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If the car didn't break like this he would have died. They built to disintigrate to dissipate the energy from the crash into the car and not the driver

my thinking :D thanks for this comment

I seriously can’t understand how you see a guy laying lifeless with the entire front half of the safety cell missing and your first thought is "oh man, these other drivers better be careful! You wouldn’t want to cut a tire!"

I like to think he wasn’t trying to worry viewers. No matter how obvious it was.

I don't think it's misplaced concern... if the debris causes a tire to slowly lose it's integrity and then it blows out at 220mph you're going to have the risk of another driver in the medical center. Bobby is just thinking like a driver - which is why he's there.

I was just coming to say the same thing (except I was 14 at the time). I've seen a lot of crashes in the 27 years since (some that actually were fatal) but I've never seen another wreck that was so memorable. I was convinced he was dead or at least had his legs totally destroyed.

A silly irrelevant country? Not sure why ya gotta take a sentiment like, "insane that he survived a career in racing, including this crash only to die im a collision w a truck on a backroad.<PERIOD>"... Way to take that and make it a disparaging and borderling prejudicial comment.

@@HellfireHellesto agree

Thats sad i never knew that. Rest in peace Stan

Wikipedia: Fox was killed in a head-on collision on December 18, 2000 on the Desert Road some 200 miles (320 km) south of Auckland, New Zealand. Fox was driving through the night to attend a speedway meeting and collided head on with a northbound truck and trailer Unit.

Yeah i have to agree on that. I know little about New Zealand. But ut sounds like you know less. RIP Stan the man

Yes

Yes, the last one before the split.

And he was penalized 2 laps earlier in that race incorrectly since the pace car picked up the wrong leading carI believe.

You mean the year Scott Goodyear got screwed by the pace car not doing his job correctly? And Jacques taking out Jimmy Vasser with 20 to go with head games on the track at those speeds and then doing it again with Goodyear? Yeah my 11 year old self remembers that bullshit

@@Poundcakebowler Oh so from your point of view Scott was right passing the pace car before it entered the pit lane? How do you explain that he was the only driver making that mistake? I felt bad for him as I am pretty sure he would have win the race but the indy 500 is a race where even the tiniest mistake can ruined a race. On the other hand what Jacques did to get on the leading lap after his penalty is incrdeibile and that accomplisment shall be recognized.

Lol

You kinda confuse the two categories here mate

Could be a troll.

F1 huh??.

F1?

Sorta like Alex Zanardi. Loses his legs. Now he's fighting for his life.

Unlucky

@@mvd4436 He nearly died after the Indy Car crash. Lost over half his blood because of the broken legs.

@@mvd4436 What?

@@TheJingles007 Stan Fox died in a traffic accident in 2000

It's still plenty dangerous now, especially on the Ovals.

Man Zanardi’s was a terrible wreck. Just seeing the pictures of what was left of his legs just exploding.

Zenardi lost 2 legs, kept his life. Don McTavish lost 1 leg, and his life

@@raymond3803 yeah, but his was WAY worse

@@ep.1646 Oh the shark bites. With such sharp teeth. And he shows those pearly whites.

No leg injuries. Severe brain injury. He walked out of the hospital a couple of months later.

Reminds me of the Danny Ongias crash of 1981. The Ongias crash was a single car accident and this one was a multi car crash.

I Can See His Body

@@Lunabella123 he didn’t die

What? You said he survived then that he had a crash Then rip?!!?

Oh nvm he had a car crash next year and that one was fatal

he was not kucky

no it was 5 years later at 2000 he died at a car crash

Michael Schumacher managed to race F1 cars for 18 seasons and made it through okay. He goes skiing with his son one day, hits his head on a rock, and suffers a life-altering traumatic brain injury. It's strange how life works sometimes.

INDYCAR not F1

@@ryanjbj5941 its the same

@@eabnamoliben1598 no it’s not

@@funnyguy9131 Yes it is.

Its not

Yeah. He had slight injuries but he walked out. You can see it after the crash

Cheever at 0:58

@@CaptainRon956 Thanks !

Not a broken bone, but he suffered serious head injuries which put him in a coma for five days, and had surgery to have a blood clot removed from his brain.

A car accident he died in 2000 rest in peace

Barely, yes

Hindi pala siya natay

Yeah that’s the crazy thing about Motorsport crashes is that most crash’s that look fatal aren’t really but the ones that like nothing bad is the most damaging ones

Gordon Smiley and Swede Savage looked terrible tho

@@TDDDDDDDO Swede Savage would have been one of those accidents that looked terrible and still survived had he not gotten an infection while he was in the hospital.

Martin Donnelly could probably answer your question! His accident was way more horrific than Stan Fox's. Donnelly got ejected onto the track with his seat still attached to him after hitting an armco barrier head on at racing speed. There's lots of aftermath footage of that brutal crash...

@@TDDDDDDDO they both died of injuries... Swede Savage 6wks after the fact. Stan Fox survived the crash and died while driving a civilian vehicle years later...

My first 500 and this happened right in front of me..

A corrida ainda continuou?

@@adamoluik7755 Claro. Desde quando morte de piloto parou corrida? Claro que existe em alguns países por lei que se o piloto morrer na pista, a corrida deve ser cancelada para ser feita uma perícia, mas isso jamais acontece porque a organização sempre coloca o piloto em uma ambulância mesmo que esteja morto e alega que ele morreu no hospital. São milhões em jogo de patrocínios e direitos de TV. Claro que eles não admitem mesmo se um piloto morrer na hora. Por exemplo, Senna. Você acha que Senna não morreu na pista? Claro que sim...

@@FelipeFreiredeSouza Stan Fox nao morreu nessa choque.

@@adamoluik7755 Continuou pq Stan nao morreu. Sorry for my bad portuguese, I'm not Brazilian.

@@FelipeFreiredeSouza ele não morreu

Alex Zanardi’s crash was different because his car literally got cut in half and his legs were basically exploded. I’m sure you know that though.

@@pohlars3320 From the initial impact of this crash, it seems most of the damage was done from that and not a secondary crash like Zinardi's. Still pretty amazingly lucky of Fox. The stars had to align for him to escape this without major injuries. Even the last bit of the crash where his bare legs made contact with the wall was just very innocently brushing along. Very, very lucky.

The in car footage of the Billy Monger crash is a real sickener, absolutely nowhere to go and he knew he'd made a mess of his legs. His parents and sister were at the track and his sister went to the scene to be with him as they were taking him out the car. The documentary into the accident and his recovery since is incredible but hasn't had that many views. czcams.com/video/i3fwLgWaFmM/video.html

The world is small :) Cool story👍

@@deebow6486 thank you 😊

What front car lol

He meant the front part

Joris De Laat sir you are more likely to be killed in a road car than in a race car

This was 25 years ago

Crazy SOB's, that's who.

@@davislemons4887 People always repeat this fallacy. Statistically, you're correct but that's down to the fact that there are more cars on the road, i.e more chance of an accident. Conversely, these guys race once every few weeks compared to say you're in your car every day, 5 times a week on average.

Brian Blankenship not really. If God - any God - was on his side, why this terrible accident?!

@@fnjfrancis he ended up getting killed In 2000 in a car wreck I tt

@@fnjfrancis I think*

@@brianblankenship1575 Sad story!

By God you must mean billions of dollars and millions of hours of R&D and hard work from tens of thousands of people who built cars to keep men alive. Then ya.