What Happend

[NascarFan]

Anybody know what happend here?

[heavenbound]

Was that not Brett Bodine at Daytona?

[NascarFan]

Was that not Brett Bodine at Daytona?

I'm not sure. A friend of mine just sent me the link and told me to take a look.

[heavenbound]

I remember seeing that race actually, bodine took some flips and nothing left but the roll cage, even think some people in the stands were seriously hurt from flying objects. he is lucky to be alive, but this may be a different race that you have a pick of.

[NascarFan]

I remember seeing that race actually, bodine took some flips and nothing left but the roll cage, even think some people in the stands were seriously hurt from flying objects. he is lucky to be alive, but this may be a different race that you have a pick of.

Mabey Mr Ford will know.

[Mr. Ford95]

Yes I know and man that was one scary ***** wreck. It was actually Geoff Bodine, the oldest of the Bodine brothers. It was Daytona back in like 98 I think. It was the very first Truck race to ever be run on a restrictor plate track. Quite literally, when watching it unfold, just about everyone thought they had just witness' a driver die right in front of their eyes. There was nothing left of the truck when it came to rest, just one big hunk of roll cage metal all twisted and mangled. Several fans and security personanel where hurt when he first hit the fence.

Coming out of the tri-oval, Bodine got a heck of a run on the outside and suddenly 2 trucks down low touched and one came flying up the track and caught Bodine in the left front corner. For some reason the truck took off like an airplane(prolly because he had another truck behind him that had his rear bumper caved in from bump drafting) and flew up into the catch fence where a huge fireball erupted(which injured the fans along with the debris from the truck and fence being ripped apart.) When he came down, he flipped several times before being drilled by another truck still at full steam, cartwheeled several more times before being struck yet again by another truck at full steam.

Bodine had to be cut out of the carnage, put on a gurney and headed to Halifax Medical where he spent a very long time recovering from numerous internal injuries. He has since came back and raced several one off deals, finished 3rd in the 2002 500(I think 2002, it was the year Ward Burton won I know that.)

[Cripplecreek]

This wreck was before Earnhardts death, before they had safer barriers. It was bizzare, if I'm not mistaken, the truck came to a rest on the infield and the engine was a good 100 feet away, couldn't believe he survived.

[Mr. Ford95]

Not too bizarre in the carnage left. Richard Petty had a similar wreck, just without the big fireball. His engine went flying down the track and landed in the infield grass at the start/finish line still smoking. He pulled down a bunch of fencing after the car stood on it's nose and started doing barrel rolls while leaning against the fence. Came out with a bruise on his ankle and was back at the track to watch the finish of that year's 500.

Ryan Newman had his right rear tire ripped off his car after rubbing the wall wrong and as he went flipping, the whole rear end, axle, bell housing and all came flying loose and sent hurtling 50 feet away.

Bobby Allison got up into the fence and was about 6 inches from going over it and into the crowd at 'Dega, sent fuel flying into the crowd along with other debris.

Anytime I car or truck gets up into the fence, expect major carnage because it acts like a can opener to the sheet metal.

[NascarFan]

Thanks Mr. Ford

[yoopr]

I was out west sitting in a truckers lounge watching a Indy race once and there was a horrible wreck and at the end of it all you saw was the Cage going down the track and I would have put all my money down that the Driver was killed. They survived. I forgot who it was though.

[Mr. Ford95]

yoop, it was prolly the season finale for the IRL at Texas in 2003. It was Kenny Brack, who was the defending IRL champ at the time who was driving for Rahal/Letterman, the same team who lost a rookie driver earlier this year at Homestead. From the team's website: "Brack suffered fractures of the L-3 spinal vertebra, right femur (leg), both ankles and the sternum and was in surgery on Sunday night to repair the femur and both ankles. Surgery is scheduled on the vertebra in the next few days." Brack had no idea what happened because it happened so fast but he touched wheels with the 3rd place car as he was trying to pass him. In open wheel racing, that is a big no-no becasue the back car will always go airborne which is what happened to Brack. His wreck was much the same as Bodine's except that it was over much quicker.

[yoopr]

nope-this happened in the 90's
You even touch one of those cars at those speeds and it spells disaster.

[heavenbound]

Mr.ford, who was the driver that lost his legs in an open wheel car accident in 01' i believe. It was after 911 when we stopped all sports that weekend, it was an over seas race, maybe Canada. Please help cause his name is on the tip of my tounge. He recovered, thank God, and later raced i beleive, not for competition tho.

[Mr. Ford95]

Alex Zanardi heavenbound. I wanna say it was in Germany, maybe wot would know better. Zanardi has since gone back to driving a little bit, he just tested an F1 car to show he could still drive.

yoop, could have been Ryan Briscoe then, he had a crash similar to Brack's. Beyond that, I really could not tell you because I did not follow open wheel racing very much.

[heavenbound]

Thanks Mr.Ford, it was a horrific crash, he's just lucky to be alive after that.