Pryce was killed in one of the most bizarre accidents in the history of Formula 1.
At the end of lap 21 of the Grand Prix at Kyalami, South Africa, on March 5, 1977, Renzo Zorzi retired his Shadow with a split fuel pipe which had caused a small, but harmless fire. Zorzi's car was parked in a blind brow but two marshalls stationed on the opposite side of the track decided to cross to tackle the fire. At that moment, cars driven by Pryce and Hans-Joachim Stuck suddenly appeared, nearly side-by-side. Stuck's car passed behind the first marshall and ahead of the second marshall, 19 year old Jansen Van Vuuren. Pryce however could not avoid Van Vuuren, hitting him at high speed and killing the marshall instantly. The impact seemed to have only minimal influence on Pryce's car, only slightly damaging its front wing. However, the fire extinguisher Van Vuuren was carrying struck Pryce on the head; the impact tore off Pryce's helmet and nearly decapitated him, killing him instantly. Pryce's car continued down the straight track, gradually slowing down and verging to the right. Jacques Laffite, who was unsure what was going on, moved alongside as the two cars approached Crowthorne, at that point Pryce's car skidded off the barriers, back on the track again, where it hit Laffite's Ligier, taking Laffite out of the race but not injuring him.
As to Van Vuuren, the injuries to his body were extremely severe. His body was split in half and dismembered. It was identified only by exclusion, after the race director summoned all of the race marshalls and Van Vuuren could not be found
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Do we really need this Ogrish type shit here. What we gonna be seeing next, beheadings? Or something altogether more tamer, like cats being set on fire.
First when I read the title I thought it would be a joke about the F1-key...
"There are no innocent victims. If you're born on this planet, you are guilty, fuck you, end of report, next case, NEXT FUCKING CASE! Your birth certificate is proof of guilt!" - George Carlin
Noone forces you to click the link. I think the title says almost everything.. And If you read the text in the first post, you can decide if you want to watch the clip or not. (Knowing that there will not be any pleasant stuff)
Nasty, as these things always are, you never get used to see stuff like this....
That guy should have waited, but i guess that he didn't think straight with all the adrenaline flowing around in his body.
Ogrish material for sure =)
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