Fatal Crash at Brooklands (Dunfee)

[@AlexWitney]

The size difference between those cars is ridiculous.

[@Putinhuylo3]

It looks like a 90's videogame.

[@Sammie_Sorrelly]

Ye olde Big M8.

[@firestormlivingsolutions]

Trippy

[@GozUnlimited]

1:34 reminds me of some cartoon where animals are racing cars, and there's dogs racing their cars and mice racing their cars

[@ITSMRFOXY]

M8 time

[@alexanderkeil377]

_giant crash, person dies_ **music plays**

[@danielwolfe4169]

Welcome to the 50s motorsport

[@sjfvideo9508]

And swiftly on to the next story 😂

[@nikolac290v7]

Esatto , quello è morto e loro ci mettevano la canzoncina..forse era un jingle tipico per tutte le cose ?

[@GodzillaGaming111]

That’s extremely fucked up

[@freewillygoss]

Tally ho good chap it's seems we've had a knacker of an incident

[@Paul_Lucas]

Such jolly music.

[@itstherealjammin]

it's like a scene from bloody family guy

[@delano62]

It's a mood killer for sure.

[@Andreschannel_SA]

My thought exactly. What are we going to watch next - Looney Tunes or Bugs Bunny?

[@Chasta1n42]

Avus. Because death is casual.

[@jstbands]

Ya like jazz?

[@kahvinjuoja931]

"Fatal Crash today. 1 person dies." **Happy music intesifies**

[@Q3ToPBuZz]

I'm surprised the overalls and polo helmet didn't save him there.

[@slayer8actual]

The helmet would have saved him if he landed on his head. But he landed on his body. The overalls just made it easier to pick up the body.

[@harrycurrie9664]

It always got to me when I saw Brits wearing ties around lathes … gave me the shudders.

[@AbCat4]

I was shocked that the trees around the perimeter of the track didn't do their job properly, and slow the car down in a more gentle manner.

[@Uftonwood2]

Stirling Moss said that in his day the biggest fear was fire, so being able to get out of the car quickly was thought better than being strapped in. He also said that to refuel they used old milk churns.

[@adamoles4309]

He even used the ejection seat feature!

[@ss_whole]

1:35 Really dangerous allowing kids in go-carts on the track during a race.

[@yellow_x522]

😂😂

[@davidellismartin9619]

Exactly! 😂👀

[@dickfitzwelliner2807]

Yup that's it....

[@leonmanoel6127]

honestly, I thought this was funny kkkkkk 🇧🇷

[@mumbles215]

How do you think the boomers got so tough compared to millennials? They were raised by these geezers. Our grandparents were the toughest realest SOBs you’d find. I was raised by them as a Gen Xer

[@incredibleplug89]

Jack complained that the steering was stiff . It was found that the off side kingpin on the steering was too tight , maybe getting hot as Brooklands surface wasn't smooth . In the pit lane the kingpin was drifted out because it was very tight and a reamer run down the steering and suspension carriers , but they reamed it out when it was very hot . After replacing the kingpin and the rest of the equipment cooled down the steering was much better but the off side wheel shook at high speed due to the kingpin being slack in the now cooled down housing . When Clive was on the banking where the car was heavier due to centrifugal force , the off side front ' dug in under load ,and because the tracking was way out as the looseness toe out pulled the car over the banking .

[@vendingdudes]

Thank you for that detailed explanation

[@stevepunter3704]

Jack is stiffer than the steering now 😒.

[@dessmith1387]

Yes, thanks.

[@kevinbuda7087]

Now explain the music....

[@peterquinn2997]

@@kevinbuda7087 😂

[@Sean-wj1wu]

Trees for a catch fence , great idea.

[@Blasphemerish]

They do stop you, but not very safely though 😅

[@randynixon5059]

Many guys were reluctant to wear Seatbelts. Preferring to be "Thrown Clear" rather than Burn. It was a different time!

[@HunterSydenhamRacing]

You’d love rally

[@gazza2933]

@@tractionownersclub4827 Incredible men!

[@listerstormablecartoonandt1103]

they are most cheaper than concrete or steel and born itself.

[@cavaleri]

Horrible death: That's all folks!

[@innocentbystander3798]

Oh... was it that horrible? Over instantly, doing what he loved, etc. I can think of lots worse. Lots.

[@MateusHenrique-of4bc]

And the old looney tunes Music

[@abelis644]

@@innocentbystander3798 Did you notice his body sliding down the slope?

[@innocentbystander3798]

@@abelis644 Of course! Did you see the fella wearing a fedora in the pits?

[@willbradley8038]

Innocent bystander I think the point he was making was that it was a premature death which happened in a brutal manner with the guy’s brother witnessing it happen.

[@ThePikaPlayer]

The difference between Dunfee's car and everybody else's is like driving a pickup truck at a go-kart race.

[@MIIIVideo]

Crash: *dead body slides to center of track* *happy funny Looney Tunes music*

[@truckerray7533]

Yes his body did slide down from when he was thrown from the wreckage, R.I.P. driver!

[@markjohnson1224]

Oh boy I never noticed that before. Shocking. His brother...

[@lordsludge5678]

holy shit, I didnt even notice.

[@fingmoron]

@@markjohnson1224 got the pleasure of lapping the wreckage for the rest of the race.

[@abelis644]

@Bimmer Won They wrote it on his tombstone... 😶🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️

[@JIMJAMSC]

For decades it was thought that the heavier the metal the safer you were. Also even when I was young I remember many refused seatbelts as they felt it was better to be thrown from the vehicle. One vintage racing interview I saw said you could hear these cars hitting concrete walls from miles away.

[@joebone3151]

Well depends in the speed and how bad the wreck is because you cab survive 130 mph crashes on motor bikes only way Is to be thrown from the bike

[@barath4545]

> they felt it was better to be thrown from the vehicle Unless you hit a tree / rock / wall, this was true. Watch The "1959 Avus GP crash" by Hans Hermann where he crashes and rolls the car 4 times, but he bailed early and just walks away after sliding on the grass.

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

Seatbelts only became compulsory for 'normal' driving in the UK on 31st January 1983. They had to be fitted to new cars as standard since the late 1960s. I cannot believe people in the 1930s had even understood the concept let alone used them.

[@44032]

This was September 24, 1932. Clive was one of the "Bentley Boys" who dominated sports car racing in that era.

[@michaeltaylor8835]

Not after that off

[@paulorchard7960]

Thanks Steve, I was searching for a date!

[@WinstonCorneilius]

You can see him slide down the track after the crash 😢. Those racers had gigantic balls

[@williamstone4334]

Helps with center of gravity.

[@ThePoshPleb]

Freeze frame at 1:36 and the Bentley passes a midget sized bloke in a midget sized car.

[@williamjordan8603]

ThePoshPleb 1:43 too

[@chemicalbrucey157]

Almost doesnt look real

[@ricardopereira2746]

Man, WTF is that?? The Bentley looks like its the size of a truck or something...

[@MrDorbel]

Ettore Bugatti said that Bentley's were the fastest lorries in the world and actually they were massive. The Speed Six had a wheelbase of 11 feet and a 6.5litre engine, while many of the smallest cars in this race were hardly 11 feet overall and had 750cc engines. These were handicap races.

[@stevenhaskell9025]

Bbc passing a fellow asian

[@michaelcarlos8686]

“Hey boss, shall we put a fence round here?” “Nah, the trees will save anyone who crashes son”

[@3dlabs99]

They invented guard rails the next day

[@johnny5805]

Seeing his copse slide down the tack to such happy music.

[@ep.1646]

*corpse

[@Simonize41]

*track

[@saltbjorn]

you got something against the letter R lmao

[@ashokathegreat4534]

Corpse Corner

[@carterjohnson3894]

1:56 the way it gets super happy all of a sudden lol

[@jamesbloomfield1589]

The huge bonnet wasn’t for the engine it was space for the drivers massive balls to go

[@ICanSeeYou247]

How original

[@pricklypear300]

Stop talking about mens private parts in car videos its gross :(

[@donblub]

@@pricklypear300 but he is right, at that time racing drivers had such massiv balls, they needed 200hp just to move them around.

[@lordsludge5678]

@@pricklypear300 balls

[@Dethmeister]

Defective mobile coffin. He didn't even stay inside when he died.

[@georgemallory797]

Dead body sliding down the track alert!

[@gg1729gg]

😂😂🤣

[@pierosjourneys]

and then Lonely Toons music plays

[@jayanand_1993]

ಠ_ಠ

[@tomcooper6108]

Without his head I'm guessing. He went cockpit first into trees. Gotta be gruesome.

[@PAULOBASS77]

1:50 The guy fell crawling on the floor, he looks like a doll. This song has nothing to do with the video's theme. What a tragedy, my God!

[@miguelelgueta5830]

the funny size difference between the cars and the bizarre music after the fatal crash makes this video unintentionally hilarious

[@BIGNOIDS]

Big Bentley was an understatement.

[@Dethmeister]

0:31 That looks so off. The guy in the small car is small too?

[@Andreschannel_SA]

Yes, those are the under 12 year olds in their go-carts. LOL.

[@eliasashoal8723]

A stunning case of Zero Fucks Given at the end.

[@frankmat]

Back in the days where they would show a fatal crash with a body sliding across the track in a cinema... and nobody got triggered about it and needed a safe space afterwards.

[@GozUnlimited]

Zoidberg: "It's toe-tappingly tragic"

[@crazydrummer181]

GozUnlimited lmao

[@steverowlands338]

Crying!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏👏

[@stevenlangdon-griffiths293]

And what of Clive? Immediately plays loud lively music, followed by the shipping forecast

[@geraldashton8589]

My dad in the 1960’s had 8mm cine films of Brooklands racing from this time. (1930s) once seen never forgotten. Amazing how lumpy the circuit was even when newish. It appeared to be cast concrete sections. Those racers were so exposed in the event of a crash.

[@jom3268]

We visited the museum today and yes it was hand poured concrete in sections. Very bumpy. Had a short ride today in a vintage car, up the test hill and around one of the banked section of remaining track.

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

You can see the body sliding down the track after the crash. Then upbeat stock music plays. This crash was witnessed by Dunfee's wife of two years, actress Jane Baxter. She remarried and later died of cancer in September 1996.

[@mxbx307]

Body slides down the hill in clear view of the camera... jaunty music to lead us into the next item. Absolutely brilliant.

[@forsaken841]

Look how thin those tires were. 150mph...these people were absolute maniacs

[@indianapatsfan]

That's definitely the music I want played at my funeral.

[@stephentunick6463]

my father and I owned Old Number One from 1961 until 1989 >> David Tunick of Greenwich

[@modulfleirfall]

0:46 It's like being overtaken by a bus

[@DWestheim]

Ah, when men were men, and men routinely died, accompanied by the most inappropriate music they had back then.

[@commentatron]

Times change. Back then that music was considered dramatic and horrifying.

[@fabianrocha9924]

@@commentatron I find it kinda hard to believe that but what do I know?! You're the Commentator here

[@wlobba]

@@commentatron Is it because that kind of music is associated with WW1?

[@incredibleplug89]

My grandfather was there . He worked at Oxgate lane . He told my father how and why the accident happened .

[@MrSpanks]

Glenn Preston - Please tell your story - most people here would be very interested!

[@jewwyjones9760]

Yeah what a tease c'mon man!

[@incredibleplug89]

Jewwy Jones I have

[@MrSpanks]

@@incredibleplug89 Great! Where can we find it?

[@incredibleplug89]

Mr. Spank in the comments

[@regplasma7906]

1.35 Let this be a lesson to you all.It's very dangerous to have little kids racing with their daddy.Especially when he has a huge Bentley and you have a little biscuit tin on wheels.

[@jonyjoe8464]

he was passing everybody in his giant racecar, but his car was too fast for the track and he was no more. He was ejected from the giant car which was the norm in those times. It was thought that it was safer to be thrown clear of the wreck.

[@rafi7252]

That's scary

[@jamesblade6684]

It often was. No safety features in those cars and a solid steering shaft inches from your chest.

[@raychambers3646]

Just watched an add with some prancing around in a mini kilt , i wonder what these guys would make of that ?

[@klord3677]

I live near there. There’s only a section of that track left and believe me those tracks were steep and bigger than you think. The section is behind the park in brook lands near the Mercedes race track

[@treecrab8192]

Crazy how back in the day a driver’s death was just a fact of life

[@gradybaumgartner2242]

F Moving on

[@shazmeister2005]

Different times, people had lived through the massacre of WW1 (and were about to see it repeat), disease and pestilence was rife, life expectancy was low, death was a encountered commonly in day to day life, peoples attitudes were different, it just wasn’t as big a deal.

[@mattagon6407]

They actually weren’t. I had to look through the archives for research on a specific car and it’s races. They cancelled every further race in the day out of respect. This only happened on I believe 5 occasions in total on the brooklands track.

[@MeadeJ67]

People understood the risks well & therefore weren't surprised when this sort of thing happened.

[@tinkertime7165]

Used to see part of this circuit everyday from my train journey to work. Strange to see these old cars racing on it. Looks really bumpy.

[@1viccar]

Is it real? Big size difference between those cars, even big size difference between drivers, and the cameras are following all the time to the leader car, and why they do not have the complete crash moment? At the critical moment they used just a static camera. Can I believe it?

[@Legend-hs9kd]

Did you see his body sliding down the track??

[@dr2stroke611]

yep

[@Hollowsmith]

I wonder how Clive Dunfee would feel knowing his brutal death was set to an uplifting big band brass song.

[@1928ModelA1931]

He was trying to avoid all of those children on the track in their pedal cars.

[@scaramouche8244]

Is that a miniature car and driver at 1:35 ?

[@DomPatek]

I'm amazed he didn't survive that.

[@Burleygerke]

How

[@yousefbennett]

@@Burleygerke he could have easily got up and walked away wym

[@jchambsguy]

Ye especially when his corpse flew 50 metres into the air

[@pr3cious193]

With modern open wheel racing safety standards, he could've easily survived this but this was almost a century before that. No helmet, no hans device, no monocoque, no halo, no crash impact structure.

[@senojelyk]

1:35 It's like they decided to have an F1 Grand Prix and the karting championship on the same track at the same time.

[@tonyyost331]

lol🤣

[@Deano4322]

At 1:37 it looks like he overtakes a model car .

[@Thilindel]

Video states 130 mph - description says 150

[@Sahadi420]

Lord.....the crashes were pretty brutal. It wasn't "did he survive" it was "is he still in one piece."

[@theemptyone7650]

That's what the overalls were for..well except for the head I guess

[@therealbettyswollocks]

Don’t watch this at 0.25x, not a pleasant sight

[@nigelcarren]

In 1996 I was invited by the then curator Mr Roger Rammage to drive my British Special 'The Bellini Special' on what is left of the banking. My car was based on a Ford Popular so it was twin-axle, so quite a light skippy car, but it did have modern dampers etc, like a D**k I took a run up and caned it under the bridge un the banking and I left the road at under 60. I know the track is degraded now but Brooklands is deceptively steep, how you did over 120? Maybe the heavier the car the better? On the photo-shoot I was asked to park my car close to the top of the banking and do the standard foot on the wheel pose, but my car slid slowly sideways down towards the photographer, so I had to quickly jump in and turn the wheel in case it snagged ad flipped over. A truly incredible place, if you haven't been you must go just to soak it up and put these breathtaking clips into perspective.. RIP Brave Mr Dunfee. I always did wonder, what did happen to his car, is it or at least its motor still breathing? I did ask Mr Rammage back in the day but he didn't know.

[@nigelcarren]

Hey@Jim lastname Nice to read you mate. Good question, after my visit (see above) I has assumed that was all that was left of the track, but only this year in fact I discovered there is actually quite a lot of it... sadly no longer connected to all the other bits. This is my personal favourite drone video of all of its remaining parts... and I have to say that even after having driven on that one piece of banking, I still had no appreciation of the sheer scale of it all... Truly I got chills watching this video. Enjoy (if you haven't seen it already): kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3mrk4RjqMRjpq8 Best wishes to you... Now go and buy some goggles, cover your face in burning oil and drive past these locations at 123MPH with your head out of the drivers window with one flat tyre for full effect.

[@chopperdown9114]

REAL RACERS IN REAL CARS NO COMPUTERS AND NO STRICT RULES

[@PeterPaul-wz5db]

Only thing missing in those racing days would have been to include bicycles and motorcycles ....

[@danmenefee5437]

😂

[@nkmcfrln]

What do think they race at Le Mans, genius?

[@ogarnogin5160]

why not a couple marathon runners

[@toddwebb7521]

Crashed car suffered sudden existence failure

[@mikadeca4031]

Back in the day without speed limits, engineering regulations or security barriers. Just men wanting to go fast!

[@tabstabs1204]

Speed limit ??? It's a race, moron !!!

[@MERCEDES190e]

*car crashes with person flying out and dying* *happy music starts playing*

[@jaywalters8329]

Man you've gotta have some balls to drive those things at that speed

[@retrovi4128]

You can see him sliding with the wreckage.

[@26TptCoy]

Go into settings and change to .25 speed then at 1:45 to see a better perspective. Not good anytime to see this sort of thing. Poor driver sliding down the track on his face.

[@markjohnson1224]

Oh boy I never noticed that before. Shocking. His brother...

[@nicolek.3614]

I like the part when the Escalade passed the Mini Cooper!

[@Gigidag77]

Lol the music at the end. "That's all folks!"

[@ctcdvch5539]

You wrong

[@Gigidag77]

@@ctcdvch5539 k

[@ctcdvch5539]

@@Gigidag77 you are talking nonsense

[@carlosb1]

what's up with the smaller cars?

[@drewpar2976]

My only question is was the car in the crash super gigantic or were the other cars in the race tiny?

[@barath4545]

Yes, both.

[@geddonmeansome9834]

By the look of the road surface, Brooklands should hire a different contractor . Look at the way the cars bounce.

[@stryf3901]

“Folks, he’s alright!”

[@thatguyjames296]

'tis barely fatal, have no fear

[@jimm.1013]

When was the rollbar invented?

[@hoyden1960]

I feel like I just watched Land of the Giants. RIP

[@AtZero138]

Just the passing at speed is scary to watch.. if we could imagine being in the little cars and having this Monster Bentley roar pass you.. Amazing any footage of brookland is unreal .. the Fearless Era

[@mariolombardi348]

Stupid people i say

[@ernestomartinez4090]

I didn't know back in the day the mice were allowed in motor racing. Then we can see a corpse sliding across the track with funny Looney Tunes cartoon music right after that. I was expecting Porky Pig at the end saying "That's all folks!"

[@userwatttt]

Wow. Just watching the poor bloke sliding down the track.

[@andynixon2820]

Since this footage was taken I'm not sure if we've got softer or just more sensible .

[@EGReviews]

Both. More sensible up to the mid 90s. Since then we've got a generation of wimps.

[@Loulovesspeed]

I have to say that I find it annoying as hell that the frickin ads for British Movietone are on the screen blocking the finish of this video! Put them at the beginning or the end where they belong!

[@davidcarter3830]

It must have been both exhilarating and frightening to drive that fast in an open cockpit racer.

[@olafweinzer5746]

Were adults with supercars and children with mini-cars together?

[@BDdePaula]

1:43 WTF look the size comparsion of these men

[@qball6520]

Where's the airbag???

[@RichardJR1361]

1:36 Dunfee passing Jerry Mouse.

[@elsindo]

I love how they pick the music intro for a video titled "Fatal Crash". It's like don't be sad, it's just another fatal crash, cheer up.

[@andypage9]

Description is incorrect. Clive never left the track, even though his car did.

[@lyanlegolmuth5005]

It's the original Wacky Races

[@theivory1]

Hot Wheels versus real cars?

[@tiziano316]

1:50 you can see the dead body rolling down the parabolic... :( Btw at 1:43 and other times in the video as well you can see the car in front seems to be much smaller...why?

[@slabhead]

Im sure all these guys had a suit and tie on under their overalls.

[@wildgoobsid5]

That’s so they could take them straight to the funeral. Like most good drivers did.

[@jayanand_1993]

@@wildgoobsid5 😶

[@raulpetrascu2696]

Can someone explain what optical illusion is surely making the lower cars and drivers look tiny in comparison?

[@southfloridaarcheryguy114]

Now, that’s entertainment!! Thank you, British Movietone!

[@miguelangelvalderrama1808]

Did he die???????

[@OscarSanchez-uk6mk]

This is horrible, sad and terrifying! Poor man!

[@thatguyjames296]

It's okay man, he didn't feel a thing other than the absolute sheer force that his humungous balls produced, causing the car to commit the big die with him

[@UnitedAirlinesBoeing-ER]

Is no one going to mention the dead body sliding down the track at 1:50?

[@CaseyTappy]

Why would they race garden gnomes in tiny cars ?

[@thegator589]

is it the camera that makes his car look so much bigger than the others? i can't tell, but the size difference is just insane, almost comical, and the drivers look different sizes as well

[@Tweekend27]

“FATAL CRASH” - cue kooky music.

[@Naughtybaz]

Perfect song for a funeral

[@foxtenz6346]

1:43 looks like edited, look at the size difference of the drivers

[@stevetheduck1425]

Part of this track still exists, the banking is steep, and too much to even walk up to the top. It's probably beyond repair now, and the infield airstrip has been built on, but the hill-climb track still exists, and the site hosts the Vickers aircraft collection, an early wind tunnel, and a high-altitude / cold weather test chamber called the 'stratospheric' chamber which was used in post-WWII research into high-altitude jet flying . Worth visiting.

[@H4CK61]

You see his body sliding down the oval at 1.51very sad.

[@leightonsteven7059]

Far more exciting than the f1 shit we see today