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

[Jimlaad43]

The encouragement of deliberate crashing and pushing rivals off in NASCAR is abhorrent and this crash is another one that proves it.

 

[Northstar]

The encouragement of deliberate crashing and pushing rivals off in NASCAR is abhorrent and this crash is another one that proves it.

That wasn’t a NASCAR race...

 

[Dylan]

All drivers got out of their cars.

Hunter Johnson got a broken T3 vertebrae in the accident. Which that being the only injury is amazing.

 

[Jimlaad43]

That wasn’t a NASCAR race...

It's Stock Cars on a track with no right turns and a driver being sent into the barrier because of another driver being a jerk. What's the difference?

 

[Liquid]

It's Stock Cars on a track with no right turns and a driver being sent into the barrier because of another driver being a jerk. What's the difference?

Nascar is a sanctioning body, not a generic name. If there's an idiot in open wheelers, you don't automatically think "that Formula One driver is an idiot". Could be tens of other categories, not even on the F1 ladder. Or of the plenty of plebs in touring cars, it's not all the DTM.

You don't have to like something to get the facts right. Criticise it because it's stock car/truck racing, not because it's Nascar.

 

[Har1MAS1415]

It's Stock Cars on a track with no right turns and a driver being sent into the barrier because of another driver being a jerk.

I agree with you Jim, I've just seen the clip myself, that was a really idiotic manoeuvre.

 

[Spacegoat]

One of the most Australian ways for a safety car to be called.

 

[Har1MAS1415]

One of the most Australian ways for a safety car to be called.

WHAT THE DEVIL?

 

[Roo]

1985 Monte Carlo Rally: Lancia tried a wheel gun that undid all 5 nuts at once. Presumably it wasn't considered effective as I don't recall seeing anything like it since.

 

[Clark]

It looks a bit heavy

 

[Spacegoat]

An oldie but a goodie* and certainly one way to try and fix a damaged bonnet.



*Apologies if it has been posted here before.

 

[Liquid]

 

[LumpiestFish]

Jeez, pretty scary how the Martini Alfa driver opened the door for quick exit but had it jammed shut by slamming into the wall..

 

[Spacegoat]

 

[Jimlaad43]

 

[Barra333]

My car is pretty badly damaged from that crash, I'd better try for some purple sectors on the way back to the pit anyway...

 

[Dylan]

Saw both incidents on Twitter. But didn’t know they were connected.

 

[Vinylshark]

I guess that's one way to ruin your racing career.

 

[TheCracker]

Is he giving the facist salute because he's Russian or because he's racing under the Italian flag?

 

[Jimlaad43]

 

[Pete05]

We all know they're lapping at incredibly fast speeds, but that closing speed on Power's car...

 

[Dylan]

That was so close to being so unbelievably bad.

 

[PaMu1337]

I've watched it 5 times now. Still don't see the other car until the very last moment. Kudos for avoiding the crash there

 

[Roo]

From the Long Beach IMSA round a few weeks ago.

A wheelnut rentention pin fails on the wheel removed from the #3 Corvette, and the wheelnut escapes down pit road...



...where it bounces clean over the #9 Pfaff Porsche, drops into the radiator duct and, still spinning, machines a hole through the radiator, causing the Porsche's retirement.



You couldn't make it up.

 

[35mm]

From the Long Beach IMSA round a few weeks ago.

A wheelnut rentention pin fails on the wheel removed from the #3 Corvette, and the wheelnut escapes down pit road...



...where it bounces clean over the #9 Pfaff Porsche, drops into the radiator duct and, still spinning, machines a hole through the radiator, causing the Porsche's retirement.



You couldn't make it up.

Had to watch the videos several times, back and forth, before even starting to understand what had happened. Incredible.


The key moments are 0:12 on the first video and 0:13 on the second, by the way.
Edit: of course, because one's supposed to watch the videos playing at the same time...! I'm just dumb like that.

 

[Obelisk]

That is a one in a million event. I'd be surprised if the Corvette guys didn't offer a beer or something to them after.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Had to watch the videos several times, back and forth, before even starting to understand what had happened. Incredible.


The key moments are 0:12 on the first video and 0:13 on the second, by the way.
Edit: of course, because one's supposed to watch the videos playing at the same time...! I'm just dumb like that.

Thanks for pointing that out. I was watching for the Porsche to run over something.

That is a one in a million event. I'd be surprised if the Corvette guys didn't offer a beer or something to them after.

A new radiator would do.

 

[Liquid]

 

[Barra333]

Yeah, that wall looks dangerous. Someone could die there.

 

[Liquid]

Alboreto wasn't the first driver to have a lucky escape there but with a front wing failure at Tamburello, it's an eerie mixture of both Ratzenberger and Senna's crashes. There is some very morbid luck here; had it been a corner later, the closing speed would have ended up in a Ratzenberger crash at Tosa. It gets even morbider because ten years later Michele Alboreto did die in a sportscar crash.