Motorsport: With the Bathurst 1000 returning this year on October 8th, sit back and watch the top crashes from previous years.
Every year Mount Panorama claims an unlucky victim or two as the list of Great Race casualties continues to grow.
“I’m just so disappointed for the guys … it’s just all gone wrong,” Bargwanna said to Channel 10 at the time.“It just clipped the inside wall and as soon as it did that, it went into the outside wall.Ski instructor-turned race pro Tomas Mezera was lucky to walk away from one of the most “spectacular” rollovers ever seen at Mount Panorama.
Back in 2006, rescue crews worked frantically to free Radisich after his Commodore slammed head-on into a tyre barrier at The Chase at almost 150km/h – with the impact so severe the car rolled onto its side. As a result of that crash, reportedly at almost 180km/h, he suffered fractures in both ankles, reopened the fractured sternum from 2006, fractured his lumbar and thoracic vertebrae, cracked ribs and sustained bruising to his lungs.6. Skaife’s day done on lap one
But it all turned to dust on the opening lap of the Great Race when Skaife suffered clutch failure off the line and was immediately swamped by the rest of the field – dropping a remarkable 10 places by the first turn.Limping his way up Mountain Straight, Skaife was then hit from behind by then-rookie Jack Perkins with the impact pushing Skaife into the concrete wall and ending his day.
“It became clear that the #2 Commodore’s roll cage had sustained damage beyond what we could physically repair in the time remaining before tomorrow’s Bathurst 1000,” team boss Adrian Burgess said. Weel was left stranded sideways at Reid Park during practice with nowhere to go as Chris Pither’s Commodore came over the crest.
“I tried to avoid it but there was no way the speed I was carrying I was going to be able to avoid his car. I just tried to pull it as left as possible .”The 2010 Bathurst 1000 wasn’t even a lap old when Fabian Coulthard’s day ended in chaotic scenes. “I’ve lived to tell the tale and it is one of those things that I am sure is going to be spoken about for a long time to come.”Ford’s reigning Bathurst champion Chaz Mostert suffered horrific leg injuries in a terrifying crash that ripped his car apart in 2015.
Unluckily for Lowndes, that bouncing wheel came crashing back down right on top of his windscreen – effectively ending any hopes of victory.“What on earth has hit this car? That’s collapsed the windscreen! It’s caved in the front of the Betta Electrical Lowndes Ford,” commentator Neil Crompton said at the time.“That wheel was bouncing on the run exiting turn 2 and has somehow bounced its way into the path of Craig Lowndes. Unbelievably bad luck.