The car became an inferno because of a profuse flow of petrol from aluminium tanks ripped open in the crash. Due to this incapacitation he was unable to help himself at all. He was incapacitated through sever impact injuries received when the car crashed into the harbour wall – possibly, even, he was unconscious for a time.
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The rescuers used ropes to pull the car right way up to get the driver out, but wasted time in pulling it over on its two remaining wheels rather than risk further arm injury and rolling it over the other way.įuel continued to pour from the ruptured tanks and even when Bandini had been pulled clear there was enough left to re-ignite when the downdraught from a helicopter fanned the still glowing straw bales along the edge of the track.ĭr Michael Henderson, in his book ‘Motor Racing in Safety’ says of Bandini’s accident, ‘He was trapped because rescue procedure was ill-directed through poor training and equipment.
Bandini was injured in the impact, and his left arm was trapped under the bodywork. Marshals smothered it in powder from extinguishers, but they were not equipped with protective clothing and were unable to approach the blaze until it was put out. The roll-bar was inadequate to support the car. The left rear wheel was broken off, and the car landed upside down in the middle of the road with the driver trapped underneath.
The Ferrari struck the wooden barriers which marked the chicane with the right hand front wheel, and was sent out of control, mounting the straw bales on the outside of the corner. On lap 82 when Bandini crashed, Hulme had an advantage of almost 20 seconds.
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Denis Jenkinson wrote afterwards, in Motor Sport that by lap 43, Bandini was beginning to get his second wind, and he slowly reduced the gap between the leading Brabham and his Ferrari down to 7 seconds, and it became a trial of strength with the rugged New Zealander coming out on top, but by 70 (of 100) laps, … the deadlock had been broken, Hulme’s superior physical condition obviously coming out on top and poor Bandini was beginning to flag and he began to show signs of tiredness and lack of concentration, occasionally being untidy and ragged on some corners. … Stewart subsequently retired, leaving Hulme in the lead with Bandini in second place. Bandini’s accident was described in the Grand Prix Accident Survey published by The Jim Clark Foundation.
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