https://goresee.com/videos/watch/c80541de-280b-4080-b0d4-07fb274e5e27 Piers Raymond Courage (27 May 1942 – 21 June 1970) was a British racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1967 to 1970. Courage participated in 29 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix for Lotus, Parnell and Frank Williams, debuting at the 1967 South African Grand Prix. He achieved two podium finishes, and scored 20 championship points. Following a business arrangement with Alejandro de Tomaso, Williams switched to a newly designed De Tomaso chassis for the 1970 Formula One season. Unfortunately for Courage, the De Tomaso proved to be overweight and unreliable, and only a third place in the non-championship International Trophy alleviated a poor string of results in the early season. The Dutch Grand Prix seemed to be going slightly better, with Courage qualifying in ninth place around the Zandvoort Circuit. Running in the middle of the field, the De Tomaso's front suspension or steering broke on the bump at Tunnel Oost, causing the car to suddenly go straight on instead of finishing the high-speed bend. It then rode up an embankment (one of the Zandvoort dunes) and disintegrated, with the engine breaking loose from the monocoque, upon which it burst into flames. To lighten the De Tomaso, magnesium was used in its chassis and suspension. The magnesium burned so intensely that many nearby trees and bushes were set alight. During the impact, Courage was fatally injured when one of the front wheels broke off and hit Courage in the head, tearing away his helmet, which together with the wheel rolled out of the cloud of dust at the same time. Courage was survived by his wife, Lady Sarah Marguerite Curzon (1945-2025), and his two sons, Jason Piers Courage (b. 10 February 1967) and Amos Edward Sebastian Courage (b. 26 February 1969). He was buried in St Mary the Virgin churchyard, Shenfield, Essex. During the qualifying session at the 1970 Italian Grand Prix, Jochen Rindt ran with higher gear ratios fitted to his car to take advantage of the reduced drag, increasing the car's potential top speed to 330 km/h (205 mph). On his fifth lap of his qualifying session, he crashed heavily at the approach to the Parabolica corner, resulting in multiple fatal injuries. Lotus withdrew all cars from the race. Rindt won the World Drivers' Championship posthumously. Just three years later, Roger Williamson crashed fatally when his car came to rest upside down and burst into flames at the same spot, the Tunnel Oost bump, where Courage's accident had started. Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:46:39 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://goresee.com https://goresee.com/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://goresee.com/videos/watch/c80541de-280b-4080-b0d4-07fb274e5e27 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://goresee.com/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.