1. Word has it that Smiley's body defecated so severely, post-rigor, that actual intestines were forced out of the cavity.
2. This is why INDY is sacred grounds. I cry every year at the 500, remembering the past drivers who paid the ultimate price at the BrickYard.
3. oh my god...
4. what a bad song video mix....
5. @andromeda78f Smiley wasn´t just at 200 MPH.He crashed at 220-230 MPH!
6. I feel sorry for Gordon Smiley's family who have to live with this being on the net for all to watch and see. It was truly shocking to watch. As for the person who calls himself 'GordonSmileyCorpse' - You are a pathetic crettin if ever there was one. You must have a brain the size of a pea to think you your comments are funny. I suspect you are a friendless gollum-like character who has nothing better to do than titillate yourself with your peurile commentary.
7. @GreatNorthWeb all crashes are tragic and horrible, But to me, Two others that really stand out - Helmut Koinigg in F1 , His car went under the crash barrier, And you could see clear as day the car sat there, The body in the open cockpit without a head, , Also Don Mactavish in Nascar. His car hit the wall, Tearing all of his front end off, Leaing Him sat completely exposed, absolutley nothing protecting his body, A car hit him at full speed, you see his body being thrown around, Its tragic.
8. LOU REED! This is a ballad though, he pretty much invented punk with Alice Cooper. He also can be credited for inventing glam rock, although that mostly goes to Marc Bolan and T.Rex
9. @Schumifreak9 For me, one of the worst I ever saw was Stan Fox. Man, when his car came to a stop, and the cockpit was sitting there on the track in its own piece and you could see his legs hanging out, and then WHAM another car hits him. Most of the crashes, you don't actually see the driver get the hit, but not this one. Haunts me to this day and I can't watch a single race without thinking of that wreck...whether it's kids on quarter midgets or dirt track modifieds in my small town. hats off
10. That crash was unsurvivable. He shattered every bone, Had a shark size hole in his side, And was missing the top of his head and a quantity of his brain, Not even a tirewall would stop that, Head on, That sort of speed, Tragic. Russel Phillips is bad too, Someone found his head, helmet still on in the pitlane, All fatal crashes are tragic, But they all know when they get into there car the risk they are taking.
11. @LoopInc NO! he deat at this and you are stubit
12. I heard that he walked out of the crash . Is that true?
13. @MeMrecious i agree-- tear down every concrete wall in racing and replace them walls of marshmallows
14. don't even react to gordonsimileyscorpse... he is just a sade little figure who been beaten up by small girls several times in his life,I know cause my little sister is one of them she is 8 years old and still seeking him
15. kreepy music
16. "While rushing to the car, I noticed small splotches of a peculiar gray substance marking a trail on the asphalt leading up to the driver. When I reached the car, I was shocked to see that Smiley's helmet was gone, along with the top of his skull. He had essentially been scalped by the debris fence. The material on the race track was most of his brain. His helmet, due to massive centrifugal force, was literally pulled from his head on impact...
17. I rode to the care center with the body. On the way in I performed a cursory examination and realized that nearly every bone in his body was shattered. He had a gaping wound in his side that looked as if he had been attacked by a large shark. I had never seen such trauma." (Rapid Response, p98-99).
18. Maybe we should start asking why concrete walls are being allowed to cause the death of so many racing drivers. Can't the organizers put walls of cardboard boxes or other similar soft materials ? Anything but concrete walls. Senna, Ratzenberger and so many others including Gordon Smiley died because of shit.
19. @strange6 It just goes to show how much better carbon fibre is over aluminum/tube construction.
20. @SunsetSupermanRMB No, he just got in over his head. In the end, it was a late entry into the turn on the second to last turn before he started his qualification run. He realized he was late and tried to 'horse' the car back down towards the apex. He oversteered and made the instinctive right turn to try to get the back end back in step. The front end 'caught' and he veered off to the wall. Unfortunately it was driver error.
21. I was there watching the practice. Years later I got speak with one of the first doctors on the 'resuce' scene. What he discribed was horrific and I still think about it. I don't even want to repeat it here.
22. @slikkar the man died. i hope you die in a car fire for saying that....
23. terrific crash..
24. I don't get it, did he hit a patch of oil?
25. @DBDMotorsports yes..he was dead before the car even stopped

Gordon Smiley fatal Crash @ Indy 500 1982

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Gordon Smiley is killed in a practice crash during the qualifyings warmup lap for the Indy 500 1982. He was countersteering a slide in turn 3 and put the car head on into the wall at 200 mph.
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