This accident can easily be named the most famous racing crash in history, partly due to the way it happened, and largely thanks to Ron Howard's movie "The Rush" starring Chris Hemsworth. Trying to make up time after an unplanned pit-stop on the first lap, Austrian Niki Lauda attacked a curb in the turn “Bergwerk” way to aggressively. As a result of his haste his Ferrari 312 T2 flew off the track promptly hitting the fence and catching fire. Lauda suffered severe burns, however, despite this fact, he went on and participated in the Italian Grand Prix only six weeks after the accident.

If the 2009 Jari-Matti Latvala accident had happened around 15-20 years earlier, the Finnish driver involved in it would surely be dead right now. Frankly speaking even by today’s standards the result of this crash looks terrible. During its long flight off the cliff and before the final stop, Latvala's car had completed 17 consecutive barrel rolls. Despite this terrible crash Latvala is still competing in the WRC, holding the second place in this year's championship, right after Sebastien Ogier.

Once, this piece of scrap metal was a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, but a brief loss of the grip on the high-mountain track “Pikes Peak” turned the car into the pile of scarp you are looking at. From the get-go one might reasonably assume that Foley and his navigator did not survive this accident; but thanks to the modern security framework installed in the car they've ended up with just a couple of mild scratches and bruises.

In this particular instance of Hell at the track which transpired at the Indy-500 race back in 1981, Ongeys postponed his appointment with the Grim Reaper fracturing both of his legs in the process; consequently, he was forced to miss the rest of the CART season, returning to racing later next season. Despite this unfortunate accident, Danny Ongeys even made several starts in the Formula One series afterwards. The accident was taped so you can appreciate how horrible it was by watching the video linked below.

Unfortunately there were no chances to make any quality photos of this accident, since it occurred at approximately 315 km/h speed. Mark Blundell, winner of Le Mans in 1992 experienced around 155 G-force overloads... and was able to leave the car on his own feet after it finally stopped. The accident happened at the CART championship and was taped. So you can enjoy watching it knowing that nobody got hurt in this impressive crash.

Loic Duval's sports prototype Audi R18 accident happened during the practice before the 24-hour marathon of 2014. The winner of the 2013 race, lost control of his car at the Porsche Curves and smashed into the catch fencing above the barriers destroying the car. Duval was able to climb out of the car but was not cleared for the rest of the week while Audi was forced to bring in a spare chassis to replace the car.

A technical miscalculation turned Mercedes CLR into one of the most famous cars of Le Mans and almost killed Mark Webber and Peter Dumbrek. The excessive length of the front overhang of the car allowed air to go underneath it, which is why CLR went airborne twice in the course of the weekend. The spectacle, if you can even call it that, is a must see for anyone interested.

Australian Mark Webber, whose name you may recall from the previous accident, is once again taking to the skies in another airborne accident which he survived as well; it happened in 2010 during the Formula One Grand Prix of Europe in Valencia. An attack on a Lotus driven by Heikki Kovalainen ended up touching the rear wheel of the Finnish driver’s car and, as a result, a deadly flight above the racetrack commenced. Mark was able to get out of the car in one piece which once again demonstrated the superior safety of the modern Formula One cars.

It's hard to believe that there was any chance of survival if one was to judge by the carbon fiber mess that was once Alonso's car back in 2016 in Australia. Nevertheless, Fernando left the car without assistance from its side. The accident involving the Spaniard happened after he made an attempt to pass Esteban Gutierrez of Haas F1 for position.

Twenty years before the accident with Alonso, Martin Brundle, who is known as a fun British TV commentator nowadays, was involved in a very serious accident at the Albert Park Circuit. Brundle ended his race and Jordan car at the exact same place as Alonso and fortunately, much like him, remained unharmed. In general, due to Ayrton Senna’s death back in 1994, the safety of Formula One cars was significantly improved.

After watching how Mike Harmon’s race unfolded on the track that day, you might come to the realization that he might be one of the luckiest people to ever sit behind the wheel of a car. Mike was left completely unharmed after colliding with a wall and remained unharmed even after a fellow competitor smashed into him at full speed only several seconds later.

A grisly accident involving the ex-leading Top Gear host (and Grand Tour host at this moment) became a top story in the mainstream media back in 2006. At the speed of 460 km/h, a jet engine powered dragster called “Vampire” lost its front wheel because of a tire rupture. Following that the car lost control and toppled over. Hammond was taken to hospital alive and returned home only 33 days later.