Track days pre health and safety

cjp0349 · 09-01-17, 05:43 PM

Found this amazing video on YouTube of some spectacular crashes at the Nurburgring, looks like the early 70s.

Check out the guy in the Beetle at 1:36

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kxzB3q6LGe8

sinbin5t · 09-01-17, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by cjp0349

Found this amazing video on YouTube of some spectacular crashes at the Nurburgring, late 60s/early 70s.

Check out the guy in the Beetle at 1:36

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kxzB3q6LGe8

This may have been put on before Carl

It's just like me in the house, oops (crash) there goes something else

Minty · 09-01-17, 09:41 PM

Blimey

It shows just how far car safety has come, and why seatbelts became law... No wonder road death stats were so high back then

Andy10v · 09-01-17, 10:58 PM

That is very "interesting" to watch.

Old cars are scary!

Eddy · 10-01-17, 10:10 AM

I think this is the only time when you were actually safer on a motor bike !

It seem the extra rubber on the tyres help the cars falling over, notice nearly all of the tyres suddenly deflate or come off the rims, which probably doesn't help.
So there is a reason why low profile tyres are more stable.

vorsprung durch technik · 10-01-17, 10:16 AM

simons2 · 10-01-17, 01:02 PM

Thats one way to get out of a car quickly!

missfire · 10-01-17, 01:04 PM

Frightening..

cjp0349 · 10-01-17, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Eddy

It seem the extra rubber on the tyres help the cars falling over, notice nearly all of the tyres suddenly deflate or come off the rims, which probably doesn't help.

Quite a lot of the cars in this vid and certainly the majority of the VeeDubs, I reckon, would have been on crossply tyres

Anyone know what the car is at 5:08?

09-01-17, 09:41 PM	#3
Minty Senior Member Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Wirral Posts: 1,528	Blimey It shows just how far car safety has come, and why seatbelts became law... No wonder road death stats were so high back then __________________ 1984 GT5E Topaz Green 1982 GT5S Helios Blue - now in Ireland 1983 GT5E Topaz Green - donor 1986 GT 2.0 Tornado Red - long gone 2001 A6 2.4 V6 - exported to Ireland

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Andy10v Grown up member Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Stirling Posts: 861	That is very "interesting" to watch. Old cars are scary! __________________ 2005 350z GT Sold-1992 3B S2 coupe-RS2+, 996s, konis, forged rods, rear torsen.... Sold-1993 ABY coupe

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Eddy Grown up member Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Glasgow Posts: 904	I think this is the only time when you were actually safer on a motor bike ! It seem the extra rubber on the tyres help the cars falling over, notice nearly all of the tyres suddenly deflate or come off the rims, which probably doesn't help. So there is a reason why low profile tyres are more stable. Last edited by Eddy; 10-01-17 at 10:21 AM.

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simons2 Grown up member Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: ireland Posts: 291	Thats one way to get out of a car quickly!

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missfire making wooden things Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: cow land Posts: 8,156	Frightening..