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

[Ardius]

There is a line, you can have a small unintentional incident of which you don't remember much about since it didn't knock you out of focus, I have done that many a time in karting, ask me to recall the details of the start of a race just after it has happened and if it is in a large grid and thus rather chaotic I won't remember much. Racing driver excuses are used in this situation simply because we like to justify something and make sense of it to ourselves, the b-s mostly comes from piecing together a very small amount of data we remember. This is only appropriate in non intentional incidents however.

I agree and thats what I was talking about. I did say that part of racing driver excuses comes from the fact that:
a) admitting fault leads to penalties
and
b) questioning themselves whether they did the right thing is sometimes too big a question - if you are uncertain whether you really were in the right, perhaps sometimes this can have a massive effect on confidence.

I just think that its not fair to criticise drivers for their comments when they are interviewed immediately after a race, when they haven't see the same footage we have and haven't been able to go through each detail piece by piece. Its not easy to remember every detail and I'm pretty sure 90% of the drivers who have these "excuses" will happily admit fault when they see the replay footage - Villenueve is one of those I feel.

However in the case of the Plato incident he planned it, that was a concious decision he made, he wasn't just racing he came out of focusing on racing to do that move and push the other person off. Plato in that interview was plain lying, to do that move he must have thought about it, and the fact that his reason was so false shows how bad he is at lying.

I wasn't referring to Plato. I'm not going to comment much on him as its been done to death so many times before but I fully agree he planned it and was blatantly lying about it. This isn't racing drivers excuses.
What I'm referring to is incidents like those Villenueve ones or the Andretti one or even recently Vergne and Ricciardo crashing into the Caterhams. All except Villenueve's resulted in them crashing out themselves so pretty clearly they weren't lying to try and cheat or anything.

 

[tomhart9]

It's not like Heikkenen was going at full speed when he went off the ramp. It's basically the same course that was used at X-Games 17. I think he's simply misjudged the distance and took it too slow.

I agree, I don't think the organisers would have let it been used if it wasn't correct and I doubt they'd make a mistake.
Just look at the Hotwheels loop in the background, I'd expect there to be a few experts there
Talking of the loop... That was pure OMG/WOW
Boys and their toys

 

[Ddrizle]

Control, reation and reflex time. What a save Dino.

Skip to 20 seconds in.

 

[vfrmaverick]

damn. i saw the tire lines on the road start to spread and knew it wasnt to be good.

 

[SuperShouden]

I'm no physicist, but the height and distance of the ramps just seemed flawed and shouldn't have been attempted. I hope Toomas Heikkenen gets well soon.

Yeah, 'cause Series points leader, Markus Gronholm later went over that same jump, landed successfully but slammed a concrete barrier, putting himself in the hospital as well. I got to say for all the complaints people have been making about the GRC...Round 2 saw a LCQ where only 1 car finished out of 5 or 6 cars. And X-Games round...2 drivers were seriously injured and out of the race before the actual racing even started. Seems to be a lot more "action" in the GRC than people give it credit. Heck Pastrana dislocated his shoulder going of the jump in Round 2.

Toomas crash from different angel and Gronholm's crash:

 

[Müle]

2nd Example. Jacques Villeneuve spins Danica Patrick. Afterwards he claimed he was out of control by clipping the grass leading up to the braking point. Replay evidence shows that he was able to gain control in time for the braking point and simply "wheel hopped" the car by locking up the brakes deep in the braking zone and slid into Patrick.

I've been over this before. That was Max Papis' fault for forcing Jacques into the grass. The reason he "wheel hopped" was because he had dirty tires from being forced into the grass. A lesser driver would have taken them all out.

Stop being a Danica fanboy and stop taking what rubberhead Rusty Wallace says seriously.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Everything I have seen about this screams 'amateur'. The abject lack of safety crew response in that clip highlights that even further.

Part of the problem is that the parts of the course going over the jump and under it are both designed to force the cars to travel in single file. The last thing they need is two cars trying to go over the jump together and colliding because they're fighting for position. The downside to this is that the area is very cramped, and naturally access - to the point where it is needed the most - is virtually nil. For the race, the jump was filled in and the section of circuit under it was closed off.

 

[Flex0r]

Control, reation and reflex time. What a save Dino.
Skip to 20 seconds in.

Yes a nice save and good reflexes but he should have slowed down in the first place, but he clearly missed the yellow flag.(around 18 seconds into the vid.)

 

[tomhart9]

Part of the problem is that the parts of the course going over the jump and under it are both designed to force the cars to travel in single file. The last thing they need is two cars trying to go over the jump together and colliding because they're fighting for position. The downside to this is that the area is very cramped, and naturally access - to the point where it is needed the most - is virtually nil. For the race, the jump was filled in and the section of circuit under it was closed off.

Am I right in saying this is the first time the X-Games was in this head to head format? I thought before this they used a figure of 8 track with 2 cars against each other at once on time rather than position. One starting on once side of the track the other on the other side.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Here's a bizarre one: Scuderia Coloni will leave the GP2 Series at the end of the 2012 season. In the meantime, they have agreed to forefeit all of their points - both those they have already scored this year, and any they will score between now and September. Neither party is giving any more information on why this is.

Obviously, something very serious has happened.

 

[Rossell2]

yeah I'd like to be a fly on the wall for that one.

 

[Pupik]

So..they're finishing out the season, but must forfeit everything this year because they're sitting out next year (possibly, among other things).

Makes sence to me...if I was David Lynch.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

They're not sitting out next year. They're leaving. "Sitting out" implies they might come back in 2014, but that's not going to happen.

Normally, I'd just say they had a falling out with the organisers and decided to go their own way. But forefeiting all of their points - both those they have and those that are yet to be scored - and the subsequent wall of silence tells me that something funny went down.

My guess? Cheating.

 

[SuperShouden]

Enzo and Scuderia? I wonder what they were named after [/sarcasm]

 

[Desmo46]

Control, reation and reflex time. What a save Dino.

Skip to 20 seconds in.

Yikes!

 

[DQuaN]

The banana skins were more effective in Mario Kart!

 

[Bopop4]

Yes a nice save and good reflexes but he should have slowed down in the first place, but he clearly missed the yellow flag.(around 18 seconds into the vid.)

The problem is that the driver can see WAY less than what the camera can, and I didn't even see the flag until somebody pointed it out.
The yellow is so far away from him that I doubt he saw it at all.

 

[Roush_fan_99]

I think he saw the flag, he let off the throttle on the straight then downshifted as he did the save

 

[Christhedude]

I had quit the "WTF" moment yesterday at the 5th round of the VLN series in free practice.

I was in my 2nd lap when i came out of the double right hander before the very long straight dottinger hohe, when at 255km/h my right rear tyre burst. Unfortunately I didnt have my camera on board, but needless to say, we couldnt even enter the race on saturday due too exessive damage to the car...

 

[Furinkazen]

I had quit the "WTF" moment yesterday at the 5th round of the VLN series in free practice.

I was in my 2nd lap when i came out of the double right hander before the very long straight dottinger hohe, when at 255km/h my right rear tyre burst. Unfortunately I didnt have my camera on board, but needless to say, we couldnt even enter the race on saturday due too exessive damage to the car...

Holy 🤬 must have been scary!

 

[SuperShouden]

The banana skins were more effective in Mario Kart!

Now THAT'S how you pass someone.

 

[SuperShouden]

No one posted this yet?



Travis is not having a good year. I want to see how well that Dart does in a rally, but people keep being stupid. I thought, this time, without Toomas around he'd see the checkered flag, finally, but, nope, Andy Scott had to pull the old GT Brake move. Three races in, and Travis has finished....1 heat.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

There are no words ...



Except maybe "digitally-rendered representations of current McLaren personalities for the purposes of entertainment aimed at a juvenile demographic", which is Ronspeak for "a McLaren cartoon".

 

[phil bell]

Plato was always an asshat driver. I remember when he crashed his SEAT once the whole crowd cheered, there's good reason for that.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

William Buller wins the second GP3 race at Silverstone ... from last place on the grid.

I would have loved to have seen that race.

 

[TheBigMan045]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_-DOmVBZ24&feature=youtube_gdata_player more the OMG factor....this is what we call stockcars in NZ, well teams racing where the object is to for your team to win by any means nessacary 2 teams of 4 (one reserve) you have runners and blockers. Runners go for the flag and blockers well, block

 

[Nicksfix]

From Saturday's NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle qualifying session held in Norwalk Ohio.

Angie Smith dumps her bike at 188 mph due to loss of brakes.

and she walked away ........ 👍



A few words from Angie

 

[Small_Fryz]

There are no words ...


Except maybe "digitally-rendered representations of current McLaren personalities for the purposes of entertainment aimed at a juvenile demographic", which is Ronspeak for "a McLaren cartoon".

I think its awesome

 

[Bye Ya]

This guy...

 

[Barra333]

That is pretty cool. Not sure what it says about the engine note of F1 cars though