These Vintage Racing Crashes Are Absolutely Terrifying

In the days before roll hoops, seat belts and Armco barriers, motor racing was an incredibly deadly sport. These British Pathé films show the savage nature of those early years...
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Anonymous

Those guys are lucky that there were no security checks at Airports back then.
Because those guys have some balls made out of steel.

01/20/2016 - 13:53 |
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Anonymous

wtf the comentator said that a few people died like he asks whats for dinner tonight …

01/20/2016 - 14:04 |
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Thierry Theuns

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

That’s the way it was back then. Cars were extremely dangerous. I mean, they pretty much explode on contact, we’re made of magnesium (which burns like a furnace, as stated in the video). Crash was almost certain death, unless you were flung out of your car.

01/21/2016 - 09:08 |
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Joan Nunez

That Mercedes crash was insane. You really had to have balls of steel to race back then.

01/20/2016 - 14:31 |
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Anonymous

The chills I get from watching this… Why did it take them so long to invent a roll cage?

01/20/2016 - 14:32 |
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Facus

Damn, past! You scary

01/20/2016 - 15:28 |
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Jordan Mellinger

When men where men

01/20/2016 - 16:05 |
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GeoffBaz (Jesus of Wang) (Viper Enthusiast)

The narrator’s voice though

01/20/2016 - 16:19 |
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Anonymous

They didnt even have proper helmets, ouch.

01/20/2016 - 16:41 |
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Anonymous

“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”
-Ernest Hemingway

01/20/2016 - 17:21 |
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Anonymous

I found it properly brutal that they have no filters on ANY of these crashes

01/20/2016 - 20:30 |
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