Comments on: Daily Telegraph rates F1 death crashes ‘top video’ (updated)

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By: Carldec

Carldec — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:31:18 +0000

Sorry robert, but thats just crazy talk… Nothing like one every three races ever happened. Perhaps a serious crash every 3 races but not deaths.

There was one a year from 66-69 and two in 1970. There were 4 deaths in 73 and again in 74 with one more in mid 1975, Perhaps that is the period that sir Jackie was talking about.

1973, July 29: Williamson, Roger, 1973 Dutch Grand Prix
1973, October 7: Cevert, FranÃ§ois, 1973 United States Grand Prix, during qualifying session
1974, March 22: Revson, Peter, 1974 S. African Grand Prix, during practice, a week before race
1974, October 6: Koinigg, Helmuth, 1974 United States Grand Prix

Overall there have been 27 F1 deaths.

From good old Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_racing_drivers_who_died_in_racing_crashes

By: Robert McKay

Robert McKay — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:11:08 +0000

Over the course of the whole F1 World Championship, I have no idea. But I’m sure I remember Jackie Stewart saying that there was a period in the 1970′s where, on average, a driver was killed every three races, which is a fairly shocking statistic if true.

By: Dan M

Dan M — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:24:24 +0000

Ive never looked up the stats but I would be interested to know how many people have been killed since the debut of F1 in the 50′s. What would be the ratio of deaths/race weekends….. I’m not trying to be morbid, obviously the safety has improved over the years, but have they done enough?

As for the Kubica accident, I wanted nothing to do with the replays until after it was confirmed that he was not seriously injured. The first thought that ran through my head when that happened was that F1 was in for another tragedy

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:02:28 +0000

They also amended the comment for the woman-falling-down-hatch video. They no longer call her fat.

By: Robert McKay

Robert McKay — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:28:59 +0000

As an aside, it’s interesting that legitimate publications like the Telegraph are directing people towards F1 footage on Youtube. Given the FIA/FOM determinatin to protect the copyright and their continued attempts to shut down F1 “archive” video sites, I wonder if they’ll tell the Telegraph to stop directing people towards such footage.

By: Alex Andronov

Alex Andronov — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:17:58 +0000

Has it been removed now? Or am I blind?

By: ed

ed — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:15:10 +0000

I’m guessing the telegraph was not aware that anybody was killed in this video, as is probable for the videos author, there is no footage of Senna’s crash for instance, which would have showed a far more deliberate attempt to show fatal accidents.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:48:52 +0000

I fear a lot of people watch F1 simply because there’s a chance of a crash – personally the odd off into the tyre barrier doesn’t put me off watching but as Journeyer says it depends how badly hurt the driver is (or bystanders are).

I can kind of see where they are coming from when they say it’s addictive viewing but it wouldn’t rank as my top video that’s for sure.

By: Journeyer

Journeyer — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:39:17 +0000

Painful and sad… Unless you like watching death, it’s hard to see this as a top video. Crashes are nice to watch, if you know no one got killed doing it.