photo sequence of Stan Fox's crash on the first corner of the 1995 Indianapolis 500.
He suffured some serious head injuries but later raced again. Amazingly, he had no leg injuries and his only foot injury was a slightly bruised heel. Fox passed away in an unrelated passenger car accident a few years ago.
Wow. It is so amazing that his legs weren't turned into hamburger.
Actually, funny thing is to me it's looks like what saved him is that his feet hit the other guys rear wing.
I'm thinking that if the other car wasn't there, he would have been turned over further (picture the car almost straight up and down as an exaggeration) and his legs certainly would have been crushed.
To me it looks like his feet hit the car's wing in the second and third last pictures and that may have flattened the car out enough that he landed more flat, instead of straight up and down.
In any event, that's an amazing set of pictures.
I wonder if there is a sequence of photos like that from the Zanardi accident when he lost his legs?
I thought that the car is made to break apart but where is the cage surrounding his legs or do Indy cars not have one?
I don't think Indy cars have a cage. It is all reinforced carbon fiber. I just so happen to be walking through the pits at the St Pete Gran Prix today and I didn't see anything cage-like.
This reminded me of Zanardi's crash in 2001 - I love the man. He's just an amazing guy and as much as I used to heckle him for always winning in CART I had and have nothing but mad respect for him.
Anyhow, this reminded me of his accident. The link below is a very graphic image of his crash that shows esentially just how strong the impact was when his legs were blown off - "amputated" is too light a word for what really took place when Tag's car ripped through his.
I'm posting the link and not the image for anyone who may otherwise want to skip this altogether.
that is one wild pic!!! i literally see massive chunks of mangled leg flesh flying thru the air!! just goes to show how much open wheel drivers risk it all :bones:
In 1995 the drivers feet were well into the nose of the car. I believe today they have to be behind the front axle and there is now a bulk head in front of them as well. Remember, they can change front wings now whereas with older cars you could not. When they pull the wing off you can see the forward bulkhead that now exists. I think that when Mears got hurt is when they started the changes to the front location of drivers feet.
Of course now with the nose being so strong, you can see what happens in the Zanardi crash. Imagine what the mechanics felt like when they had to "clean" up the cars.
I remember both Stan's and Alex's crashes when they happened. Stan wrecked at the start with A.J's driver , was it Cheever, Billy Boat? Stan Fox was a sprint car driver before Indy Zanardi went to F1 and came back to Indy cars , then was almost cut in half, I used to love his victory spins before everybody was doing them. Stan Fox was a sprint car driver before Indy cars and never fully recovered from the crash.
This reminded me of Zanardi's crash in 2001 - I love the man. He's just an amazing guy and as much as I used to heckle him for always winning in CART I had and have nothing but mad respect for him.
Anyhow, this reminded me of his accident. The link below is a very graphic image of his crash that shows esentially just how strong the impact was when his legs were blown off - "amputated" is too light a word for what really took place when Tag's car ripped through his.
I'm posting the link and not the image for anyone who may otherwise want to skip this altogether.
I always wondered what the crew attending to Tag thought when they saw the mess on the front of his car...
I know Dr. Terry Trammel said that they couldn't keep a tourniquet of any kind on what was left of his legs and the blood was just pouring out of him - everything was just too slick and there was nothing to WRAP around. He had to actually shove his thumbs into the femoral arteries in what was left of Alex's legs to stop the bleeding just to keep him alive.
That man is a fucking hero in my book - he sent Alex to a hospital in Berlin almost 40~50 (maybe more?) minutes away instead of going with the local hospital 10 minutes down the road because he knew from researching the facilities that the one nearby would not have the equipment required to treat Alex. Had they sent him to the local joint even that hospital has admitted that he would have died within an hour of his arrival.
Alex went into cardiac arrest 3 times on that trip to Berlin and they read him his last rights in the helicopter, anointing him with oil from his car. - it is so amazing he's still here today.
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