'll just assume there is nothing there and HOLY SHIT where did that come from?
+Southeastern Ohio Homestead Dust clouds like that are caused all the time by cars running slightly wide, the chances of a stationary car being behind it is incredibly unlikely. To the best of Li's knowledge that car had continued onto the circuit as normal after running wide.
+Southeastern Ohio Homestead At that point of the track at the speeds F3 cars can carry through there he was going into the cloud whether he wanted to or not as any attempt to change the cars course would have resulted in a loss of control that could very easily have seen him rolling through the gravel trap. All he could do was hold his line, throw the anchors out and pray. Unfortunately, in this case there was a stationary car there but equally fortunately it was facing in the same direction as Li was travelling, if Tveters car had been broadside across the track this could have been much worse and maybe even a double fatality...
Reminds me of that insane rainy, misty and foggy F1 race in Spa 1998... Schumacher crashed into a very slow Coulthard seeing nothing and continued on three wheels
In this crash you see the safety differences between F3 and F4... This rear-end collision looked the same as it happened with Billy Monger and you know what serious injuries he had sustained...
+dutchdiamondback there's no news at the moment "Early reports are that Li is awake and alert in the medical centre, Tveter is also in the medical centre with light injuries, and Piquet is unharmed." from www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/124396
No they shouldn't. There are so many reasons why you wouldn't want to use calcium chloride in this setting. It's extremely corrosive, the setting process is very long and it's not suited for this application. You use it for dust control on roads that are being ridden on and increases grip. This would literally do the opposite of what a gravel trap is meant to do.
Unbelievable I know, but not everybody will have had full awareness of exactly what happened, nor do you know what they were talking about and thinking or seeing at the time the camera was on them. Grow up.
Peter Li only has himself to blame for that. With that much dust, you reason that a) where did it come from b) a car must have went off c) slow down and move wide to get out of the dust. I swear some so called racing drivers don't have a brain.
@@dhruvnarain3948 I'm 100% right. When I see dust like that, I immediately slow down and move as far away from where the dust is coming from. A racing driver will know the circuit, and they'll know that there's pebbles on the right hand side of that part of the track. He was 2-3 seconds down the road after the initial off, so he had plenty of warning.
@@davepastern As a marshal, I am convinced that the vast majority of racing drivers leave the contents of their skull in the paddock before getting in the car. Oh, and motorcycle riders are even worse for it guess they have to be to do what they do on 2 wheels.
And by the way, the commentator that was about the race being suspended is wrong. When the red flag comes out to stop the race, it's actually red flagged, not suspended. Suspended is actually cancelled or called off. That's the meaning that I pointed out.
@@Bungle2010 Yep. Suspended means it is "left hanging;" it is neither in full operation nor permanently ended. So if it had permanantly ended it would have been the race has ened
Red flags are defined as either "race suspended" or "race stop" depending on what rulebook you're reading they more or less mean the same damn thing in this context at least.
Ich sehe da einen Fahrer mit einem roten Helm der einige Meter in die Luft Katapultiert wird und im ganzen video sich nicht mehr aus seinem Auto rührt. Es geht aber hier ständig um diesen Peter Li der ausgestiegen ist und humpelnd weggelaufen ist?! Kann mich einer mal bitte aufklären
I'm shocked the safety team didn't quickly get the driver to the other side of the barrier! He was in shock and wasn't able to think clearly. Engineers sure know how to design cars today.
Peter Li Zhi Cong broke both heels and fractured four vertebrae Ryan Tveter had heavy bruising to his knee Piquet escaped unharmed All 3 drivers were extremely lucky!
Boa noite meu Amigo !!!! Absolutamente fantástico. Muito assustador mesmo. Graças à DEUS foi só um susto. Muito obrigado pelo vídeo e parabéns pelo canal. Abraço do Brasil.......
That's Carl Foggarty in the stand the most successful World Superbike racer of all time in terms of the number of championships and number of race wins.
That's because you don't know what a red flag means, it means to slow down and return to the grid or pits as directed by marshals Yeah I know it's been 4 years but it's never too late to educate.
1:53 - Wow he must have gotten hit over 100 mph ... and yet he barely moved and his car protected him well. Modern sedans would have the trunk completely buckled in even when rear ended at 30 mph. Nicely designed motorsport cars.
I suppose it's better than going straight into a wall. I suppose the front car orientation was also lucky . Tveter could have ended in a sideways or backwards position just as easily.
It's sheer coincidence the guy that spun wasn't T-boned... and he had that luck two times in a row. This was, much like Grosjean's crash a few years ago, just an inch away from becoming a catastrophe. Thankfully, we didn't have to mourn a single driver's passing here, despite this being a rather significant and dangerous accident.
Greg Moore hit a k-rail upside down - with his head. Not the same sort of inversion. He did not go high. I was there. It was obvious he was dead, instantly. Poor track design, wall layout, grading plan, etc. Never underestimate the ability of drivers to crash in ways you can never imagine.
horrifying crash, thoughts out to Zhi Cong 'Peter' Li, hope his injuries aren't too severe... This wreck reminds me of drag racing's Bruce Allen Kenny Koretsky Pro Stock crash back in 2005.
the fact that no one died in that is a miracle. This technology thing is for real...if it was 30 years back there would have been fatalities in that crash
I've been watching auto racing for years. NASCAR, Indy car, formula 1 and this looks like one of the worst with the car getting hit sending the one car that high in the air then getting hit by that second one. hope all of the drivers are alright
+john habiniak All of them are at least conscious. Li, who was the one flying was unconscious for a while after the crash. FIA hasn't reported much else so far. Hopefully it's all fine.
@Lucia Montes The Halo adds an insane amount of structural support to the car. And seeing as how one of the cars flipped and landed on it's 'roof', it could've been tragic.
@@BenKuyt64 You cant compare a 2016 accident to a 1982 accident, just like you cant compare Lauda's fiery 1976 crash to Grosjean's fiery crash, the safety standards are just too different
This is the wreck that my dad was yelling about this morning. It made the FOX News highlight reels, and I see why now. Just crazy how much damage that impact made on those cars, and still have a guy limping away. Hurt, but not killed outright. Lucky guy. Reading in comments below that one guy sustained a broken heel bone and four ver- tebrae. Nothing to laugh about there. The one who limped away clearly also needed a physician. Here's hoping they all make a full recovery.
Proof of how safe motorsport now is. 40 years ago, you'd be looking at 3 dead drivers. One of the biggest crashes I've EVER seen.
40 yrs ago, corner workers would have been out there with flags slowing the field down, it would have never happened in the first place.
Fred Garvin
Sure. The 12 drivers that were killed in Formula 1 in the 70s alone would willingly agree with you. You know, if they weren't dead.
Even only 20 years ago you'd probably be looking at least one death with that kind of impact.
40-50 years ago you would see f1 cars flying into the spectators and exploding
my bad, it was 1955 LeMans
FYI: Zhi Cong Li, the driver that flew through the air, ended up with both heels broken and four broken vertebrae. He had a long stay hospital, then resumed racing.
more info: he didn't race f3 anymore after that accident
@@msvd3803 Ya, he went to GT racing.
he had raced little since then... i dont think he is that well off
HOLY SH**T .... and he was able to walk till there?The adrenaline is powerful......
@Ricardo Porto Senna died from a broken suspension arm that went through his visor. When you see how the wheel tethers are not perfect today, I'm not sure modern advances could have stopped that freak accident. I do think those two corners that killed those drivers would be lined with a TecPro barrier though. A sprinkling of gravel and a concrete wall was an accident waiting to happen.
1:18 "people might have died in that crash but I'm happy to be on TV"
Nah, don't worry about them, the safety on the motorsport this day is enough, so they know that, nothing to worry about :/
It's a tragic world; 150,000 people die each day worldwide. Should one be in a perpetual state of mourning? Some are, and they can become chronically depressed and add to the death toll, too. Oh, the irony!
@@elionalejandroparedesborna2266 Tell that to all the families of racing drivers that die every year
@Danny007 He thinks he's so smart and controversial, let him have this one joy in his life.
@@hardware64 Thanks s ss, I knew someone would understand.
1:14 Just the wrong moment to smile!
The face, man!
"omg there's been a horrific crash!"
*Notices camera on him*
"Ooohhh look, I'm on TV. Hellooooo"
@@eoinsmith1996 only possible explanation is that those folks were sitting somewhere and didn't realize the crash had happened.
But, it's all about him, isn't it? Isn't it what everyone think these days? What happens around them doesn't matter...
@@tonymuljat3306 If Not - Disgraceful.
sooooooooooo......medical teams out to lunch?
no they were there almost instantly, but they focused on the second car that crashed into him since he didn't seem to move :/
was quiet shocking moment
I see racetrack rescue gong shows all the time
Felix Sonnleitner what video are you watching?
david taylor the video shows Tveeter, the driver that got hit from behind. The driver that went airborne was unconscious, so he probably got priority.
It's a series of replays of the crash, so obviously the medical team can't be seen…
0:33 the exact moment his adrenaline stops kicking in. The pain in his body takes over!
yeah, by 1:05 his body is like "okay, time to take a break and process what just happened"
that happen to me, i have a big big crash in karting, I left the kart and leave the road, 30 seconds later i can't move myself
Adrenaline is an insane chemical and can keep an injured person from outright falling over when they should be on the ground.
I had an electrical accident working on 3 phase industrial power. It burned the skin off my arms and hands and neck and the side of my face. The skin was falling off of me in many places and I calmly walked to the nearest water source partially undressed and doused my body to remove any residual heat in the skin . I made a phone call and in the time it took me to walk from my work location to the front door I had someone there waiting for me in a vehicle for a direct drive to the local hospital. I walked myself into the emergency room during the height of local Covid restrictions explained my injuries ( as if it wasn't mostly obvious) signed a form and walked to a hospital bed in the emergency room. In all around 10 minutes had elapsed and as soon as I sat in that bed my body immediately crashed and I lost all ability to regulate my own blood pressure. Everyone there said I turned white as a dead man and my blood pressure didn't register on the heart monitor for a short period of time.
@@btwbrand man its crazy, hope you are doing well now
@@btwbrand How the hell are you even able to tell this story right now with such nonchalance? You are on another lever of super-patient if you've indeed suffered 3rd degree burns over a significant portion of your body. From what i've researched, 3rd & 4th degree burns over seemingly most of your body would mean you're in ICU for almost the entire recuperating from the dozen or more surgeries and grafts. What are we missing? I presume you are still hospitalized?
Wishing you a pain-free and speedy recovery.
God Speed.
These cars are fucking amazingly safe.
true, imagine this in your car.... ouch!
Everyone knows only a halo can safe lives #sarcasm
+Drank Bak ciao come stai tutto bene mi piace partite Ferrari teoria devo fare un giro di link di cuore
Mirko Miranda. ciao mi mandi una denuncia formale per frode elettorale
Srib The sand, not so much. Time to invest in low dust sand traps. The F1 cars can go off at Saudi Arabia and not kick up that much of a smoke screen.
Full speed into the dust cloud, what could go wrong...
if in doubt flat out =D
except its a race car and backing off can cause incidents too..
The driver of the second car was coming off a curve and had about a second or slightly less to react. If you had watched the entire video, you would have heard the commentators pointing out that the combination of the curve and the dust meant that there was no time to react.
This was, indeed, a C-class in I-Racing move.
@@abaraviciusdominykas4584 They are drivers at that level because they exactly do have quick reaction times. He went into a cloud of dust with gravel on the road without deviating neither from the line nor from his speed. And the corner before is not that tight that you can't see what's ahead. In my book, the intensity of the crash is highly avoidable.
Unbelievable how quickly the cameraman zoomed out. Great work.
I was expecting the dust to clear and see another car in the gravel, not the Millenium Falcon drop out of lightspeed straight into the back of THAT car! :o
Without a doubt one of the heaviest shunts i have ever seen! This incident speaks volumes to the advances in technology and safety within formula race-cars.
in more than 20 years i watched motorracing i never seen anything like this
+Andrea Roll I have, dont know where you been
+Andrea Roll haha I don't watch and I've seen plenty of crashes as bad and even worse.
+Andrea Roll what you been watching?
+Andrea Roll Sounds like you haven't watched a whole lot in those 20 years.
I've seen worse but yeah this is bad.
when you're a formula 3 driver but Nasa is life.
ffs😂😂😂😂
#dontletyourdreamsbedreams
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+The NeW KiD ciao come stai tutto bene mi piace partite bellissima gay deve fare teoria tu ai trovato il gioco
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That was brutal!!!!😩
No shit
yeah, poor guy passed out @ 1:07
considering the fatality at spa last year these guys are incredibly lucky to be alive
Kind of. I won't make this long, but it comes down to one main reason. The death at spa consisted of the car being hit twice with back to back hard hits. The cars are only meant to handle one hit, meaning it's structural integrity was gone at the first hit. Here, each car only took on one hit (aside form the one that caught air but that'd have damaged the floor). Hope that made sense.
@@GetawayFilms with all due respect... I said what I know about the spa crash and applied other things I knew to come up with my answer. Again not fighting you, but if there's something different going on I'm all ears. Genuinely I'd like to know.
@@GetawayFilms what the hell is wrong with you?? the guy just listed facts in an attempt to explain something and then you, who didn't even have anything to do with it, got offended by it....?!
@@nitanshkinger4465 you are a legend mate :)
@@nitanshkinger4465 But but but #3 was hit twice... I'm several years late but it's bothering me that no one has pointed this out lol. Luckily the second hit was more of a glancing blow.
"Drank some redbull before the race, I can confirm it does not give you wings"
those safety cells though,. glad they're gonna be ok.
That was like something out of a video game! Thats nuts! I dont think I ever saw one that bad before. I hope all turns out well for them.
Adrenaline is an amazing thing. Get nailed like that and hop out. Few moments later the body's like "ow, ow ow" when the when it wears off a bit.
Adrenaline is a helluva drug.
Saw this man robbing a store got shot in the leg, perfectly sprints out of the store, than just collapses halfway through the block from pain.
i thought the thumbnail was of a go kart
Hmmm with your unreliable eyes you should probably worry about what you see when you catch a reflection of your naked body
I have never seen a fucking wreck like that and I've seen THOUSANDS!
+Akemi Mokoto (Akemi Tachibana) Then you must have seen worse
+Akemi Mokoto (Akemi Tachibana) This is no doubt a bad one...but there are many horrific crashes out there that are much worse.
Well, have you seen Senna's death" Nothing to look at. Just bang and goodbye.
you haven't
"bang and goodbye" was a TON of motorsport deaths before the invention of the HANS device. Senna, Earnhardt, drivers in every series.
That take off was insane!
I don't watch basically any sport, but two things confused me:
1. Why do they not care about the guy who went flying, and how were they so calm when it happened?
2. Why are those three people watching grinning?
Too dangerous to go out on the track. There's going to be more injuries and possibilities of death if they go out and help him while there are cars still returning to the pits/grid.
Gopi grinning is smiling
The grinning people were filmed by the cameras and they noticed
The answer to both questions is SATAN
no, the answer to both of them is 9/11
Is everyone alive ? the guy in the blue car isn't moving at all : /
He is injured but alive
Good thing :)
+Keilink Multiple broken bones in his heel and four fractured vertebrae (not rips)
+Entropia Razer ribs, you need to correct.
+Mark 13 BOOM!!! biggest crash in modern formula three history!
oh my.... i never saw something like this in Formula Racing before....hope he is alright...scary accident
Ryan Tveter (who spun, stopped, got hit & jogged to the side of the track) was released from hospital after suffering a badly bruised knee.
Peter Li Zhi Cong (the driver who goes airborne) was initially unconscious, but was conscious by the time he was airlifted to hospital and was diagnosed with broken bones in his heel, which will require surgery, and four fractured vertebrae in his back.
What an impact... Hope all drivers are alright. I think it might be Li's savior that the car got launched up into the air, meaning that most of the force got dissipated into the air instead of all the force coming from the front. Nonetheless an insane crash...
01:19 What a time to be filmed smiling. Great timing.
Absolutely fearless from the driver to be flat out through that smoke, reminds me of a clip I saw of Kimi at Spa but he never suffered any consequence
I think its more like he had a split of a second after the corner to see what happens. And he had someone behind him. slamming the brakes would result into him getting backcrashed. If you cant see shit and its too late to brake all you can do is hope.
why are the commentators talking about the guy who got hit in the back and not the guy who literally flew 20 feet in the air and landed upside down?
I am sorry for being 10 months late but the guy who got hit in the back must have absorbed most of the energy from the crash, the flying car actually dispersed (hope it is the right word) a lot of the energy from the impact thanks to the air resistance and rotational forces. It is actually safer to be airborne than to absorb the whole impact when you compare the two cases.
It actually isn't since the car who was hit in the back was fine, but the guy who went airborne had broken vertebrae.
They comment on him rather than the guy that flew because thats all that they could comment about. The only thing they saw for sure is that he got out and what he was doing, the rest is up to the track personel since the commentators have no information on anything else thus they cant commentate on it.
+David it usually is the other way around. it just happened to be this time that the one who went aerial sustained more injuries
Omg... Li Zhi Cong is so F***ING LUCKY his car didn't land fully upside down in the gravel. That could easily have been fatal.
HOLY SHIT. Maybe the worst formula accident I've ever seen.
That was a very brutal crash. Amazing anyone survived.
it was Zhi Cong Li (№18)
The guy behind was going fast and couldn't react at all, he saw the crashed car is out of the track then the dust came in while the crashed car came back to the track, the car behind was also still around the apex so he couldn't see clearly the next corner
In my experience in racing simulators, and by listening on TV to the professionals, the best chance to avoid a crash is to slow down. Sometimes though, like in this case, there just is no time to slow down, so you reduce what speed you can and hope that there is a gap when you get to the crash scene.
@@iceman95540 "In my experience in racing simulators..." 😂😂
@@elgamerico Racing simulators are actually much more realistic than you might think if you have the right hardware. I spent about $1000 on my rig and it's not perfect, but I get a great feel for the car.
@@iceman95540 it's not about hardware, it's the software you use.
the perfect one way smoke doesn't exist.
Formula 3: hold my beer...
hey watch yo jet watch yo jet WATCH YO JET
OH! The worst F3 crash I've had ever seen in my life!
From +Redline Motors "Thankfully Zhi Cong Li is reported to have minor injuries including multiple broken heel bones and four fractured vertebrae which do not require surgery."
I cant see through that dust cloud that was just caused by a car that I cant see anywhere.... I know what to do, I'll just assume there is nothing there and HOLY SHIT where did that come from?
+Southeastern Ohio Homestead Going into the cloud w/o seeing shit - ain't the smartest move, in the end.
+Southeastern Ohio Homestead Dust clouds like that are caused all the time by cars running slightly wide, the chances of a stationary car being behind it is incredibly unlikely. To the best of Li's knowledge that car had continued onto the circuit as normal after running wide.
+Peter Lee so are chances of a dust cloud appearing out of nowhere on a race track.
+Vicktor Brovikoff a crash like this years ago proves to be FATAL! safety changed all the situation.
+Southeastern Ohio Homestead At that point of the track at the speeds F3 cars can carry through there he was going into the cloud whether he wanted to or not as any attempt to change the cars course would have resulted in a loss of control that could very easily have seen him rolling through the gravel trap. All he could do was hold his line, throw the anchors out and pray. Unfortunately, in this case there was a stationary car there but equally fortunately it was facing in the same direction as Li was travelling, if Tveters car had been broadside across the track this could have been much worse and maybe even a double fatality...
Reminds me of that insane rainy, misty and foggy F1 race in Spa 1998... Schumacher crashed into a very slow Coulthard seeing nothing and continued on three wheels
All those drivers survived. Miracle of God, right? HELL NO! Miracle of science!
_)
God gave its holy magnificence to protect those poor drivers... Thank you our Lord we are nothing without your omnipresence.
you do not have faith in the miracles of the Lord, but it does not matter, because he is kind and takes care of all of us
All science become nothing when God take your soul.
1:12 We don't know if the drivers are okay but HEY IM ON TV DUHHH
Drivers are okay ?
+hexendale ツ thank you
+hexendale ツ Thank you ! :)
It's not a problem, you're research is yet really nice, thanks for sharing :)
well Li has a broken back and heel while the one that spun just has minor injures, Piquet OK and started race 2 in the pits
In this crash you see the safety differences between F3 and F4... This rear-end collision looked the same as it happened with Billy Monger and you know what serious injuries he had sustained...
Jeeeez hope all involved are ok
@Norm T RIP to the survivors.....
the camera work in this video is unbelievable! terrifying crash tho
Lance Stroll and George Russell... good times
That's the second worst crash I have ever seen... (nothing will ever be as bad as Gordon Smiley's horrible crash in 1982... R.I.P.)
ok BUT IS PETER LEE OK?? HIS CAR WENT FLYING AND NOBODY GIVES A SHIT
what happened to the other 2 drivers?
SHIT.............!
That's not a proper way to earn some flymiles.
Everybody okay?
+dutchdiamondback there's no news at the moment
"Early reports are that Li is awake and alert in the medical centre,
Tveter is also in the medical centre with light injuries, and Piquet is
unharmed."
from www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/124396
0:25 when you're hammered and don't know which bar your mates have gone to
They really should spray calcium chloride on those gravel pits to keep the dust down!
No they shouldn't. There are so many reasons why you wouldn't want to use calcium chloride in this setting. It's extremely corrosive, the setting process is very long and it's not suited for this application. You use it for dust control on roads that are being ridden on and increases grip. This would literally do the opposite of what a gravel trap is meant to do.
The fact that none of them were seriously hurt is a testament to the safety of these race cars.
About the only sensible comment so far
1:19 WTF is this guy smiling about
He was sitting on a stand somewhere on the track and enjoying a race, he was most probably completely clueless of what was happening
Unbelievable I know, but not everybody will have had full awareness of exactly what happened, nor do you know what they were talking about and thinking or seeing at the time the camera was on them. Grow up.
What is it with the Red Bull Ring and huge crashes in recent years?
Peter Li only has himself to blame for that. With that much dust, you reason that
a) where did it come from
b) a car must have went off
c) slow down and move wide to get out of the dust.
I swear some so called racing drivers don't have a brain.
IT happened really fast. but your not wrong tho
@@dhruvnarain3948 I'm 100% right. When I see dust like that, I immediately slow down and move as far away from where the dust is coming from. A racing driver will know the circuit, and they'll know that there's pebbles on the right hand side of that part of the track. He was 2-3 seconds down the road after the initial off, so he had plenty of warning.
@@davepastern As a marshal, I am convinced that the vast majority of racing drivers leave the contents of their skull in the paddock before getting in the car. Oh, and motorcycle riders are even worse for it guess they have to be to do what they do on 2 wheels.
@@tgm9991 that doesn't surprise me. Some drivers are very smart though (Stewart, Senna as 2 prime examples).
And by the way, the commentator that was about the race being suspended is wrong. When the red flag comes out to stop the race, it's actually red flagged, not suspended. Suspended is actually cancelled or called off. That's the meaning that I pointed out.
@@Bungle2010 Yep. Suspended means it is "left hanging;" it is neither in full operation nor permanently ended. So if it had permanantly ended it would have been the race has ened
Red flags are defined as either "race suspended" or "race stop" depending on what rulebook you're reading they more or less mean the same damn thing in this context at least.
dusty gravel should not exist next to a race track.
Thing is the gravel traps have saved way, way, far more lives than they have cost.
@@cheapycheapy4689 DUSTY gravel
@@danutztihu5802 Are you also going to complain about water being wet?
@@ey7290 thanks for belittling my comment, your comment is wonderful, have a nice day.
@@danutztihu5802 1) I didn't belittle you, I just made a joke after you said something stupid
2) cry me a river
Ich sehe da einen Fahrer mit einem roten Helm der einige Meter in die Luft Katapultiert wird und im ganzen video sich nicht mehr aus seinem Auto rührt. Es geht aber hier ständig um diesen Peter Li der ausgestiegen ist und humpelnd weggelaufen ist?! Kann mich einer mal bitte aufklären
brutal :(
He lands with his head in the gravel.
It used to be worse; that section was broken glass a few years earlier.
Omg holy shit. I wish all the best for the injured drivers.
Hol le Shit!
I'm shocked the safety team didn't quickly get the driver to the other side of the barrier! He was in shock and wasn't able to think clearly.
Engineers sure know how to design cars today.
HO-LY SHIT!
Peter Li Zhi Cong broke both heels and fractured four vertebrae
Ryan Tveter had heavy bruising to his knee
Piquet escaped unharmed
All 3 drivers were extremely lucky!
Omg
Boa noite meu Amigo !!!!
Absolutamente fantástico.
Muito assustador mesmo.
Graças à DEUS foi só um susto.
Muito obrigado pelo vídeo e parabéns pelo canal.
Abraço do Brasil.......
holy shinto!!!
not trying to be rude or anything but what were the injuries of the drivers. I hope they all came out okay
+Radionut R knee contusion for Tveter
4 broken whirls and broken bones in the heel for Li
none for Piguet
+looking forlife good information thank you
+Radionut R no problem ;)
Did the car landed on it’s side or on it’s top
That's Carl Foggarty in the stand the most successful World Superbike racer of all time in terms of the number of championships and number of race wins.
No it isn't.
@@zzodr yep it is
When the adrenaline is high and then it slows down and you realize wtf just went down.
there were 3 cars but I only saw only 2 persons what happend with the other one?
How about the other two drivers? Are they alright?
if you see dust or a cloud of dust, why not reduce speed or even brake?
I wonder if they spray the gravel traps now, to prevent that level of dust when a car goes through them? Its very unusual to see that much dust.
Watching nascar final practice. I hear them talking about this. I have never seen anything like this I'm my life.
me too
+Patrick Bennett yeah I thought they had said formula e because I wasn't listening good, but I realized they said formula 3
It concerns me that for quite some time after the red flag was shown you can still hear engines racing in the background.
That's because you don't know what a red flag means, it means to slow down and return to the grid or pits as directed by marshals
Yeah I know it's been 4 years but it's never too late to educate.
This is me when I'm fed up with playing Project Cars 2
A similar crash took Billy Monger's legs. This is a demonstration of how safe these cars have gotten.
@Lucia Montes It is not irrelevant. Its exactly what you said in the last sentence that makes it relevant, F3 cars are incredibly safe.
I ....... i did not expect that! I physically gasped! .....ive never seen anything like that. omg! I ....wow
Why am I watching a horrific crash at 7am? Beats the hell out of me why? lol
1:53 - Wow he must have gotten hit over 100 mph ... and yet he barely moved and his car protected him well. Modern sedans would have the trunk completely buckled in even when rear ended at 30 mph. Nicely designed motorsport cars.
WOW that was one HELL of a impact!
How come the clock on the top of the screen didn't stop? The race was red flagged and the red flag signal came on from the clock, but it kept going.
DTM weekend
why am i getting crash recommendations after watching Grosjean..
I suppose it's better than going straight into a wall. I suppose the front car orientation was also lucky . Tveter could have ended in a sideways or backwards position just as easily.
It's sheer coincidence the guy that spun wasn't T-boned... and he had that luck two times in a row. This was, much like Grosjean's crash a few years ago, just an inch away from becoming a catastrophe.
Thankfully, we didn't have to mourn a single driver's passing here, despite this being a rather significant and dangerous accident.
Was Mr.Peter ok he went airborne like Gregg Moore 99 & Weldon 2012
Greg Moore hit a k-rail upside down - with his head. Not the same sort of inversion. He did not go high. I was there. It was obvious he was dead, instantly. Poor track design, wall layout, grading plan, etc. Never underestimate the ability of drivers to crash in ways you can never imagine.
Legend says they are still waiting for the medical team
glad everyone is ok, but where on earth were the double yellows straight away
It was red flagged....
horrifying crash, thoughts out to Zhi Cong 'Peter' Li, hope his injuries aren't too severe... This wreck reminds me of drag racing's Bruce Allen Kenny Koretsky Pro Stock crash back in 2005.
+ratmousebastard He's alive, luckily! He does have some injuries: 4 broken vertebrae and a broken heelbone.
+MarcG1995 cracked, not broken.
Vicktor Brovikoff Heelbone or vertebrae?
+MarcG1995 5 cracks in the vertibray and a broken heel.
+ratmousebastard drag race and broken heel?! Did they lip sync for their lives?
the fact that no one died in that is a miracle. This technology thing is for real...if it was 30 years back there would have been fatalities in that crash
I've been watching auto racing for years. NASCAR, Indy car, formula 1 and this looks like one of the worst with the car getting hit sending the one car that high in the air then getting hit by that second one. hope all of the drivers are alright
+john habiniak All of them are at least conscious. Li, who was the one flying was unconscious for a while after the crash.
FIA hasn't reported much else so far. Hopefully it's all fine.
The fact that no one fucking died without the Halo is amazing. Jesus.
@Lucia Montes The Halo adds an insane amount of structural support to the car. And seeing as how one of the cars flipped and landed on it's 'roof', it could've been tragic.
@Lucia Montes The fact that you're actually mad that I want the drivers safer baffles me. A crash like this exact one killed Gilles Villeneuve.
@@BenKuyt64 You cant compare a 2016 accident to a 1982 accident, just like you cant compare Lauda's fiery 1976 crash to Grosjean's fiery crash, the safety standards are just too different
@@ey7290 You literally can when you're talking about improvements over time. Do you not read?
@@ey7290 The most liked comment on this fucking video is direction comparing this.
Holy shit, Peter Li blew up Zhi Cong! Pedro Piquet as well!
wow man... having all the gravel throw up a wall of dust doesn't seem like the best thing to have on a track.
Bro is the red helmet guy ok? The one that when airborne
This is the wreck that my dad was yelling about this morning.
It made the FOX News highlight reels, and I see why now.
Just crazy how much damage that impact made on those cars,
and still have a guy limping away.
Hurt, but not killed outright. Lucky guy. Reading in comments
below that one guy sustained a broken heel bone and four ver-
tebrae. Nothing to laugh about there. The one who limped
away clearly also needed a physician. Here's hoping they all
make a full recovery.