Dawn Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 This week Joey Logano was all over TV after his wreck at Dover. It was bad, but I have seen much worse as I know you all have. Tell me what wrecks you think were some of the worst and please if you have links to footage, include if you can! THANKS DAWN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightmoves 99 Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 The Michael McDowell wreck at TMS a couple of years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Harris Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 jeff bodine, truck race at daytona in feb. 2000 ? thanks kathy, i had the wrong name, but i used edit!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 The Bodine Truck wreck and the Rusty Wallace wreck at Talladega . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modracer Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 Stanley Smith in Talladega in the 80's or 90's comes to mind. Another bad one would be during the same time period at Bristol. I dont recall who it was, but it was during a practice session and some left the gate open and they struck it and the car broke in half just behind the driver's seat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Moon Motorsports Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 The Bristol wrecks...Either the Michael Waltrip one or the guy whio hit the divider and then was hit again and the car was split in two right next to the driver's seat. All he had to do was stand up to get out. I don't remember his name. Bad wrecks both of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wkr77 Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 The Bristol wrecks...Either the Michael Waltrip one or the guy whio hit the divider and then was hit again and the car was split in two right next to the driver's seat. All he had to do was stand up to get out. I don't remember his name. Bad wrecks both of them. His name was Mike Harmon. It was a Busch Series race and Either Johnny Sauter or Casey Atwood hit him... That one was bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
champ1796 Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 The Bristol wrecks...Either the Michael Waltrip one or the guy whio hit the divider and then was hit again and the car was split in two right next to the driver's seat. All he had to do was stand up to get out. I don't remember his name. Bad wrecks both of them. His name was Mike Harmon. It was a Busch Series race and Either Johnny Sauter or Casey Atwood hit him... That one was bad. Agreed, that one was unbelievable. Hard to believe that the guy is still here today. Joey's wreck wasnt a big deal in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txtom Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 And Mike Harmon still races to this day. He is also the same Mike Harmon who won the first ALL PRO race at San Antonio in 1983. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawn Posted October 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 GREAT STUFF GUYS!!! I used some of yours as well as mine on my blog at mysa.com and went and found video as well...feel free to check it out and comment there as well. http://voices.mysanantonio.com/dawn_murphy...the-decade.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakdad Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 One of the worst I have ever seen. 1964 Indy 500....................... http://www.youtube.com/results?searhttp://...wreck&uni=1[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modracer Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 Stanley Smith's wreck resulted in all of the teams having spotters during practice sessions. He was on the back straightaway and spun out. He was waiting to fire the car back up and another car hit him on the driver's side at full speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modracer Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 There was another wreck in the Nascar series in Mexico this year that killed Carlos Pardo. Hes a video to that one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b036OYyiwoc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speed demon 7 Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 Stanley Smith's wreck resulted in all of the teams having spotters during practice sessions. He was on the back straightaway and spun out. He was waiting to fire the car back up and another car hit him on the driver's side at full speed. I believe that was Eric Martin, he was hit by Debrah Renshaw. Eric radioed in said he was OK, 10 seconds later, renshaw hit him and killed him. That is when NASCAR mandated spotters anytime cars were on the track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh42 Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 here is a pic of harmons car at the motorsports hall of fame at talladega Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwracing10 Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 The bristol wreak with michael waltrip was pretty bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txtom Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 here is a pic of harmons car at the motorsports hall of fame at talladega Have not been there in a couple years, but Mike Waltrips' Bristol crash car was there also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joker03 Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 san antonio speedway a few years back when that truck flips about 9 times on front stretch anyone rem that one>? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debwill Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 I remember the SAS truck wreck - Damon Bean. I sitll have the pictures somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Moon Motorsports Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 I remember the SAS truck wreck - Damon Bean. I sitll have the pictures somewhere. See if you can dig 'em up and post them! Please...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KISS_Racing Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 John Andretti at TMS. The wreck itself wasnt to bad. The fact that the car came to rest against the wall on the drivers side then burst into flames made for some scary moments. If John wasnt as small as he is or had he been knocked out he might have been burned pretty badly. Also, bad SAS wreck was when one of the Kelly boys(don't remember if it was John Jr. or Patrick) hit the support pole at the backstretch gate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt5858 Posted October 4, 2009 Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 Ricky Rudds Tumble at Daytona in the 80's! He taped his eyes open to race the next day in the race! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy Posted October 4, 2009 Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 Ok, I had the wrong track for the Rusty flip, it was Daytonya. They just showed it on Nascar count down. But, they said he did have a flip at Talladega too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCloser Posted October 5, 2009 Report Share Posted October 5, 2009 mike denmans fire at sas that was on espn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txtom Posted October 5, 2009 Report Share Posted October 5, 2009 mike denmans fire at sas that was on espn September, 1989, that was a bad one, Denman got burned a little, but Mike Meeks got the worst. He was in rehab for months. Also involved was Beaver Stelzig and Johnny Walker; Same Walker now racing PLM in Houston. An interesting side note to that fire is it was shown on an ESPN show Dave Despain had back then; I don't recall the name. Despain was in the press box that night watching it all go down, and included footage in his show. He was at SAS to do a story on the TIDA Late Model series and Neil Upchurch. The race was eventually won by Rick Rapp, followed by Greg Davidson and Jay Watson. I've seen racers wreck hundreds of times, but two wrecks stand out as ones I regret witnessing in person. They both resulted in fatalities. The first was Joe Schweiss at Pan American when his cage collapsed in on him during what should have been a relatively minor incident; the car was built by that year's tech inspector, and had a muffler pipe cage. The second was Ronnie Miller of Oklahoma who was coming off Turn 4 at TWS and someone else who has no business in a racecar turned down in front of him. Miller spun to the infield grass, where his car dug in and flipped. The windshield almost decapitated him, blood loss killed him shortly after leaving the track in helicopter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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