David Purley trying to save Roger Williamson. Harrowing is right. An incredible piece of film where you witness and feel a huge range of emotions. It is a travesty. The footage is on youtube and is tough to watch.
Yep those are the guys in that footage, and in the doco
@simmo05 mentioned. Saw that doco also... it was just so harrowing and left you feeling just useless..
Purley trying to desperately wave down other drivers to assist with saving his mate (apparently screaming from the car in flames) as the “safety Marshalls” were so drastically ill-equipped to deal with a fire like that....
But then to learn that the drivers going past thought that the car on fire was actually Purleys and hed escaped but was “warning them”... which you can understand....
That whole era of F1 was just off the charts....
But there’s also a similar series on “the death years” in Rallying. It’s just as eye opening but also more harrowing in my view. Especially when you see the footage of crowds on the road only to part when a car was flying toward them.... it was a sign of manhood in the crowd back then to stand as long as you can before getting off as a Lancia or Quattro beared down on you.
Many drivers lost their lives but so many spectators did also.