The crash that ENDED Courtney's F1 Career

[@1nterntalkswheel590]

Shoutout Michael for real. This was his “Senna saving Erik Comas” moment

[@peggles__]

100%, I'll always respect the drivers who step up in moments like this, no matter the outcome, it's always commendable.

[@TheAlphaDingo]

Schumi the GOAT! I remember reading how deeply Senna's death in particular effected him, with the loss of Senna - arguably the last of his generation of legendary drivers that included Prost, Mansell and Patrese, he had to step up as one of the senior drivers on the grid advocating for driver safety despite still being relatively young at the time and he would go on to help improve safety through the HANS device among other precautionary introductions during his career

[@1greenMitsi]

....Patrese??

[@TheAlphaDingo]

@@1greenMitsi held the record for most race starts for almost 2 decades and was a prominent driver of his era racing with teams at the front of the grid.

[@1greenMitsi]

@@TheAlphaDingo.... So? If you include patrese with senna prost and mansell, where does it stop? You'd have to include barrichello, coulthard, trulli, webber. Longevity dosent make a 'legend'... Ru sure you didnt mean piquet? I mean odd that you would include a dude that raced at the front but was always beaten by his teammate yet didn't include a 3x world champ

[@TheAlphaDingo]

@@1greenMitsi ridiculous logic. This is the elite of the elite of motor racing. Over 6 billion people in the world and less than 800 have ever driven in F1. You sneer at longevity as if it's a bad thing but if you have the record for most race starts for nearly 20 years, you clearly have supreme driving talent compared to almost everyone else on the planet and are worthy of being mentioned in the upper echelons of the sport. Whether you like it or not, Patrese is one of the most famous drivers from his generation. He would easily be in the first 5-8 drivers any racing fan would recite when asked to name drivers from the 80s-early 90s. As I said in my original comment, when he retired, he was clearly considered a senior veteran and stalwart of the grid; hence the creation of a gulf of senior drivers leaving the sport and subsequently for the younger generation to then step into.

[@1greenMitsi]

@@TheAlphaDingo lmao ridiculous logic and goes on to include the population of the earth to justify Patrese as a legend???? thats enough asininity for 1 day diude , get your head checked. When discussing F1, the scope is.....Formula 1......not the whole fcking world 😂 Lewis Hamilton = Legend Bottas - who also drove an all conquering Mercedes is not Verstappen - Legend Perez - (insert bottas example) Same with Patrese. Its quite simple really

[@SupercarsMabeanie]

One Track Mind with Rusty and Up Front with Foges from 2017 were godsends of interview series. I learned so much detail about what goes on behind the scenes and what these guys had experienced. JC's junior history amongst other Supercars drivers who tried to get into F1, sometimes it's not so bad to miss out. Great video. Well made. Love your work. I think ending up at Red Bull might be a stretch, but he could have ended up at Williams replacing Montoya. But he had to win the F3000 championship or win races in it.

[@peggles__]

I think Red Bull wasn’t unlikely, he would’ve likely been with the Jaguar team, with just years before they become Red Bull, he very well could’ve been in Webbers position. It’s all guesswork mostly, it didn’t happen, but you never know.

[@SupercarsMabeanie]

@@peggles__ yeah he would've debuted a year after Webber, so he could've been in the mix for sure. And yeah it's all guesswork. Getting to F1 is hard enough and costs a fortune, staying there is even harder.

[@Spike_au]

Not sure who that was helping him out of the car at Phillip island, but Thats some one the best sportsmanship I've seen.

[@peggles__]

Premat I believe, very good sportsmanship as JC would never have been able to do it himself.

[@mikaelbiilmann6826]

Drivers being as competitive as they are, my first thought was that he was going over there to give him a piece of his mind, and completely changed when he saw his rival was in pain. Very good sportsmanship, yes.

[@gcm747]

Premat went off into the grass through the very high speed turn 3. Being unable to pull the car up, he hit Courtney as the field we’re going through the slow turn 4 hairpin. Courtney was extremely lucky given that Premat’s car actually got airborne just before impact and Courtney’s car took the brunt of the impact on the drivers door. With the drivers side crushed and Courtney unable to extract himself, Premat assisted him out via the passenger side.

[@SteveMarksMusic]

nice video mate!

[@peggles__]

Glad you enjoyed it mate!

[@Tubesmaney]

What a horrible event! So glad he was able to find his racing "home" and do well - he deserved. There isn't always a lot of discussion about the aftermath of serious crashes and their effects on the drivers! Good on ya James!

[@peggles__]

I think we need to have more discussions on not just the physical impacts of having a big crash like this, but also mental and emotional issues that can arise. Its important and interesting to tell these stories, hopefully there is something to be learned from it.

[@Tohn_Janner95]

Super interesting video, never knew courtney was testing for f1 teams. Big shame that crash happened. Very cool to see ur close to that big 1k!!!!

[@peggles__]

Yeah 100% he was only about a year off an F1 seat if the rumours from back then are to be believed, it’s a shame he couldn’t accomplish that, but at least he found his home down under. And thank you, it’s gonna happen soon, I’m excited!

[@isthatrubble]

I prefer to imagine him and webber on the same team, now that would have been an experience

[@gcm747]

That Premat/Courtney crash at Phillip Island was mega.

[@peggles__]

It was a very huge shunt, no surprise it knocked Courtney about

[@findingneamo]

Imagine if Multi 21 was between Seb and James 😂

[@peggles__]

I could imagine James being a little bit less cordial with his words tbh

[@findingneamo]

@@peggles__ see you next Tuesday would definitely be thrown out

[@peggles__]

Alongside a few other colourful words too no doubt

[@pommunist]

Imagine if Multi 21 was between Mark and James 🙂

[@jayannan9897]

Fuck me, that's horrific. He seems honest and cool so he deserves what he done in Australian motorsport. He's been a great driver and great personality 🍻✌

[@peggles__]

Couldn’t agree more, that 2010 title was well deserved for him. Shame he wasn’t able to get another.

[@jayannan9897]

@@peggles__ now you've given some context to his background it is a true shame he didn't get more accolades with that kind of talent ✌

[@jacekatalakis8316]

Brit F3 in the 80s-2000s always had some of the best looking and worst looking cars on the same grid. Hitec for instance, and Manor, Jag were up at the looking good end of the table.

[@BZD135]

Great video!

[@peggles__]

Thanks!

[@themightydash1714]

Thanks for telling us where on the track it happened...

[@peggles__]

I understand your annoyance, I simply just forgot to mention it. It happens sometimes, especially with many more interesting parts of the story. It was headed into Ascari that he crashed, straight into the steel barriers and back out!

[@cletusslackjaw969]

He explains in another interview that they didn’t take tape off an aluminium part of the wishbone before bonding carbon to it

[@stephenhoward8433]

If JC never had that accident apparently that f1 seat was his, and Mark Webber wouldn't of had a contract for 2003. Amazing how different things could have been if the suspension on a jag never broke that day

[@wendigockel]

I reckon he would have come to race in Supercars anyway, perhaps for Triple Eight via the Red Bull connections if he had stayed with Jaguar/Red Bull Racing. Though if James Courtney would have had an F1 career, what would have happened to Mark Webber? Would he have gone back to Mercedes to race in DTM? Or would he have been McLaren's reserve driver who'd replace Montoya in 2006? Lots of funny what if-scenarioes!

[@DekGT5mad]

It's a pity because he may well have been in the position of Mark Webber or Sebastian Vettel when he was at his peak through 2009 and 2011

[@peggles__]

Agreed, it’s interesting to think about how different things might’ve been if he was able to keep going in F1.

[@leongt1954]

you forgot to mention his 2 world carting championship wins

[@germanenglishengineer2054]

"Ours is to reason why but to do and die." Saving Private Ryan. Can't explain what ifs. Yes nice to dream about what would have happened but wiser to dream what you can do now with what you have.

[@jaxonjohns2798]

Crash video?

[@keeganfennec8514]

video doesn't exist, was a private test session

[@peggles__]

All footage (videos and photos) of the test session and the incident weren’t allowed to be published, which is why it’s not as well known of an incident as it should be in the F1 world. If there was footage, it’s either archived very well or destroyed sadly. Plus, it’s not footage I’d share on my channel.

[@Alex-tu9bh]

Supercars is better anyway. fate had better plans for you jc 😀

[@jackayres1569]

JC, next big thing in F1? Please 🙄

[@peggles__]

Winning the British F3 championship, had good pace, and was a promising sign. There was a very real chance he could've been a good talent in F1

[@LeeePowers]

​@peggles__ he didn't win BF3,but was a front runner and series leader when he bapped at Monza. He did win JF3 with the crack Tom's squad,and I've always wondered why he never went FNippon like Lotterer.

[@burnsiet]

You obviously don't know much. Anyone who wins International karting championships and British Formula Ford is a proper talent. For example, the bloke who won the next years Junior Karts was Alonso. Names who came through the Juniors when it was revived as a series include, Verstappen, Albon, Leclerc, Hubert. Beforehand, Schneider, Modena and a little French fellow by the name of Prost.

[@jackayres1569]

@@burnsiet What a stupid comment, trying to compare an unproven JC to people that made it to F1 (apart from Hubert).

[@rossjames503]

Met his wife in NYC years before she had all that work done to her.

[@Bale4Bond]

Any link to a before and after picture?

[@1greenMitsi]

nice bobs?