Still on of the most violent, destructive crashes in Indy history. One medical examiner said that Smiley's injuries were similar to Buddy Holly's after the plane crash. Every single bone broken.
Honestly I don’t think there has ever been a more violent single-car accident in any discipline of motor racing. He had injuries similar to that of people who have died in plane crashes.
@@ventisette. Those are definitely up there- Cevert's is top 3. (Don't read further if squeamish) According to Steve Olvey, who wrote in his book about this accident, Smiley's crash was so devastating and violent that he had been scalped by the debris fence, because his helmet had been pulled off due of the centrifugal force of the impact. Also- every single bone in his body was shattered. Not broken- shattered. And his brain matter was all over the track, and he had a large gaping wound that looked like he had been attacked by a large shark.
@@ventisette.Have you heard of the description from the medical advisor on sight? Here it is; While rushing to the car, I noticed small splotches of a peculiar gray substance marking a trail on the asphalt leading up to the driver. When I reached the car, I was shocked to see that Smiley's helmet was gone, along with the top of his skull. He had essentially been scalped by the debris fence. The material on the race track was most of his brain. His helmet, due to massive centrifugal force, was literally pulled from his head on impact ... I rode to the care center with the body. On the way in I performed a cursory examination and realized that nearly every bone in his body was shattered. He had a gaping wound in his side that looked as if he had been attacked by a large shark. I had never seen such trauma."
@@crime_dog27 Head injuries are no joke, I talked to one of the guys who was present at Rich Vogler's crash, he said Rich basically had no face, that the whole front of his skull was indistinguishable. A year ago I read Dan Weldon's Autopsy report, while his injuries were more to the top of his head, much of his brain was spilled into what was left of his helmet. Greg Moore had similar injuries at Fontana in 1999, you can see both of his arms flailing when his car flips after the impact, at an estimated 154G. It's interesting that there are better frame-by-frame stills of Smiley's crash in 1982 than Moore's 17 years later.
I taped the original ABC broadcast of this right after it happened. I analyzed it for hours and upon initial impact Smiley's helmet shot straight up in the air like a football punt . This will always be the most brutal racing event in my long lifetime.Godspeed Gordon Smiley.
His head did hit the fence.....The doctor that was first on scene, wrote a book about his career as a doctor for Indycar and it includes a brutal depiction of what happened that day
The doctor's report is enough to turn your stomach. He was scalped, and "broke every bone in his body".... i find that hard to believe. Along with Greg Moore... a couple of unsurvivables.
Very tame reenactment. The actual version is very graphic with the poor guys exposed body shown tumbling while still strapped into the drivers seat. Crazy how fast it happened.
comment by Dr Steve Olvey, who attended to Smiley on the track: _"During an attempt to qualify for the Indy 500, Gordon Smiley, a cocky young driver from Texas, was determined to break 200mph or die trying. Several veteran drivers ... had warned him that he was in way over his head, driving all wrong for the Speedway. Smiley was a road racer and was used to counter-steering his car to avoid a crash if the rear wheels broke traction. While rushing to the car, I noticed small splotches of a peculiar gray substance marking a trail on the asphalt leading up to the driver. When I reached the car, I was shocked to see that Smiley's helmet was gone, along with the top of his skull. He had essentially been scalped by the debris fence. The material on the race track was most of his brain. His helmet, due to massive centrifugal force, was literally pulled from his head on impact ... I rode to the care center with the body. On the way in I performed a cursory examination and realized that nearly every bone in his body was shattered. He had a gaping wound in his side that looked as if he had been attacked by a large shark. I had never seen such trauma."_
I always thought the word "scalped" was inadequate. Not to get too macabre, but it might be more accurate to say that Smiley's head exploded. Or you could say that the top half of his head was smashed off.
There is so much wrong with that that it would take me an hour to list it all. Only one car is on the track during a qualification run, this shows multiple cars. There were no stands outside turn three when this happened. The actual crash was much worse than shown here. He did tell his chief mechanic before going out that he would run 200 and was told just to take what the car would give him. I'll leave it at that.
A simple fact: on an oval track, if you get loose (oversteer) in the middle of a turn, as a general rule, you should release the throttle and never countersteer. If the behavior of the vehicle is still not stable, continue to steer to the infield side. Spinning and hitting a wall on your butt is a little better than a T-bone crash. It is said that not only Smiley but also Danny Ongais in 1981 and Ayrton Senna in Imola in 1994 hit the wall in a straight line at the moment of countersteering. Ongais' life was saved because the car body turned around just before the wall and hit the wall from the left front of the car body. Like Senna, it seems that Smiley's accident and the mechanism are common to the accident of the type that suddenly collides into the wall at a normal corner.
Im very informed and very sure of what im gonna say, and i can say that Ayrton Senna DIDNT counter Steer. Williams wanted to minimize weight to be faster and maked a thin direction bar. Unfortunately, that cost his best drivers life; on the lastest laps in the Tamburello bumpy section Senna sparked under the car, in lap 7 the direction bar didnt resist more and broke up in the bumpy section of Tamburello, and went straight to the wall.
@@joshuanicolasaragonmunoz6540 Thank you. I took another look at Senna's onboard. The image is disturbed by the vibration, and the image is interrupted just before the collision, so it is very difficult to understand, but if you look carefully at the steering wheel, Senna did not hit the counter. It looked like he kept steering to the left. In the comments, it was pointed out that even though Senna was steering to the left, the tire angle changed to go straight. CINECA's analysis video was also created from this perspective, but I couldn't judge it from the video alone. However, another on-board video showed a close-up of the steering linkage rod, and it appeared that the linkage did not move just before the accident. Since the moment of the collision was covered up, the truth is unknown, but as far as I can see from the published part, I have changed my conclusion that there is a high possibility that the steering column was broken rather than a steering error.
Just found this as a recommendation from UA-cam and I got to say: Great way to illustrate these old crashes, but it still feels wrong to see crashes that old represented with a newer car design.
I always thought the word "scalped" was inadequate. Not to get too macabre, but it might be more accurate to say that Smiley's head exploded. Or you could say that the top half of his head was smashed off.
Very inaccurate recounting of the crash. I was there. Smiley was on the track alone, as is the norm for ALL qualifying runs at Indy. The impact angle was so flush with the wall that the engine went through him. The track physician said he had never seen a body with so much trauma. I'm glad the video doesn't show how gruesome it actually was. Smiley's body looked like a rag doll rolling to rest on the racetrack.
Seeing his body be brutalized like that will always stick with me. Once you can recognize him in the crash footage, you can never I see him. Rest Peacefully Gordon 💙
I’m glad to see you did under suggestion so that’s cool 👍. This crash was particularly gruesome and I’ve read some details of the aftermath so when you said parts of his car and him were scattered all around, you weren’t kidding.
I’m not 100% sure if it was this crash, but I know I’ve seen an 80s video from Indy where a reporter said “this goes beyond an accident, we’ve had a disaster at Indianapolis.” Even if this wasn’t the crash he was referring to, it would be a fitting description of this one.
@@ryansheehan9462 - I think that was Jackie Stewart (as an ABC commentator) talking about Patrick Bedard’s hellacious accident in the 1984 Indy 500. Basically said it looked more like an aircraft accident than a race car accident
The actual tub they putvin a garage Closed the doors and cranked the air conditioner full blast Onlyvat the end of the day did they go about extracting his body from the car
I was in the process of heading up to my seat in the short chute off the 3rd turn when the Gordon hit the wall . I immediately fell to the ground with the large explosion , There was debris and ethanol fuel going into the stands, over my head . It was a horrible site. I remeber watching the 500 crew coming up to what was left of the cockpit with Gordon in it . They just open up the orange canopy and covered it . Not good memories 😕
Sorry, but this video is grossly inaccurate. The collision tore this car, and Smiley, to pieces. There was nothing left that was recognizable, much less an intact 'driver cell' as shown in the video. Smiley lost his helmet and was scalped by the fence. His body was entangled in the wreckage and rolled with it down the pavement. There was no fire of any significance. Finally, the video depicts another car passing through the accident scene. This was a qualifying run, therefore Smiley was alone on the track.
I always thought the word "scalped" was inadequate. Not to get too macabre, but it might be more accurate to say that Smiley's head exploded. Or you could say that the top half of his head was smashed off.
Fantastic.Very close to real crash. For the next recreation I suggest Henri Toivonen Rally of Corsica 1986 crash, because there isn't any good footage or recreation
Yeah, it sure was tragic that it took over 7 hours to clean up his body chunks. Not so much, Smiley's death...just that it took 7 hours to clean up his body chunks.
The medic who gave the story (Steve Olvey) was one of my dad's friends. We were sitting outside of turn 4. I dont remember much at 5 years old, but my dad said not to look.
he wanted to do what Villeneuve did in Europe with wing cars. the maximum limits of downforce were not known and he believed that the more you pushed the more grip you found, and theoretically it is true, the weak point is only in the mechanics, the chassis deforms under extreme force (Mario described it well in 1978) and in tires that deshape. in my opinion, the small bump reported in the track added to the porpoising which unfortunately reached its maximum effect precisely at that zone. and started to lose traction. Gordon Smiley was described as cocky, perhaps he was unlucky and too old to learn to control the car in a new way of racing based on ground effect.
I didn't see the actual crash footage until 18 years later in a documentary about Indy Cars and their drivers over the years... What few stills I _did_ see of the crash in the newspapers the day after it happened, weren't particularly the type of images I really wanted to look at for all that long! This _had_ to be one of the worst single car tragedies in Indy history... Even with all the safety improvements and high tech features on the machines these days, there's _STILL_ no guarantees hitting something head on at that speed - None at all!
This simulation wasn't anything close to what actually happened. The impact to the wall, yes, but after that, ........naw. Watch the replay. It's all over the internet.
Ok top 10 worst motorsport crashes 10. Jules Andrei Bianchi 9. Roger Williamson 8. Zbigniew Raniszewski 7. Lorenzo Bandini 6. Jim Melley And Gareth Tagge 5. Craig Jones 4. Gordon Eugene Smiley 3. Tom Pryce 2. Russell Phillips 1. Pierre Levegh And 83 Spectafors
I was at IMS on May 15, 1982.....I was 9 yrs old ...... Anyways, don't know why you are using an F1 car to represent an Indycar.....and you have the crash happening in the wrong place in Turn 3......In your video , the lower section of stands that can be seen as the already crashed car goes by is actually where Smiley hit the wall....Those stands didn't exist in 1982 at Indy
not bad with the tools you have, but I wouldn't say he spun to the right, he hooked to the right. Also, why does it look like his head is on backwards when next to the car, I could only laugh through this as it reminded me of spaceballs.
No, it wasn't 2. I was sitting in the short chute grandstand between 1 and 2. It happened in turn 3. I saw Gordon go out on his warmup lap and he didn't come back around. I saw and heard nothing of the crash when it happened. Then Tom Carnegie came on the PA and said "We have a terrible mess in turn 3".
This simulation does not do the actual crash justice. It’s actually way worse than this. I was at quals that day but was sitting in turn one so we didn’t see the crash. They just announced that it was fatal a while later. When I saw the reply I thought that’s the worst racing crash I’ve ever seen and it still is today.
This is very wrong He lost steering control and wentvhead long into the wall I know because I was there The entire track went completely silent for about five minutes
there is an excellent analysis of Smiley's crash done by Roland Waites. The gist of it is that Smiley went too low and lost traction and ground effects, he wiggled the steering wheel and realized he was off the ground. By sheer luck, the tires deflected air back into the channels, re establishing his ground effects (video views from the infield support this; you can see the car accelerate into the wall as the rear tires catch their grip). I am far from an expert on racing, but in comments sections of various Indy videos, people seem to think that the newer cars and safe barrier would save a driver today and would have saved Gordon if the technology existed in 1982. I doubt that, as I haven't seen any other Indy crashes in which the car goes essentially head first into the wall. His car had nowhere to go but upwards, and if he hadn't been dead in the first millisecond of contact with the wall, the fence would have killed him. And for what its worth, the new cars look ridiculous compared to Gordon and Rick Mears' needle nosed March chassis cars of the 82 era (and the last ten laps of that 82 race is still the most exciting to watch as Mears catches Johncock; he and Penske both acknowledge the error of putting in too much fuel and then letting Johncock cut him off on the last lap, otherwise Mears would have won), and I think my favorite Indy moment is Arie's 96 qualifying run.....252 mph on the straights.... lol sorry for talking your ear off.....
Not at all. Wheldon’s car went airborne and totally cleared the outside wall. It went into the fence top side first. Dan’s head hit a pole supporting the fence.
Your "simulation" sucks and is not even close. The car rode the fence upside down for a considerable distance, scrapping Smiley's head against the steel structure and for all intents and purposes, grinding it down.
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He actually did make it to 200mph and at least we can all say, that he fulfilled his goal.
When they say 200 mph they are talking about average lap speed which he did not make
He WA driving the turn 2 straightaway at 202.1 miles an hour
Speeds are only official at Indy once your qualification run is complete.....Smiley never went 200 mph
@@jessallen7756 exactly what I was saying Speed is the average lap speed Not top speed on the track
And unfortunately it killed him.
Still on of the most violent, destructive crashes in Indy history. One medical examiner said that Smiley's injuries were similar to Buddy Holly's after the plane crash. Every single bone broken.
Honestly I don’t think there has ever been a more violent single-car accident in any discipline of motor racing. He had injuries similar to that of people who have died in plane crashes.
@@hmdwgf Russell Phillips, Tony Renna, François Cevert to name a few.
@@ventisette. Those are definitely up there- Cevert's is top 3. (Don't read further if squeamish) According to Steve Olvey, who wrote in his book about this accident, Smiley's crash was so devastating and violent that he had been scalped by the debris fence, because his helmet had been pulled off due of the centrifugal force of the impact. Also- every single bone in his body was shattered. Not broken- shattered. And his brain matter was all over the track, and he had a large gaping wound that looked like he had been attacked by a large shark.
@@ventisette.Have you heard of the description from the medical advisor on sight? Here it is; While rushing to the car, I noticed small splotches of a peculiar gray substance marking a trail on the asphalt leading up to the driver. When I reached the car, I was shocked to see that Smiley's helmet was gone, along with the top of his skull. He had essentially been scalped by the debris fence. The material on the race track was most of his brain. His helmet, due to massive centrifugal force, was literally pulled from his head on impact ... I rode to the care center with the body. On the way in I performed a cursory examination and realized that nearly every bone in his body was shattered. He had a gaping wound in his side that looked as if he had been attacked by a large shark. I had never seen such trauma."
@@crime_dog27 Head injuries are no joke, I talked to one of the guys who was present at Rich Vogler's crash, he said Rich basically had no face, that the whole front of his skull was indistinguishable. A year ago I read Dan Weldon's Autopsy report, while his injuries were more to the top of his head, much of his brain was spilled into what was left of his helmet. Greg Moore had similar injuries at Fontana in 1999, you can see both of his arms flailing when his car flips after the impact, at an estimated 154G. It's interesting that there are better frame-by-frame stills of Smiley's crash in 1982 than Moore's 17 years later.
I taped the original ABC broadcast of this right after it happened. I analyzed it for hours and upon initial impact Smiley's helmet shot straight up in the air like a football punt . This will always be the most brutal racing event in my long lifetime.Godspeed Gordon Smiley.
If you look at the photos his head slammed into the wall really hard and the his body went up into the air and might have hit the fence
The other crash nearly equally brutal would be the Russell Phillips NASCAR crash
His head did hit the fence.....The doctor that was first on scene, wrote a book about his career as a doctor for Indycar and it includes a brutal depiction of what happened that day
The doctor's report is enough to turn your stomach. He was scalped, and "broke every bone in his body".... i find that hard to believe. Along with Greg Moore... a couple of unsurvivables.
@@MikeFord-io2jb judging from the impact it's easy to believe that every bone in his body was broken.
Very tame reenactment. The actual version is very graphic with the poor guys exposed body shown tumbling while still strapped into the drivers seat. Crazy how fast it happened.
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comment by Dr Steve Olvey, who attended to Smiley on the track: _"During an attempt to qualify for the Indy 500, Gordon Smiley, a cocky young driver from Texas, was determined to break 200mph or die trying. Several veteran drivers ... had warned him that he was in way over his head, driving all wrong for the Speedway. Smiley was a road racer and was used to counter-steering his car to avoid a crash if the rear wheels broke traction. While rushing to the car, I noticed small splotches of a peculiar gray substance marking a trail on the asphalt leading up to the driver. When I reached the car, I was shocked to see that Smiley's helmet was gone, along with the top of his skull. He had essentially been scalped by the debris fence. The material on the race track was most of his brain. His helmet, due to massive centrifugal force, was literally pulled from his head on impact ... I rode to the care center with the body. On the way in I performed a cursory examination and realized that nearly every bone in his body was shattered. He had a gaping wound in his side that looked as if he had been attacked by a large shark. I had never seen such trauma."_
Have you read the book “Rapid Response by Dr. Olvey? Very good read.
I always thought the word "scalped" was inadequate. Not to get too macabre, but it might be more accurate to say that Smiley's head exploded. Or you could say that the top half of his head was smashed off.
There is so much wrong with that that it would take me an hour to list it all. Only one car is on the track during a qualification run, this shows multiple cars. There were no stands outside turn three when this happened. The actual crash was much worse than shown here. He did tell his chief mechanic before going out that he would run 200 and was told just to take what the car would give him. I'll leave it at that.
Write a letter.
He was my neighbor, rode by his house everyday on my bike. His mailbox was a checkered flag.
Wow, that's cool! :-) Did you ever talk to him?
@@TheMouseAvenger no, we saw him several times but I was too shy to approach him.
I think it is safe to say that the crash test dummy should have been in that car rather than Smiley.
A simple fact: on an oval track, if you get loose (oversteer) in the middle of a turn, as a general rule, you should release the throttle and never countersteer. If the behavior of the vehicle is still not stable, continue to steer to the infield side. Spinning and hitting a wall on your butt is a little better than a T-bone crash.
It is said that not only Smiley but also Danny Ongais in 1981 and Ayrton Senna in Imola in 1994 hit the wall in a straight line at the moment of countersteering.
Ongais' life was saved because the car body turned around just before the wall and hit the wall from the left front of the car body.
Like Senna, it seems that Smiley's accident and the mechanism are common to the accident of the type that suddenly collides into the wall at a normal corner.
Im very informed and very sure of what im gonna say, and i can say that Ayrton Senna DIDNT counter Steer. Williams wanted to minimize weight to be faster and maked a thin direction bar. Unfortunately, that cost his best drivers life; on the lastest laps in the Tamburello bumpy section Senna sparked under the car, in lap 7 the direction bar didnt resist more and broke up in the bumpy section of Tamburello, and went straight to the wall.
@@joshuanicolasaragonmunoz6540 Thank you. I took another look at Senna's onboard. The image is disturbed by the vibration, and the image is interrupted just before the collision, so it is very difficult to understand, but if you look carefully at the steering wheel, Senna did not hit the counter. It looked like he kept steering to the left. In the comments, it was pointed out that even though Senna was steering to the left, the tire angle changed to go straight. CINECA's analysis video was also created from this perspective, but I couldn't judge it from the video alone. However, another on-board video showed a close-up of the steering linkage rod, and it appeared that the linkage did not move just before the accident. Since the moment of the collision was covered up, the truth is unknown, but as far as I can see from the published part, I have changed my conclusion that there is a high possibility that the steering column was broken rather than a steering error.
Senna couldn’t steer at all, how could he counter steer with a broken steering column?
@@kes7774 and Williams covered that it was they fault to dont be black flaged
Senna did not counter steer. He kept trying to turn left with all his might. But unfortunately, no steering was available was the column was broken,
Just found this as a recommendation from UA-cam and I got to say: Great way to illustrate these old crashes, but it still feels wrong to see crashes that old represented with a newer car design.
Yes his helmet did come off. He was essentially scalped by the debris fence. Glad it was instant. Rest in peace, Gordo.🙏😪
I always thought the word "scalped" was inadequate. Not to get too macabre, but it might be more accurate to say that Smiley's head exploded. Or you could say that the top half of his head was smashed off.
Very inaccurate recounting of the crash. I was there. Smiley was on the track alone, as is the norm for ALL qualifying runs at Indy. The impact angle was so flush with the wall that the engine went through him. The track physician said he had never seen a body with so much trauma. I'm glad the video doesn't show how gruesome it actually was. Smiley's body looked like a rag doll rolling to rest on the racetrack.
Yeah they said it looked like a shark had bitten off a huge section of his torso; I guess where the engine went through him.
is it weird that I just rewatched his crash a night or 2 ago because my recommended was flooded with fatal crash videos suddenly?
Fri waych one fatal c4ash and mh whole dyp his fayal crashes
Seeing his body be brutalized like that will always stick with me. Once you can recognize him in the crash footage, you can never I see him. Rest Peacefully Gordon 💙
I’m glad to see you did under suggestion so that’s cool 👍. This crash was particularly gruesome and I’ve read some details of the aftermath so when you said parts of his car and him were scattered all around, you weren’t kidding.
I also looked at the photos of this accident. This is scary
@@CRASHSimulation not even the word horrific does this justice
I’m not 100% sure if it was this crash, but I know I’ve seen an 80s video from Indy where a reporter said “this goes beyond an accident, we’ve had a disaster at Indianapolis.” Even if this wasn’t the crash he was referring to, it would be a fitting description of this one.
@@ryansheehan9462 - I think that was Jackie Stewart (as an ABC commentator) talking about Patrick Bedard’s hellacious accident in the 1984 Indy 500. Basically said it looked more like an aircraft accident than a race car accident
The actual tub they putvin a garage Closed the doors and cranked the air conditioner full blast Onlyvat the end of the day did they go about extracting his body from the car
I was in the process of heading up to my seat in the short chute off the 3rd turn when the Gordon hit the wall . I immediately fell to the ground with the large explosion , There was debris and ethanol fuel going into the stands, over my head . It was a horrible site. I remeber watching the 500 crew coming up to what was left of the cockpit with Gordon in it . They just open up the orange canopy and covered it . Not good memories 😕
Judging by what you wrote... were you even there?
Well, he was a man of his word…
Art Pollard died during practice for the 1973 race, not during the race itself.
Sorry, but this video is grossly inaccurate.
The collision tore this car, and Smiley, to pieces. There was nothing left that was recognizable, much less an intact 'driver cell' as shown in the video. Smiley lost his helmet and was scalped by the fence. His body was entangled in the wreckage and rolled with it down the pavement. There was no fire of any significance.
Finally, the video depicts another car passing through the accident scene. This was a qualifying run, therefore Smiley was alone on the track.
You are correct. I was sitting at the exit of the 3rd turn that day.
I always thought the word "scalped" was inadequate. Not to get too macabre, but it might be more accurate to say that Smiley's head exploded. Or you could say that the top half of his head was smashed off.
Hey can you make a tribute for Anthoine Hubert about he's crash at belgium 2019. Anthoine Hubert 1996-2019😔
Fantastic.Very close to real crash.
For the next recreation I suggest Henri Toivonen Rally of Corsica 1986
crash, because there isn't any good footage or recreation
Nothing like the real crash...
The actual crash was in reality a lot worse than this simulation showed , Gordon Smiley wasn’t even attached to the cockpit after the impact .
Actually he was intertwined with it. Or what was left of it.
Can you do Richard Hammond's Rimac crash from The Grand Tour?
Insane that even with somewhat modern safety for back then he still was mulated as if he was attacked by a puma
How do u put stig in an f2 car like that?
remember seeing that on abc news that monday morning getting ready for school,,,they showed the whole crash
Nice work
Damn beamng is so realistic u can clactually recreate real life scenarios that happened
They said they found Smiley's body in over 72 pieces and it took over 7 hours to clean up his body chunks which is tragic RIP.
Yeah, it sure was tragic that it took over 7 hours to clean up his body chunks. Not so much, Smiley's death...just that it took 7 hours to clean up his body chunks.
i have a very good friend who is related to Art Pollard... His widow is still alive.
Art pollard did NOT die in the 1973 Indy 500 it was a practice crash!
@@healthyone100 how does what you said effect what i said at all?
@@acrock21 somebody commented that Art Pollard died in the race he didn't he died in a practice crash i just wanted to clear that up!
@@healthyone100 he commented here? I didnt see it. In fact he did pass away from the practice accident... but he passed away later at the hospital.
Can You do Bruce McLaren's Crash in 1970?
The medic who gave the story (Steve Olvey) was one of my dad's friends. We were sitting outside of turn 4. I dont remember much at 5 years old, but my dad said not to look.
0:22 Note: The fancy timing tower didn't exist until decades later
ik its kinda disrespectful but since u do fatal crashes could u do greg moore?
When a veteran of the sport gives you advice, you have to listen because they know better than you.
If you watch the actual video of the accident, you can see his body roll up and over as the wreckage slows to a stop.
Absolutely terrible. Gordon was going to run Group 44’s Jaguar XJS that year.
he wanted to do what Villeneuve did in Europe with wing cars. the maximum limits of downforce were not known and he believed that the more you pushed the more grip you found, and theoretically it is true, the weak point is only in the mechanics, the chassis deforms under extreme force (Mario described it well in 1978) and in tires that deshape.
in my opinion, the small bump reported in the track added to the porpoising which unfortunately reached its maximum effect precisely at that zone. and started to lose traction.
Gordon Smiley was described as cocky, perhaps he was unlucky and too old to learn to control the car in a new way of racing based on ground effect.
Amazing video 👏
Gordon Smiley R.I.P.
What mod did you use for the Indycars?
I didn't see the actual crash footage until 18 years later in a documentary about Indy Cars and their drivers over the years... What few stills I _did_ see of the crash in the newspapers the day after it happened, weren't particularly the type of images I really wanted to look at for all that long! This _had_ to be one of the worst single car tragedies in Indy history... Even with all the safety improvements and high tech features on the machines these days, there's _STILL_ no guarantees hitting something head on at that speed - None at all!
So Smiley doesn’t care that the car can cause an accident
How did you make the stig(?) & the dummy walk and move
This simulation wasn't anything close to what actually happened. The impact to the wall, yes, but after that, ........naw. Watch the replay. It's all over the internet.
how the hell did you make the dummy's move accurately
how do you animate ingame??
how did u make the stig walk?
ok
Ok top 10 worst motorsport crashes
10. Jules Andrei Bianchi
9. Roger Williamson
8. Zbigniew Raniszewski
7. Lorenzo Bandini
6. Jim Melley And Gareth Tagge
5. Craig Jones
4. Gordon Eugene Smiley
3. Tom Pryce
2. Russell Phillips
1. Pierre Levegh And 83 Spectafors
Swede Savage? Alessandro Zanardi? Francois Cevert (chopped in half)? Helmuth Koinigg (decapitated)?
I was at IMS on May 15, 1982.....I was 9 yrs old ...... Anyways, don't know why you are using an F1 car to represent an Indycar.....and you have the crash happening in the wrong place in Turn 3......In your video , the lower section of stands that can be seen as the already crashed car goes by is actually where Smiley hit the wall....Those stands didn't exist in 1982 at Indy
there isn't any indycar mods for beamng the f1 car is the only thing close to a indycar
One of the most disturbing things I've read on Wikipedia
not bad with the tools you have, but I wouldn't say he spun to the right, he hooked to the right. Also, why does it look like his head is on backwards when next to the car, I could only laugh through this as it reminded me of spaceballs.
Thanks, that’s awesome !
I always thought this took place in Turn 2… 🤔
Yes it was 2, not any mystery.
No, it wasn't 2. I was sitting in the short chute grandstand between 1 and 2. It happened in turn 3. I saw Gordon go out on his warmup lap and he didn't come back around. I saw and heard nothing of the crash when it happened. Then Tom Carnegie came on the PA and said "We have a terrible mess in turn 3".
@@andyharman3022 Thank you for the correction and perspective.
Ummmmm
Why did you use F2 2017 cars?
did you know that is there an actual old Indy car? there is not an old Indy car in BMG try to find one
Can you do a simulation of Francois Cevert's crash, if possible?
This simulation does not do the actual crash justice. It’s actually way worse than this. I was at quals that day but was sitting in turn one so we didn’t see the crash. They just announced that it was fatal a while later. When I saw the reply I thought that’s the worst racing crash I’ve ever seen and it still is today.
hey why dont you do romain grosjeans 2020 crash? you did ryan newman what about this one?
Thx man
It was the most terrible wreck I have ever seen at Indy! R.I.P. Gordon!
I watched that with my dad,horrible.
Hid brain was shattered to the track
hey how did you get the stig in the car?
it's hard to explain in words
Gilles Villeneuve pronounced "jill"
Do this nascar crash
Tony roper's nascar crash
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Not a very good animation of the crash. It was much more violent. The only parts that still looked like a car were the tires and the engine.
This is what happens when you do ignorant things
Blaise Alexander fatal crash pls?
Do Tommy Smith car crash
O cara se espedaçou
This is very wrong He lost steering control and wentvhead long into the wall I know because I was there The entire track went completely silent for about five minutes
there is an excellent analysis of Smiley's crash done by Roland Waites. The gist of it is that Smiley went too low and lost traction and ground effects, he wiggled the steering wheel and realized he was off the ground. By sheer luck, the tires deflected air back into the channels, re establishing his ground effects (video views from the infield support this; you can see the car accelerate into the wall as the rear tires catch their grip).
I am far from an expert on racing, but in comments sections of various Indy videos, people seem to think that the newer cars and safe barrier would save a driver today and would have saved Gordon if the technology existed in 1982. I doubt that, as I haven't seen any other Indy crashes in which the car goes essentially head first into the wall. His car had nowhere to go but upwards, and if he hadn't been dead in the first millisecond of contact with the wall, the fence would have killed him.
And for what its worth, the new cars look ridiculous compared to Gordon and Rick Mears' needle nosed March chassis cars of the 82 era (and the last ten laps of that 82 race is still the most exciting to watch as Mears catches Johncock; he and Penske both acknowledge the error of putting in too much fuel and then letting Johncock cut him off on the last lap, otherwise Mears would have won), and I think my favorite Indy moment is Arie's 96 qualifying run.....252 mph on the straights.... lol
sorry for talking your ear off.....
Gordon's head flew off , his legs were crushed(from what I saw) and his torso became one with the car.
No, his helmet was ripped off if his head by the force of the crash, but he was not decapitated.
Not very accurate sim and it was in turn two, not three, so you didn’t even get that basic fact correct.
No, it's not accurate at all but it did indeed happen in turn 3.
Suede Savage
very bad crash i was there!
So your like 50 years old?
@@mrcoleisgreat3929 NO i'm 72!
Very poor representation of this terrible accident. Moreover the "analysis" adds nothing.
minch!
The crash is similar to Dan wheldon
Not at all. Wheldon’s car went airborne and totally cleared the outside wall. It went into the fence top side first. Dan’s head hit a pole supporting the fence.
全然違う・・・
Hey um because you used the f2 cars can you do a antoine Hurbert fatal crash which happen at spa francorchamps
Your "simulation" sucks and is not even close. The car rode the fence upside down for a considerable distance, scrapping Smiley's head against the steel structure and for all intents and purposes, grinding it down.
skin link
drive.google.com/file/d/1uAO6JSSlKVk1Yaxn4BDdryEwocHhWn1V/view?usp=sharing
horrible accident
0:26, The pronunciation of Gilles Villeneuve was absolutely atrocious. The real film footage of Smiley's crash is horrible.
Which is worse?
Can you do a recreation of Adam Petty's crash?
There’s no footage of the actual crash