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The list of fatal World Rally Championship accidents consists of drivers and co-drivers who have died at FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) rallies. The list also includes fatal accidents in the International Championship for Manufacturers (IMC), the predecessor to the World Rally Championship, which was contested from 1970 to 1972.
Date of accident Event Country Car During Marc Dinh Driver 1974 New Caledonian Safari New Caledonia Toyota Celica: Reconnaissance David Batty Driver 30 May 1981 Rally of Southland - New Zealand Rally Championship New Zealand Toyota Corolla: Rally Lincoln Harding Co-driver 21 April 1990 Rally of Clare - South Australia Rally Championship Australia
The 1955 Le Mans disaster was a major crash that occurred on 11 June 1955 during the 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race at Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, Sarthe, France.Large pieces of debris flew into the crowd, killing 83 spectators and French driver Pierre Levegh, and injuring around 120 more.
After the crash, Märtin said "Park wasn't my co-driver, I was his pilot." [citation needed] Park's death was the first top-level rallying fatality since Rodger Freeth in the 1993 Rally Australia, and brought renewed attention to safety issues in the motorsport world. On 20 June 2006, a memorial for Park was unveiled in Tallinn, Estonia.
The 1986 season was notable for being the last World Rally Championship season driven with the popular Group B rally cars, which were banned after the fatal crashes at the Rally Portugal, where three spectators were killed and more than 30 injured, and at the Tour de Corse, where Henri Toivonen and his co-driver Sergio Cresto died in a fireball ...
Destroyed in Seconds is an American television series that premiered on Discovery Channel on August 21, 2008. [2]Hosted by Ron Pitts, it features video segments of various things being destroyed fairly quickly (hence, "in seconds") such as planes crashing, explosions, sinkholes, boats crashing, fires, race car incidents, floods, factories, etc.
The Gumball 3000 is an annual 3000 mile (4,800 km) international rally which takes place on public roads, which travels around the world.Although set up as a rally with no official timing, or prizes for reaching check points first, during the rally, some participants have been fined for speeding and other traffic offences by the police in countries they passed through, [2] cars have been ...
A YouTube star crashed his $200,000 McLaren sports car while livestreaming — and a clip of the incident has gone viral. During a livestream on the platform Kick on the morning of Saturday, Oct ...