I am not a fan of gore but I stumbled on this gif of the 1977 death of Tom Pryce.
VERY GRAPHIC YOU SHOULD PROBABLY NOT CLICK THIS
http://i.imgur.com/8kGzX.gif
Driver Tom Pryce and Track Marshall Janson Van Vuuren were both killed instantly during A F1 race in spectacular fashion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Pryce
You always think about speed being dangerous but damn.
[This message has been edited by Madman (edited 5/21/2012 10:11p).]
VERY GRAPHIC YOU SHOULD PROBABLY NOT CLICK THIS
http://i.imgur.com/8kGzX.gif
Driver Tom Pryce and Track Marshall Janson Van Vuuren were both killed instantly during A F1 race in spectacular fashion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Pryce
quote:
Pryce was directly behind Stuck's car along the main straight, Stuck himself sensed Van Vuuren and moved to the right to avoid both marshals, missing Bill by what Tremayne reports to have been a matter of "millimetres". From his position directly behind Stuck, Pryce could not see Van Vuuren and was unable to react as quickly as Stuck had done. He struck the teenage marshal at approximately 270 km/h (170 mph). Van Vuuren was thrown into the air and landed yards in front of Zorzi and Bill. He died upon impact, his body being literally torn in half by Pryce's car.[42] The fire extinguisher he had been carrying smashed into Pryce's head, before striking the Shadow's roll hoop. The force of the impact was such that the extinguisher was thrown up and over the adjacent grandstand. It came to ground in the car park to the rear of the stand, where it hit a parked car and jammed its door shut.[41]
You always think about speed being dangerous but damn.
[This message has been edited by Madman (edited 5/21/2012 10:11p).]