Investigating Formula 1's WEIRDEST Crash

Thanks to CyberGhost VPN for sponsoring the video. Enjoy 83% off and 4 additional months by clicking on the link 👉 https://www.cyberghostvpn.com/Driver61 Thanks to much to Sebastian Buemi for coming on the show, follow him here! 👉 https://bit.ly/3YXMpus 🔴 Investigating the WEIRDEST Formula 1 Crash Ever https://youtu.be/WeOihLFbUTY Join our F1 Mailing List! 👉 https://driver61.beehiiv.com/subscribe 📹 All source footage can be found here 👉 https://bit.ly/3TnGkqf Look at this image, it’s one of the most bizarre crashes in Formula 1 history. The driver is Sebastian Buemi, and he is driving down the back straight in Shanghai for the Chinese Grand Prix in 2010. At the end of the straight, travelling over 200 miles per hour - he hits the brakes. And BANG - both wheels fly off. He lost both front wheels at the same exact moment - which is completely bizarre. So I did some digging into what on earth caused this. Oh, and we spoke to the driver himself to find out. First, this is clearly a suspension failure - but they don’t normally happen like this. Normally if the suspension is to fail, it’s a wishbone or a pushrod. The more fragile parts of the suspension, but this seems to be much worse than that. So to figure this out, we need to look at a load of factors. The first thing I thought, was about the track. Yes, I know it seems to be a car failure. But I had a slight hunch about what was going on. Now the straight at Shanghai is extremely long - 1.1 kilometres long, one of the longest in Formula 1. But on top of that, the cars enter the straight off the back of Turn 13. A corner that gradually opens up - so the cars are doing 140 miles per hour at the START of the straight. ➤Follow Driver61 on: ➤ Instagram- @official_driver61 - https://bit.ly/D61Insta ➤TikTok - @official_driver61 - https://bit.ly/D61TikTok ➤ Follow Scott on: ➤ Twitter - https://twitter.com/scottkmansell ➤ Instagram - @official_driver61 - https://bit.ly/D61Insta #Formula1 #Crash #Racing