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...
Those guys are lucky that there were no security checks at Airports back then. Because those guys have some balls made out of steel.
wtf the comentator said that a few people died like he asks whats for dinner tonight …
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.
That Mercedes crash was insane. You really had to have balls of steel to race back then.
The chills I get from watching this… Why did it take them so long to invent a roll cage?
Damn, past! You scary
When men where men
The narrator’s voice though
They didnt even have proper helmets, ouch.
“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.” -Ernest Hemingway
I found it properly brutal that they have no filters on ANY of these crashes
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Those guys are lucky that there were no security checks at Airports back then.
Because those guys have some balls made out of steel.
wtf the comentator said that a few people died like he asks whats for dinner tonight …
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.
That Mercedes crash was insane. You really had to have balls of steel to race back then.
The chills I get from watching this… Why did it take them so long to invent a roll cage?
Damn, past! You scary
When men where men
The narrator’s voice though
They didnt even have proper helmets, ouch.
“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”
-Ernest Hemingway
I found it properly brutal that they have no filters on ANY of these crashes