The non-fatal but most spectacular crash thread

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The non-fatal but most spectacular crash thread

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The timing of this thread might seem awkward considering Julian Bianchi's terrible crash in Japan, which we all regret very much, but let's see if this one will fly anyway and try to keep it decent. I'll begin with a sequence from Classic F1 at Laguna Seca;

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Surely the 1998 Belgian Grand Prix crash at the start would have to win this one...

If not, then Webber in Valencia 2010...
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I would pick Kubica in Canada 2007

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Daliracing wrote:I would pick Kubica in Canada 2007
Oh yeah....forgot about that one..!!
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Maybe Barrichello in Imola 1994

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEmSIMtr4aQ
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Images please gentlemen!

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& an accurate caption to accompany each "image" - would be apropos, like-wise..
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Ed Hilary on being 1st to top Mt Everest,
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tractor - with a few extemporised mod's to hack the task).

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Allan McNish, Le Mans 2011
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Webbers backflip at Le Mans

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Allan McNish 130r

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Spa 2011? FA was pretty lucky

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Abu Dhabi 2010 michael was pretty lucky too

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I 'like' this one... Pierluigi Martini and Christian Fittipaldi, final lap at Monza 1993

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAWgnYJvW_U[/youtube]

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astracrazy wrote:Spa 2011? FA was pretty lucky

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/6 ... ngrabs.jpg

Abu Dhabi 2010 michael was pretty lucky too

http://speedmagazine.net/wp-content/upl ... Liuzzi.jpg
Wasn't it Spa 2012? It looks like the lotus have a stepped nose

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Timo Glock in the 2008 Australian Grand Prix.

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Mike Rockenfeller, Le Mans 24h 2011

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX4JuvqbejM[/youtube]

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