Buenos Aires 1000Km - 1971 - Ignazio Giunti fatal accident

[@philwoodward5069]

Great video. I've seen reports that Beltoise had his race license suspended, but his career history shows no interruption in his race participations at any time between this incident and his retirement. The problem is the two cars that came through seemed to be racing, so presumably either there weren't any yellow flags shown to Giunti, or he disregarded them. I'm sure if Giunti had hit and killed Beltoise, but survived himself, people wouldn't judge Beltoise so harshly.

[@TheGameLix]

He had his licence suspended for 6 months.

[@jasonvaivada4998]

+Phil Woodward Keep in mind it was considered a common occurrence for drivers to do what Beltoise did. Giunti himself and every other driver likely would have done the same as him. In fact I believe Beltoise was not the only racer to do this in this race several drivers ran out of gas.

[@jasonvaivada4998]

+Phil Woodward Also part of the reason his career wasn't really interrupted was because he was accepted back into racing following his suspension almost immediately. Part of it was that everyone knew they would've done the same as him, they'd be hypocrites to shun only him about it.

[@ernestogasulla7763]

@@jasonvaivada4998 he didn't have to be accepted, he was under contract with Matra and was their best driver. Of course they put him back in a car as soon as possible.

[@alkacil2504]

@@jasonvaivada4998 Not in the middle of the road !

[@stenovitz]

Jean-Pierre Beltroise was a very lucky man in that moment. Didn't expect him just to walk away. And to the younger people, calling Beltroise stupid for pushing his car to the finish linie: times were very different by then. Today everyone is over-horning everyting down, thanks to the Internet and over-ruling.

[@TomJerry-fx3uo]

Beltoise the Killer

[@owenfitzpatrick5394]

@@TomJerry-fx3uo Beltoise wasn’t driving…… No visible yellow flags…. How does your “expertise “ conclude with such lunacy?

[@YusakuJon3]

Yeah, definitely from a different era. I don't think they even let 'em get out of the car these days unless it's on fire.

[@luisangelvalenti]

Mi tío estaba en la tribuna y contaba que la gente aplaudía a Beltoise cuando empujaba su auto, en aquellos tiempos no era raro eso. Después del accidente la misma gente lo insultaba.

[@LucasAlonso-w6g]

@Mag bro el que y va pechando el auto murio

[@MotorsportUK2009]

sounds like 70's porn music, and they only film the start finish/line , TV coverage and organisation = 0 , Maybe Bernie Eccelston was not so bad after all

[@ernestogasulla7763]

This was not the TV coverage, which was in black and white. It's some guy recording on his own, likely meant to make a movie.

[@martinmoffitt4702]

More like theme from "Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse"

[@fabianrocha9924]

"I think that the accident was bound to happen as it was caused by an appalling number of circumstances. I think that most drivers would have acted as I did...they would have pushed the car, they would have tried to go back to the pits...I was at the end of a rather slow bend and there was plenty of room on the road to pass. The road was quite wide and I never thought there was any danger. Anyway I had to take the car away from the middle of the road, because it was stopped in the middle. Before the accident I never felt I was personally in danger nor did I feel that I was endangering other people's safety. I shall certainly not stay for the next event because the organisers have asked me not to compete. Personally. I would not have taken the decision to refuse to compete in that event because I was committed to do so and also because I think this accident was caused by a combination of circumstances and it did not occur through my fault." - Jean-Pierre Beltoise

[@WSchamps]

whats with the james bond music?

[@danilomancini]

Maybe they're expecting bond saving Giunti.

[@MikeVrh]

In the 70s organizers were shit.

[@markzed66]

It looks like at the start, he was pushing the car on the left side of the track, then at the time of the accident, he was in the middle. Could he have been crossing the track to get to the pits?

[@andriafisher7119]

As he pushed the car, I had a feeling.

[@marcomolinari94]

he didnt die, but the guy who has hit him

[@sanderscheffer74]

+Marco Molinari That is right. Beltoise had been pushing his car back to the pits for a while since he was out of fuel. His stupid action ended up in the death of Giunti. There was even a juristic case for murderer being set up for Beltoise : Ignazio Giunti was in the lead, and stuck behind Mike Parkes who was a lap down. In the blind corner called "Horquilla" suddenly Beltoise had pushed his in the middle of the track. When Parkes did see the car, he quickly turned his car to the left to avoid a crash, but Giunti being angry since Parkes held him up for a full lap, had no chance of ever seeing the Matra of Beltoise, and thought Parkes finally gave way to him... and collided full speed into the Matra. Such a massively stupid action by Beltoise, who lost his racing license, but had it returned only 6 months later... Ofcourse, Beltoise had never the intension of "killing" Giunti, and yes, racing was so different from nowadays... but Beltoise should have never have gotten his racing license back, never !

[@jamespiatak4102]

That was brutal...

[@primalized]

RIP 😞

[@Dethmeister]

So the guy pushing the car didn't die but the guy that crashed into him did? How did he not get cut in half? Anyway this was so unnecessary. If they would only have had a full course yellow or at least strictly enforced local yellows.

[@almostfm]

+Dethmeister Remember, this was 1971. Unless the track was completely blocked, you kept racing, and local yellows were more of a warning of trouble than a requirement to slow down. This was only a year after the accident with Ickx and Oliver in the Spanish Grand Prix. Both cars caught fire, but the fire equipment was on the inside of the curve and they were on the outside, so they were spraying water _across_ the track and guys kept racing through it.

[@lars653]

+Dethmeister He wasn't cut in half because he was next to the car on the moment of impact, there is another angle of the accident where you can see it, but very sad that this happened, just because of bad organization i think, full course yellow would have saved him

[@Dethmeister]

+Lars Bouten , Oh ok. Looks like that's him at 0:51 walking across the track and at 0:58 . I watched the other angle. He should have just left his car where it stopped and walked away, at least the other drivers would have known where it was at lap after lap. I guess he figured in such a long race they could have gotten a good result if he could just make it to the pit to refuel.

[@hejamodo]

They didn't think that way in those days. He was aiming for the pits to refuel and continue the race, as they all would have done. Had he broken down, he would have left the car on the side of the track. Not all tracks had separate pits in 1971, they serviced the cars on one side of the start/finish straight so why would there be a problem pushing your car along to get there. Safety was a nice catch fence, a fire proof race suit and a helmet.

[@bbsjksdjdjd]

Anche grazie ad un a campagna ben porchestrata da Autosprint e da Marcello Sabatini furono date tutte le colpe a Beltoise, dimenticando le colpe della direzione corsa (manuel fangio) e dei piloti della Ferrari che battagliarono anche in regime di bandiere gialle.

[@RedhotIta1]

Show some respect.

[@mattheisen77]

Even world champions had pushed car to the finish line.

[@Skyrilla]

Well. To be fair, this is from the 70s.

[@ernestogasulla7763]

What kind of an idiot adds background music to a fatal accident? The video proves that no one tried to stop Beltoise. Huge combined stupidity and lack of responsibility on both organization and driver.

[@twotoneify]

the driver who was pushing the race car was doing so illigaly and cased that other car to hit it killing that driver

[@fabianrocha9924]

Wait did Beltoise get hit?

[@martinmoffitt4702]

It's called Racing! can and will be dangerous!

[@claudioviola5823]

CLAUDIO PULLER-Beltoise tuvo un momento de incosnciencia, pero Parks! horrible! porque lo tapó tanto y no le hizo señas? ahí estuvo el nudo del accidente.

[@rfactorcentral8844]

Why the stewarts don't hellp him????

[@apoonie88]

they are so stupid !!danger moving!!!!