Tom Wood's savage crash at Kentucky in 2003

@bryceb3ar That's funny, have you watched a recent F1 race? Driver aids are little to none, the "Playstation Controllers" have a lot to do with engine settings for conserving fuel, something I'm pretty sure NASCAR drivers do as well. Not to mention to various differential settings, aero controls and brake bias controls they have to micromanage while flying around a circuit averaging 130 MPH. By the way, there's plenty of overtaking.

@F1IsSuperior Well, if you dipshits over in F1 would come back to Indy and stay away from that shitty place called 'Circuit of the Americas" maybe we Americans would have more respect for you. But, we're going to build a brand new world class facility in Austin, Texas and you are going to just dump it when your damn contract is up. F1 is run by dumbfucks. Don't get me wrong, I like to watch F1. I like Vettel and Webber. But Jesus, you people are idiots.

For anybody saying it's impossible to survive 133g's the car takes most of the impact. U also have to remember when they say it's 133 g's that 133 g's was only for a hundreath if not a thousandth of a second. That was the peak g recording in other words.

The cars take those kind of Gs all the time, but the car takes most of the impact and the driver take significantly less Gs.

133 G's!?!? impossible.. that would crush every bone and particle in a human body.

133 g`s its impossible

when i was thinking, the result of tom wood crash WASN'T fatal! that was near-fatal but hospitialized an lived

If only they had the SAFER walls back then... The SAFER wall is a steel barrier fused to the existing concrete wall with foam inserts designed to absorb energy from a car that hits it with considerable force. Such a wall would have probably spared Tom from the severe injuries he sustained, but I'm sure he'd still have been sore after a hit like that. Pretty much all the major ovals where NASCAR and IndyCar run have these walls in the turns, so drivers can walk away without severe injury.

Jason Priestly, the actor from 90210 who thought he could race, actually almost died at this racetrack in a similar accident in 2002. He ran over some fluid on the racetrack and hit the wall head-on, and apparently the impact was so severe that the shoulder harnesses from the seatbelts cut into his jugular veins. Jason was clinically dead at first, but then they revived him. There have been plenty of bad crashes at Kentucky, but lots of good racing, too.

It's right up there in the video's description, dude.

kentucky speedway is one my favorites for indycar racing

looks like the gordon smiley crash, but woods car didnt discintegrate on impact