Nelson Piquet called these Ferraris the "electric chair" .

@riccardopalttei

2 ай бұрын

Classic Nelson😂😂😂😂

@derekcrymble9085

2 ай бұрын

@@riccardopalttei Canada GP 1982 ?

@riccardopalttei

2 ай бұрын

@@derekcrymble9085 Oh Shi_

Very interestig! Thanks for uploading.Piquet was one of the first to rescue Didier who was screaming and afraid the car would catch fire. Nelson reassured him that there was no petrol leak. Then Pironi asked him how his legs were and Nelson, seeing that a bone was sticking out of his overalls, moved away and vomited

For those interested in Pironi, I highly recommend David Sedgwick's biography, "Pironi: The Champion That Never Was." Didier Pironi was certainly one of the most interesting drivers ever to race in F1. Fascinating character.

@paulscott6605

Жыл бұрын

Pironi was a bastard ...good riddance!

@fiarandompenaltygeneratorm5044

Жыл бұрын

@@paulscott6605 🤡

@lauribricker9439

Жыл бұрын

I got that book! Real good!💕

@AlonsoRules

Жыл бұрын

Pironi is the real 1982 World Champion

@maxmulsanne7054

10 ай бұрын

​@@AlonsoRules Keke Rosburg was. Get over it.

The physics of both Ferrari's grim 1982 accidents were very similar: loss of ground force flipping car into the air, tub disintegration on subsequent landing and cartwheeling. Horrific. Tambay was a brave man to carry on flying the flag in those lethal machines

@TT-nc3qh

2 жыл бұрын

It's not about the ground effects it's open wheel cars hitting each other and the aluminium chassis was not able to withstand the forces. Both accidents this year were caused by driver error and not the ground effect .

@miguelelgueta5830

2 жыл бұрын

the fact that Villeneuve and Pironi both had tragic accidents in the Ferrari was a mere coincidence, all the tubs or monocoques of the cars from the 1982 season except for the McLaren were made of a extremely shallow combination of aluminium honeycomb reinforced (!) with aluminium sheets (!!) The worst part is that the rules didnt specify any distinace between the legs of the drivers and the front axle so teams and designers trying to make the most of the ground effect sat the drivers with their feet literally in the nosecone of the cars

@TheColinChapman

Жыл бұрын

@@miguelelgueta5830 I don't fully agree. even with the ridiculous aluminum monocoques, both Ferraris suffered the embarrassment of shoulder belts detaching from the monocoque. Gilles Villeneuve lost both shoulder belts, this is why he was thrown from the car with his seat still attached to him. Didier Prioni lost one shoulder belt, that's why he survived. I agree to the point that safety standards in 1982 had been generally poor, except the McLaren MP4/1. but of all the products in the field, especially the Ferrari 126C2 was a queasy hutch.

@azamchaudhri

Жыл бұрын

@@TT-nc3qh although sir you are correct that the accidents were driver error, the Ferraris were prone to catastrophic loss of downforce too when launched upwards even slightly.

@darrenreed3257

Жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with that car. Just crazy stuff in 82.

Still remarkable that he didn't lose his legs. Piquet was sick in the aftermath when he saw Didier. Then Didier lost his life in a mad speedboat accident. Like Patrick Depailler - maybe a death wish or what i think, SAD LOSS OF 2 GREAT DRIVERS. I saw them both race - awesome

@j.k4984

Жыл бұрын

I read that doctors wanted to amputee both his legs but Didier prayed to them to not do so. Horrible crash, Alain Prost was having flashbacks for two days after watching the Ferrari flying over his Renault

A miracle that he survived.

@juniormichelesperant6372

Жыл бұрын

Indeed.. especially at that time

Rare indeed! Thanks for uploading.

1982, and the news technologies for all !

Riposa in pace amen Ciao Didi 😭😭😭😭

Piquet dubbed the '82 Ferrari 'The Electric Chair'. I believe the chassis' were strengthened after this accident. Years later, either Schumacher refused to drive Tambay's car or was very reluctant. He clearly wasn't made for those times.

Today, Didier would have survived a "few bruises" from such a hit. Talented driver, pity that his career ended prematurely. All in all, a sad year 1982 for Ferrari - first Gilles' fateful weekend in Belgium, then Pironi in the German race😕

@stevesmyth1769

2 жыл бұрын

I agree 1982 was an awful year. Don’t forget Riccardo Paletti who died at the start of the Canadian GP 😥😥

@tonitaina3516

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Not forgetting the talented young driver, Paletti😟

@tomastoth4018

2 жыл бұрын

It's shocking that Ferrari managed to score a Constructor's Title at the end of that season after such tragic driver losses. Have Patrick driven the entire season and even been lucky enough not to crash, he would have become the champion instead of Rosberg. He was as quick as Pironi or another country mate, Jean-Pierre Jarier.

@fiarandompenaltygeneratorm5044

Жыл бұрын

@@tomastoth4018 Patrick Tambay?

@richardbradbury9105

Жыл бұрын

True about modern cars being safe, I wouldn’t wish an injury on anybody but nowadays F1 it’s a bit boring

I was there that day on a Page & Moy cheapo deal. It was pissing down and we didn't have a clue what was going on for about an hour after the accident. Pironi was visibly faster than everyone else and I remember thinking "FFS mate, slow down, what's the point?" Anyway, what happened, happened.... At least Tambay won the next day.

@Sadowsky1965

Жыл бұрын

You are absolutely right. The couple Pironi / Ferrari was untouchable at Hockenheim. On Friday he set the pole with a time 1 sec. faster than the second (Prost), and in rain conditions he was 2/3 seconds faster than everyone. I really don't understand why he was driving so fast in appalling conditions, he was the faster, the Ferrari was a really reliable car, the title was already in his hands.....

@darrenreed3257

Жыл бұрын

Then Mario won at Monza. R.I.P Patrick Tambay

@Sadowsky1965

Жыл бұрын

@@darrenreed3257 Mario did the pole, but the race was won by Arnoux. Tambay was 2nd and Mario 3rd.

@hugodrax71

7 ай бұрын

Pironi was testing new Good Year wet weather tyres as the team thought it was likely to rain on race day. That's why he was driving so quickly.

@maxmulsanne7054

4 ай бұрын

Patrick Tambay won just as he should have. Just as No. 27 should have won throughout the season.

Spookily similar damage to Gilles Villeneuve's deadly accident. Proof that ferrari were always more interested in building strong engines rather than strong chassis.

I am shocked that the helicopter took off in that weather...looked very foggy.

@MrPeperoni79

Жыл бұрын

I am shocked (and impressed) that somebody voluntarily drove these cars.

@maxmulsanne7054

9 ай бұрын

Heidelberg is close by with a hospital. It wouldn't have been difficult to locate Hockenheim circuit if they flew by instruments alone. They didn't just make unnecessary trips out there for only F1 racing.

I love the BMW E21, my father had a green '77 318, lovely😍

Does anybody know who filmed this footage? Thank you!

Until the fiber carbon being mandatory for the cars, the safety advice was "do not crash it".

@gdogg3710

Ай бұрын

This had a carbon tub…but unlike McLaren, Ferrari hadn’t worked out how to use CF properly, so it was weaker than aluminium in certain circumstances…

I got a better view of the car from the thumbnail than from the video.

Wish we had the crash video. 100 feet in the air

@maxmulsanne7054

9 ай бұрын

There is none. If it had been available like Villeneuve's (or Clark's at Hockenheim in 68') it would have been already produced by now.

what is weird to me its no footage of the accident itself , only the aftermatch

@LibLanguageUK

2 жыл бұрын

because it was practice and in 1982 it wasn’t well recorded or documented

@Stimor

2 жыл бұрын

im sure ive seen the video from prosts cockpit camera, very fuzzy because of the rain but you saw pironi vault over the left side of prost, im just curious why i cant find the video anymore

@fiarandompenaltygeneratorm5044

Жыл бұрын

@@Stimor On-board cameras were HUGE during these days. They were basically a giant tripod strapped to the top of the car. I don't think Prost would have been running one of those in an active practice session.

@Kimchi_2508

Жыл бұрын

@@fiarandompenaltygeneratorm5044 In 1982 there were no onboard cameras. Such cameras were still only experimental during the early 80s. They were still uncommon until the late 80s and only used during special demonstrating laps, but not at top speed and only at slow cruising speed. The first practicabal onboard cams were used beginning in 1986 or 1987. Before 86/87 the cameras were still too big and heavy.

@fiarandompenaltygeneratorm5044

Жыл бұрын

@@Kimchi_2508 Yes. I know. That's what I said. They were huge tripods strapped to the top of the car.

Essendo accaduto non durante la gara ufficiale non c era la diretta

1982 was the tragedy season

@SirOliverNorwell

Жыл бұрын

And 1970.

Purtroppo manca il prima...

@lorbet2419

2 жыл бұрын

Magari non ci sarà il video, ma qualche foto (non ancora pubblicata) di Pironi in volo da qualche parte c'è. Su Facebook o in qualche forum si legge spesso di gente che ha fotografie inedite scattate in prima persona ma che non vogliono pubblicare. Tipo (faccio un esempio) le foto dell'incidente di Watson a Monza nel 1981 prese dal rettilineo del Serraglio come possono essere le foto/video a colori e a qualità alta di Cevert al Glen del '73. Secondo me, ripeto, qualche foto del vero e proprio incidente di Pironi esiste. Magari usciranno tra un pò di anni come è successo per le foto di Lamy a Silverstone del '94 ;-). Te cosa ne pensi? Maybe there won't be a video, but some photos (not yet published) of Pironi in flight are there somewhere. On Facebook or in some forums we often read of people who have unpublished photographs taken in first person but who do not want to publish. Like (I give an example) the photos of Watson's accident in Monza in 1981 taken from the straight of the Serraglio as can be the good resolution photos/videos of Cevert's aftermath at the Glen in '73. In my opinion, I repeat, some photos of Pironi's real accident exist. Maybe they will come out in a few years as happened for the photos of Lamy at Silverstone in '94 ;-). What do you think about it?

@Sacha-br4gh

2 жыл бұрын

@@lorbet2419 Se sei italiano (Io lo sono) come presumo scrivimi solo in Italiano Lor Ber. Io c spero ma nel caso d Pironi nn credo proprio purtroppo. Pioveva parecchio e nel rettilineo ho proprio paura nn c fosse quasi nessuno

I don’t understand why humans try to suppress or block what real. Who what are they protecting? Feelings? Grow up.

@AKStovall

Жыл бұрын

because PTSD and mental health are real. even if people try to say they're not. they are not protecting "feelings" they are protecting people's mental health, because seeing carnage like that could incite behavior issues. LIke yours... wanting to see all the carnage and blood and gore and death. Some people don't like that, and it has NOTHING to do with feelings. bodies mangled beyond recognition, burnt, charred, pulled apart in ways that are unimaginable... scenes of death and grave injury... those things invoke responses in humans that are instinct, it's not feelings. time to park your morbid curiosity and grow up.

@AmericasChoice

11 ай бұрын

@@AKStovall Spoken like a true weakling. We are free people and have a right to see a crash scene if we desire it. Take your psycho-babble crap somewhere else.

@AmericasChoice

11 ай бұрын

@chipcity3016. I agree.

too many cheese holes in the car to make it lighter ended up fragile.

Ended his career in f1 then got killed racing powerboats

Nice police speech

Les jambes ne peuvent pas survivre dans un accident pareil. Fallait porter des cuissards et des bottes en fers.

A presto

6 series safety car

I've often wondered whether Pironi was autopsied to determine exactly how much his legs had actually healed. I've also often thought of the waste of time, effort and resources that went into Pironi's recovery only for him to kill himself in a boat race.

@cadelepski5161

Жыл бұрын

He didn't "kill himself". The boat crash, like this one, were both unforeseen accidents. The two children he fathered and the 5 years between accidents don't seem like a waste to me.

@kyle381000

Жыл бұрын

@@cadelepski5161 He was driving, and he took two people with him. Not intentionally, but he killed himself.

@cadelepski5161

Жыл бұрын

@@kyle381000 Right! So it was an accident! And you think it was a waste to save his life 5 years earlier from another accident? Be careful you don't have an accident, pal. The medics may have the same mindset as you.

@kyle381000

Жыл бұрын

@@cadelepski5161 Racing crashes are not 'accidents'. They're crashes.

@cadelepski5161

Жыл бұрын

@@kyle381000 🤣🤣 Okay. We'll leave it there.

that isn’t didier but gilles

@francoisdevilliers5252

Жыл бұрын

Definitely not the Villeneuve crash. Rewatching old seasons now.... 1982 was a terrible year with fatal crashes of Villeneuve and Paletti, and this career -ending Pironi crash. Thankfully the larger modern F1 cars have a much higher emphasis on safety. As much as I enjoy watching the nimble cars of the past I hate seeing a driver get injured or worse.

@derekcrymble9085

Жыл бұрын

Car 28 was NOT Gilles .

@guyincogneto8979

Жыл бұрын

It also wasn't raining when Gilles crashed.

@jasimdar1903

Жыл бұрын

@@francoisdevilliers5252 oh yeah now i see thanks for pointing my mistake out

@andrewmaguire4476

Жыл бұрын

Gilles was already dead, this was Pironi at Hockenheim.