Fun fact: Kenny Brack's crash is 214G, It was the highest g-force ever survived in human history, even acknowledged by Guinness World Records

The zanardi crash is by far the worst accident I've ever seen where no one lost their life... I was 8 and I still remember it so vividly.

It's a shame Dario's career ended how it did. I fully believe he would've been a 4 time Indy 500 winner if he continued racing

12:10 The worst accident of all time. I actually can't believe Kenny Bräck managed to survive over 210G's...

Kenny Brack also holds the record for the most survived G’s ever, but not sustained G’s as it was only very temporary.

As a NASCAR fan in addition to Indycar, Kenny Brack's wreck from 2003 at 12:08 reminds me a lot of the wreck Geoff Bodine had in the Truck Series 3 years earlier at Daytona in terms of the car or in this case truck being completely destroyed. Luckily both men survived their respective wrecks & would race again.

I took my son to that race at Mid Ohio, that crash was unbelievably violent live. It was also the last season Bobby Rahal raced. I have several souvenirs from it, including a scale model car autographed by Bobby himself and the race program book.

I Katherine Legge's accident at Road America was absolutely brutal and she walked away.

Some of the most brutal crashes at indy I remember are from the 60's and 70's. You should dive into them to see why they have the safety measures they use now.

Given you were avoiding fatalities and life-altering injuries, the top 9 were prime stuff. I would personally put Sebastien Bourdais' 2017 Indy 500 qualifying crash ahead of the Hinchcliffe crash, though. And, an honorable mention to Spencer Pigot's 2020 race-ending Indy 500 crash.

That Dixon crash in 2017 was absolutely crazy. Thankfully he came out of ot unharmed but if he hit the wall and fence at a bad angle i fear it would of been much worse

The Scott Dixon crash reminds me of when we lost Greg Moore, it was a sad day that :(

I saw Servia's crash from across the track.(turn9) A big cloud of dust, and out of that comes a car doing a one and a half with a twist. After the dust cleared, it was gratifying to see (through binoculars) that the car had landed upright.

If I remember correctly, #3 was the highest G-force recorded that a human survived? 214G's was what Kenny Brack (sp?) went through? Someone, please correct me if I am wrong.

The worst looking Indy Car crash of all time was Gordon Smiley's crash, and it's not even close.

Regarding Sato's incident at Pocono, his onboard camera later showed that he kept his line and never went off of it. Rather it was Ryan Hunter-Rey who drove up from inside, hitting Rossi in the middle who in turn ended up hitting Sato who was on the outside. Dario Franchitti was the first one, even before Sato's onboard camera footage was shown, to come out and said Sato wasn't at fault, and he was right. Too bad none of the commentators never apologized to Sato for automatically deciding him as the cause of the accident and strongly criticizing him for being reckless. This was particularly true with Paul Tracy who never seems to have kind words for the Japanese driver. We all know Sato and his kamikaze driving style, which makes him both dangerous and exciting at the same time, and he's been criticized in the past for it. With that said, this kind of unprofessional rush judgements are unfair to Sato and only hurt his reputation more than he deserves. Give the man a little more respect. After all, he is the two-time Indy 500 champion.

Don’t forget drivers like Patrick Bedard, who survived a horrific crash during the Indy 500 in 1984, and Kevin Cogan who survived a horrific crash in the Indy 500 in 1989, there are many other incidents and accidents I don’t remember right now.

Thanks for everything you said on the video! That's very informative.

It never ceases to amaze me how anyone can survive these kinds of 200mph plus crashes, let alone how some folks can come back the very next race like it's nothing.

The fact that Brack hit 214G and survived is insane. So lucky the bottom of the car hit the fence pole first too

9:53 and in response to the condemnation for this wreck Sato posted his onboard camera footage showing that he did not turn down as everyone said.

This is a showcase of amazing safety engineering

This popped up in my recommendations, looked interesting and it was! I saw all of these as they happened on TV starting when I was kid. You gave me pause and replay, which for a few of these, wasn’t available for the average home. I totally enjoyed watching this.

Good job guy, thank you for the compilation...

Dixon is super lucky to survive 2017, and that conway/hunter-raey wreck was inches away from Ryan being killed.

Demise90,i was wake up and saw the Top 10 brutal crashed of Indycar moments was intense incident ever.

Zanardi at Lausitzring...I was there. Unreal accident.

My young daughter and I were at the Texas race where Kenny Brack had that horrible crash. To this day I still don't know how he survived.

Quite surprised to not see the 2018 Pocono crash

I’m so glad people acknowledge number 6 idk if it’s because it was a rain plagued race so not many people where watching or maybe because it’s not as spectacular as Dixon crash or Sebastian bourdais crash at Indy but that crash legit made me scared seeing how the car was pushed drivers head first into the wall like that

Fun fact: The most g-forces ever survived in human history is 213 g’s. That man was Kenny Bräck.

Open wheel racing on ovals is downright nuts... And so fun to watch.

I was at the race where Brack was injured. That place was S I L E N T.

Kenny Bräck admitted in a swedish interview that during the first few days in hostpital his heart stoped several times and he was lucky to just be alive and the injuries he got he still feels to this day...

Not only did Michael Andretti race the next day after that qualifying crash, he actually got out of the medical truck and straight into his backup car and put it on the pole right at the end of the session.

It’s weird when the first Indycar race I went to is on the worst crashes list (Pocono 2019)

As former Supercars driver Fabian Coulthard once said; "It's not 'if', it's 'when'".

I love watching crashes

Nice job, Demise90, per usual!! Nice pace in your commentating and a really balanced backstory to each event. You should seriously think of pursuing a career in broadcasting. Honestly, you should at least consider it. Keep up the quality work you continue to generate. Fan 4 life.🏁

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how fast the safety crew showed up. At 8:17 the car starts to spin out, then at 8:34 the safety crew is on scene and deployed. That's 17 seconds!

Thanks for compiling this video .. i have no idea how you get footage.... Some guys get pretty beat up, but good to know none of them died.

Sickening!

Great vid 🔥💯 Scott Dixon. Best Indy driver ever in my opinion

Fun fact: Kenny Brack is the owner of the Guinness World Record for highest amount of G-forces survived. On his “shopping list of injuries” was the fact that his neck and spine were stretched because of the G-forces

I’m not a huge Indy car fan but I remember watching the race at the 1 spot and watching this accident. I was bewildered at how everyone survived, also thank goodness for the halo device.

Not Helio Castroneves casually just driving under Dixons flying car😂😂

Props to the emergency workers in number 5. They were out there FAST

I watched that Michael Andretti wreck live on tv. That was crazy!

I was at the 2017 Indy 500, seated in the main straightaway. Once I saw the yellow flag, I took one look at the big screen and was in shock. I honestly didn’t know if Scott Dixon was alive. I don’t think anyone in my section breathed until Scott got out.

The speed of those things its unreal

Alex Zinardi’s accident where he lost his legs was horrible

IndyCar machines fly high very often whenever they collide and lose good ground effect... those vids remind me Jeff Krosnoff, at Toronto, rolled on the fence to end up with the streetlight pole

Worst Indy crash: Gordon Smiley, 1982. Comment by Dr Steve Olvey, who attended to Smiley on the track: _"During an attempt to qualify for the Indy 500, Gordon Smiley, a cocky young driver from Texas, was determined to break 200mph or die trying. Several veteran drivers ... had warned him that he was in way over his head, driving all wrong for the Speedway. Smiley was a road racer and was used to counter-steering his car to avoid a crash if the rear wheels broke traction. While rushing to the car, I noticed small splotches of a peculiar gray substance marking a trail on the asphalt leading up to the driver. When I reached the car, I was shocked to see that Smiley's helmet was gone, along with the top of his skull. He had essentially been scalped by the debris fence. The material on the race track was most of his brain. His helmet, due to massive centrifugal force, was literally pulled from his head on impact ... I rode to the care center with the body. On the way in I performed a cursory examination and realized that nearly every bone in his body was shattered. He had a gaping wound in his side that looked as if he had been attacked by a large shark. I had never seen such trauma."_

I was right there for Dario's wreck.. I didn't get hit by any debris put a lady maybe 6 people down was all bloody from a head would. Yeah those catch fences were close to worthless. Sad that it was his last race but glad he came out of it alive...I've never been that close to a catch fence wreck... It was a truly unique "sounds" to my ears.. Anyway... New to the channel.. Subscribed, liked and here's the comment... ;) I like your knowledge and understand and how you put your videos together! Thanks!

I was in the north chute grandstands at the 2010 Indy 500. I forget what row my dad and I sat in. However we were not in the rows in which fans were injured. As we drove home, we listened to the race coverage following the post race. The radio station reported there were no injuries. We quickly called into the radio station and corrected them . At least a dozen people had slight injuries. 1 man required stitches, maybe even staples to close a head wound from a piece of debris that hit him.

When I think bad crashes, usually one of the first ones I think of is Ryan Briscoe at Chicago in 06 and now nonchalant the announcers were about it lol Briscoe's crash at Fontana was pretty brutal as well....saw that first hand along with #4 here.

Yes the dixon indy wreck worst I’ve seen live was right in front of us we were in south vista in front of tv & we got to see whole thing it seems like he flew forever & watching & hearing the hit & flips my heart sank I was fan of the goat & I thought we lost Dixie for sure it was devastating live🙏

Excellent narration...

In the no.1 clip, to whomever was running the camera in the fence that Dario hit. You didn't run for your life and you still had the presence of mind to pan across and catch everything as a bomb goes off around you! YOU are Camera Person of the CENTURY!

It's great to see a contributor not trying to sensationalize.

I was watching for most of these, but the Dario accident was what hurt most! I have been to every Formula E race except the last two years. The last year I was there they finally decided to not let spectators sit or stand in high speed areas. I remember telling my partner, geez these cars are really fast, close to a really slow corner.

Super Sick bro

Mark bludell Brazil crash was very brutal

Indy Cars are so solid every impact just looks really hard. F1 and even in NASCAR all have a lot of crumple zones. Indy Car not so much

Regarding Dario ... when you can't remember over a month of your life because of a crash, it's definitely in your best interest to retire from racing.

RHR has escaped potential mortal injuries at least three times . He's a lucky guy.

Kenny Brack's accident i watched live and couldn't believe the guy survived. I mean,the car disintegrated in a fraction of a second while spinning violently. One of the most oh wow moment crashes i saw in Indycar. Was IRL then still,but,it's Indy. All of us here in Europe,majority at least,agree that Indycar is way better than F1 for a long time now. For me 1997 was the last real F1 cars season,but that's just me. You know,in '98 they cut the tyres,narrowed the cars,just trashed the soul of a great motorsport.

Number 37 must have a guardian angel. Careful now, dont lose your head folks.

I have seen many indy 500s like 20 now seen them at Pocono Texas and Milwaukee as well these drivers have big pairs

The forces involved in those impacts are hard to comprehend

It’s really crazy how bad these crashes look and the drivers come out with a few broken bones

The track doctor putting a guy's lost anklebones into a bag for the surgeons later on?! I feel queasy...

I was track manager for this race and helped with this accident. A piece of the catch fence went into one of the stands and landed on a group. Luckily no one was hurt

Wow, some of these actually looked worse than the crash that killed Dan Wheldon. I guess dan was unlucky and some of these extremely lucky. Nice collection. Happy New Year.

We need something to prevent cars from getting tangled in the fence and spinning so violently. Some kind of transparent wall-like structure maybe...

coming back here, after pagenaud's crash, very similar to michael andretti's

Great video good comments 👍

2:43 Oriol Servia is one of the earliest examples of the HANS device saving someone’s life.

Behold: Dallara Space Planes Incorporated! The way Dallara makes cars that are capable of taking off, catching air, and flying like a frisbee, spinning in air... never saw a Lola or Reynard do that. Hmm... Like, they'd get up, but they always wanted to come right back down, like Servia in this clip. That car didn't want to spend any mroe time in the air than it had to. Also, Dallara STILL HAS NOT put in an anti-intrusion rod to the front wishbones. Decades-old, low-tech safety feature from CART that prevents a single piece of suspension from penetrating the driver like what happened to Hinchcliffe... they still haven't added it to the Dallaras. Speaking of Servia, he was pretty dang vocal about the lack of that rod after the Hinchcliffe accident. Dallara does 90 out of 100 things right. It's just frustrating because that extra 10 could kill someone still, and you can see it coming.

Never realised how much of a menace Sato was

At the peak of G-forces, his body weight effectively exceeded 30,000 lbs. Unreal.

3:45 that Dixon crash he was injured he ended up having back issues that came back up from that crash

Me and my brother (Indy natives) have started a list of Indy 500 "Olympic games" with one of them being the Jay Howard Long Jump 😂

That Scott Dixon crash happened in front of me and brother when went to see the indy 500

Videos like this don’t need commentary.

OMG!!! I was at that Mid-Ohio race and That crash happened right in front of me!!! I was sure that Andretti was dead…. 😵

dan wheldons crash where like 3 cars flew into the fence shouldve been on here despite him dying. it still was brutal watching it live and for me, seeing it in person

Dan Wheldon's crash was quite scary. The Stan Fox and Eddie Cheever crash left Stan Fox basically just attached to his seat by the belt. Gordon Smiley Crash quite horrific. Scott Brayton crash although a single car quite bad.

I never noticed before but there is a huge hole in the bottom Conway's car where you can see his legs after the impact with the catchfence.

Worst looking NON FATAL crash, let’s be clear. Gordon Smiley holds the distinction of the worst ever.

I know there are 2 from the Indy 500, different years, both involve cars losing control out of turn 4 hitting the inside wall sliding and then hitting the divider that separates pit lane from the front straight, cutting the cars in half. The one car came to rest a few yards up pit lane. The other one came to rest much further up pit lane where the pit boxes start. I forget the years of those crashes.

the most brutal ever for a guy who raced after is Zanardi 2001 crash when he lost his leg.... I don't kkno how he survived with 75% blood loss, 7 heart stopping moments and came back racing in touring cars and then became 3 time paralympic gold medalist !

Man, I've been trying to find that Mid-Ohio Andretti wreck!... First big open wheel wreck I saw as a kid (I was watching that race live at 5 years old) and was rooting for Michael back then

MY TOP 40 Crashes in Indycar History: 40. 2020 Indy 500 39. 2009 Sonoma 38. 1939 Indy 500 37. 2019 Indy (James Hinchcliffe) 36. 2016 Texas 35. 2017 Indy (Sebastian Bourdais) 34. 2019 Pocono 33. 2023 Indy 500 32. 2014 Fontana 31. 2006 Miami (Death of Paul Dana) 30. 2010 Indy 500 29. 1980 Michigan (Tim Richmond) 28. 2001 Texas (Davey Hamilton) 27. 1961 Indy 500 26. 1997 Las Vegas (Roberto Guerrero) 25. 2000 Laguna Seca 24. 1975 Indy 500 23. 1989 Indy 500 22. 1995 Indy 500 21. 2001 Laguna Seca 20. 2017 Indy 500 19. 1998 Mid-Ohio 18. 1999 Road America 17. 2023 Mid-Ohio 16. 2013 Houston (Dario Franchitti) 15. 1996 Toronto (Death of Jeff Krosnoff) 14. 2005 Chicago 13. 2001 Germany (Alex Zanardi) 12. 1958 Indy 500 11. 1955 Indy 500 10. 2006 Road America (Katherine Legge) 9. 1999 Fontana (Death of Greg Moore) 8. 1984 Michigan (Chip Ganassi) 7. 2018 Pocono 6. 2003 Texas 5. 1982 Indy (Death of Gordon Smiley) 4. 1964 Indy 500 (Death of Eddie Sachs/Dave McDonald) 3. 1973 Indy 500 (Salt Walther) 2. 1973 Indy 500 (Death of Swede Savage) 1. 2011 Las Vegas (Death of Dan Wheldon)

The second one looks like he could have avoided it from the front view. But then from his camera pointed forward you realize it’s instantaneous.

Scott Dixon crash reminds me of Clint bowyer crash at dover in nationwide

That picture of Conway at indy is crazy.. he won macu. Hes too good for ovals now... can ya blame him tho. Lucky ducky

Personally I think the 1995 Indy 500 Stan Fox accident was the worst I've ever seen. The cockpit cracked in half and his poor legs were just flopping in the breeze so to speak. Not to mention watching his engine block skidding by his head missing by inches. Unfortunately the ABC's coverage was horrible. Not enough cameras and what angles they did have were wanting at best.

Dan wheldon’s fatal crash was probably the worst race car crash I’ve seen or Gordon smiley’s crash back in the 80’s rip too both

Sato ,a likeable guy has really cause a lot of pain in racing.🤦