Surviving a 198 MPH Car Crash
Professional race car driver Mark Blundell replays his horrific 1996 crash and shows us how he survived.
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2. sux2bu commented 10 years ago
#1 I agree, in a couple different views before the curve and after I can see black skid marks.
Plus you can see smoke pouring off the tires,indicating brakes locked-up.
Plus you can see smoke pouring off the tires,indicating brakes locked-up.
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3. schlafanzyk commented 10 years ago
You are both wrong. What happens with brake failure is that the initial brake force does not come on as you would expect it to and need it to, in order to make the corner at all. The split-second moment when you think "Shit, no brakes" is when you have to take a chance and overcompensate for the failure, meaning you often immediately lock up the brakes once you step on the pedal as hard as you can, hoping to get the brakes to do anything. You simply cannot diagnose the reason for brake failure within half a second and have to take a gamble. That's why he is already on a weird line, aiming for the car in front of him instead of staying on the racing line. It happened to Louis Hamilton at Montreal this year. Luckily his brake failure occurred at the slowest corner with a big run-off area and did not cause a crash. It is not driver error. It is mechanical/material failure, which causes something that usually looks like driver error under normal circumstances, because of its very nature.
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4. BloodBeast commented 10 years ago
#1 #2 You can see from a low-res video something that expert crash investigators couldn't? Impressive...
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5. sux2bu commented 10 years ago
#3 So when he said he had ""no brakes" he meant he only had brakes if he stood on the brake pedal really hard? Right....skid marks
show his brakes worked all the way into the wall. Don't know why he panicked and locked up the brakes, but he is a lucky guy.
show his brakes worked all the way into the wall. Don't know why he panicked and locked up the brakes, but he is a lucky guy.
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6. schlafanzyk commented 10 years ago
#5 I hate when people don't even make an effort to comprehend a fairly simple explanation to a complicated problem. Late "desperation" lock-ups are characteristic for cases of brake failure. The lock-up happens at the very end before totally losing control, when he is already way off the racing line, and most importantly, way past the normal braking point, trying to do damage control, knowing his brakes are basically gone - unless he floors them. Even you should be able to see that part. He simply would not be going that direction and then proceed to lock up the brakes, if it was a simple driver error. "No brakes" is just a figure of speech for limited or no brake function, the degree of which often depends on a variety of factors - not just a simple broken wire/line. The ability to moderate brake friction to get effective deceleration is usually the first one to go - which is not the drivers fault, it's physics. Come back when you understand how brake failure and overheating works in racing conditions, before basically calling this guy a liar. You may also want to do some research on the different types of friction while you're at it.
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7. sux2bu commented 10 years ago
#6 If you google this guy you will see he has lost control of his race cars and crashed more than just this time.
I think it was pretty shitty of him to actually aim his car at his team-mate's car to try and slow down.
He could have gotten them both killed.
After the car is demolished it is kind of hard to tell if the brakes really did fail, but the skid marks
going into the curve don't lie.
I think it was pretty shitty of him to actually aim his car at his team-mate's car to try and slow down.
He could have gotten them both killed.
After the car is demolished it is kind of hard to tell if the brakes really did fail, but the skid marks
going into the curve don't lie.
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8. sardaliuma commented 10 years ago
#7 you're a bit stubborn, aren't you?
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9. sux2bu commented 10 years ago
#7 Yea, I suppose you could look at it like that ; but when the driver clearly states that he had no brakes yet you can see black skid marks made by his car going into the curve.......do you believe him or your lying eyes? He did not say his brakes faded or did not work as good as they could have, he said he had NO BRAKES.
Try telling that to a cop if you get in a wreck and you have a couple hundred feet of skid marks behind you. "Honest officer, I wasn't speeding."
It's fine if some groupie (who knows zero about rev-limiters and shift points) wants to make guesses about what happened, I will just go by what I see. And you?
Try telling that to a cop if you get in a wreck and you have a couple hundred feet of skid marks behind you. "Honest officer, I wasn't speeding."
It's fine if some groupie (who knows zero about rev-limiters and shift points) wants to make guesses about what happened, I will just go by what I see. And you?
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10. schlafanzyk commented 10 years ago
Still making no effort to understand my comments. The skidmarks are irrelevant by that point. Get it in your thick head and read up on brake failure.
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11. jenifferlondon commented 10 years ago
omg thats some next level hing to survive no brakes hit against the hall that dude was very luky
-9 1. brandx commented 10 years ago