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

[GTRacer22]

Austin Dillon takes a wild ride coming to the checkers at the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona. Dillon walked away, and fans are being treated for minor injuries.

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[Barra333]

More from the Ferrari crash at Road America.

I can't decide who to put the blame on. The black one, the red one or both?

I would call it unintentional, but the black car's fault. He moved over into the red guy. Even if it was the racing line, he should have been aware that the other guy was somewhere there or thereabouts.

 

[Pezzarinho17]

Dillon very lucky that he crashed into the fencing with underside of his car...

 

[Barra333]

Same with the guy in the Ferrari going backwards into the fence.

 

[jontikis]

Amazing finish from the young Finnish rider

 

[TenEightyOne]

Austin Dillon takes a wild ride coming to the checkers at the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona. Dillon walked away, and fans are being treated for minor injuries.

I'm very pleased to read that all the injuries are minor... nasty crash.

 

[TenEightyOne]

I couldn't think where else to put this... I guess it's Randomness and possibly OMG.

Anyway, here it is. Some Spanish fella on his games system.

 

[twitcher]

I couldn't think where else to put this... I guess it's Randomness and possibly OMG.

Anyway, here it is. Some Spanish fella on his games system.

I don't get it? Is it the helmet, or the missing front right wheel?

If it's the helmet, I know a few people on GTP who rock full on crash helmet while playing GT6. It's 100% a joke for laughs, but it's not unheard of.

 

[TenEightyOne]

I don't get it? Is it the helmet, or the missing front right wheel?

Fernando something-or-other... and I'm guessing the rig's in Brackley...

EDIT: Woking, good thinking @Jimlaad43

 

[Jimlaad43]

Fernando something-or-other... and I'm guessing the rig's in Brackley...

I dunno, looking at it, it might be in Woking

 

[Barra333]

He missed the apex badly at 0:53. Noob.

 

[twitcher]

my bad didn't realise who it was

 

[Furinkazen]

At 3:00 at the wall, wow.

 

[TDZdave]

I love the deafening silence when he jumps on the brakes for the tunnel, you can almost hear him scream STOOOOOOOOP!

 

[Barra333]

"The brakes are great" Wha? That goes against everything I have ever heard about NASCARs. I was under the impression that the street version Camry would have better brakes.

 

[TenEightyOne]

In this clip I'd say that the tractor wasn't the only thing that nearly dropped a few grapes on the road...

 

[Niku Driver HC]

In this clip I'd say that the tractor wasn't the only thing that nearly dropped a few grapes on the road...

And I bet that the car was not the only thing in need of assistance after that ordeal... Neuville's underpants might have also required some "repairs". The good thing was that the camera guys were there, otherwise that i30 would've gotten more intimate with the tractor.

 

[Lizard]

I thought the roads were closed during a rally.

 

[Barra333]

I'm going to guess that the guy driving the tractor didn't need to use a public road to get where he was.
Although he probably should have been aware that a rally was taking place on/at the edge of his property.

 

[twitcher]

"The brakes are great" Wha? That goes against everything I have ever heard about NASCARs. I was under the impression that the street version Camry would have better brakes.

Just curious, but why would you think that? Those cars have 10s of millions of dollars of development in them (I'd bet they're just below F1 and LMP1 in terms of the overall budget), and you think they'd ignore the brakes?

The race NASCAR on short tracks, where you need brakes every lap, for a ridiculous number of laps.

They also race on road courses like Watkens Glen and Infinion...brakes are a necessity.

Even on a super speedway, you need good brakes to slow the car down from those speeds to enter the pits, or to potentially avoid a wreck.

I'm not really a NASCAR guy, but you have to give credit where it's due. A modern Cup car is a serious piece of engineering, down to the last nut and bolt.

 

[TDZdave]

Just curious, but why would you think that? Those cars have 10s of millions of dollars of development in them (I'd bet they're just below F1 and LMP1 in terms of the overall budget), and you think they'd ignore the brakes?

The race NASCAR on short tracks, where you need brakes every lap, for a ridiculous number of laps.

They also race on road courses like Watkens Glen and Infinion...brakes are a necessity.

Even on a super speedway, you need good brakes to slow the car down from those speeds to enter the pits, or to potentially avoid a wreck.

I'm not really a NASCAR guy, but you have to give credit where it's due. A modern Cup car is a serious piece of engineering, down to the last nut and bolt.

Possibly referred to how much of a heavy lump a cup car is...

 

[Barra333]

Just curious, but why would you think that? Those cars have 10s of millions of dollars of development in them (I'd bet they're just below F1 and LMP1 in terms of the overall budget), and you think they'd ignore the brakes?

The race NASCAR on short tracks, where you need brakes every lap, for a ridiculous number of laps.

They also race on road courses like Watkens Glen and Infinion...brakes are a necessity.

Even on a super speedway, you need good brakes to slow the car down from those speeds to enter the pits, or to potentially avoid a wreck.

I'm not really a NASCAR guy, but you have to give credit where it's due. A modern Cup car is a serious piece of engineering, down to the last nut and bolt.

Possibly referred to how much of a heavy lump a cup car is...

This ^

You always hear about the raw power and the directness of the steering, but I always thought the brakes were a relative afterthought compared to the other stuff. The modern cars have obviously improved this (I don't follow NASCAR at all).

 

[TenEightyOne]

Possibly referred to how much of a heavy lump a cup car is...

Except it isn't, it weighs around 1550, the same as the gross weight of a Ford Fiesta. They just look big, not the same as being heavy

 

[TDZdave]

Erm, 1550kg? Your hardly going to do ballet in it are you?

 

[daan]

Except it isn't, it weighs around 1550, the same as the gross weight of a Ford Fiesta. They just look big, not the same as being heavy

As racing cars go, that's heavy. Did you not pay any attention to Jeff Gordon?

 

[Furinkazen]

For comparison, a BTCC NGTC is around 1350kg (?) , Super GT 1100kg, and LM GTE about 1300kg.

 

[TDZdave]

V8SC 1430KG, V8DVS 1400KG,

 

[twitcher]

This ^

You always hear about the raw power and the directness of the steering, but I always thought the brakes were a relative afterthought compared to the other stuff. The modern cars have obviously improved this (I don't follow NASCAR at all).

That's the thing I don't get. Any piece of engineered kit that has that much R&D into it, no aspect of it is an afterthought. Everything is measured and calculated.

That'd be like thinking brakes on an airplane are an afterthought, because well, airplanes barely use brakes...

 

[GOTMAXPOWER]

Roberto Merhi slowed down a little too much after the line at the Red Bull Ring:
http://imgur.com/MHjYU8o

 

[Vinylshark]

It still always amazes me slightly how fast those saftey crews arrive at crash sites in the 'States.