It takes a special man to risk life and limb to entertain the masses. It takes an even more special man to risk life and limb to entertain the masses, and after almost losing said life and said limb, to remain true to his sponsors. NASCAR driver Joey Logano cemented his reputation in the eyes of any potential sponsor by not just walking away from a crash that looked incredibly dangerous, but walking away that crash with his Home Depot had firmly planted on his unharmed skull. This is what we call “professionalism” ladies and gentleman.
Watching those crashes in slow motion is most certainly the best part of NASCAR for the non-diehard fan. For this reason alone I think it would be a worthwhile exercise to take a look at some of the more frightening racing crashes that drivers survived and in some cases walked, or stumbled away from.
10. Michael McDonald (not this one) during qualifying at Texas Motor Speedway - It appears that he’s angry about the crash and not happy that although this car just exploded and flipped six times, he’s still alive. Smile a little bit Mike.
9. Mike Harmon’s car tears apart at Bristol – It looks like Mike was in even greater danger that normal because his car tore apart right before getting hit by another speeding car.
Of course, he just ends up popping out of the car without a scratch. Why don’t they make planes our of NASCARs?
8. Carl Edwards at this year’s Aaron’s 499 - Not only did Edwards flip his car, not only did his car hit the fence, not only di dthe crash take place on the final lap and not only did he walk away, he Ricky Bobby’d to the finish.
7. Amazing Crash at Le Mans – These cars already look like the smallest updraft could lift them airborne. I guess it’s not surprising that this guy can do Blue Angel type moves with that thing. He just failed to stick the landing which put him right into a wall. I’m sure he’ll get it right next time.
6. Stephane Ortelli nearly decapitating another driver – I’ve never been hit in the head with a car going 280 kph, but I’m imagining it would hurt a lot.
5. BMW M3 goes off a ramp that was inexplicably placed very close to the race track where cars travel very fast. The end over end couldn’t look better in slow-mo. The driver went to the hospital but was released shortly after, for your reference.
4. Nascar Craftsman truck series fireball – Just plain scary
3.Any rabbit enthusiast better not watch this video.
2. Ryan Briscoe says hello to the fence and explosion of his car after getting bumped. Amazingly all he got out of the crash was two broken clavicles and not an exploded body.
1. Tetsuya Oda’s Crash at Fuji Speedway in 1998 – Oda, who survived this crash, filed suit against race organizers for failing to implent proper safety procedures. You can clearly see in the video that rescue personel seem very slow in helping the the on-fire Oda. The first people to actually help Oda are his fellow drivers. Despite this seeming negligence, the court ruled in favor of race organizers, saying Oda failed to decelerate quickly enough.
Oda’s story is detailed in a documentary called “Crash.” He no longer races professionally, but he owns a performance autmotive tuning garage called Tezzo.
Send along any other crazy crashes that we might have missed.
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