Vehicle mass: What effet does it have in an accident?

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Originally Posted by gtxb67

imola 89, tamburello curve - taken flat out at over 300kph. gerhard berger lost part of his front wing and instead of turning left to follow the track went straight on at virtually undiminished speed. it was virtually a head on with an immovable concrete wall.

Ive had a look at the berger video. Yes the vehicle went straight ahead, but I cant agree it hit the barrier virtually straight on, at best the barrier was at 30 degrees, 60 degrees from straight on and the car continued in a forwards direction some distance down the track

A speed change of 150km/h in a couple of ms, unlikely.

As I mentioned previously the least acceleration the body could experience in such a crash would be in the order of 250g, totally unsurvivable. Any crash where the driver survives, the acceleration has to be less than this.....much less..

In my limited search of recorded f1 crash data available, the most acceleration any driver survived was 75g, but please if anyone finds data that which exceeds this, please post.