Motorsports Brake Failure, Stuck Throttle Crash Compilation

[@Boxscot49]

Im sure anyones whos experienced it can tell you that standing on the brakes and not slowing down a bit at the end of the straight is one of the most horrifying feelings you can have in a car

[@karelpgbr]

Bought a Volvo 240 for 500 euro’s back in 1999, drove it home, then at a large junction, the brakes stopped working, I saw the late night trucks coming close, heavy-load, going 80, I abused the engine-brake and gears so hard to get that thing stopped it was insane.. Got away with my life and a good lesson

[@antumbra5616]

I had it happen on the track. Pure terror.

[@TheWisdom3]

@Karel P. Glad you made it ✌🏼🤙🏼

[@x808drifter]

Had this happen once in my car. Stainless brake line blew and pedal went to the floor . Luckily the ebake worked and there was enough run off to slow the car and not nail the wall.

[@9rjharper]

For sure. The only "good" part is that it doesn't usually last long, but it can still feel like forever.

[@Sevastous]

A dragster is the last vehicle you want to have throttle issues

[@callummclachlan4771]

Especially when you know the crash is coming, despite doing everything you can.

[@crazycars81]

Scott Kalitta rip

[@satolatifi24]

I think it would be a WRC

[@captainalieth]

@@satolatifi24 wrc cars are insanely safe though. drivers can get out unscathed going off a mountain

[@kg0173]

@@captainalieth Also WRC is not that fast. It looks fast, but aren't when compared to IndyCars or NASCAR.

[@NolanRempel]

That dragster is DAMN lucky he smoked it out of the gate. If that throttle hung open at the end of even half a run that would have been a very different story.

[@einseins9328]

Wasn't that the reason it happened in the first place?

[@jakemerrell9961]

@@einseins9328 it blew the supercharger off the line and stuck the throttle semi-open

[@AyaxRo]

How was there no kill switch?? its kinda dumb

[@NolanRempel]

@@AyaxRo Very different time I guess

[@canadianbluepants9446]

@@AyaxRo probably after that now there is lmao

[@_kurjala]

Indycar 2021 is scary. Already going fast, but then just having the throttle randomly go 0 to 100% straight into a wall. That's gotta be scary.

[@W123KartSport]

McLaren think the throttle potentiometer broke durring the downshift causing Felix to speed up before the impact.

[@Mrmayhembsc]

It really was. I Remember watchung this live and being worried

[@98DogCcoin]

didn’t Felix’s car break the retaining wall as well? scary stuff

[@DG--]

​@@98DogCcoin and both of his legs.

[@gwcrispi]

Thank you HANS. So many lives saved.

[@TKS_Memer]

​@@jordanfires9777 that doesn't matter since most of these were saved by the HANS device 😑

[@TKS_Memer]

@@jordanfires9777 nice try on the ratio, however I did not ask nor do I care.

[@TKS_Memer]

@@jordanfires9777 as did you 😀

[@blakegriplingph]

I doubt Elsa would say the same thing.

[@skrimper]

​@@jordanfires9777 you need help, idk if you realize how sad and pathetic you are but it's not healthy in the long run 😧

[@MScotty90]

7:18 Cory McClenathan actually had a full head of hair when he got into the car that day.

[@artoodiitoo]

The safety things on tracks and cars are incredible, i watched all these thinking "no one can survive that", and they just walk away

[@BSoBadd87]

The 370 crash seemed more like brake failure. It sounded like he was trying to use the transmission to slow the car before the broadside hit. 3:52

[@CeladonHairExtraordinaire]

I think so. It's actually insanely quick thinking. Changes down as much as he can to use engine braking, then flicks it sideways to hit side-on instead of head-on.

[@Caleferink1]

@@CeladonHairExtraordinaire And to go in passenger's side as opposed to driver's side

[@FirriApril]

Some insanely fast thinking to potentially save himself from serious injuries

[@strider5402]

Great thinking for such a scary situation, I would say no breaks are far more scary than stuck throttle since there are multiple ways to cut power and you can still break

[@ozokyn]

4:10 Did anybody else saw the second crash in the background?

[@briandandi9892]

Thank you for putting McClenathan incident. He couldn't do anything inside that dragcar cockpit.

[@Jimlaad43]

If you make a part 2: Wehrlein in Hyderabad 2023 and Schumacher at Silverstone 1999 are some options. There was also a Mosler at the Britcar Silverstone 24hr in 2011 which might be out there.

[@mvd4436]

Nascar, Mark Martin 1994

[@Caleferink1]

Denny Hamlin at Watkins Glen 2011

[@doctorsuave]

These barricades are such impressive yet basic inventions

[@diggernator]

1:43 classic Austraaalian commentary for ya ...."undiminished velocity" 🤣🤣

[@yellow_nexus726]

Fkn oath

[@RackwitzG]

I was driving a cheap rental truck, obviously poorly mainted, in downtown and let off the pedal, approaching a red light. The throttle stuck and I thought what to do, with the car in front of me coming closer and closer at 40mph. Stepped on the clutch and the motor reved up. I managed to get my foot under the gas pedal to lift it up. A heartstopping moment, but nothing compared to this here.

[@hypanthia]

insanely impressed by the driving at 6:16. dude knew he was gonna crash and 180d that thing so fast so the rear end would take most of the impact, genius.

[@partiallyfrozen3425]

I don't think thats why he tried to spin it. It could have been everything from rear brakes locking up and the car naturally spinning down to him just trying to get the car sideways to slow as much as possible. Your not really thinking about trying to back it into the barrier with such a small amount of time between issue and impact.

[@travisburton2948]

RIP to Adam Petty and Kenny Irwin Jr. Victims of a hung throttle, at the same track in an eerily similar fashion.

[@Tasz_]

2:33 Rumour has it, no Nascar has attempted to turn right since then.

[@mayse15]

They’ve added more road courses since then

[@EnrLeaf]

least funniest nascar joke ive seen

[@DrCrunkMusic]

The amount of time that chap at the end on the dragster had to see that hit coming 😩 dam that must have been terrifying

[@forty9r9r7]

I've had my brakes fail at 20mph in a pickup. Can't imagine losing brakes over 100. Because when you lose your brakes you get the distinct feeling of being in a nightmare, which is just awful.

[@glenpoy9520]

nobody dies because of speed, its the sudden stop on something that kills.

[@djdrastic1]

There was a real nasty one featuring a Audi in a South African Touring Car series a couple of years ago.

[@hondacivic-uo8ne]

You forgot maverick viñales at the redbull ring in 2020 (MotoGP) anyways good video

[@RadityaPramanaPutra2001]

What is happening with Maverick Viñales at the GP of Austria/Styria 2020?

[@hondacivic-uo8ne]

@@RadityaPramanaPutra2001 this is footage of the accident, kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGLVoIGKjLColcU he jumped of the bike due to the brakes failing

[@RadityaPramanaPutra2001]

@@hondacivic-uo8ne Okay, thank you for the footage.

[@RadityaPramanaPutra2001]

@@hondacivic-uo8ne I have watched it. That was scary!

[@christopherbouchard4121]

Chris Eggelstons wreck at Roseville in K&N West was a carburetor failure. That was a hell of a hit

[@sadfatdragon9529]

I've had drive stick on a push mower before and that was spooky can't imagine a race car.

[@kevinsellsit5584]

You missed one from the 80's. At the monster truck show at Anaheim stadium in Ca. A display of the following nights event went horribly wrong (fatal). They were going to have sand dragsters which would be tethered running a short track inside the stadium ... However for the display run at the monster truck race the car was not tethered, and the throttle stuck wide open. My girlfriend and I were very near the carnage which included the engine, diff, and spinning tires flying into the crowd. One worker on the track was smashed between the car and wall. Don't look it up, its not a image anyone wants to see let alone experience live. We were very lucky that day but many were not.

[@PbPomper]

It's amazing that most drivers can just walk away from a crash like that. Circuit barriers and driver safety have improved massively.

[@playdiscgolf1546]

Jimmy Johnson into the wall in 2000, was scary. That was one of the worst sudden stop crashes I’ve ever seen.

[@arranmc182]

that Allan Newton clip is crazy the fact it wasnt any worse is put luck for its time that could have been fatal so easy

[@uprightfossil6673]

Oh come on man! At that speed, with adrenaline flowing and a sudden failure and these guys try to avoid further contact and walk away and talk about it! Amazing!

[@tedsmith3061]

Actually...my hat is off to all the drivers and their stellar efforts to keep their cars from killing other people or themselves. It speaks to the fact that there is a very big, huge difference between race drivers and every day average drivers.

[@QUIX4U]

Got to "LOVE" commentators who have a fixation on certain words.. 0:01 Phenomenal & again at 0:03 another "PHENOMENAL" - which begs the question WHY? Why were we not given a THIRD choice word (phenomenal) as soon as the crash occurred - (via the age-old commentator's curse) Oh no what a phenomenal crash .!!!!! But no - we just get oh wow, he crashed.. Bit of a phenomenal-let-down wasn't it?

[@SAM-zt2uy]

when dragsters make a pass there’s an almost instant silence when the motors shut off it’s a very scary sound when they just keep going.

[@jollyomeatLA]

I believe Nascar's Eric McClure's crash at Talladega on the back stretch had a similar issue. I think his throttle locked up during initial contact from a chain reaction crash that sent him over 160+ into the inside concrete wall. It was a very vicious hit that i thought he died from live when i watched it. Happened in early 2010s. Unfortunately he passed in 2021 from health issues. He did suffer 2 concussions in his life which I'm not sure happened from the crash itself but he suffered physically, mentally/emotionally leading up to his passing.

[@stunter2875]

Nothing more terrifying than a stuck throttle. At least on a motorcycle I can say that. I'm sure others might disagree.You have to make a split second decision to either bail or try and save it.I unfortunately try and save it and it doesn't end well 3 different times

[@ArifSelect1]

5:02 what all those marshals were doing just standing around..

[@itellyouforfree7238]

0:17, well, this says a lot about the safe engineering of this car

[@413Dimitri]

Went to sell a 1984 Mercedes 300se down the road from me, and drove it normal just like any other day. Once I got to the main road intersection with turning lanes, the throttle stuck wide open and the brakes needed to be replaced bad and couldn’t stop it, the panic that set in in that moment was crazy, managed to just get into a parking lot and shut it down to clear the problem. But as I was on the test drive with the buyer, he turned the fans on which proceeded to create a fire under the passenger seat (I swear this never happened before 😅) Long story short the thing was possessed and was trying to take me out for selling it 😂😂

[@dixonqwerty]

Dang that first one. He must have felt some horribe G:s there. Amazed that he stood up after that impact straight on.

[@usafman8864]

The crash at 5:47 looked bad. He was hurt and you could tell by how he shook his head. He ended up breaking his leg in two places. That metal barrier is the reason why. It's the only fully metal barrier in this video.

[@attilabori4734]

I had a stuck throttle on a RD350. Managed with the kill switch...(it was the longest 3secs in my life)

[@BorisNoiseChannel]

2:08 you see his rears are braking, though

[@s70driver2005]

I experienced a stuck throttle on a motorcycle recently. Man that is scary as hell!!! Thankfully it was on a small bike but I was at a race track.

[@G4merGalaxy]

1:44 ofc the car goes out, it doesn't even go straight

[@periklaskyriakidis6064]

Vinales 2020??? That was so freaking scary.

[@ryansnider3791]

The heartbreak in the last guy's voice. :(

[@Abc-yt3el]

I had my brakes fail in my roadcar. Never felt terror like it.

[@myjulot]

Maverick Vinales Austria 2020 is a big one too.

[@arigabou]

must feel absolutely horrifying knowing ur going straight into the wall unable to brake

[@hotboyola]

Im checking my brakes, TONIGHT!!!

[@ajdahun]

Clay Regazonni, 1975? F1, Ferrari, Monaco? Back when Titanium was the exotic material like carbon fiber is today. Pedals made of it. But ale pedal snapped. Was in a wheelchair after he got released, forever.

[@ryangreen3382]

Just an accurate recreation of every forza online race

[@chrismunroe2078]

At the 4:11 mark you can catch the start of another wreck in the background.. neat

[@aribpm]

Poor dude was so shaken up.

[@GrayD_Fox]

Bloody hell if these cars didn't have the safety the do know the first driver would've lost his head

[@WorksopGimp]

Must be a race driver nightmare, no brakes

[@Pionearr]

"You did a fine job"

[@ryanpenrod1859]

4:08 another car slides out in the upper left background

[@bwest6275]

Some of these look personal 😳

[@bobhope3716]

So funny when the throttle sticks and the brakes fail .

[@KartiacKID]

For those haters of a manual stick shift, welp, you don’t have to worry about a stuck open throttle when you can just pop it out of gear….Which makes me winder if the cars with stuck throttles with paddles could also have been popped into neutral like you can in the lambos by pressing both left and right paddles in?

[@timeswap4675]

All of this is literally my nightmare

[@tinokuzovamunahu211]

All of these accidents is because they left the majic button on

[@davidrobert2007]

Shame that racecars don't have a shutoff switch right in front of the driver, that shuts down the engine and fuel pump. Oh wait. They do.

[@randomtrainboy]

in 4:09, if you pay attention to the pack, you can see another car crashing

[@dane857]

So, after seeing this, I have to ask myself, if this ever happened to me in my every day car on a regular road, would I be safer crashing head first or trying to spin it backwards or sideways into the impact? Assuming I would have the presence of mind and skill to achiever this...

[@xphxntomx]

2:45 DAMN.

[@MrTommyboy357]

stuck throttle, no one ever takes the car out of gear? I had a stuck throttle ,put the car in neutral pulled off the road and turned the car off, didn't panic.

[@mortenfrosthansen84]

Uhh the Tim Bell incident was unpleasant.. would probably actually prefer a backwards hit, or frontal.. compared to sideways or offset

[@skullmexa9651]

2:51 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👌🏻just!! Perfect!!!

[@Kalus_Saxon]

1:53 that’s what you get for putting a rainbow on your car the brakes transitioned into bananas 😂

[@LichaelMewis]

Too bad Scott Kalitta didn't have similar luck as the last gentleman.

[@ragemodegaming7962]

It's called "putting it in neutral and shutting off the engine"

[@TheBazzterd]

JJ did a Newton sort to say :P

[@SmokeBurp]

Fred Flintstone would have stopped that dragster

[@onlysamples]

Do suspension failures

[@16bitmetal35]

Okay I mean if you're driving a dragster and that shit doesn't stop. You're better off just jumping off into the tarmac, at worst you'll get a few broken bones. Anything is better than getting yourself into an inferno.

[@tinderbox218]

R.I.P.

[@Double.J]

I found out today that parachutes only work if there's no more throttle as well.

[@yyabay]

2:18 really no brakes? The rear was not spinnng front rearly spins.....

[@HelpMeFindMyDad]

4:30 Imagine caring so much about the fucking championship standings when someone goes so hard into a wall

[@johnharper4723]

Stuck throttle's are scary. Happened to me in a rally and I was little more than a passenger ... until the car found the river.

[@ElementsMMA]

Once I was going skinny dipping with this slut I met on tinder.. everything was going well until some moron in a rally car came out of nowhere and crashed into the river.

[@eins2001]

throttles*

[@RininGamingYT]

The man nearly died and you're correcting his grammar... appalling behaviour

[@ElementsMMA]

@@RininGamingYT Grammar Police are here to keep us safe. A crime is a crime.

[@giacomoneri1782]

No kill switch? I understand a dragster may not stop if you cut the spark, but in a rally car?

[@Aidan_-_]

Johnson being uninjured is a true statement for the safety in Nascar.

[@Jkru77]

Definitely! Denny Hamlin also had a similar wreck in that same spot at the Glen in 2011, and Hamlin's throttle also got stuck.

[@mozo191]

Seems like they’ve been going a bit backwards in safety recently

[@markussass1144]

This was pre-HANS. Dale didn't survive a much less nasty looking crash a year later in Daytona. How JJ survived that crash without a scar is beyond me.

[@77fonebone]

​@@markussass1144 That wall had a lot more give than the one Dale hit. Dale went from 160 to 0 almost instantaneously. Dale experienced like, 50G's. I also still think its pretty likely Dale wasnt wearing his seatbelt correctly and the lack of full face helmet didnt help any, though that alone wouldnt have saved him probably. Im not really bashing on Dale here, it was just a different time and he was from a different generation of racer.

[@DrewRallye]

That was crazy. I’m amazed he walked away from that car so casually, the g force would have been immense

[@reiniervanessen2787]

Haven’t seen a thing but I already know it’s going to be a hard one to watch

[@SumChap1]

The guy in the 370Z, his reactions were insane. As soon as he realized his brakes were out, he downshifted to slow the car as much as possible, then at the last moment, spun 90 degrees so as to have the best impact possible. Smart guy!

[@barnsnoble7066]

Not criticizing the drivers actions, but hitting the wall sideways is the worst way to crash. The chassis has less deformation and the safety equipment is less effective in sideways crashes like that. I can't even imagine how much his neck must have hurt the next morning.

[@m0op1234]

@@barnsnoble7066 Instincts took over i imagine, i know i would prefer to go shoulder first like rugby, than feet first and imagine my legs getting shattered. Very little time to react. but im no car safety expert so ill take your word for it.

[@SumChap1]

@@barnsnoble7066 I think it was the best of a bad situation though, neck forward, backward or sideward, it's all bad!

[@ross-carlson]

@@barnsnoble7066 I'm with you - I've been racing a long time, put a 350z into a wall head on at about 60 mph and my strong guess is he did NOT mean to put it in sideways as he would absolutely know that's a BAD way to go in, for all the reasons you stated. I would _always_ choose head on vs. sideways at that kind of speed.

[@chrisstopher2277]

Not seeing where your going till the impact and not being able to brace got to be scary. I heard bracing for impact is worse though. I can't imagine losing confidence in your car as a pro racer.

[@W123KartSport]

I had a brake failure in a kart once. When I hit the crash bags, my chest hit the steering wheel so hard that I bent the steering shaft and ended up on my side. Best thing to do in a kart with a stuck throttle is pull the spark plug wire. Thank goodness I've only had to do that once.

[@ldnwholesale8552]

Errrr, ign switch!!

[@W123KartSport]

@@ldnwholesale8552 it's a 2 cycle Yamaha with an outboard starter. No ignition/kill switch

[@Shiroi_Okami_44]

Where Is the Spark Plug Wire?

[@realdookoos]

@@Shiroi_Okami_44 on the exposed engine behind you

[@tdyerwestfield]

There was a really scary one in MotoGP in the last few years, also at turn 1 at the Red Bull Ring, when Vinales had to jump off his bike at around 200mph as his brakes had failed.

[@hermansillem]

That was insane, very scary. Thank god he jumped very early.

[@abliviustrey]

Kmph*

[@tdyerwestfield]

@@abliviustrey Nope mph. 320kph or 200mph.

[@kerolokerokerolo]

@@tdyerwestfield the moment he jumped off the bike he was going at 200 Kmph aprox

[@s70driver2005]

Yea that was insane!!!

[@ArsenalFootbal]

5:07 fanboost activated

[@lewis8552]

This has actually happened twice with Fanboost activations. Daniel Abt at Mexico and Nyck De Vries at Mexico both got a stuck throttle when activating fanboost.

[@jdb47games]

🤣

6:15 Props to operator for reacting lighting quick, we get this awesome footage.

[@Fabs4947]

my worst nightmare

[@TwizslurD]

I've had the brake lines bust in an '03 Ford Expedition, and while I only got up to around 20mph, that was the most terrifying moment of my life. I had two options: take it off the road and potentially into someone's house, or risk coasting through the red light of a busy intersection. Thankfully it stopped on it's own about 15 feet before the "point of no return". While these are professional drivers, who know the risks and train/practice for them, I still couldn't imagine going 150mph or more, and _not_ being able to stop..

[@giacomoneri1782]

Had a brake failure in an Autobianchi Y10, approaching an intersection at around 60kph (37mph i think), it wasn't really that scary, just yanked the handbrake and downshifted 3 gears, got it a little bit sideways then stopped right on the line. The Y10 being manual definitely saved the day, but the Expedition doesn't look like it got that luxury.

[@alexismendez7231]

6:20 the camera operators reaction time…👌🏼

[@ElswordGm]

Dragster was like 10% on throttle imagine unleashing his power

[@Alex-tu9bh]

The allan Newton crash looked violent

[@dergeneralfluff]

And with the safety back then it is a surprise that he was mostly fine. I tried doing some digging, but he was a small time racer, not much info, but he did compete in a few more races in 1986 and 87 (similar to the years prior, just ~2 races per season), which indicates he was mostly fine from this crash, and like typical for the era, had the balls to continue

[@rwec_rimsaracing]

@@dergeneralfluff he suffered leg injuries but beyond that made a full recovery. died recently in his 80s from cancer.

[@ldnwholesale8552]

Quite a famous crash that one. The armco cushioned the impact. Which it actually does well. At Calder. I believe the car is still around.

[@fpsdovah2572]

The guy at the end was so remorseful but he did the best thing to do

[@americanopenwheelracing3596]

4:44 .....and ole boy is trying to GEAR DOWN to engine brake !! Just ran outta space.

[@dionv7391]

remember seeing felix's crash in that indycar live, u can just hear the throttle going to 100%

[@LichaelMewis]

5:41 are we sure that guy survived that impact? That was incredible and there was no HANS device.

[@k0mori_yt]

Hi, I decided to investigate this out of curiosity, and found this on Wikipedia: "Newton survived the crash with nothing more than a busted knee and broken ankle (later during the race Newton was shown by race broadcaster Channel 7 sitting up and talking to medical staff as he was being placed into an ambulance)." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Australian_Sports_Car_Championship

[@LichaelMewis]

@@k0mori_yt and yet Dale Earnhardt died? That's crazy.

[@DarkIzo]

@@k0mori_yt amazing though i guess A LOT of luck was involved

[@YoHowYaDoin]

2:49 just watching jimmie Johnson climbing out shocks me

[@jimhiscott2918]

Whenever i see a electric race car get destroyed I pray for the driver and hopecthe car is completely beyond repair

[@spiritdancer1699]

The guys in the older videos/cars without hans or the newer style seats with the increased head supports and netting were extremely lucky.

[@johnstroebel7013]

Only a broken ankle for Alan Newton. Unbelievable!