Nigel Mansell 1993 Donington Park BTCC crash
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- Nigel Mansell hits the Donington Park bridge at 120mph after losing control of his #55 Ford Mondeo and being hit by Tiff Needell.
Mansell was knocked unconscious, but made a full recovery.
Wow, that was the first time I've heard driver audio like that... very chilling and scary. Glad he made a full recovery.
@@PhantomMark yeah right
@@KellieLeigh48 not even sure why my comment was here in that context......as how it reads today is not the context it was written, hence I have removed it :) It was a massive smash and he was dead lucky not to get seriously injured.
Steve Rider: "He wont forget the ten seconds he had, at the old hairpin"
He was knocked un-conscious, I doubt he remembers starting the race!
Just seen Nigel on tv at Goodwood. I can't believe the crash was 29 years ago. I was there and when the screening went around the car I feared the worse for Nigel.
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he is fearless, just look how safety has come along, neck brace bucket seats
i remember watching this a 7 year old and thinking i'd just witnessed someone die when i saw his bobble around after impact. scary stuff!
Same thought I had at the time.
I remember being up on the bank when this happened, the whole crowd all breathed in astonishment at once.
All entirely Nigel’s fault. WAY over the limit into the Old Hairpin- as he’d done previously. He was heading onto the grass at 100mph+ in any case. Tiff really had nowhere to go as the Mondeo speared across the track….
Needel was a chippy talentless twat. Mansell a personality nightmare but Needell by his own admission helped him on his way to the barriers.
That was nasty. I remember that made the front pages of every newspaper the next day, that's how big it was
As for the incident, You can't apportion any blame on anyone, Mansell just got loose out of old hairpin, was slow to recover and Needell just had nowhere to go, you can see he braked hard just to try to avoid Mansell but couldn't avoid hitting him without wrecking himself
Singer/Guitarist Chris Rea as also in this race in a BMW although it was Mansell on the road to hell!!! Massive smash....the commentators were David Addison (now doing commentary on the BTCC on ITV) and 89 and 95 champ John Cleland. Mansells grunting noisily as those cars had no power steering in those days (as Cleland states in the commentary), and were quite physical to drive. Mansell had huge upper body strength - Adalaide 86 proves that when he wrestled with his car after his famous 200mph tyre explosion - but the muscles used to drive a single seater, ie: F1/Indycar, are vary different from those used to drive a Touring Car. The speed of impact was probably between 60 and 80mph, and quite slow compared to some accidents, BUT he struck solid, old style, bridge that provided no "give" and did nothing to absorb the energy. The Mondeo was destroyed and the drivers head came out of the window and possibly even hit the wall. As a result it became compulsory for all drivers in pro level race cars to have a special "net" over the drivers door window to prevent an arm or head leaving the vehicle in an accident.
marky mark cleland's vauxhall had power steering as did Sopers BMW. A lot of the others had power steering but either being a traditionalist or wanting to save weight Andy Rouse never used power steering. His Toyota carinas never had it and neither did his ford mondeo. I actually think the crash between rouse and hoy was partially caused by the steering for the way the car naturally reacts when it goes over bumps
No net. No 3-sided headrest. No HANS device. And the way he instinctively moves his head to the left would have only increased the opportunity for his head to pick up momentum as it was thrown to the right, towards the wall, on impact. A miracle he wasn't killed.
I was there on that corner. 60,000 attendance mainly to see Nigel. All day they were dissing him on the tannoy (the btcc were out for him big style) as ever NM drove beyond expectations in an unfamiliar car.. absolutely kicked ass. Anyone thinking it’s clever to type bollox about his achievements that day and any other days is just sad. Ll leone
Happened right on front of me, went the spot after and got a bit of indicator from it which exited a 12 yr old me!
You ate it??
@@jd.r awesome, looked for my bit at my dads house and couldn't find it..
Also remember seeing a pair of Marshall's in the car park afterwards struggling to get most of the mondeos bumper in a mini!
I was there that day in the ICS support race and my wife was watching from Starkey's bridge, she actually dropped her glass of cider !!!!!
this man is a literal tank
I remember watching this at the time and thought Mansell was a bit of a prima donna and blaming Tiff when Mansell was out of control. As Casey Stoner once said to Valentino Rossi " your ambition outweighs your talent"
Idiot
I don't think it's Ben Edwards but I'm pretty sure the scot is John Cleland the ex touring car driver
I actually have a bit of that car.
You mean "...until he cut across Tif's path, clipped his nose, and spun out of control", right?
He was out of control before the previous turn.
If you look closely, you can see Tiff's front wheels lock in an attempt to avoid hitting Mansell.
Nigel Mansell handling an extremely powerful F1 car, no problem at all!
Nigel Mansell handling an extremely powerful Indycar, no problem at all!
Nigel Mansell handling a ford Mondeo, ahh yes slight problem here 🤣🤣🤣
Everything we do, we do it for you. Put him in an XR3i and he’d have been a total disaster.
You have to look at track safty, WTF.... why was they concrete wall and sharp edge left exposed without a barrier.
Keep in mind this is the 90’s
Even in those days it seems nonsensical to not have a single row of tyres covering that sharp edge. Mansell was pretty unlucky to find that exact spot for sure.
I was right next to this, one hell of a hit.
"Er bleibt einfach in der Spur, er ist trotzdem noch komfortabel und er bietet sehr viel Spaß. Einfach ein tolles Auto!" 😁
I was there that day stood opposite the bridge.
car #5 not #55, never 120mph more like 80mph
Panic he was honestly scared and don't blame him he was knocked out in the incident.
Imagine if he had been killed... those panicked cries would have been chilling as fuck
dude i was thinking the same thing. imagine the awe full sounds drivers make when they have crashed and died before.I know when i have been hurt very bad before, i make some weird grunts i cant help it when you cant breath in agony and pain.
I think i was Drunk when i wrote that lol.
Wait how in the hell did i post under wagonball?That is my alter ego.
I'm laughing at your comments but I'm scared at the same time LOL :P
I still cant find that account?
R.i.p. Ayrton
Correction, he was sent into a much sharper angle and into the wall after HE clipped Tiff's nose. Look at 0:20 to 0:25 . Clearly shows the impact of Mansell's car shoving Tiff's onto the grass.
Hope to god you don't work as an accident investigator for the police.
Open your damn eyes, man.
I'm done here.
He was saving that until Tiff literally buggered him off*
*I know he had nowhere to go.
oh shit this is gonna hurt noises!
he looked to have the slide under control but tiff had nowhere to go and WHACKED him
Didn't he fracture a vertebrae?
same do you remember one of the Red BMWs had an off aswell?
Definitely not Tiffany Dell's fault.
I was there that day! I was 6 years old but i remember standing 100 metres further up the track on the inside of the circuit and thinking to myself. "That crash was awesome!"
That audio has been cut. I saw this live on TV and he was screaming like a girl.
Most drivers do this, but is rarely picked up because of the helmet in the way. Think logically, if you were about to slam into a wall at over 100mph in a car, I think you'd make a noise too. Most people would scream their heads off lol.
He was pushing too hard that’s why he got very sideways
Too hard??? Ok they're "Sunday drivers" but a bit of different league...💪
Almost looks as though he'd have hit head on if Tiff hadn't clipped his rear. That could have been really bad.
it looke dto me like hed got it under some control till tiff gave him a nudge
When he won F1 than Indy championships he just was leaving neck changements cause car race accident before Formula1
I was in the crowd :) was worrying to watch
Me too. I wasn't stood near the crash. But when the recovery truck went past with a destroyed Mondeo on it (under tarp) it went very quiet.
I would absolutely say that nigel’s mustache is the greatest mustache in F-1 history
Yea that was a big one!
Was that Ben Edwards and David Coulthard commentating?
Nah, 10 years too late bruh, Edwards joined in 2002, Coulthard has only ever commentated on F1, can't remember who commentary team was back then
@@getupstairstobed Steve Slater And John Cleland
@@louielouie95 Cheers
I was stood the otherside of the barrier when it happened next do the bloke in the orange coat
wow what did you see and hear
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Scared the crap out of me having a car coming at you at that speed
wow!
saw this on tv was 6 years old at the time, mondeos safe cars :)
Nigel. Ledge
That was not 120 mph but a big crash either way.
Yeah 120 seems a bit much, maybe when the rear stepped out he was doing 120?
+RetroAdzz Maybe doing 120 down the stretch before braking and losing it in the turn. But he wasn't going anywhere near 120 when he hit the wall.
He saved it until he got rear ended.
0:24 - no - the front of mansell's car had already veered right back across the track onto the grass by the time needell hit him - all that shunt did was change the angle at which mansell veered off the track completely - i remember at the time needell being unfairly blamed.
I'm guessing one of the commentators is called John.
john cleland i think
John Watson
Mansell's probably still whining about it to this day!
Yeah I would be as well crashing like that. You fucking moron.
By saying that, Widow Twankey, you seem to be implying that Mansell was a bit of a whinger when, in actual fact, he was quite a calm and reflective person. Plus in any case, I think if I'd crashed into a concrete stanchion at high speed and then been knocked unconscious I might feel entitled to have a bit of a grumble about it.
Such a tool :(
jontyland... I would too, crashing into that concrete that didn't have ANY barrier..... wow
well he blamed tiff needell for the accident! (who wasn't impressed).
needell was only ever in 1 f1 race (belgium 1980) - i found the whole race on youtube (with a german commentary though) and sent it to him on twitter - he responded with a smile emoji! i don't think he had ever seen it all on tv (though i think his engine blew after about 35 laps!)
I Crashed my Car into a Bridge, I Don't care, I LOVE IT !!!
I just sang that :)
Moustache man understand going to shock hard, not nice sensation
'Moaner Mansell ' , as usual , blamed someone else !
You're a moron.
Tiff could have easily went round him.
er, no
He spun across infront of him. Tiff had no where to go
Cheers tiff! Man sell sound effects ergh ergh ouch, Lolz, poor fucker.,
Typical tiff going in from the rear end,
Yeah, Tiff could just disappear? Okay he could have anticipated and slowed but didn't think Mansell would veer to the left all of a sudden... he braked so hard the car locked up.. please watch footage again.
MagicAyrtonforever dunno he was still charging hard, could of backed out of the throttle to give him self a chance to avoid it,. the bmw managed to avoid him,. its 6 of one and half a dozen of the other,.
MagicAyrtonforever I seem to remember nigel saying he felt tiff rammed him deliberately?
***** In the heat of the moment perhaps.. was a racing incident sadly
+bob adams are you kidding, it was basically impossible for him to do any more, there s no way he could have predicted Mansell cutting back on the inside again, racing incident was all it was!
What was that noise he was making? lol
@SpeedbirdConcorde The tash wasn’t scared though.
To my mind Tiff Needell was always a bit of a prat. He knocked a friend of mine off the track in Formula Ford and then he hits a hero of mine. Duh
thats why tiff ended up talking about cars rather than racing them for a living.
As Clarkson said "Tiffeny dell; the failed racing driver, who to try to prove to everyone that he isn't will put you in a car and try to kill you"
No way was Tiff at fault in this accident, Mansell was pushing really hard and was already out of control and heading back across the track when Needell hit him. He had no time to react at all. I was stood right there on the infield at the time, It was a big one for sure. I was a huge Mansell fan but I was disappointed when he tried to put the blame on Tiff afterwards.