David Purley

[manchild]

Yes, feet were often in front of axle, but Purely got pelvis fracture too.
His LEC CRP1 wasn't extreme in that way as Tyrell 6 wheelers for instance:



Purley's car



Front axle was moved by impact roughly 1 meter backwards!



As someone previously mentioned here, that was the biggest deceleration a driver survived ever - 179.8 G. From 108 mph / 173 km/h to zero in 26" / 66cm.

High res http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... C_CRP1.jpg

[strad]

even when I agree I get stuff?

[manchild]

I haven't intended or wrote anything counter your post, just analyzed the axle position. No reason for you to feel attacked. Forums are for group observations, comments on matters related to topics, aren't they?

Everything is fine, chill out.

[xpensive]

Please cut the bickering about when you knew about this incident in your life as an F1 fan.

I can almost guarantee that there is not a single F1 fan on here that learned about Purley first, before everything current about the sport. If you were alive and a fan during the time, you have the luxury of age on your side. You can just tell the young'ens to get the heck off your lawn.

What that means is simple, that everyone had to acquire this knowledge after getting into the sport. To keep the thread from getting locked, please step back a bit and celebrate Purley, and keep the squabbling about who is a better historian out of it.

Thanks!

The memory of us old farts should never be underestimated. When I hitch-hiked to the first Swedish GP of 1973, the death of Roger Williamson was the talk of everyone there. Denny Hulme's strange win pretty much altered the attention though.