This is one reason why insurance is soo high in england.

[SniperRed3]

Yup this is why the insurance for my 400 quid morris minor will cost 800 pounds

 

[Bopop4]

I don't think that my phone not having Flash increases your insurance.

 

[XS]

I don't get it. You're saying shenanigans is one of the reasons insurance is high? Or are you making a joke? just wondering. Because folks do things like that here too. Pretty funny video, regardless!

 

[The Stig Farmer]

 

[Kent]

I think he's saying Women over there can't keep their hands off the wheel even if they are in the passenger seat, either that or yelling constantly provides a distraction to the driver.

 

[Vic Reign93]

If this is the video I just saw on Jalopnik, then they are driving on to the brands hatch circuit WHILST there's a race going on in a road car.

Apparently the woman is the owner of the car from what I've seen.

 

[Katiegan]

I think what he's saying is that young drivers do stupid things over here and ruin it for the not-so-stupid young drivers.

Also, you should probably put a NSFW warning on it for bad language.

 

[Vic Reign93]

I think what he's saying is that young drivers do stupid things over here and ruin it for the not-so-stupid young drivers.

Also, you should probably put a NSFW warning on it for bad language.

I completely agree with you, It's how they got on to the track without getting stopped is what baffles me.

Where were the marshals?

 

[Wiegert]

So a case of 🤬 being 🤬, coupled with laxed security and the world's most incompetent back seat cameraman? Or an elaborate marketing stunt from VW?

I find it quite hard to believe that security would be so sloppy at any Brands Hatch race event. And if this wasn't part of a viral ad, I'll be astonished at how seemingly non-existent they were.

That said, we can all agree the driver tried and succeeded at coming across as a complete bowler hat in the process.

 

[SniperRed3]

It was at a fun cup endurance race, and the driver is a 🤬 off facebook it's no marketing stunt

Pretty funny video

it's funny until you realise this affects ordinary young drivers insurance

 

[Vic Reign93]

It was at a fun cup endurance race, and the driver is a 🤬 off facebook it's no marketing stunt

I can't imagine what the marketing line would be if it was though.

Only thing I can think of is, The Volkswagen Polo. Showcasing the latest in driver and passenger incompetence.

 

[Katiegan]

I highly doubt this was a marketing stunt. If it was, it certainly didn't encourage me to buy a Polo.

 

[The Stig Farmer]

I didn't even know they were driving a Polo... shows how much attention I have lol

 

[SniperRed3]

I think it was an up

 

[Katiegan]

Jalopnik said it was a Polo, but to be honest, I can't actually tell.

 

[Wiegert]

It was at a fun cup endurance race, and the driver is a 🤬 off facebook it's no marketing stunt

I was trying to keep an open mind about it in the hope that whatever Jalopnik said about it would turn out to be true. Though as many UK residents know by now, chavs are entirely capable of doing such things without prior thought or reason.

And I would have imagined they'd have certain precautions in line in case someone did try something stupid like join the track during a race. If they really are that relaxed at more minor events like The Fun Cup series (which I still find hard to accept), then the exceptional level of trust they put in the spectators would have been shattered because of that one tosspot.

I think it was an up

It was a Mk 5 Polo.

 

[TheCracker]

You generally have a marshal/track official stopping and checking cars heading under the tunnel to get to the pits. There's then marshals control who and what gets into the assembly area. There's then a gate with more marshals on stopping any vehicles getting into the pit lane during any race, qualifying or practice session and more marshals controlling cars getting onto the track from the pit lane. It's the same experienced marshals manning these posts whether it's VW Funcup, HSCC, BTCC, or a Grand Prix. The same rules apply and are enforced the same way no matter the level of race.

This has to be a marketing stunt.

 

[SniperRed3]

A badly flimed misadventure by nobbers in a vw onto brands hatch how is this marketing?

 

[The Stig Farmer]

@SniperRed3 a video on YouTube if you want to add it to the OP:

 

[SniperRed3]

If anyone has ever been the brands hatch on fun days it's very very relaxed the only thing preventing people going on track is common sense

 

[Dan]

I highly doubt this is for marketing. It would be bad PR for VW, and it doesn't make me want to buy a Polo. It makes me angry at the guy driving for terrifying his (ex)girlfriend and interrupting a race.

 

[XS]

it's funny until you realise this affects ordinary young drivers insurance

Really? How often does this happen over there? Are pranks like this really so wide spread that insurance companies have added a "shenanigans" variable to the insurance equation (an equation used to calculate rates)? If so, one, I apologize for laughing, and two, maybe something needs to change like raising the driving age or GPS tracking every car for drivers under a certain age. Because wow. Kids everywhere goof off behind the wheel, but the UK's insurance rates are legendary, and if this video is truly the reason why, then something obviously needs to be changed.

 

[SniperRed3]

The 4 lads in a corsa or saxo with a fart cannon crashing into things is common I'm currently 15 and I'm beginning to wonder about my own insurance this is my quotes with me aged 17

here is the insurance quotes for a £350 1.1l morris minor as seen below

 

[Katiegan]

Really? How often does this happen over there? Are pranks like this really so wide spread that insurance companies have added a "shenanigans" variable to the insurance equation (an equation used to calculate rates)? If so, one, I apologize for laughing, and two, maybe something needs to change like raising the driving age or GPS tracking every car for drivers under a certain age. Because wow. Kids everywhere goof off behind the wheel, but the UK's insurance rates are legendary, and if this video is truly the reason why, then something obviously needs to be changed.

Whether this video is a marketing stunt or not, it is the minority that ruin it for the majority. Kids ploughing their Corsas through a hedge backwards because they floored it going down a country road is why insurance is so sky high here. Insurance companies seem to believe all new drivers will want to go street racing and kill themselves, so they make it impossible for a young driver to own anything over 1.4L (1.6 if you're lucky) unless they're loaded and can afford £8k+ premiums. Some companies even refuse to quote young drivers for a car over 1.6L.

 

[Katiegan]

Excuse the double post, but footage of the Polo on track (yes, it really is a Polo, despite the commentator saying it's a Golf) has emerged. Make what you will of this, but I still don't buy the 'publicity stunt' idea.

EDIT: Turns out this story is in the Daily Mail. I really doubt this was VW's idea considering the driver has been arrested.

 

[Vic Reign93]

Want to know his reason for pulling this stunt?

"People are blowing it out of all proportion. It was something out of the ordinary."

"You only live once and I live every day like its my last. Now I'm getting slated for being different."

Those were his words when he spoke to the Daily Fail.

What an self absorbed moron.

 

[Wiegert]

'People are blowing it out of all proportion. It was something out of the ordinary.

'You only live once and I live every day like its my last. Now I'm getting slated for being different.'

Tosspot level: Through the roof.

 

[Katiegan]

There's a difference between 'being different' and being an absolute tit and endangering your girlfriend and giggling mate in the back seat. He was impressing nobody but himself and his chavy pals.

 

[MatskiMonk]

You generally have a marshal/track official stopping and checking cars heading under the tunnel to get to the pits. There's then marshals control who and what gets into the assembly area. There's then a gate with more marshals on stopping any vehicles getting into the pit lane during any race, qualifying or practice session and more marshals controlling cars getting onto the track from the pit lane. It's the same experienced marshals manning these posts whether it's VW Funcup, HSCC, BTCC, or a Grand Prix. The same rules apply and are enforced the same way no matter the level of race.

This has to be a marketing stunt.

There are marshals yes, but there's not necessarily gates stopping them. Unless a Marshal wants to throw himself in front of the car to stop it I think it would be fairly easy to do. I'm sure it doesn't happen more often simply because the majority of people aren't that stupid, and even those that are, aren't necessarily big enough tossers to ruin it for everyone. Takes a certain breed of twatard to have the motivation.

Also, the reaction by their mates on Facebook was pretty sickening.

Don't get me wrong, I've gotten myself into places at Circuits where I probably shouldn't have been, but perching somewhere out of the way with my camera isn't quite the same thing - and I've seen people who are allowed to be in certain places do stupid things too.

 

[Wiegert]

Surely there were a few other offences worthy of arrest other than "suspicion of false imprisonment"?

And again, I can see security getting bolstered during these events in future simply because one berk thought he could exploit the laid back nature of it up until now. It would come as either a blessing that something like it will be easier to prevent, or a shame that such events probably won't be as exceptionally open to race patrons as they have been.