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Highest G Force Crash
09:58 AM on Apr 19, 2008

What is the highest G-force that a driver has experienced in a crash in motorsports?

I know that Robert Kubica's crash last year was around 75G and he miraculously sustained only a minor concussion.




Posted by Scott Michaels at 10:04 AM on Apr 19, 2008
 Comment #1

Fisichella crashed at something like 130G a few years ago in the Jordan at Magny Cours with only minor injuries

Posted by Bob Fay at 10:11 AM on Apr 19, 2008
 Comment #2

I forget what Mark Blundell's crash in a Champ Car in Rio was measured at, but I remember reading it was the biggest hit recorded up to that time. I imagine Kenny Brack's hit in an IndyCar in Texas was bigtime G's too, although I never remember a published G measurement, just assuming...

Posted by Pete Schlough at 11:19 AM on Apr 19, 2008
 Comment #3

Quick Google search...

"David Purley, Silverstone 1977 (highest G-force ever recorded, 180 G, the car decelerating from approx. 110 mph to zero in half a meter."

His car... http://www.automag.be/IMG/jpg/accident.jpg

He survived with multiple breaks, etc, and lived to race again (though not F1 I believe).

Posted by Bob Fay at 08:46 PM on Apr 19, 2008
 Comment #4

Couldnt find anything in Google on Blundell's crash, but Brack's crash peaked at 214 Gs.

Fuckin lucky mofo!

Posted by Ray Gillespie at 10:37 PM on Apr 19, 2008
 Comment #5

I experience 14,517 G's everytime I take a crap.

Posted by Andrew Carson at 10:51 PM on Apr 19, 2008
 Comment #6

Good call Ray :-)

Assuming that you weigh in at about 165 pounds.. you would be unloading 2,395,305 pounds onto your toilet.

Can't be good for it i'd say ;-)

Posted by Don Hibner at 11:56 PM on Apr 19, 2008
 Comment #7

Probably a bit hard on the oraface as well:(

TMI?


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