Motorsport OMG / WTF moments - Racing Funnies, Fails, Crashes, And Randomness

[mustafur]

This was in the 2014 Super TC2000 race at San Juan(go to 4:45 for start of race then watch what happens 30 seconds later).



With that Kind of Savage racing no wonder Lopez owned WTCC.

 

[G_Parrilla]

This was in the 2014 Super TC2000 race at San Juan(go to 4:45 for start of race then watch what happens 30 seconds later).



With that Kind of Savage racing no wonder Lopez owned WTCC.

The good part of living in Argentina is watching this every sunday. There are too many good drivers that could be racing in international categories, but sadly it seems that money is more important that skill nowadays.

 

[twitcher]

This was in the 2014 Super TC2000 race at San Juan(go to 4:45 for start of race then watch what happens 30 seconds later).



With that Kind of Savage racing no wonder Lopez owned WTCC.

Very cool looking track! Terrible video though. I can't stand clip compilations like this. The clips are always so short, giving the viewer no context over how a move developed, and unless you know the track like the back of your hand, every transition leaves you feeling lost. By the time you get your bearings, the video changes to a new clip.

Edit: here's a full lap. It's a figure 8!!! Would have never got that from the clip montage. Brilliant track

 

[mustafur]

This is the Full race coverage of that race i posted above:

 

[GTPorsche]

 

[mustafur]

The good part of living in Argentina is watching this every sunday. There are too many good drivers that could be racing in international categories, but sadly it seems that money is more important that skill nowadays.

That's a good thing as well as it increases the level of your national race scene.

 

[Samus]

What on earth did he expect to happen. Damn tire kickers.

 

[Roo]

More NASCAR: the last lap of today's Daytona 500.

 

[m8h3r]

That would be how the majority of us unlocked the 0.1 second win on GT5.

 

[Obelisk]

Not sure if this has been posted in here before, but the DAF vs Peugeot 405 in the 1988 Paris-Dakar needs to be seen to be believed.

 

[Kitten]

Not sure if this has been posted in here before, but the DAF vs Peugeot 405 in the 1988 Paris-Dakar needs to be seen to be believed.

Rob D - Matrix - Clubbed to Death [Kurayamino Mix] + this footage perfect <3

 

[Roo]

From the French GT Tour series round at Navarra in Spain last year:

 

[RACECAR]

I'm sorry if this has been posted before but after I had seen this, I was in tears.

Never has the ragged edge looked more trimmed

That's the one series I've seen that has out Moto GP'd Moto GP

This was in the 2014 Super TC2000 race at San Juan(go to 4:45 for start of race then watch what happens 30 seconds later).



With that Kind of Savage racing no wonder Lopez owned WTCC.

Damn. Now that think about it, WTCC is full of push overs in comparison to that. Would send some international drivers home crying with that.

As for that one driver, biggest attachments ever.

Not sure if this has been posted in here before, but the DAF vs Peugeot 405 in the 1988 Paris-Dakar needs to be seen to be believed.

That is just insane.

From the French GT Tour series round at Navarra in Spain last year:

That one guy's faint laugh just did it for me

 

[G_Parrilla]

More from Argentina TC2000, but in the 80s!
What to do when you are leading and you blew a rear tire with two laps to go.



You keep pushing and finish second by half a car!

 

[Niku Driver HC]

Do words like "slow" and "down" even apply to Argentinian SuperTC drivers? Usually a blown tire leads to an unavoidable accident and/or final pit stop to DNF, but Flaco just kept going and beat another driver by the smallest of margins... These men are crazy geniuses, incredible stuff.

 

[-Fred-]

Was that a Renault Fuego?

 

[G_Parrilla]

Do words like "slow" and "down" even apply to Argentinian SuperTC drivers? Usually a blown tire leads to an unavoidable accident and/or final pit stop to DNF, but Flaco just kept going and beat another driver by the smallest of margins... These men are crazy geniuses, incredible stuff.

Flaco in particular has a thousand stories like this one

Was that a Renault Fuego?

Yes sir

 

[Niku Driver HC]

Flaco in particular has a thousand stories like this one

So he was like Maria Lopez but with very old Renault Fuego racers? I can only imagine what other wacky things he was capable of with his car(s)...

 

[G_Parrilla]

So he was like Maria Lopez but with very old Renault Fuego racers? I can only imagine what other wacky things he was capable of with his car(s)...

He raced for more than 30 years in touring cars, rally, stock cars and even the European F2. And he won with the car on fire, without a wheel, without the steering wheel, he jump-overtook (?) another car after landing on its roof during a rally, ended inside a living room after crashing, was penalized for three races after giving a marshall the bird, started boxing his co-driver while racing, and hundreds of other amazing stories that could only happen during the 70s-80s-90s.

 

[LancerEvo7]

Here's one of my favorites, I remember seeing these live:

In the 2006 IROC race at Daytona, World of Outlaws driver Steve Kinser got turned and his car blew over and slid upside down to turn 3. Not necessarily an OMG/WTF moment on its own.


The next race of the season was a couple months later at Texas. This is where it gets crazy. A couple drivers have a crash, one of them comes down the track, clips Kinser, and turns him over for the second race in a row.

 

[Obelisk]

He raced for more than 30 years in touring cars, rally, stock cars and even the European F2. And he won with the car on fire, without a wheel, without the steering wheel, he jump-overtook (?) another car after landing on its roof during a rally, ended inside a living room after crashing, was penalized for three races after giving a marshall the bird, started boxing his co-driver while racing, and hundreds of other amazing stories that could only happen during the 70s-80s-90s.

I gotta see that jump overtake.

 

[catamount39]

What the...

 

[RazorSharkz]

Here is a compilation of very unusual rules in Nascar being seen in action.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Here is a compilation of very unusual rules in Nascar being seen in action.

Should this be in the Silly Rules thread?

 

[RazorSharkz]

Should this be in the Silly Rules thread?

It could, I personally let out a few WTF and OMG while watching the video. Surely it could fit in both threads.

 

[The Stig Farmer]

 

[catamount39]

Ah, a Ferrari GT driver training video. Nice choice.

 

[Niku Driver HC]

Regarding that first clip; car about to burst into flames from excessive accelerating? Sure thing, just reenter the track in the wrong direction and cause another driver to take a few acres of grass off the chicane. Lawnmower rentals are expensive anyways...

Also, hey, Paul Tracy is in there. I do recall that he had quite a lot of WTF moments in his CART/Champ Car career... He is not the most elegant of drivers, it has to be said. Fast, yes. But certainly not subtle...

 

[twitcher]

There was a couple very close calls in Adelaide this past weekend that could have made part 2 of this video. One from Race 1 of the GT3s, and Wincup in Race 3 - both at turn 9.

 

[Furinkazen]