1982: Jochen Mass flies into the crowd at the French Grand Prix
Mauro Baldi and Jochen Mass go tangled up and Mass’s car landed upside down in a spectators enclosure and caught fire. Thankfully, no one was killed
1994: Brundle almost gets his head knocked off by Jos Verstappen in Brazil
Eddie Irvine was banned for one race for triggering this crash that ended with Martin Brundle being whacked on the helmet by the wheel of a flying Benetton.
1981: Geoff Less gets knocked out by the catchfence in South African GP
Catch fencing was supposed orginally designed to help in an accident, but in this clip Geoff Lees is knocked out by a catch fence pole,
1993: Gehard Berger somehow doesn’t get T- Boned by Derek Warwick at Portugal
A best not to think about what could have happened had Derek Warwick collected Berger at this speed.
1992: Patrese almost lands in the pit lane in Portugal
Berger and Patrese collide and Ricardos Williams takes off, narrowly avoiding the bridge across the straight and thankfully not landing in the pit lane.
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