SURVIVING THE UNSURVIVABLE! The Story of Kenny Brack's 2003 Indycar Crash
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- The G Man is that guy from Half Life, right? Nope. It's Kenny Brack.
Kenny Brack's crash in a 2003 race at Texas Motor Speedway in 2003 is to date the highest G Force any human has taken, and survived. I wish I could explain how he survived, but it's just... well... a fluke...
So let's look then at how the numbers stacked.
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It's actually interesting to note, that when the drivers were voting on whether to race at TMS in 2001, Paul Tracy was one of the two who said they wanted to race.
The other, was Kenny Brack...
Crash link?
@@don7680 did you try the description where I said it would be?
Kenny Brack has massive balls so he's allowed to Paul Tracy is just a dick and I cleaned that up because the missus had harsher words which aren't suitable.
@@AidanMillward Gottem!!
It was the Downforce that was the issue AIdan. What they found was the drivers would sustain a high G Load on the entry of the corner. Not enough to affect them there and then but it was the cummlative effect it had. They would essentially suffer G Sickness as their bodies wouldn't have enough time to recover from one G Load before it encountered another again and again etc.
I met Kenny in 98 in Chicago when I was 8. He was the reason I karted. The reason I loved racing, open wheel specifically. He used to send us tickets to races, give us credentials and walk us around the paddocks, gave us all kinds of merch. Dude is one of the strongest guys you'll ever know, but also one of the sweetest. One of my ultimate heroes and favorite people ever. Very grateful he wasn't taken in this accident. And now he's chief test driver for Mclaren. Incredible comeback for an incredible man
Why you no longer love racing? I mean, did you have an accident or?
The second on the list of highest G force survivors is Chris Van der Drift. He survived 210 G's after his car hit the bridge over pilgrins drop during a Superleague's Formula race in Brands Hatch in 2010
Man Chris Van der Drift is just too good of a name for motorsport
@EmilForsberg_GRYBO Just a shame he doesn't drive drift cars, that would have been perfect
That is a gnarly wreck. Also, you should look at Geoff Bodine's wreck at Daytona in the Truck Series. It was one that absolutely looked like a situation "not compatible with human life."
He technically saved his own life. He had been wearing a full-faced helmet (a rarity even in 2000!), and had specialized spring-loaded seat. It did mess him up though - he never returned to victory lane after the accident.
I've seen the footage of that crash. It's one of those rare crashes in NASCAR were the sort of echo of the crowd flat out disappeared. In NASCAR if the crowd goes dead quiet at a crash. Be very concerned, cause those are the ones where usually someone is isn't going home or at the very least is getting a medevac to the nearest major hospital. The engine in that truck did about a 1/4 of a lap around the track, they found it like mid way through turn 1.
@@Dat-Mudkip the bodines deserve a good look into. they have an amazing story.
Watched it live....jaw dropped. Watched it 300 times or so since. Jaw still drops.
Yep. I saw that race live also. I thought he was dead on impact. I almost shit my pants when the tub was spinning and the cars were avoiding him.
Brack’s crash was the sort that would prompt my dad to say, “he’s dead.” In fact that’s probably exactly what happened, because this was the year we started grudgingly watching the IRL because most of the best teams had crossed over. It’s a testament to the safety of racing cars by the ‘90s and early 2000s that my dad, influenced by having discovered racing in the ‘60s, was quite often wrong when he said that. Senna and Jeff Krosnoff are notable exceptions. And when Greg Moore died, I caught myself saying it to my friend I was watching with so I can only assume my dad said it simultaneously at home. But of all the “he’s dead” moments Brack’s might be the most amazing escape.
Been around the channel a while & never left a comment.
I just want to thank you for talking about all these motorsport topics over the years, have a good one!👍
Brack’s surviving that crash has always astounded me. The G loading not only ‘could’ have but ‘should’ have been his end. Over 200 G is terrifying, but also important to point out is the fact that a very good portion of that, perhaps a majority of that, was what’s known as ‘rotational G loading’ from the tub of his car spinning. I think I remember the rotational rate bing calculated at over 9x/sec. Rotation induced G loading is a very different thing from the longitudinal loading we see in fighter pilots. Rotational loading from a spin at +/- 5x/sec has been known to cause massive brain injury from the hemispheres of the brain essentially shearing (one side forward vs one side backward) which can instantly flip your ‘off’ switch.
Kenny was either the toughest man on the planet at that time or an extremely lucky fellow. I’d say it’s likely both.
I remember watching a documentary on Verus TV during the 2008-2009 off season after Versus TV bought TV rights for IndyCar for the upcoming season. There was a show about memorables moments in IndyCar. Kenny was interviewed and casually said the doctors pick up his ankle bones on the track and put them in plastics bags.
The explanation for the difference between TMS in 2003 and now is that the corners were banked at 24 degrees back then instead of 20 as they are today. Also they greatly reduced downforce and engine power the following year
It's 24 in turn 3 and 4 still but 20 in turn 1 and 2
@@owengymnast3687 I didn't know that, I assumed when they resurfaced in the late 2000s they changed all 4
@@patrickbateman6682 they changed the banking in 2017 with another repave
Aidan you are probably the most underrated Motorsport UA-cam channel ever, thank you for the content.
Oval crashes in regards to G-Forces are insane. Jerry Nadeau at Richmond (a short track) in 2003 ended his career. 130 g’s.
Nadeau went on the Dale Jr. download podcast and admitted that he removed some padding from his headrest before he crashed. Hate to say it but doing that almost killed him.
I think what might have saved Brack was that it looked like it hit the fencing at a shallow angle, then the catch fencing flexed to allow the car to spin, the G-forces had the potential to be even higher if it hit it at a different angle.
If you go frame by frame, you can see one single frame where the car goes from flying up into the fence to spinning so fast it's no longer a distinguishable shape. Rough but definitely preferable to a sudden stop.
The 2003 Spec Aero on the IRL chassis were notorious for getting airborne way too easily. Mario Andretti nearly ended up in a grandstand at Indy after hitting a bit of debris and just a few weeks after this crash Tony Renna was killed testing at Indy when his G-Force got airborne in a crash where it never should have gotten airborne. For 2004 the IRL forced Dallara and G-Force to change the aero that not only slowed the cars down but kept them on the ground
Some of the stories from CART at TMS in 2001 are nuts. One driver supposedly passed out mid lap and woke up mid-turn. From what I understand, it was because of how steep the banking was at the time. It was causing downward G forces rather than lateral G forces on the drivers, pulling the blood away from their heads.
Just for referrence. The original Crash Test Dummy endured a Max of 83g under Deceleration. Colonel John Stapp endure severe bruising and injure during a 'controlled' deceleration testing safety of early jet fighters.
Another extreme high G incident was Mike Rockenfeller at LeMans (the year the Audis switched from open cockpit to traditional clamshell). This was the same race that McNish wiped out at the start of the race. Both of whom many believe would have been dead had they still been racing open top cars. Rockenfeller's crash was so heavy it punched a hole in the concrete wall, leading to a full course caution that lasted so long (to facilitate repairs) that the pace cars had to make pit stops for fuel. Amazingly, in spite of the car being disintegrated, Rocky was out of the car (under his own power) by the time the marshalls arrived soon after, albeit totally seeing Tweety flying around his head, or doing the "Duh, which way did they go George".
Nice Warner Bros. reference!
I have seen what there is of film of that, ( bit like Rocky's 2007 crash in the R10, there's no real film of it?) and it looks like an explosion. He cut his arm and that's about it. I never heard any go figures for either his or McNish's accident.
A horrible crash reminds me of Robert Wickens at Pocono with the car spinning like that.
Minor correction at 2:03, if I recall correctly it was actually a 370-ish mile race, or 600 kilometers, hence why they called it the Firestone Firehawk 600k. Texas Motor Speedway often measures their races in kilometers for some reason despite the fact that it's an American track
Bigger numbers look better on the media and record books while promoting and scoring a race. I.E., Phoenix 500 was measured in kilometers, but it was really only 312 miles. So I'm thinking that if for no other reason than smart marketing the Phoenix (whatever the sponsor name is), 500 sounds Way better than the Phoenix 312. No?!?
Ngl I was tempted to do the whole video in metric just to annoy people :P
I remember watching this live. I know the video is up on UA-cam somewhere. What has always stuck out to me was the fear in Paul Page’s voice as it happened. Paul had seen it all at this point so you knew it was bad.
You also briefly hear the unfiltered sound of the cars going by and it really added to the severity of the situation.
Also I had the pleasure of meeting Kenny Brack in the spring of the following year as he was preparing to get back in the car at a test. He is a great person, could not have been nicer.
Considering Paul had at that time, seen more than his fair share of fatal crashes just in the past 3-4 years, and knew what he was dealing with. The one that still sticks out is Greg Moore's horror crash in 99, and the oh my God that Paul said, the fact he was, as it turns out, doing the director's job for him and told the production truck not to show any replays, it showe that he knew Greg was gone instantly. How he and Parker kept it together is nothing short of absolutely incredible.
I mean from 99-03 Paul had to deal with several violent accidents in CART, he'd been there in 96 in Toronto when Krosnof had an equally horrific crash and died, he was working the 500 in 1999 and also there when Gonchi was killed at Laguna (Whoever put that footage of Jim Swintal clipping the flag to the flagstand and turning away, that gets me every time), so he knew exactly how serious the crash was.
@@jacekatalakis8316 this was exactly what I was saying. The fact that Paul reacted like he did, given all he had seen, really highlighted the severity of the crash.
And you are spot on about Paul and Parker doing an amazing job keeping it all together after experiencing what they experienced. They are pro’s.
I'll never forget watching that crash live on T.V. I was probably 9 years old and my dad just turned off the T.V. and we went out for ice cream suddenly. That's when it really hit me on just how dangerous this is.
It`s interesting to note as well, that during this time CART ( Championship Auto Racing Teams ) and IRL ( Indy Racing Leaugue ) were 2 different series, that split up in 1996, where CART went down the old Indycar route and raced on several different types of tracks, like ovals, street courses and real racing tracks, like Laguna Seca for example, whilst IRL only raced on ovals, and also included the legendary Indianapolis 500 race which Kenny Bräck won in 1999.
Bräck also won the IRL championship in 1998.
Bräck raced for A.J Foyt in IRL in 1998 and 99.
After leaving IRL after the 1999 season, Bräck raced in the CART series for Team Rahal between 2000 and 2002, whit good success, but no titles, and in 2002 he joined the very successfull Team Chip Ganassi in the Cart series, but sadly it was not a good year for Bräck, whit several retirements, many due to first lap incidents whit other drivers, so in 2003, Bräck rejoined Team Rahal, and the IRL series, ( now called Indycar ) and it was not the best year sadly for this team sadly, and then this massive crash happened at Texas sadly.
However coming back from that crash, and being test driver for Mclaren road cars is very strong.
I remember this crash was on news the night it happened. You know a crash is HUGE when it makes the news, I also remember that the news wasn't clear on whether Kenny was going to survive or not, only that he was in hospital. Good thing he made it.
God bless Jackie. So many people poo-poo safety measures, saying it “dilutes the purity” or some such bullshit. My mom was a huge rave fan until she watched Lorenzo Bandini burn to death on live TV. She was also a massive Jim Clark fan. She didn’t watch another race until we started getting into it in the 90s. It’s so much nicer watching racing without 2 or 3 of your favorite racers dying every year. In fact, now I’m a mailman in Las Vegas, and one of my childhood heroes, Miguel Duhamel lives on one of my routes.
hike harmon at bristol in 2002 is another one that looks insane. the car literally split in two and stopped immediately. even with the lower speeds its still a massive g-load.
I've actually been to Bristol this year and the past 2 years before for the night race.
I was on a party in Sweden a week or so before the crash and meet Kenny, a friend told him to stop racing now before something happens …
Kenny’s hart stopped 2-3 times in the hospital so he was in a very bad condition, it’s a miracle he survived!
For the record :
Channel 5 had extensive highlights of IRL that year and a few years, they showed that round and my god I was about 14 when I saw my jaw dropped. How he survived it…Ironman.
For CART at Texas, drivers were pulling over 6.5G diagonally for over half the lap. They could get away with those G forces at 2 mile ovals like Michigan and Fontana (RIP) because of the long straights. At Texas, drivers didn't have any time to recover because they were consistently pulling that G load and in some cases passing out in their cars.
6.5G is hard to sustain for more than a few seconds without a G suit to keep blood pressure stable and breathing techniques to maximise available oxygen, trying to do it repeatedly in the same direction with less than 10 seconds recovery in between is just suicide. Your heart would be under incredible stress trying to keep blood in the left side of your body, your lungs would be at severely reduced function, your right eye would be swelling shut and both would be failing, you'd be more or less deaf in you right ear and your balance would be all over the place. Eventually you'd suffer a partial or total loss of vision (blackout) and or a full loss of consciousness (GLOC) due to oxygen starvation.
(I believe the sustained loading in the corners was reportedly somewhere between 3 and 5.5G but the symptoms and effects are the same)
It was the lower half of the left sidepod that hit the fence first. His survival of that initial impact was nothing short of miraculous. The fact that no one else hit him once he hit the ground was a miracle all its own. I've never been a fan of open wheel racing at Texas or Vegas. The cars are just too fast and every lap is on a knife edge of catastrophe. Robert Wickens' survival at Pocono was also miraculous, he just wasn't able to walk away from it.
Here some clarification: April 28, 2001 - Morning Practice Top Speeds, Paul Tracy: 22.542 or 236.678 mph.
Keep in mind that this is practices so there is no slipstream where a car can get a tow from another car.
Meanwhile, IRL in 1998 was doing 23.759 seconds or 227.273 mph with a tow and 24.059 seconds or 224.448 mph without - than the IRL slowed down the car somehow.
By 2001 IRL was doing 24.305 seconds in qualification and 23.951 in the race. This is already quick.
This means that you could have expected CART to do in the 22.3s in the race in 2001.
I think Cart could have done the race, but it would have needed more preparation and that includes turning down the turbo boost. Not to 37 inHG, but more like 25 - 30 inHG.
Man I remember watching Brundles crash at Melbourne live. We thought there was going to be no way he was getting out of that alive.
Just to add, Eurosport channel on Sky usually showed all the Cart and Indy racing. I loved watching them throughout the 90s
Considering just six months before that, Hakkinen was put in a coma.
@@AidanMillward people were lulled into a false sense of security, we were always told the cars were the safest they'd ever been. But that doesn't mean it wasn't still dangerous to drive them!!!
The gravity at the center of the Sun or planets would be almost 0, as all the forces cancel each other out. I think you meant Surface Gravity, which for the Sun is 28.02 g and for Jupiter is 2.528 g. I wouldn't want to be in those places either way.
Love your videos, keep it up!
Yeah, it's surface gravity, but since Jupiter and the Sun don't have one it's a bit confusing.
Like I said, I'm not NGT XD
There was a documentary on Swedish television a few years ago about Bräck, this crash and the aftermath of it. The road back to health was a long and painful one, but this guy is a tough survivor. We swedes have some weird shit letters including "'ä" so the surname is pronounced "Breck". Didn't take anything away from a great video as usual so thanks for that Aidan.
So his name rhymes with neck and deck? I never knew that. Thank you. I will always call him Kenny Breck from now on.
@@ImInLoveWithBulla Yes this is correct
Aidan your channel is criminally small for the absolute phenomenal quality of your content! I will share your content with my iracing friends because I know they will love it too
Another that comes to mind for something that should have been unsurvivable was Geoffrey Bodine in the 2000 Nascar truck race at Daytona. Truck went into the fence and was absolutely shredded apart.
I was at Indy when Ralf had his crash. We couldn’t see much from the grandstand seats. We were just agog at how feckless the F1 corner workers were. At an Indy race, the trucks are alongside the car before it would even stop skidding.
Ah strange, I remember Indy races being broadcast on Eurosport back then over here in Belgium. Don't know if that channel was part of the cable package in the UK though.
For 2001 it's not the speed but the banking of the track. So all the blood went to one side.
They had faster speeds at ims and Fontana. Just the banking at TMS caused the issue.
abit of a correction about the pole time in 2003, it was actually a 23.503s, equated to a 222.865mph lap when using the timing/scoring length Indycar did of 1.455mi/2.342km, around texas. so the Indycars are still a good ~10mph slower over a lap there, compared to CART.
Ah Christ it’s happened again hasnt it.
There are moments when it's just not your time
Makes you wonder if there is actually a god at that point.
@@AidanMillward if not your going to come up woth one real fast.
My grandfather was an oval racer in the 1960's he would drive in a t shirt ,dress slacks , wing tips..and a beer keg used as a fuel cell ...safety
Ryan Briscoe had a similar crash - but not nearly as devastating. And Robert Wickens showed that unless you're climbing the fence like HCN, it's something to be avoided. It's too bad science hasn't developed a lexan-like material strong enough to set up as catch fence - like a hockey rink. However, I suspect shading and lensing could be among other practical shortcomings with this solution... Thanks for the vid - you got my mind going!!
Davey Hamilton's crash, also at Texas, was comparable. He didn't quite get up as high into the fence.
Briscoe's crash at Chicagoland produced some of the most dramatic photos you will ever see. Whoever the photographers were, they did some amazing work and got some amazing shots of his car breaking in half as it hits the fence
Parents had season tickets to TMS for us all. Was our first proper year of on track action. All of the truck, Busch and cup series hadn’t prepared me for that. They red flagged the race and my parents made us leave the grandstands because my very first race watched was the 2001 Daytona 500. TMS is my mecha, every race (even the 2022 all star race) I walk to the place that Tony Ropers truck came to rest to pay respects
The mental image of an Indy car bayblading into a fence is terrifying
The actual image is even worse. Survivable or not, I don't understand why everything isn't covered in a layer of vomit when the safety team gets there.
Forgot about this crash. He was extremely lucky that day.
I have never, in my life, been more certain I just watched a man die than when I saw Brack get into the catch fence at Texas.
I still can't believe he survived, much less returned to racing.
Other "How the $&*@ did they survive that?!" crashes: Geoff Bodine at the 2000 Craftsman Truck Series race at Daytona that was so severe that it yeeted the engine about 500' down the track (even the broadcasters thought he died) and Michael Waltrip at the 1990 Busch Series race at Bristol where his car got sliced in half when he hit the crossover gate that wasn't secured properly (Bristol has a gap in the outside wall that lets teams onto the track from outside, so it was head-on into the end of a concrete wall).
Open-wheel cars on stock car super speedways is just *begging* for trouble (Texas and Atlanta are the fastest NASCAR tracks because they don't use restrictor plates there, and they're built to be that...high banked turns, smooth tri-oval shape like Talladega and Daytona, just a shorter lap so you can't quite build up the speed on the backstretch). Indy tried a Daytona race back in the 60s, and the drivers just noped out of it because it's too friggin' fast. And you know shit's crazy when drivers from the 1960s think something's insane.
On the other end of this is the innocent looking crash where the driver is killed. I think the prime example of this is Chuck Rodee at Indianapolis in 1966. Just backed it into the wall and it killed him.
Also, USAC thought that it could have been a good idea to hold an indycar race at Talladega in 1980. I'm glad they didn't follow through with the plan...
Funny thing is, Kenny Brack was the first driver I know from IndyCar. Well... CART, actually. That was my first exposure to the world of oval open-wheeler racing, back in 2001-2002.
Kenny's bright yellow Shell livery was very distinctive!
Great video. I'd be curious to see a more in-depth analysis of the crash.
As the commentators mentioned during the broadcast, there were a number of factors that contributed to his survival, such as the car turning into a favorable position prior to impact, the car disintegrating almost entirely (except for the survival cell) and thus absorbing much of the energy absorbed during the impact. Even Bräck spinning violently across the track like a flywheel shows you just how much energy was dispersed simply by favorable vectoring.
It would be interesting to know where the actual measurement of the impact force was taken. Clearly, if the impact was absorbed by any of Bräck's vital organs, he wouldn't have survived. But it seems he was largely shielded from that.
excellent video, definately one of those moments that will be talked about forever
I was there! Horrific to witness. Watched through the binoculars, very tense scene. So happy he lived!
Ken Bräck in the wet at Goodwood in the GT40. Look it up. Some of the best onboard driving footage ever captured. Up there with the old Audi Walter Röhrl video. Bräck is a legend of racing from this performance alone.
(Bräck should be pronounced a little more like Brook. The umlaut over the "a" basically means you round your lips to more of a "u" shape when you say the letter. Yes it's that easy.)
Bräck at Goodwood in the GT40 is my all time favorite in car video ua-cam.com/video/3EFKgT0yA_w/v-deo.html
I've heard it pronounced Brayuck and Brayack
Elliot Sadler, a nascar driver had a crash a Pocono in 2010 that's been recorded as being the hardest hit any nascar driver has taken. No confirmed g's but the second highest was 86g, so this has to close to 90.
and somehow no video of it either, even in this day and age
Wow. I hadn't realised Dave Purley's 'record' had been broken. Incredible.
Purley had nine lives, by the looks of it. Didn't realise he was in the freakin' parachute regiment.
@@AidanMillward Purley was back in racing 2 years after his 1977 crash, though it was quite a struggle. There's a clip on UA-cam of him being interviewed by Murray Walker upon his comeback. Purley seemed remarkably cheerful bearing in mind what he'd had to go through to get there.
Love you and your content, Aidan. Look! I'm here early from Australia! However...your head is getting like mine and will eventually become too reflective for the camera. Just a suggestion; I wear hats a lot...
By the way...this conversation is something I had about 15 years ago with my bloody Sister. We have both been huddled together like hibernating bears when shit happened where somebody looks in danger. Grosgean was our last 'huddle and cuddle in fear' moment. We both thought he was gone for all money. The relief we felt when we saw him jump the fence was like we got back a dead family member!
2:23 just blows my mind. They were just asking for someone to die at this point
The gravity on the surface of the sun is 28g, the gravity in the center is 0g because you have an equal amount of mass around you.
Great story, my dad taped the ITV news story.
Kenny Brack in the flesh, or rather in the racing suit.
*Black Messa*
I had a chuckle at the silverstone 21 reference!
Worst accident ever. Guy was lucky to still be alive. He had to go to H O S P I T A L.
Yeah that got me pretty good lmao
It was live on Sky Sports in the UK (not England we haven't left....yet :P ). I was sitting in a chatroom on AtlasF1 (now Autosport) at the time and it lit up like a christmas tree with Wows and arghs most people had it on in the background at least. scary scary crash
It also, if I recall right, made it on the main BBC news as well, not the sport section. THe main news. Same thing with Ryan Newman's flip in February as well. THe IR01/IR03 had their fair shrae of massive crashes as well, though. I still, tot this day hate the IRL pack racing or how blatantly unsafe it was at races like Texas or, yes, Vegas, and those two are the ones I point to as to why having open wheel cars going wheel to wheel inches apart, does not make or exciting racing. It was said on the CART broadcasts that drivers didn't like Michigan due to it scaring them, but I don't recall any similar statements by IRL drivers.
Did any speak up about their fears?
I have watched a lot of early 2000s IRL races on big ovals here on youtube, and TBH I didn't really like it! Too much downforce and not enough power. The cars looked way too slow on the straights, especially at Michigan. I still haven't watched any Indy 500 of that era (which might be a different story, as far as I know), but there's no denying that CART on the big ovals in the 90s was so much better, and honestly so is modern Indycar racing on big ovals (just watch Texas before NASCAR applied PJ1)
Bingo! We chose not to watch the IRL in our house. Blatantly unsafe pack racing is a very good description; and when the inevitable happened, the chassis did not protect the driver to the extent that a better design was capable of. I was of the opinion it was like watching Russian Roulette, so we didn't watch. Yes, I'm old enough to remember the 70's and its dangers. Yes, I've been at the track when fatalities and serious injuries happen. There is risk and then there is stupid risk. CART was eviscerated for that Texas race - but they would not deliberately endanger their drivers or their audience. Different stupidity put them in that position. It's no wonder so much of the audience had moved on.
I wonder if they showed it in England because of Brack's previous F3000 experience.
this should be recommended by the yt algorithm.
...sheeeeet 50+G for a second head and limbs shear off ...but the organs are still in shape.
Excellent reportage. Thanks.
i wonder how many gs gordon smiley was subjected too, thats the most violent crash iv ever seen
I remember watching this race live and thinking "Welp FFFk...he's dead."
Dude was crazy lucky he didn't catch a fence post upside down. It wasn't long after that Adrian Fernandez said something to the effect of "Screw this, I'm done. This ain't racing, it's suicide," talking about Indycars on ovals.
Patrick Carpentier also made the same decision after having watched Ryan Briscoe's car get cut in half in the fence at Chicagoland in 2005. I love Indycar but we can't go back to the pack racing on the 1.5 mile ovals. The Aero package that Indycar had last year at Texas was perfect as it allowed the drivers to race without getting into the packs. 1997-2011 IRL-style pack racing may have produced close finishes but it was damn stupid and it cost the life of Dan Wheldon for them to wake up and realize this.
@@senorsoupeIt wasn't the package as much as the cars couldnt race in the gimmick goo
I remember seeing this live. Horrifying doesn't do any justice in describing the accident. It is certainly one of those deals where everything had to go right for him to survive.
The irl incident where franchitti flew upside down for a straight was also reported on the news in the uk. Fortunately he was fine, and also ended up upside down the following race, but by this point uk news was bored.
Jimmy dying was a big wake up call. But the true moment was Dale Earnhardt. Euro fans often shun NASCAR, but they recognized the GOAT. If something could happen to Dale… everyone is mortal. 😊
I have recently had my eyes retested and been given a new prescription for spectacles. As a result, I realise you have not been knighted and I confused the word 'sim' for 'sir'.
I hope this explains any earlier confusion and I apologise for my 'oversight' , if you will excuse the pun.
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
Absolute ledgend for sure. Sir Jackie. (Who apparently had a nude photo of his wife facing him on his work desk. Cool man.)
I thought Mark Blundell held the record after his 1996 Cart Crash at Rio. It would appear that was a 'mere' 122G....
ill never forget the sound of that hit
If you go frame by frame of the Sebastien Bourdais Indy crash that has car live info steaming, I remember taking a screenshot of the telemetry saying the speed was 335 mph. Don't ask me why the speed jumped from ~215 to that, but that's what the telemetry said. It was a brutal hit and Seb was lucky.
Likely as the car rapidly spun, the rotational velocity got it up to that number
The speedometer is (normally) linked linked to a sensor on the crankshaft or driveshaft between the engine and gearbox. If the crash breaks the connection to the gearbox there is a moment or two where the engine is running with no load on it, so the engine will spin up like crazy. The sensor think the car's doing beyond maximum revs in top gear, so it registers a ludicrous speed until the engine cuts out or breaks. You sometimes see the same thing happen when cars do burnouts for the same reason, the wheels (and engine, driveshafts etc) are turning faster than the actual speed of the car but the sensors don't know that.
@@fix0the0spade which is probably the same way you can drive at “120mph” on ice.
should’ve called his band The G’s
If somebody tore down TMS and set it on fire for good measure i wouldn’t hate it at all
I'm of 2 opinions on it. As a facility, it's pretty nice - though there is a lot they could do around it to improve the fan experience. The problem is that since the DW12, high banked ovals are not good for IndyCars, so races like Texas just don't work well. Plus the crap they put on the track virtually prevents a second groove.
Hell, it's my last year here, so after I'm gone, burn it to the ground and send them to Charlotte instead 😆
David Purleys cockpit was reduced to around 31cms and he survived the crash yikes
Simply amazing! I remember watching it live and have seen the video many times. Like everyone watching thought he was dead. Kenny's a great guy. I'm glad he's still around. Where's the link?
And that broke me, but I mean, it's not that hard to do. (shrugs and glances down) 😅😂
Pocono is just as dangerous.
The Texas track was made for NASCAR in 1998 and has sucked all but the years they had to modify the track for the big massive jumbo screen. They NASCAR officials tried to remake the track back to original layout but they cheaped out on the small part of the track in this section so much they had to use PJ1 on the section so cars would use the bottom line and help eliminate Indy Car from racing here at Texas. The PJ1 ruined the tires making the NASCAR drivers not use that line, if NASCAR fans get their wish then NASCAR will skip this track for good on all but maybe slower series like modified and see that track get demolished due to major losses in revenue.
what a tank.
I once drove an old LMP1 car around 3,5g. Its extremely hard for normal people to sustain
Even with a HANS device on its mental the forces that are put on you. And I went round in the wet. Stowe corner was insane.
@@AidanMillward Yes. The car was an old Dallara Judd. I don't wanna know what it feels like to drive something like an R15 or 908 for 24h at Quali Pace like 2010...
@@TheNecromancer6666 It might be that racing drivers are a lot fitter than we are... 😢
@@AidanMillward For comparison: I was a national junior rowing Champion and a driving instructor. So I am no slouch. Thats how fit a pro driver is.
I have a question I want to raise.....
Do ANY of these race tracks have enough QUALIFIED and EQUIPPED medical staff to handle a situation where every single driver on the grid in F1 is left in need of SERIOUS medical intervention?
In the event that the above situation occurs, what do you do? Who do you prioritize? How do you decide who DOESN'T need immediate medical attention where EVERY patient is in need of immediate & serious intervention in order to keep them alive?
In such a situation would a responsible response be to ask for support from ANY and ALL medically qualified people across the staff AND the fans watching the race, going on the basis that by pure numbers alone theirs a high chance that in the crowd their WILL be a few professional doctors and nurses who could in a time of up most need be called upon to save lives?
Kenny Bräck was driving a Dallara chassis, ironically not a G-Force chassis.
I thought his band was Kenny G
What about Mark Webber at Brazil in 2003?
I and my son, were there!!
The gravity in the centre of the sun is 0g. Exactly like in the centre of every other celestial body.☝️🤓
I remember watching it live. It was awful to see it happen. Here is a short piece with Kenny Brack himself talking about it ua-cam.com/video/Hy8fgGiI1WA/v-deo.html
Kenny Bräck's drive in the GT40 at Goodwood Revival in 2013 is nothing short of genius. Possibly amongst the best car control I have ever seen. ua-cam.com/video/1jF__B1xpJY/v-deo.html
Tony!!!!!!!!!!! 236!!!!!!!!!! I remember AJ Foyt basically calling all the guys pansies , I didnt agree with him then and I dont now
AJ was from a different era, bit like how Earnhardt was a bit stuffy when it came to open face helmets and his seatbelts when everyone else was moving on.
Kenny Brack should not be with us, thank god he is. Those IRL races had a lot of scary moments. I am not a fan of those old IRL days. But the fact is oval racing has always been dangerous. Just it is also entertaining on some ovals ...but Texas just doesn't work for me.
The flying into the fence is an awfully ugly way of shredding race car. .
Please make a pod on Spotify
His name is pronounced "Breck". The dots matter.
5:41 What? No "nice" after McNish's number? Who are you and what have you done with Aiden?
Anyone else having major audio sync issues when watching this on an Xbox one series x ?
I can’t see any issues here so no clue.
everythings bigger in texas
Holy shit....