Top 10 Biggest Crashes of the 1996 CART Season

Описание: The 1996 CART Season was one of great racing, lots of drama, a new era of no Indy 500, and terrible heartbreak from the passing of Jeff Krosnoff. With tight, high-speed racing comes the danger of major incidents. Here were the 10 biggest ones from that season with a bit of context added below (spoilers)

Timestamps
0:00 Number 10
1:06 Number 9
2:52 Number 8
5:11 Number 7
7:28 Number 6
11:51 Number 5
14:23 Number 4
16:41 Number 3
18:24 Number 2
20:39 Number 1

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Added context

Number 10 - PJ Jones gets offline on a damp Portland race track and backs it in quite aggressively to the tires

Number 9 - PacWest Racing is taken out in one go by Andre Ribiero, who had just had a run-in with Greg Moore not that much earlier. He was not loved by many on this day (full video -    • The Day Andre Ribiero Made No Friends (199...  )

Number 8 - Alex Zanardi is leading at Vancouver and trying to get around PJ Jones before getting wrecked by PJ Jones. Zanardi was furious after the crash (full video -    • Zanardi Furious After Accident with Jones ...  )

Number 7 - Rookie Greg Moore makes an opportunistic move on Christian Fittipaldi before get squeezed. Both end up in the wall, and uncle Emerson Fittipaldi would hit a tire and have to retire. Christian would grab Greg in anger and show is frustration, but Greg would calmly walk away

Number 6 - The US 500 was created to rival the Indianapolis 500, which was no longer on the CART calendar due to Tony George creating the Indy Racing League and creating rules that made it difficult for CART teams to enter. One of the selling points for CART was that their teams and drivers were elite, with huge funding and massive prestige. Having a gigantic crash on the pace lap leading up to the green was perhaps the most embarrassing moment in CART history, and maybe even IndyCar history. It was so bad and people conceded so quickly that the Indy 500 was king that the US 500 was not run again

Number 5 - The contact with the wall, while not insignificant, was not the worst part about this crash. Because when Alex Zanardi hit the wall from P1, his tire hit the fence and shot back out onto the track. It hit Jimmy Vasser's car (just feet away from the cockpit) and then was hit again by Gil de Ferran, narrowly avoiding his helmet. This was a terrifying reminder of how dangerous loose tires are, and it would serve as a dark premonition to an accident that would happen here two years later where spectators would be killed

Number 4 - The first lap after the terrible conclusion of the Toronto race would see Greg Moore and Emerson Fittipaldi make contact, sending Fittipaldi into the wall. It would leave him with a fractured vertebra and a partially collapsed left lung, and he would call it a career after this race. A legendary career ended just like that

Number 3 - On the last lap of the Road America race, Paul Tracy punted Parker Johnstone into T1, sending Johnstone for a ride into the runoff. Johnstone would flip violently, but would be okay. It was a crazy final lap of the race, as elsewhere on the track, Al Unser Jr. suffered an engine failure a couple corners from victory (full video -    • 1996 CART Road America - A Wild Final Lap ...  )

Number 2 - Mark Blundell suffered a brake failure in his second ever oval start, sending him violently into the wall. Miraculously, he would be okay (full video - https://studio.youtube.com/video/CYju...)

Number 1 - One of the worst crashes I've ever seen was Jeff Krosnoff's crash at Toronto. Krosnoff and Stefan Johansson would make contact on approach to T3, sending Krosnoff into a pole and tree. Doctors would try to save his life at the track to no avail. Track marshal Gary Avrin would also be killed. A terrible loss for the sport, RIP (full video - https://studio.youtube.com/video/eUOp...)

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