Henry Surtees killed in F2 crash

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Are you kidding?
Edit: Henry Surtees, son of racing legend John Surtees has been killed in a Formula 2 race crash at Brands Hatch.

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It has been speculated all afternoon. James Colado, a formula renault driver updated his facebook with R.I.P Henry, and a friend has spoken to a couple of people at the circuit with the same answer.

Very sad news.
 
Not such a great start to the new Formula 2 season. Henry was so young too.

RIP Henry. :(
 
Wow... that's terrible. My thoughts and prayers go out to the friends and family of the Surtees. That's awful news.
 
I can find nothing confirming that he has died, only that he is in intensive care.

Ultrabeat I am changing the name of the thread, and please post a link to back up statements as extreme as the one you have made in future.

On-topic - my thoughts are with him and his family and I certainly hope he pulls through.


Regards

Scaff
 
^^ Yeah, I was just watching updated sports news and they said exactly that. Hope those are the true news.

I was watching the race live on Eurosport HD (was held between both WTCC races), and the whole thing made me shiver; the wheel from the other car smacks right against his helmet, he got put out right there, goes straight against the wall with no attempt to turn or brake, and the car stops with him still pressing the gas pedal.

The fact they only showed distance images from the whole medical process when they had a camera about 10m from where he ended up says a lot.

Hope he is still alive and fully recovers 👍 , it'd be a pretty stupid way to die in a race.
 
Erk, thats horrible if true, watching that live gave me bad memories of the Roland Ratzenberger crash, not for the circumstances, but for the pictures of the drivers head and everything, you could just tell when you saw the crash that it was very bad.

For people that didn't see the incident:
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Just a note to explain that given the content of the video I have removed it, a driver getting killed is a sad enough day, however I don't think that we need footage of it here at GT Planet. Scaff
 
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It's like Michael Jackson all over again...
 
Lame :nervous:
RIP Henry, at 18 you had much ahead of you still, a very sad shame it ended this way.

Can someone please fix the wheel tethers to work properly? They clearly don't do the job.
 
Sad sad news. Thoughts and best wishes to all in the family.


R.I.P.
 
I did tell you guys, sorry if my sources are not internet based but you know.....


R.I.P Henry
 
Wow, that really, really sucks. Seriously.

18 year-old boy, so young, dying in such a stupid accident... 👎 The odds of the wheel hitting him straight on the helmet were minimal at best, very unlucky indeed.

RIP, Henry. My condolences to his family.
 
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RIP Henry, at 18 you had much ahead of you still, a very sad shame it ended this way.

Can someone please fix the wheel tethers to work properly? They clearly don't do the job.

The wheel tethers are staying together. It's what it's attached to that's breaking.

Without moving to multiple wheel nuts, there isn't much they can do.
 
Saw the footage on the news... wrong place at the wrong time... kinda Senna-esque

Someone has a huge indicent and wheel goes bouncing off, Surtees on the track at substancial speed and wheel comes down & hits him square on...
 
Utterly tragic. An accident like that could happen to any single seater driver at any time - it's one of the risks you take in an open cockpit car. In Jackie Stewart's autobiography, he described how, back in the 60s and 70s, all the drivers started the race wondering if they were going to finish it, and who wasn't going to see the end. Regardless of the risks, motor racing is, and always will be, a very dangerous sport, and you can never eliminate all the risks; an accident like this could always happen with open wheel, open cockpit cars. Everyone seemed to have forgotton that - all drivers know it could happen, but probably not to me - and Henry's accident is a timely reminder that it can happen, does happen, and will always be a possibility with this sort of car.

Good luck and best wishes to Jack Clarke - to know your (or possibly someone else's) mistake has killed another driver must be a terrible burden to bear.

None of which makes Henry's passing any less sad. RIP Henry, you died doing something you loved.
 
R.I.P Henry Surtees, was talking to a friend at brands hatch right when that happened.

Condolences to his familie, relative!

Chris
 
R.i.P Henry

My father was a big fan of ur father. He has still some pictures of John Surtees, sitting in his Ferrari. I still can`t believe this...
Something like this shouldnt happen, Ive neven seen such bad luck.

I hope, the FIA changes the rules for the safety in the F2. They haven`t taken all rules from the F1 to F2. The rule to secure the tire was different in the F2.
(Sry for my bad english)
 
I remember that Vittorio Brambilla got struck by a wheel during Peterson's accident and suffered serious head injury's. Its just such bad luck on a track that wide and that long he was plum right under the wheel. Tragic.
 
Very tragic. RIP Henry Surtees, my condolences to his family, especially to his father, a man I always admired.
 
Nothing is more heartbreaking than someone dying... younger than 21. I mean, you have perhaps a long life of racing of you, and you have a fatality like this. There is no such thing as dying young, but this is just horrible.
 
I didn't watch the race live, but i had seen that he'd been injured on the Autosport website. I immediately watched the clip on YouTube on hearing the news of such a unlikely accident. It's one of those moments you get sometimes when you watch a lot of racing where you straight away think 'this isn't good'. It was a freak accident, it could quite easily have happened in any single seater race. It's unfortunate for those involved in organising the formula - The FIA, Williams and MSV/Palmer that a fatality has occured so soon after the series has begun - it will likely always be something F2 is remembered for. It's much much more tragic for the family and friends of young Henry Surtees whose life was cut tragically short at such a young age and with a bright future ahead of him. Ironically only earlier that day i'd read an article on his father, John Surtees, career as a Motorcycle and F1 world champion.
 
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