F1 Brazilian GP: Top 5 crashes at Interlagos

#2 4-car pile-up in 1994

Martin Brundle was very lucky to escape injury at the 1994 race.

Martin Brundle had his fair share of scary crashes during his time as an F1 driver, but Brazil ’94 was perhaps the worst. Eddie Irvine and Jos Verstappen were coming up to lap the Ligier of Erik Bernard at the end of the back-straight but Brundle’s McLaren had suffered an engine failure in the same location, in what turned out to be a huge dose of bad luck for the Englishman.

Verstappen took the opportunity to try and overtake Irvine, but the Brit didn’t see the Dutchman coming until the last moment, and by then it was too late. Jos had to take to the grass, which unsettled his car and sent his Benetton careening across the circuit, collecting Bernard and Irvine, before smashing into the back of Brundle’s ailing McLaren.

The impact lifted Verstappen’s car into the air, flipping over several times and when it came down, one of the loose wheels whacked Brundle on the top of his head, breaking his crash helmet. All four cars were out, but amazingly, Brundle avoided serious injury and walked away.