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

[Sier_Pinski]

Chaotic start at the FIA WEC Sao Paulo race. Guess which GT car is involved again?

 

[Jimlaad43]

This happened today.

 

[Clark]

I was right next to that when it happened, and my friend said it wasn't that bad of a crash. Looks like he downchanged to early or something the way the back end just went.

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[Ardius]

^Hmm, not sure thats a "OMG/WTF moment" - their main beef was the fact a LMP1 car was refusing to just let them past...but there isn't really a rule in endurance racing for that. Frustrating yes, but there isn't anything really wrong with it - even 5 laps down they are still in a race.

The first contact was stupid but minor and the second one is more of a racing incident - the Dyson was obviously held up and wanted to overtake the Porsche. He didn't swerve to hit the onboard car on purpose - personally I feel thats a little lack of foresight from that onboard driver for not seeing it coming.

Thats how I read that anyway.

 

[Clark]

I didn't just mean the last contact, but more the while thing is a 'WTF?' for the LMP2 driver, to be held up for that long and in that manner.

 

[Wilbur]

I didn't just mean the last contact, but more the while thing is a 'WTF?' for the LMP2 driver, to be held up for that long and in that manner.

It was for position overall correct? If so It was racing hard but he did crowd the LMP2 car more than needed considering LMP2 wasn't being overally aggressive either.

 

[hornet_burnout]

Like a boss!

Hehe, that's our boy Felix da Costa! Nice.

 

[Clark]

It was for position overall correct? If so It was racing hard but he did crowd the LMP2 car more than needed considering LMP2 wasn't being overally aggressive either.

The LMP1 Dyson was 5 laps down.

 

[Wilbur]

The LMP1 Dyson was 5 laps down.

Well then yes that was a WTF moment!

 

[nissman]

OMG and WTF!

 

[karl53]

BriSCA F1 Stock Cars World Final at Skegness


Basically, the guy that won (217 Lee Fairhurst) started in last place, after being brought in as a reserve driver for his Dad, who had pulled out of the race.
A complete restart was called on lap 2 due to a track blockage, and then a few yellow flag restarts were needed for various reasons (i.e 318 rollover).

I was stood somewhere between the starting gantry and turn 1, and since most of the action happened there, it looked a lot better for me

 

[Bopop4]

One look at those bumpers and I knew that it wouldn't end well.

 

[zippy_the_cat]

I was right next to that when it happened, and my friend said it wasn't that bad of a crash. Looks like he downchanged to early or something the way the back end just went.

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I see nothing to suggest the orange car was faster except its driver's obvious sense of impatience and entitlement.

That said I was considering going to this race (VIR is nearby) but the $80 ticket price put me off. Friend suggested instead a $10 jazzfest in another town that turned out to be worthwhile despite featuring little in the way of true jazz.

 

[Austin343]

BriSCA F1 Stock Cars World Final at Skegness
*video*

Wow... that somehow manages to be even wilder than the American equivalent.

 

[karl53]

Wow... that somehow manages to be even wilder than the American equivalent.

Sprintcars?

 

[Austin343]

Yeah, sprint cars. Over here, the bumpers are smaller, and their use isn't encouraged to quite the same extent as the video seems to indicate.

 

[TheBigMan045]

See my previous video for what we call stockcars....like the English but on 1/4 mile clay tracks with contact not only allowed but encouraged....when they hit the wall and you feel the ground shake its pretty special

 

[hawkeye122]

I see nothing to suggest the orange car was faster except its driver's obvious sense of impatience and entitlement.

You should have gone to the race. When David Henimeier Hanson(A ROOKIE Amateur driver) got around the Dyson later, he was routinely 2-5 seconds a lap quicker. With 100 fewer horsepower. He is being held up in the corners the whole time. See how much ground he makes up just under breaking from the straight?

The WTF for me comes in the way of "He's in the LMP1 class, which is supposed to be for 'Professionals', and a rookie in the class below is trying to lap him?"

And it's one thing if the #20 didnt want to have him in the way on the straights but...

Come on. You're 5 laps down.

Granted, he lost by 28 seconds, but spent about a minute flailing around in the grass at one point...

 

[karl53]

Yeah, sprint cars. Over here, the bumpers are smaller, and their use isn't encouraged to quite the same extent as the video seems to indicate.

Yeah full contact rules over here, not quite as encouraged as the NZ stockcars though, sort of in the middle.

See my previous video for what we call stockcars....like the English but on 1/4 mile clay tracks with contact not only allowed but encouraged....when they hit the wall and you feel the ground shake its pretty special

lol your stockcars are just mental:tup:

 

[Shinshiki]

I hope this isn't a retoast. Main WTF moment is the 2nd clip.

 

[Carlos]

You would think those drivers know how to tackle such a corner

 

[Wardez]

Quite possibly the ****tiest move in all of motorsport:

http://blog.axisofoversteer.com/2012/09/the-lamest-move-ever-in-motor-sport.html

Brazil, it's raining buckets at the Autodromo Santa Cruz do Sol during a local 250cc bike race when rider Marlington Teixeira takes a spill. Nothing serious or unusual there, everyone's crawling and there's a ton of water, the rider is not hurt. But when Teixeira, nicknamed Kalunga, realizes there's bent bit on the bike and he would not be able to just hop back on and continue, well... he turns to that time tested football trick, the dive!


Helloo, Mr Kalunga, you DO realize there is a new invention called "video" yes?

Apparently, not. Teixeira decides the best thing to do is to run across the track and lay there, pretending to be injured, until the race is black flagged. Competitors stop and throw down their bikes in the mud to help this asshole who later claimed to have fainted. Teixeira was banned from the championship but amazingly not for life.

 

[Shinshiki]

It's sad that someone would actually do this.

 

[nissman]

OMG! Thats the sickest thing I ever saw in motorsports!

 

[Bopop4]

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A motorcycle racer is a noble breed, I am disgusted by this pile of filth.

 

[GTMail]

So when did Motorcycle racing become soccer? That's ridiculous.

 

[tomhart9]

That's really bad...
I don't know if the officials saw what happened and were doubting it but it's quite worrying how long it took for anyone to stop or try and help him, even if he was faking it.

 

[Pupik]

I think the visibility around the corner in the rain makes it difficult to see up ahead. This wasn't an FIA-grade race, something a little less professional (for example, that was likely amateur video, not a TV feed)...but I don't know the circuit enough to know how long an ambulance would take to be dispatched to the site of the "accident". And how aware is race control, and communication with the riders and pits? I think we're trying to make comparisons between a professionally-organized motor race and something held on a club level.

Either way, that fellow made a doofus of himself and/or requires serious psychiatric help.

 

[Carlos]

So when did Motorcycle racing become soccer? That's ridiculous.

 

[Mike Rotch]

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A motorcycle racer is a noble breed, I am disgusted by this pile of filth.

My thoughts exactly. For those of us who watch motorcycle racing regularly, seeing a prone rider lying on a track illicits 'that sinking feeling' from the past.

What those riders tip-toeing by must have thought.....man, that's a doggish think to do.