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

[Wilbur]

Yes agreed, Seeing cars spin off and rejoin after making human error is getting rather boring, The upside to the new circuits is usually minimum safety car laps, but it almost means you can drive like an absolute prawn and still get away with it,

As far as VIR is concerned, It is in desperate need of a safety upgrade, when you see a margin of a few feet between a near miss and seriously injuring marshals at that speed something needs to be done, not suggesting a huge run off area, but a sand trap or some sort of "obstacle" or moving the marshal post point elsewhere,

Exactly on the first point which I get why they like run offs to slow the car down BUT it also allows bad driving.

The 2nd part I think moving that stand down the track some would made the most sense as it's not like you can't see cars off through that area being so open but cars are coming straight at you for most part so either way it's never going to be good.

 

[Panoz]

It's very lucky that nobody else got hurt when Viso hit the tire after he ran into the crash. The tire bounced off his car into the pedestrian bridge overhead, then flew over the fence outside the track.

 

[Kitten]

Lets recap?

 

[Crowood]

Watch from about 1:07 minute to 1:40

 

[TDZdave]

Exactly on the first point which I get why they like run offs to slow the car down BUT it also allows bad driving.

The 2nd part I think moving that stand down the track some would made the most sense as it's not like you can't see cars off through that area being so open but cars are coming straight at you for most part so either way it's never going to be good.

I hope that if they do alter things there they don't alter the nature of the circuit itself, which seems to be a growing trend,

In other news, Whilst at Mt Panorama I learned that the circuit is having some safety upgrades and being repaved, Hopefully they don't take gradient out of the circuit like the last few times they have repaved area's,

 

[Wardez]

*video*

Watch from about 1:07 minute to 1:40

That's too funny. This should be the final challenge unlocked in GT6 after you get 99% on the game for Platinum.

One lap, three wheels.

 

[Carbonox]

That's too funny. This should be the final challenge unlocked in GT6 after you get 99% on the game for Platinum.

One lap, three wheels.

I read that as "weeks".

Not saying that wouldn't have a grain of truth in it, though...

 

[Wardez]

LOL, definitely.

 

[Jimlaad43]

 

[Roo]

^ I laughed more at that than I really ought to have done.

So after Gordon Shedden saves a high speed slide in the dry at the beginning of this year's BTCC season...



...he does the same again at the end, only moreso. And in the wet.



Full credit to the rest of the field for missing him, too. Twice.

 

[Spacegoat]

Watch from about 1:07 minute to 1:40

Can honestly say I was not expecting that. Awesome.

 

[tomhart9]

I'm surprised nobody has picked up on this already but there was a pretty strange Moto GP race today!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/motogp/24600081

In a nutshell:

WARNING RACE SPOILER BELLOW

Spoiler

• Track resurfaced
• Loooaads more grippy than everyone thought it would be
• Bridgestone say the tyres aren't safe for more than 10 laps due to overheating.
• Race distance decreased to 19 laps
• Madatory pitstop on either lap 9 or 10
• Championship leader disqualified for going a lap too long

 

[GOTMAXPOWER]

NASCAR Trucks from last night



Somebody will post the huge wreck in the Sprint Cup race later when it actually happens.

 

[Barra333]

I'm surprised nobody has picked up on this already but there was a pretty strange Moto GP race today!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/motogp/24600081

In a nutshell:

(Possible Race Spoiler)

I would say that last point is a definite race spoiler. What else determines a spoiler if telling the fate of the championship leader doesn't?

 

[Bopop4]

I'm surprised nobody has picked up on this already but there was a pretty strange Moto GP race today!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/motogp/24600081

In a nutshell:

(Possible Race Spoiler)

Yeah, you should definitely spoiler that.

 

[Panoz]

I didn't know Vettel was this good!

 

[TDZdave]

 

[Wardez]

Tom Dillman's gets a little too close with a front wing in GP2:

 

[Jimlaad43]

Tom Dillman's gets a little too close with a front wing in GP2:

Holy 🤬!

 

[Wardez]

Guy's really got his head in the game.

I love how he hulked it off of himself xD

 

[DK]

GP2 makes me regret not having Sky Sports F1. There might be some sloppy driving, but at least that adds to the action.

 

[GOTMAXPOWER]

This pitstop for Mercedes at the Japanese GP is a nightmare, the front left gets stuck and they lose valuable seconds to the other Merc just behind!

 

[Bo]

Posted this in the Super GT thread, but it is just too good:

 

[Bopop4]

Posted this in the Super GT thread, but it is just too good:

I don't get it.

 

[Roo]

I guess it's the way one Lexus managed to take 3 cars out of the race in two incidents within 300 yards.

 

[Bo]

Yeah, three cars ahead all taken out in 8 seconds.

 

[ZEROX]

That's one small step slide for man, one giant leap shunt for the mankind car.

 

[Northstar]

Thankfully he missed the gap in the fence.

 

[Carlos]

GP2 makes me regret not having Sky Sports F1. There might be some sloppy driving, but at least that adds to the action.

I'm not so sure, most of the time I'm like this; 'omg?' 'what the?' 'why????' 'what is he doing?!'

 

[GTracer98]

A classic moment for those who haven't seen it: (1:38)



And crazy rallyraid: