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

[Bo]

Oh my God, I can remember that!

 

[GTPorsche]

 

[ITCC_Andrew]

The other OMG moment of that race... 11 cars total.


If you read this post, and can afford a race team, you can get into Indy Lights and get a top 15 that easily

 

[TenEightyOne]

If you read this post, and can afford a race team, you can get into Indy Lights and get a top 15 that easily

To Finish First... First You Must Finish!

Try saying that with a mouthful of donut, motorsport pun partially intended. The odds of finishing Indy Lights seem, well... iffy


EDIT: Good that the commentators say they'll hold of on replays until the driver condition is known... sadly ironic that they go on to namecheck the broadcast's sponsor (Cooper Tyres) while we look at the pile of tyres that the car hit at "ludicrous-speed".

Incredible that a car can be built to make this kind of crash survivable but even with that considured I'm sure that this would have been fatacc without HANS.

Yellow-flag guy should never ever marshall again. Ever. He should be face-bombed or whatever you young'uns call it.

The driver stalls, puts his hand up, the marshall looks at the stationary car, looks away again, does nothing for a few seconds. THEN he raises the yellow once the pack's under way. By this time the driver's showing his hand way up in the air, something you wouldn't like to be doing in that place. Then he realises the marshall is brain-dead and claps his hands onto his helmet in disbelief.

The marshall himself was lucky not to be killed by the debris but he contributed to some of that final risk himself.

That's shameful for the 99.9999% of fantastic marshalls who give so much time to actually allow motorsports to happen. There's a lot of great marshalling on show in this thread. And some really stinky driving

 

[TenEightyOne]

Double post, sorry mods... was SO angry about that marshall!!!

 

[m8h3r]

My god he hit that wall hard. Lucky the front of the car caught what was left of the tyre wall. Maybe next year then extend it another 10-20 meters. He could have hit the wall full on, think the tyres may have dampened the impact a little.

 

[GTPorsche]

Yeah. Not sure why they don't put up a wall around the entire corner. They don't need the road course to be accessible for oval usage.

 

[GOTMAXPOWER]

Complete stupidity from Silverstone.



A complete lack of common sense and awareness from organisers should be punished heavily before people are killed.

 

[TenEightyOne]

A complete lack of common sense and awareness from organisers should be punished heavily before people are killed.

That is terrible, and no white+yellow flags!

Seems that race control simply had no idea, they only call flags and deploy the Safety Car as an apparent reaction to seeing the pack braking heavily upon sight of the truck :|

 

[Lizard]

All I thought was. Are you 🤬 me?

 

[ITCC_Andrew]

That is terrible, and no white+yellow flags!

Seems that race control simply had no idea, they only call flags and deploy the Safety Car as an apparent reaction to seeing the pack braking heavily upon sight of the truck :|

Phantom caution, too. Once the cars have passed, is safe to resume the race... The danger was the safety vehicle.

 

[Lizard]

Phantom caution, too. Once the cars have passed, is safe to resume the race... The danger was the safety vehicle.

Once the cars have passed it is fine? Circuits go in a circle my friend.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Phantom caution, too. Once the cars have passed, is safe to resume the race... The danger was the safety vehicle.

Yup, it's a bit like the other yellow I commented on earlier, too little too late. I guess the safety car was the right thing to do though, the race had become 'live' and the truck could have finished recovery in another lap. That doesn't change the fact that the race shouldn't have started, obviously

 

[Bo]

That's a whole new level of pathetic management.

 

[Bo]

Excuse the double post, but I have this from yesterday:



Pat Doran's newly rebuilt RS200 going up big style.

 

[Brend]

Complete stupidity from Silverstone.



A complete lack of common sense and awareness from organisers should be punished heavily before people are killed.

Wow, that is unreal. Thank god the drivers were aware and there was no major obstruction to their vision.

 

[Barra333]

That fire just wouldn't go out .

And I assume the driver escaped safely into the clouds somewhere between 0:10 and 0:20?

 

[Bo]

That fire just wouldn't go out .

And I assume the driver escaped safely into the clouds somewhere between 0:10 and 0:20?

Yep, he managed to scramble out of the smoke.

 

[Roo]

Pat Doran's newly rebuilt RS200 going up big style.

That happened right in front of me - as in it wasn't on fire, then it passed me, then it was on fire. Apologies for mediocre camera work.

DSC_6300 by GTP_Roo, on Flickr

DSC_6302 by GTP_Roo, on Flickr

DSC_6309 by GTP_Roo, on Flickr

DSC_6315 by GTP_Roo, on Flickr

DSC_6324 by GTP_Roo, on Flickr

DSC_6325 by GTP_Roo, on Flickr

There was no commentary but you could hear Liam Doran through the tannoy shouting 'Come on! Put that 🤬 fire out!'. Pat walked away and was released from hospital at 10.30pm that evening. He was back at the circuit for Sunday.

 

[Bo]

That happened right in front of me - as in it wasn't on fire, then it passed me, then it was on fire. Apologies for medicore camera work.

DSC_6300 by GTP_Roo, on Flickr

DSC_6302 by GTP_Roo, on Flickr

DSC_6309 by GTP_Roo, on Flickr

DSC_6324 by GTP_Roo, on Flickr

DSC_6325 by GTP_Roo, on Flickr

There was no commentary but you could hear Liam Doran through the tannoy shouting 'Come on! Put that 🤬 fire out!'. Pat walked away and was released from hospital at 10.30pm that evening. He was back at the circuit for Sunday.

Fantastic shots 👍

Also, Liam has never struck me as a particularly respectable or jolly bloke...

 

[Davoxx]

Hell Yeah , Stewy !!!





Stay Skidded !

 

[GTPorsche]

That RS200 will be rebuilt again, probably. It doesn't look too badly damaged...

Did it sheer an oil line?

 

[ProjectWHaT]

 

[TheBook]

"I used to race bikes like you, until I took a Honda in the face..."

 

[Jimlaad43]

Remembered this from a few years ago and thought it'd be perfect for this thread. Amazingly somebody has actually uploaded on youtube

That's nothing. How about a Historic Formula Ford qualifying around Silverstone. One car left oil right on the racing line at Club corner. A 40-car pack comes by, missing the oil flag and all of them spin on the oil at virtually the same time. That was a pretty scary moment while standing on the wall thinking "There are only 5 of us to deal with this, it'll take forever".

Turns out only 3 cars actually stopped.

 

[ITCC_Andrew]

@Jimlaad43, I kinda feel sorry for marshals having to deal with that nonsense...


I remember one time, I broke a tie rod... scared the heck out of a marshal standing nearby when he saw me heading straight for him... Even yelled "What the 🤬 are you doing?"


"Tie rod broke..."

 

[Jimlaad43]

@Jimlaad43, I kinda feel sorry for marshals having to deal with that nonsense...


I remember one time, I broke a tie rod... scared the heck out of a marshal standing nearby when he saw me heading straight for him... Even yelled "What the 🤬 are you doing?"


"Tie rod broke..."

That's what we're there for though. OK, we don't want to see a car barrel rolling towards us, but someones got to do it, so why not

 

[Bo]

Huge V8SC support race crash:



They still aren't sure what failed, but it was at 132mph and straight into 2 walls
Went to hospital with scrapes/bruises and a fractured wrist/ribs. Very, very lucky.

 

[TheBigMan045]

I work with the owner of the car that was next to them in the pits, and after the scrutineer and crew looked at it, it looked like the front suspension broke going into turn one, reasons why you always do a bolt check/look over the car. His bruises came from the seat breaking due to only being pop riveted to the chassis not bolted (not drivers car btw only driving for that weekend) and nearly ending up in the passenger space

But before that happened that car was seriously quick (Honda S2000 motor with a BIG turbo strapped to the side) and will be rebuilt, but good to see the drivers ok though (now...)

 

[spyrrari]

Spy.