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

[Panoz]

A very ugly crash in the GT Tour race at Nogaro but fortunately the driver climbed out quickly.

 

[Holdenhsvgtsr]

A very ugly crash in the GT Tour race at Nogaro but fortunately the driver climbed out quickly.

Why on earth did he turn right into him when the track was going left?! What a 🤬

 

[GTPorsche]

It's possible the air coming off the other car disrupted the Ferrari's stability. Looks like he started to wobble before he spun.

 

[twitcher]

Damn that was a big hit!! Hardest impact I've seen in a while for sure.

 

[twitcher]

Corey Fergus with a mighty shunt at St Pete. There's also an onboard view, but I can't find it on YouTube.

 

[Samus]

A very ugly crash in the GT Tour race at Nogaro but fortunately the driver climbed out quickly.

Always good to see modern cars doing their job in impacts like this, the front end completely absorbing the energy and the cockpit area remaining perfectly in shape. Always got to tip your hat to the engineers and designers today.

 

[G_Parrilla]

 

[doblocruiser]

A very ugly crash in the GT Tour race at Nogaro but fortunately the driver climbed out quickly.

It was a massive crash. He can be lucky he still has both of his legs! Makes me wonder though, only a field of 6 cars and then crashing like that Series is doomed and if entries don't pick up it probably even does it make it until the end of the year.

 

[Lewis_Hamilton_]

Always good to see modern cars doing their job in impacts like this, the front end completely absorbing the energy and the cockpit area remaining perfectly in shape. Always got to tip your hat to the engineers and designers today.

For sure. Your comment reminds me of my hardest car crash.

In my younger years, while all the lads were racing around in their Citroen Saxo VTS' and Peugeot 106 GTI's which used to fold like paper, I opted for (as my friends used to call it) my "Old man Grandpa's car" which at the time had one of the highest NCAP ratings.

I was very thankful of my choice a few years later after having a high speed head on collision with a fully loaded lorry. I walked out of the accident, with a small cut on my lip from the impact with the air bag being my biggest injury and my biggest concern being how it would affect my insurance. Had I been driving a typical car for someone my age at the time, I can't say whether I would have been able to walk again.

Sorry for going off on a tangent everyone.

 

[TRGTspecialist]

Last weekend a marshal got struck down by a car, then hit by a further three cars...........

........thankfully they were just RC cars. (at 8:50:30 if it hasn't auto-skipped, alternatively here's an article)

 

[GTPorsche]

I'm insulted that the article calls them toy cars.

 

[Obelisk]

I'm insulted that the article calls them toy cars.

And I'm insulted that you're insulted.



In all seriousness, RC cars are usually considered a child's toy. So it's not hard to see why they'd call them toys.

 

[GTPorsche]

And I'm insulted that you're insulted.



In all seriousness, RC cars are usually considered a child's toy. So it's not hard to see why they'd call them toys.

Toys come from a toy store, and don't cost thousands.

 

[daan]

People will actually watch that for 11 hours?

 

[RACECAR]

People will actually watch that for 11 hours?

Well, there are people who actually watch Snail racing (and I mean actual Snails) so..

 

[TRGTspecialist]

Snail racing

Another addition to the "things I'd never thought I'd Google" list.............blimey!

 

[TenEightyOne]

Well, there are people who actually watch Snail racing (and I mean actual Snails) so..

Sheep racing. Maybe it's a northern thing, but it's great. Always starts from somewhere near the beer tent... I guess that helps

 

[Panoz]

So I heard you like our series? Well tough, we aren't letting you come and watch it!

A follow up story here, Trans-Am really screwed themselves over.

 

[Bo]

People will actually watch that for 11 hours?

When it's more exciting that 90% of all the other motorsport you can find going on currently, yes, people do sit through it. I was there with Serpent Europe, and it ranked above a lot of the full size motorsport I've watched in my entire life in terms of atmosphere.

I'm insulted that the article calls them toy cars.

It's the Daily Mail, come on. The idea of millionaire RC car drivers will make their brains go fuzzy.

 

[twitcher]

And I'm insulted that you're insulted.



In all seriousness, RC cars are usually considered a child's toy. So it's not hard to see why they'd call them toys.

Almost anything can be considered a "child's toy", such as a toboggan, a ball and stick, a skateboard, a boogie board / skim board, or a video game. Taken to an extreme though, a bobsleigh/luge, baseball & bat, skateboard in a comp sized half pipe or a longboard capable of 60mph, a surf board at Peahi or Mavericks, or a racing/flight simulator, wouldn't really be considered as "toys".

 

[RACECAR]

A follow up story here, Trans-Am really screwed themselves over.

To be fair, NARRA needs some of the blame too for even having this odd mindset of operating that race only as a club type event along with the lack of communication.

 

[watertank]

ah i was looking for that first clip for ages!
ouch

 

[TenEightyOne]

Another Project Cars "landmine" on the grass

 

[Endless-Wilso]

Now that was some wreck! No footage unfortunately but wow.

 

[Furinkazen]

Never to early to use Team Orders, especially on the first corner of the season!

 

[GTPorsche]

 

[Northstar]

He must be spending time with DHH.

 

[twitcher]

Never to early to use Team Orders, especially on the first corner of the season!

sounds like Russel's trying to fuel his championship dreams with tears. Cry harder

 

[Spacegoat]

V8's this afternoon, one the craziest moments in quite a while.

 

[Stiggy]

V8's this afternoon, one the craziest moments in quite a while.

Proof that oil and Waters don't mix.