10 Most Tragic Fatal Motorsports Crashes

10 Most Tragic Fatal Motorsports Crashes
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Motor racing – more specifically auto racing – is one of the largest and most popular spectator sports in the world. Formula One remains the most popular and enduring forms of motorsport worldwide, while in America NASCAR reins supreme. From its roots as an Olympic exhibition in 1900, through the modern era of incredible speeds, auto racing has endured as a sport full of passionate drivers and even more passionate fans.This passion makes it more tragic when a life is taken during a racing event, something which happens far too often. This list looks at 10 deaths which were among the most shocking, unexpected and tragic in auto racing history.

Pierre Levegh, 83 Spectators Le Mans
Ayrton Senna Formula One
Dale Earnhardt NASCAR
Gilles Villenueve Formula One
Mark Donohue Formula One/NASCAR
Eddie Sachs Indianapolis Racing
Joe Weatherly NASCAR
Roland Ratzenberger Formula One
Bruce McLaren Formula One
Scott Kalitta NHRA

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  1. Window nets came about in NASCAR after Richard Petty flipped his car and broke his arm many years after the Joe Weatherly crash. If part of the channel name is "facts" maybe you should do a better job of checking them first.

  2. How is people’s only problem with this the text speed!! Yes it’s awful and tragic that so many people died in motor racing. What’s just as bad is someone is happy sitting behind a computer compiling their deaths into a top 10 video for views and likes. That’s just disrespectful

  3. Bonus info… Dale Earnhardt refused to wear the HANS safety gear.. A number of drivers, in all kinds of division. Was sceptical about the effect, and questions about less mobility in case of f.ex fire hazards. After this accident, HANS became mandatory equipment almost everywhere

  4. gordon smiley should've been at least #3 on here, have u seen how horrific his one looks, anyway rip to all

  5. What about Jochen Rindt? He spoke out against the lack of safety on the tracks of F1 in the 60s and 70s but was killed competing for the drivers championship in 1970, he built up such a large lead no one caught up to it by the end of the season, so his wife was given the title in his absence.

  6. You really should review videos before posting them. Several slides showed the same text as the one before, the Dale Earnhardt one being the worst. Also, text goes too fast.

  7. Hard to "rate" horrible crashes, yet I have to say it's determined by how the viewer feels after witnessing the crash. For me, the Indycar wipeout that claimed fellow Canadian, Greg Moore, is the one I remember as being the worst I ever saw.

  8. these guy never learn so its really hard to feel sorry for them humans were not ment to go that fast i figured racers would learn and do something else but they dont and end up dead

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