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-Key Moments-
0:00 *Formula Ford Festival
2:54 Mauricio Gugelmin crash brands 1982
6:25 Unknown crash silverstone 1980s
8:25 Maurizio Sandro Sala crash brands 1983
25:17 *Nascar
39:35 Unknown crash dakar 1983? *aftermath
42:41 Stefan Bellof crash nurburgring 1983 *aftermath
48:00 Thierry Tassin crash spa 1982 *aftermath
48:12 marshals flip Stefan Bellof's crash spa 1982
48:39 Jonathan Palmer crash mantorp park 1982
50:14 Guido Dacco crash donington 1983
0:00 *Formula Ford Festival
2:54 Mauricio Gugelmin crash brands 1982
6:25 Unknown crash silverstone 1980s
8:25 Maurizio Sandro Sala crash brands 1983
25:17 *Nascar
39:35 Unknown crash dakar 1983? *aftermath
42:41 Stefan Bellof crash nurburgring 1983 *aftermath
48:00 Thierry Tassin crash spa 1982 *aftermath
48:12 marshals flip Stefan Bellof's crash spa 1982
48:39 Jonathan Palmer crash mantorp park 1982
50:14 Guido Dacco crash donington 1983
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00:00For most aspiring young racing drivers, the start is here, in the Formula Ford category.
00:10Without a doubt, single-seater Formula Ford racing is the most popular type of motor racing
00:15anywhere in the world.
00:17As you can see, these are single-seater racing cars, with a Ford 1600 engine in the back
00:23of them.
00:24All have fairly equal performance, so you always get close and competitive racing.
00:29And sometimes, the racing is a little bit too close.
00:33We open Havoc 5 with a section on Formula Ford racing.
00:37And over the next 10 minutes, you're going to see some of the most unusual accidents
00:41seen during the 1982 and the 1983 Formula Ford season.
00:48Here at Brands Hatch, Mark Peters takes a flyer, literally, at the start.
00:56And a few others get caught up in the melee behind.
01:02These Formula Ford single-seater cars are very strong, as you can see, and nobody gets
01:07injured in any of these accidents.
01:09A few sprained limbs, possibly, but no serious injuries.
01:18Everybody should slow down whilst they clear the mess off the track.
01:23And we see the incident again in Action Replay's stop frame.
01:28Mark Peters with a Van Diemen Formula Ford, and another gentleman takes the wrong direction,
01:34and somebody else can't quite miss him.
01:39Now this is good.
01:40One spinner, and a few people go across the grass.
01:45Yellow flags means danger ahead.
01:49That's Spaniard Albacete going off.
01:52And there's another two spinners, three spinners, four spinners, and a few more people take
01:59to the grass.
02:00All good fun in Formula Ford racing.
02:04The spins happen very quickly getting off the circuit, but Albacete has a few problems
02:08getting back onto the circuit.
02:14I hope he's going to retire to the pits, he's not going to go that much further.
02:19Meanwhile, on the other side of the circuit at Paddock Hill Bend at Brands Hatch, and
02:22once again at Clearways, everybody going every which way, literally.
02:28And three wheels, well look at this way, it means for every four sets he buys he's going
02:32to get one set free.
02:33Doesn't do the suspension much good.
02:36Now where, you might ask, is that errant wheel?
02:39Well there it is, but where has it been?
02:42That's right, it's hit the side of a nice Rolls Royce at Brands Hatch.
02:46You see, motor racing is dangerous even for spectators' cars.
02:50And the management at Brands Hatch, well they've got to make an insurance claim I should think.
02:55Julian Pratt from England, Maurizio Gugelmann from Brazil, battle for the lead, but Gugelmann
03:00comes off worst.
03:05Gugelmann still in the car, as you can see smoke billowing from the car, the marshals
03:11getting round, they'll have to extricate.
03:14Maurizio very quickly indeed, really gives you the idea of the strength of these cars,
03:19they've all got rollover hoops, which are invaluable in an accident like this.
03:27As the marshals hold the car up, Maurizio scrambles out, just like a rabbit out of his
03:34warren literally.
03:36There's the rescue vehicles in the back, the race is still continuing and Maurizio is out
03:41and completely uninjured.
03:43This incident took place in the 1982 Formula Ford World Cup, the Formula Ford World Cup
03:49itself, perhaps the most prestigious Formula Ford event anywhere in the world.
04:05Any further and our camera would have got damaged.
04:10Here's Maurizio, a little bit short of breath, but otherwise he looks OK.
04:16And so the fun continues.
06:10OK, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go,
06:39here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here
07:08we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we
07:37go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go,
08:06here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here
08:35we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go.
08:58The accident you've just seen was between Ross Cheever from the United States and Maurizio
09:02Sandra Sala from Brazil. The accident took place in the Formula Ford World Cup
09:09of 1983 at Brands Hatch. A very serious looking accident indeed. As you can see
09:14Sandra Sala on the inside of the blue Van Diemen of Ross Chiva. Both of them
09:23battling it out for second place in the race. In the slow-motion replay Sandra
09:28Sala runs wide and literally launches Ross Chiva over his front wheel and
09:37Chiva's car going into a series of rolls. Both of these cars smashing hard
09:43into the tyre wall. Two wheels flying off Chiva's car. One hitting a marshal. Both
09:52cars completely written off.
09:59From the world of Formula Ford racing we turn to something completely different
10:04and new for the Havoc series. Rallying and for the next five minutes we're
10:08going to see some spectacular sights. American champion John Buffum with his
10:14BF Goodrich Audi Quattro.
10:18Ari Vatanen with the Rothmans Opel Manta 400. American John Woodner on one of the
10:24stages of the 1983 RAC Rally at Castle Combe. Not sure which way he's going.
10:33Once again John Buffum doing a bit of rallycross. Watch those tyres.
10:40And Stig Blomqvist who went on to win the 1983 RAC Rally.
10:49Ever-spectacular Ari Vatanen. Number six.
10:54Once again John Buffum. Bit of the star of the show. Doing some more rallycross.
11:00Meanwhile that man Ari Vatanen spinning on one of the stages.
11:04On to the water splash at Sutton Park. Michel Mouton with the works Audi Quattro.
11:08Steam pouring from the car.
11:13Number one Hannu Mikkola.
11:18And Henry Teuvenen.
11:25Meanwhile Hannu Mikkola there with a collapsed front wheel.
11:31This was to lose him valuable time on the 1983 RAC Rally.
11:37In the end the wheel fell off and co-driver Arnie Hertz had to get on the back of the Audi Quattro
11:42in order to get it to the finish of the stage.
11:46Thank you very much and this is the reason why they've got to move up the bank.
11:50Bruce Blake tries the bank for size on the 1983 Circuit of Ireland.
11:56Meanwhile Pentti Auricola with the Lancia Rally.
12:01Going well or is he?
12:10He's disappeared from our view.
12:12Does a neat three or four point turn.
12:17And Pentti gets away.
12:24Jimmy McRae goes out of the Circuit of Ireland with a bang.
12:30McRae driving the Rothmans Opel Ascona.
12:38On three wheels at the moment.
12:40And here we see that again in slow motion.
12:43Came over a brow.
12:46And straight into the wall below our cameraman's feet.
12:51Scotsman Jimmy was a very popular driver in the British Isles.
12:56And here on the 1983 RAC Rally Jimmy McRae.
13:00He finished third with the Rothmans Opel Manta.
13:03Ever spectacular John Buffen.
13:07And Hannu Mikkola.
13:11This is the Ferrari of Spanish champion Antonio Zanini.
13:17The most unusual rally car, the 308 GTB seen in the 1984 European Rally Championship.
13:24As is Henry Teuvenin with the Rothmans Porsche 911.
13:34Ever spectacular again, that's Jimmy McRae.
13:37Sideways through the bend.
13:40And completely crossed up at high speed.
13:43It's these sort of scenes that capture the imagination of the tens of thousands of spectators.
13:49Who come to watch special stages all over the world.
13:52Because international rallying is really very much a spectator sport.
13:57Meanwhile back in Ireland, Sean Campbell has a problem negotiating a special stage.
14:04And lands up literally in the drink.
14:11This incident happened on the 1982 Circuit of Ireland.
14:16Sean Campbell getting out of the car.
14:18Being left there upside down.
14:20His co-driver incidentally was a lady DJ from a local radio station.
14:24Linda Jane Carthence.
14:26I don't suppose she's going to be doing much rallying again.
14:29And is there anybody left in there? No there isn't.
14:32But one very damaged Opel Ascona.
14:36In slow motion replay.
14:38Seems that the Opel hit a tree stump.
14:42Cart wheeled.
14:46And rolls into the lake.
14:49In 1984 we're going to be covering the Acropolis, the RAC Rally.
14:54And the East African Safari Rally.
14:56And the East African Safari Rally.
14:58So there's going to be plenty of exciting scenes I think for Havoc 6.
15:05Another newcomer to the Havoc series is the World Grand Prix Trials.
15:11This is Bernie Schreiber who leads the 1984 World Championship.
15:16Trials not a sport of great speed.
15:19But a sport that needs a lot of precision.
15:22And let's see how these riders get up this very steep incline.
15:27Well some do, some don't.
15:29We're actually waiting for some to actually get up the incline.
15:32Next trier.
15:35Very nice but not good enough. Could improve.
15:42Third trier.
15:44Now surely he'll make it.
15:47No he doesn't and he disappears almost into the crowd.
15:51Next it's 1983 World Champion Eddie Lejeune.
15:55Surely he's going to make it.
15:57Yes up he comes.
15:59Or does he? He's just two feet from the top.
16:02Backwards. Nicely held there.
16:05Now what's going to happen? Oh he's going to go straight into the crowd.
16:09Eddie holding on to the bike.
16:14He tries again.
16:21And this is what really happened.
16:25That's it.
16:30Meanwhile you'd think it would be easy to get over a tree stump wouldn't you?
16:34Not so.
16:37The next obstacle is to climb up the side of a rock face.
16:41Now no problem for this guy.
16:43Up he goes. He's got a little rock there to get over.
16:47And those rocks must be very hard indeed.
16:52In this varied havoc program we now move on to the world of Formula 3 single seater racing.
16:59Always very close and competitive.
17:02A series like this costs a driver up to £120,000 a year.
17:06This is Brazilian Luis Schaefer in the 1982 British Formula 3 series.
17:12Mexicans Alfonso Tanedano and Enrique Bonamo from Argentina.
17:17Have a little bit of a squabble over a corner.
17:20This James Weaver tries an unusual line at the Thruxton Complex corner.
17:26And Mexican Alfonso Tanedano tries any line going round Woodcut.
17:32Meanwhile look at this for a novel way of getting through a chicane.
17:36It becomes an obstacle course.
17:39Wet weather is always a problem and a problem for Johnny Dumfries.
17:45Hits the Woodcut chicane at Silverstone in April of 1983.
17:51As does Tim Lee Davey who goes off in the same corner.
17:56And with the rain pouring down Johnny Dumfries is making quite a name for himself in the British Formula 3 series of 1984.
18:04Just does not want to give up.
18:07Up at Donington Brian Dunning doesn't bother about the chicane.
18:13Back at Thruxton Canadian Alan Berg has a touch of oversteer on his roll.
18:18But at Snellerton he had a deflating tyre and this is what happened.
18:23Nicely held but he's out of that race.
18:29Even the photographers look bemused.
18:32Whilst Davey Jones takes another unusual exit line out of the Silverstone Woodcut chicane.
18:40But for one man a very abrupt end to his race.
18:43This shows you just how well catch fencing can work to slow down and stop a spinning or crashing car.
18:50Over at Macau David Hunt brother of James Hunt crashes into the tyre walls and everybody else misses him but only just.
18:58The highlight of the British Formula 3 championship was the season-long battle between Brazilian Ayrton Senna de Silva and from Great Britain Martin Brundle.
19:06At Alton Park this is the winner.
19:08In 1984 Johnny Dumfries won the first two British Formula 3 series.
19:13And yes it's Alan Berg who was battling there for the lead spinning out of second place on a wet track.
19:19At the next round Alan Berg actually had a little nudging match with the driver from New Zealand Paul Radicich.
19:27From Belgium comes Ayrton Senna de Silva and from Great Britain Martin Brundle.
19:32And the driver from New Zealand Paul Radicich.
19:37From Belgium comes Hanneman with the Anson.
19:41Almost losing it at the chicane.
19:43And two Americans in a great hurry trying to get the same piece of tarmac.
19:47Ross Cheever, yes it's him again and Eric Lang.
19:50But why is Mario Heighton having his neck tested?
19:53The reason you're going to see now.
20:03A little coming together there between David Hunt and Mario Heighton.
20:07Heighton in this number 7 route obviously came off the worst.
20:17Well you know what they say, where there's a will there's a way.
20:22And so we move on to international motorcycle racing and some spectacular scenes once again.
20:28On the right there Kenny Roberts, number 4 with his Yamaha.
20:31Number 3 next to him is Freddie Spencer on the Works Honda.
20:36The 1983 season was to be Kenny Roberts' last Grand Prix season.
20:41Leading this trio is in 1983 world champion on his Honda, Freddie Spencer.
20:47One man who's famous for his wheelies, Randy Mimola on his Suzuki.
20:52As is Marco Lucanelli, number 1.
20:55And you can see just how dangerous motorcycling can be.
20:58The bike riders sliding off into the straw bales.
21:03They've got to literally be riding by the seat of their pants.
21:08But even stunt riders can do it wrong.
21:12He's lost the rear light and decides to get off his motorcycle.
21:18I don't know why, somebody's obviously upset him.
21:20And in this little display, he tries it again but crashes into the wall.
21:29A question possibly of overdoing it.
21:35Look at this battle between Mimola and Lucanelli.
21:41And Ron Haslam almost gets it.
21:44Well, we've heard about bumping and boring, but there's a bit going on at the finish of the race at Donington.
21:50Eddie Kidd, will he or won't he?
21:5428 cars to jump and yes, he's done it.
21:58This is the 500cc race, the 1983 British Grand Prix.
22:02And this is what happened to Sandro Pugliese.
22:05Pugliese badly broke his ankle and we see this in freeze frame.
22:12Amazing pictures, showing just how much the human body can stand.
22:19And this is what happened.
22:22And this is what happened.
22:25And this is what happened.
22:28And this is what happened.
22:30Amazing pictures, showing just how much the human body can stand.
22:40In the 250cc race, that is Hervé Guillot.
22:45A similar accident to Palandini's, almost in the exact same spot, but he gets away with it.
22:51Once again in the freeze frame.
22:54Other bike riders missing him luckily, and Guillot going head over heels in front of the bike,
23:01whilst the bike ricochets against the barrier.
23:05Bernard Faux was another faller in the 250cc race at Silverstone.
23:12So, motorcycle racing very much a contact sport.
23:17But without a doubt, it's a form of motorsport that is highly visually spectacular.
23:24And so we move on to saloon car racing.
23:27Well, we've thrown a bit of rallycross as well.
23:30This is the start of the 1984 British Trimoco Series.
23:35And once again, we're going to see plenty of action.
23:38Peter Lovett with the Rover, literally flying high.
23:43Or is he flying the flag for British Leyland?
23:46Aerobatics galore.
23:49And that was to retire him from the race at Silverstone.
23:53Meanwhile, back at Thruxton, the Ford Fiestas are doing their best to entertain.
23:58But just look at this one Fiesta about to be overtaken by his own rear wheel.
24:08At rallycross at Brands Hatch, all fun breaks loose, especially in the early laps.
24:14The track is blockaded.
24:17Is this rallycross' answer to the flying pickets?
24:19Once again, all hell breaks loose, or all tyres break loose, as the case may be.
24:29And even at the start, we're not quite sure who's going where.
24:39They finally sort it out, which is more than can be said for the start of the next race.
24:50Missed.
24:55He didn't miss, or they didn't miss.
24:58And these two are really having a pushing and shoving match, but it's going to end in tears.
25:05And from rallycross, we move across to the United States, to the NASCAR Series.
25:11And some spectacular incidents.
25:13Just look at the way these cars are built.
25:15Very strong indeed, and they need to be.
25:18This is Darrell Waltrip's Buick.
25:21And this is the Daytona 500.
25:24Massive crowds, filling every vantage point.
25:29Just look at all of those cars, close racing for 500 miles,
25:34and it's bound to cause a few incidents and accidents.
25:38The complete field come through the 33 degree banking like bullets.
25:42And this is Cale Yarbrough.
25:50And this is Bobby Allison, just like it says, doing his car absolutely no good at all.
25:59Even in the pit lane, there are a few problems.
26:02One car spins in backwards, right in front of somebody else's pit.
26:06No harm done, but that was very lucky indeed.
26:09Now you would think that lapping would be fairly easy in Daytona.
26:13But it's not.
26:15Could this be the first ever American mobile chicane?
26:20These cars are incredibly strong.
26:27Everybody filing through.
26:29Now, just look at this.
26:31Everybody filing through.
26:33Now, just look what happens when a rear bumper comes loose from Bobby Allison's car.
26:40All right at the front, but at the rear, they compact, and four, five, six cars go spinning out.
26:47Yes, one hits that famous wall.
26:52As ever, NASCAR racing is spectacular.
26:56Next, we move to the World Rally Championship.
26:59Next, we move to the world of powerboat racing, both offshore and inshore.
27:04Inshore racing being particularly spectacular and another new departure for us on this Havoc 5 series.
27:28Inshore
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28:46During the course of the 1982 World Offshore Powerboat Championship,
28:50Walter Agassi from Italy stove into a wave and completely wrecked his Class 1 catamaran.
28:57The same could be said for this little Class 3 boat.
29:04And John Bloomfield with his catamaran upside down in the middle of the English Channel.
29:13We move back to the catamaran.
29:15When you consider that these boats are worth up to one quarter of a million dollars completely written off there.
29:21The left hand sponson a gaping hole to the sea.
29:25Ragazzi injured being lowered by Royal Navy helicopter onto the ambulance boat.
29:32For urgent medical attention to his broken arms.
29:36Ted Tolman with his monohull trying his level best to win the World Championship almost stove straight into a wave there.
29:44A very spectacular sport indeed.
29:48In the American Offshore World Championships of 1983 held at Key West.
29:53This is an accident that happened to one of the competitors.
29:59Again no injuries but the driver was underneath that boat for some four minutes in an air pocket.
30:05These large offshore power boats are powered generally by two 700 brake horsepower Chevy V8 engines.
30:11They are capable of speeds of over 120 miles per hour.
30:16All the boats are trimmed so as to run as flat to the surface as possible.
30:21But occasionally they get completely out of shape.
30:24This is the 1980 World Champion American Michel Maynard with his favor shoes catamaran.
30:29He was going too fast in the power boat race at Fort Lauderdale.
30:32And this is what happened.
30:36He stove into a wave the boat completely broke up.
30:40Unbelievably Michel Maynard was thrown completely clear of the boat.
30:45And his co-driver and navigator Bob Iadone.
30:48You can see there slipping off the boat as quickly as possible as it's about to sink.
30:54The boat itself just driftwood.
30:56One of the Chevy engines is down on the ocean bottom.
30:59The other one will soon join it.
31:06We now move on to inshore power boat racing.
31:09These are these very small catamarans powered by two liter outboard engines.
31:14They are capable of speeds of up to 140 miles per hour.
31:19And accidents often do happen in this sport.
31:21In particular in the 1983 season.
31:24A tragic season because two drivers were killed.
31:27Nevertheless it is another excellent spectator sport.
31:31And in some of these freeze frames you can see just why this type of racing is so exciting.
31:36For the many thousands of spectators who come and watch it.
31:40In these black and white pictures this is the accident that befell Fiona Brunner.
31:45And this is what happened.
31:47In these black and white pictures this is the accident that befell Fiona Brunner.
31:52With her cult sponsored catamaran.
31:55This is a Seabold catamaran.
31:57And she was lucky to get away with her life.
32:01At the start of the 1983 Paris Six Hours.
32:05Nick Cripps from the Bahamas was involved in a horrific accident.
32:09Underneath one of the bridges over the Seine.
32:12Luckily neither driver involved in that incident was injured.
32:17From Europe we cross the Atlantic for the 1983 Bahamas Grand Prix.
32:22Held on Lake Cunningham.
32:24We spoke to American Billy Seabold about the course.
32:28The front stretch coming up here is very gusty.
32:31The water is not too rough it's just that the gusts.
32:34You know once in a while you'll be running along and hit another 5 or 10 or 15 mile an hour gust.
32:38And that's the part that can really get you in trouble.
32:41You can see the streaks on the water where you have the higher wind areas.
32:44So you know you have to in a tunnel boat you have to kind of drive around those.
32:48As the racing continues for the Bahamas Grand Prix.
32:52Gene Thibodeau spins out in a big way.
32:56And lands upside down.
32:59Thibodeau is thrown clear of the boat.
33:02He clambers onto the catamaran.
33:04Amidst all the traffic that is still racing around him.
33:08And here in the Bahamas they're starting 24 boats.
33:11In each race.
33:12Yellow flags out.
33:18We now move on to a different type of rallying.
33:21It's called raiding.
33:23The word raid is French and it means attack.
33:26And this is what this type of rallying is.
33:28Literally an attack on the terrain.
33:31These events take place all over the world.
33:34And they run from anywhere between 10 days and 21.
33:38Perhaps the most famous is the Paris-Dakar.
33:42That runs for three weeks in January every year.
33:45That event is not only open to cars but also to motorcycles and trucks.
33:50Because there are no service vehicles allowed on the event.
33:54The service vehicles are entered in their own private category.
33:57Like this enormous MAN truck.
34:00The four-wheel drive Porsche 911 of René Meij won the 1984 Paris-Dakar.
34:05But the event itself is very gruelling.
34:08It's man and machine against the worst possible odds.
34:36The first of the two raids that we're looking at is the Pharaohs.
34:40Held in October 1983.
34:43Not the sort of place you want to lose one of the wheels on your beach buggy.
34:47Right in the middle of a desert.
34:49One of the leading contenders for victory in raiding are the Worx Ladas.
34:54Here they are.
34:56They're the first of the two raids that we're looking at.
34:59They're held in October 1983.
35:02Not the sort of place you want to lose one of the wheels on your beach buggy.
35:05Here at speed in the deserts of Egypt.
35:08The Ladas in fact have Chrysler engines in them.
35:11Mated to a Peugeot gearbox.
35:13Uncomfortable terrain to retire in.
35:16But that's exactly what happened to Jackie Ickx.
35:19As the sun started setting over one of the Egyptian deserts.
35:26Jackie signalling to our helicopter so we can radio back to the organisers.
35:30Exactly where he is before night descends over a very cold desert.
35:36The temperatures vary enormously.
35:39During the day it can be plus 125 degrees Fahrenheit.
35:42During the night minus 10.
35:45The majority of the raiding takes place in desert conditions.
35:49Where water can be a real premium.
35:55This is a modern day desert pit stop.
35:57A fuel can has been left to fill up this trike in the middle of nowhere.
36:01Another problem could be being shot at.
36:04We spoke to a competitor about it.
36:07We were stopped by military policemen on the track.
36:11And what exactly did they do?
36:14They just wanted to shoot and they stopped us all.
36:17And they prevented us from passing by.
36:19And they just put a bayonet just against us.
36:23And what about the bayonet? Did they put a bayonet?
36:25And when I arrived he speak to me Tassaria, Tassaria, don't understand that, understand.
36:32And push me here, the bayonet with the gun.
36:35And I stop, I don't have anything.
36:38Much pura, paura.
36:40If you don't know what paura means, that means fear.
36:45For motorcyclists, well, the steep inclines can be a real problem.
36:50Especially when they are one in four.
36:52Or your bike can fall down a ravine.
36:55Or you can almost get run over by another competitor.
36:59Or you're just going to have to walk up.
37:03Or you could even get run over by another passing four-wheel competitor.
37:08Anything can happen in raiding and it usually does.
37:12And on to the 1984 Paris-Dakar.
37:15The organization of this event is so good that even if there's an accident in the middle of nowhere,
37:20even if there's an accident in the middle of the Sahara Desert, as has happened here,
37:25the medics are never far away.
37:28Either the medics are there by helicopter,
37:31or they're in a suite vehicle that comes up behind the special stages.
37:35Operations are often carried out in the middle of nowhere.
37:39Now for West German driver Jochen Mass, there's a different problem.
37:44He's hit a very large boulder in the middle of nowhere
37:46and he's got a radiator that is throwing out all its water.
37:50Roland Kussmaul with a Rothmans Porsche 911 has had a flat tyre.
37:55For Jochen Mass and his crew it's a question of grin and bear it and repair it,
37:59otherwise you're going to be left here.
38:03Which is okay when there are people around,
38:06but not quite so good when the sun is at high noon and not even camels can live.
38:12The Paris-Dakar is the most gruelling event in all the motorsport calendar.
38:17It's 21 days of hard driving,
38:20and some of the competitors take more than 16 hours to complete a stage.
38:25Some will never complete that stage,
38:28as with Achille Janssen's Mercedes G-Wagen
38:31that lies burnt out in the middle of the Sahara night.
38:34For Gabro, one of the Range Rovers, well, he's in a hurry.
38:38But for some of the spectators, well, also a problem
38:41to watch the passing of the Paris-Dakar.
38:44For Jacky Ickx, well, he's turned animal.
38:47Meanwhile, the spectators in the Marxist country of Guinea
38:51are being held in line by a couple of bullies.
38:58Although with our cameras turned towards this gentleman,
39:00who looks threatening, he collapses in laughter,
39:04realises that television may well make him a megastar,
39:09but then gets back to normal business.
39:13And this is Roland Kussmaul's Rothmans Porsche 911
39:17after it rolled for a second time.
39:22Must be the world's most flattened Porsche 911.
39:26Meanwhile, other cars are still disintegrating.
39:31Once again, the medic helicopter arrives in a real hurry
39:35because there's been a bad accident
39:38to one of the vehicles taking part in the truck race.
39:48The vehicle hit a bump, turned over, somersaulted,
39:51and crashed into another vehicle.
39:53The vehicle hit a bump, turned over, somersaulted,
39:57and badly injured both of its occupants.
40:03As we said, raiding can test vehicles, stamina, people,
40:09and sometimes even life itself.
40:16From the Sahara desert,
40:19we move on to the world of endurance sports car racing.
40:22The start of the Le Mans 24-hour race of 1983.
40:29This series has gone from strength to strength
40:32over the past few years, attracting many of the Grand Prix drivers
40:36and many major league sponsors.
40:39By the very fact that these are long-distance races,
40:42the conditions can vary enormously,
40:45as Manfred Winkelhock found out at Brands Hatch
40:48in October of 1982 with his Ford C100.
40:51Hans Stuck with the Sauber.
40:54Lax, Richard Klaers, Porsche 911.
40:57And yes, you've guessed it, he goes off.
41:01This is the start of the 1984 Daytona 24-hour race in America.
41:10Now, 24 hours is a long time to race,
41:13and one wouldn't expect there'd be an accident on the first corner.
41:16But you know the Americans, they like to make headway early on.
41:22This accident happens 150 yards after the start of a 24-hour race.
41:31At Monza in 1984 for a 1,000-kilometre race,
41:34Piancarlo Ghinsani with the Lancia that was leading in the early stages
41:38sheds one of its Pirelli tyres.
41:41Jacky Ickx in the Rothmans Porsche has no problem taking the lead.
41:45But for Derek Bell, a problem with an errant tyre.
41:54Here in freeze frame,
41:58hits the side of the Porsche 956.
42:02Ghinsani brings the Lancia in.
42:05Half of the rear bodywork is hanging off.
42:09It's a question of three wheels on my wagon,
42:11for the Canon Porsche of Jonathan Palmer.
42:14While Richard Clare with the Kramer CK5
42:17takes a novel line around one of the Monza chicanes.
42:22And once again, yes, you've guessed it, it's three wheels on my wagon.
42:28Back at Silverstone for the 1,000-kilometre race,
42:31Bob Wallach spins his gerst Porsche,
42:34but without any damage,
42:37which is more than can be said for Stefan Bellof.
42:39Yeah, I have a really big accident on Pflanzgarten.
42:44I come over the big chunk from Pflanzgarten,
42:48the car, the air goes under the car,
42:51and all the car goes up in the air and I make a lot of spans,
42:55but I don't know exactly how much is it.
42:58And so I, the car comes to stop after 300 or 400 metres from there.
43:05What do you think caused the accident?
43:07Yeah, I think the air comes under the car.
43:10It's a chunk, you come on in the fifth gear over the chunk,
43:14the car lifts a bit, and then when the air comes under the car,
43:18the car goes up, but I don't know exactly what in this moment was the point.
43:24You did a six minutes, 22 seconds on the lap prior to the accident.
43:29Do you think you were trying too hard,
43:32you were going too quickly considering you had a 30-second lead?
43:34No, I drove always the same line on this position, on this place.
43:41In my first part, always the same line,
43:46and I don't know why it's with this accident now.
43:51For John Fitzpatrick, with his Porsche 956,
43:55a problem with the front left-hand tyre.
43:58Back at Le Mans, we approach the Mulsanne corner,
44:00changing down from 245 miles per hour,
44:03to have Jan Lammers pass us on the outside.
44:09That little incident almost put pay to Jacky Ickx's chances
44:13of winning the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1983,
44:17a feat he did not achieve, finishing second in that race.
44:21Both cars continue.
44:24In the action slow-motion replay,
44:26Jan Lammers there spinning the Canon Porsche,
44:29and Jacky Ickx's Rothmans Porsche broadside
44:33right in front of the winner of the 1983 race,
44:36Wern Schuppen, Al Holbert and Hurley Haywood.
44:40In 1983, at Brands Hatch, it still hasn't stopped raining
44:44and Davina Galizzo and Emilia de Villota
44:46have problems negotiating one of the corners.
44:49They're joined by an errant Porsche 911.
44:52Over in Japan, at Fuji,
44:53Jeff Lees was very lucky to get out of this dome prototype alive
44:57after it caught fire.
45:00As the car was coming to a halt,
45:03Jeff felt the flames around him,
45:06but couldn't undo the door,
45:08so kicked the door open and got out just in time.
45:11Now, Porsche 956s are really pure-bred racing cars.
45:15They should not, under any circumstances,
45:18be used for any form of rallycross.
45:20Rallycross. Oh, no, he's got back onto the circuit.
45:25This young Japanese driver
45:27driving a very expensive Porsche 956,
45:31which manages to partly disintegrate around him.
45:35The 1983 Fuji 1000km race was red-flagged
45:39a few laps before the finish.
45:41The race was stopped because one of the two domes
45:44that had been entered for the race
45:46crashed right in front of the pits.
45:48From Fuji, we move to the final round
45:51of the 1983 World Endurance Championship
45:54at Kailami in South Africa,
45:56and Jack Ickx made rather an uncharacteristic error
46:00spinning his Porsche into the catch fencing, damaging the car.
46:04But that was nowhere near the damage caused to this Toyota,
46:10or the Alfa Romeo.
46:18Or this little Lancia LC1.
46:24Whilst its teammate tried to pull itself out of the way.
46:29It's a case of sitting down on the job.
46:32Whilst the Alfa gets itself out of the catch fencing.
46:36Beautifully held, wasn't it?
46:38But next time around, well, he didn't do quite so well.
46:41Sunset at the final round of the World Endurance Championship.
46:45A championship that went to Jack Ickx
46:47for the second year running.
46:49And so we move to the final category in Havoc 5,
46:53the European Formula 2 Championship.
46:56Some you win, some you lose.
46:59That's Thierry Tassin having an enormous accident
47:02at the start of the Thruxton Formula 2 race back in 1982.
47:07He emerged completely unharmed.
47:10Although he has a little bit of a fight with the marshal.
47:13Obviously very upset.
47:15Down in Italy, they have Formula 2 rallycross.
47:19Whilst back in England at Thruxton,
47:22Peter Schindler does it all wrong.
47:26Once again, this incident happened at a very hectic Thruxton in 1982.
47:31Schindler getting out of his Maurer Formula 2 car.
47:36Uninjured.
47:40And here we see the same incident again from another angle.
47:44Hard into those wall of tyres.
47:47Spinning out of the lead is Stefan Johansson with the Spirit.
47:51And at Spa during a race,
47:53Peter Schindler gets himself out of the catch fencing.
47:56Spinning out of the lead is Stefan Johansson with the Spirit.
48:00And at Spa during a very wet Formula 2 race in 1982,
48:04Thierry Tassin is taken away in a stretcher.
48:07He's not badly injured.
48:09Although his car most certainly is.
48:13Meanwhile at the same corner,
48:15Stefan Beloff's almost undamaged car
48:17is damaged by the marshals taking it away.
48:20Just watch this.
48:22Monsieur, it was brand new when I got it.
48:27At Ener in Sicily,
48:29one of the Sanremo cars heads towards the barrier,
48:33stopping all of two and a half inches before hitting it.
48:39And Jonathan Palmer at Mantorp Park in Sweden in 1982
48:44is very lucky to get away with his life.
48:46The other car involved on the left there is Frank Zielinski
48:50with one of the German Maurer cars.
48:52And here we see in stop frame Palmer's works-wrought Honda
48:57turning end-over-end before finally crashing into the tyre walls
49:02that most certainly saved him from serious injury.
49:07Silverstone, the start of the 1983 Formula 2 season,
49:11and it's our friend Guido D'Acco
49:12and Thomas Kaeser spinning away there with a few others.
49:16Thomas Kaeser from Sweden
49:18actually being overtaken by the safety vehicle.
49:21Joe Gartner and Alain Ferté
49:24also spin out on a very wet track.
49:27But over in Spain,
49:29Stefan Beloff and Mike Thackwell
49:31go side-by-side around the Jarama circuit.
49:34And the start of the Zolder Formula 2 race,
49:38Christian D'Acco,
49:39goes off and right at the back there is our friend Guido D'Acco again
49:43who's going to play an important part
49:45in our final two scenes of Havoc 5.
49:50Guido there in the greenish March,
49:54the start of the 1983 European Formula 2 championship race
49:58at the Nürburgring circuit in West Germany.
50:03And once again Guido D'Acco involved there with Alain Bertuzzi
50:06who's probably doing himself a favour
50:08writing off the Mazzarrio Formula 2 car.
50:11And so we move to the final scene of Havoc 5,
50:14the start of the Donington Formula 2 race of 1983.
50:18One of the biggest accidents seen
50:20in the European Formula 2 championship for many years.
50:24The front nose fin flies off Alain Ferté's Maurer,
50:27Guido D'Acco rolls over,
50:29his team-mate Bertuzzi lands on top of Beat Jans,
50:32but again it's a very close race.
50:33His team-mate Bertuzzi lands on top of Beat Jans,
50:36but again nobody is injured.
50:38An incredible accident.
50:40And so we end Havoc 5.
50:43We've shown you 11 different types of racing
50:45from all over the world.
50:47Havoc will always be a part of racing,
50:50so long as man and machine
50:52push themselves to and over their limits.
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