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

[Carbonox]

Brakes, what are they and why do you need them?



Disclaimer: This may have been posted soon after it happened live 2 years ago, but I only witnessed it recently.

 

[LancerEvo7]

To piggyback on Carb's post, here's what is probably the most notorious example of ARCA brakes:



The replay is shown at 5:30 for full ridiculousness.

 

[Dylan]

Good God they just ran into the smoke all Day's of Thunder style!

 

[Pete05]

Good God they just ran into the smoke all Day's of Thunder style!

Yeah hoping it would be like the end of the movie instead of when Cole ended up in hospital

 

[Vinylshark]

Don't really watch NASCAR, but aren't drivers told in those situations from their spotter to keep the pace and 'just' move up high?

 

[Dylan]

Don't really watch NASCAR, but aren't drivers told in those situations from their spotter to keep the pace and 'just' move up high?

No they're usually told to slow down or "check up", and then they try to guide them thru the wreckage safely.

 

[catamount39]

Don't really watch NASCAR, but aren't drivers told in those situations from their spotter to keep the pace and 'just' move up high?

As Dylan said, they told to slow down and are guided through the wreck.

However those two clips are from ARCA, and ARCA is like...Ferrari pro-am GT driver training school.

 

[Pete05]

Don't really watch NASCAR, but aren't drivers told in those situations from their spotter to keep the pace and 'just' move up high?

What the commentators call "The big one" is a by product of restrictor plate racing on the super speedways at Daytona & Talladega. It's inevitable.
Having said that, ANY driver who doesn't slow down when a wreck happens in front of them, needs to be parked by NASCAR on a permanent basis for being a serious danger to their fellow drivers.

 

[Jimlaad43]

What even is a Restrictor Plate and how does it make crashes like that happen?

 

[AnthonyD1993]

What even is a Restrictor Plate and how does it make crashes like that happen?

Restrictor plates are spacers that severely limit the horsepower of the cars and were added because the cars were once averaging well over 200 mph around Daytona and Talladega (and that was in the 1980s with the land yachts that most of the manufacturers were using). The pack racing happens because the plates keep everyone together since the cars don't have the power to run competitively when they are by themselves. Anyone who loses the draft is several seconds per lap slower than the pack.

The big one usually occurs because someone at the front of the pack gets out of shape and most of the 20 plus cars in the pack wreck because they have no time to react (20+ packs can have the last guy in the pack be only a second behind the leader with a 3 by 3 field of cars). Or if its ARCA when drivers use the ARCA brakes.

 

[Pete05]

Restrictor plates are spacers that severely limit the horsepower of the cars and were added because the cars were once averaging well over 200 mph around Daytona and Talladega (and that was in the 1980s with the land yachts that most of the manufacturers were using). The pack racing happens because the plates keep everyone together since the cars don't have the power to run competitively when they are by themselves. Anyone who loses the draft is several seconds per lap slower than the pack.

The big one usually occurs because someone at the front of the pack gets out of shape and most of the 20 plus cars in the pack wreck because they have no time to react (20+ packs can have the last guy in the pack be only a second behind the leader with a 3 by 3 field of cars). Or if its ARCA when drivers use the ARCA brakes.

This 👍

Bill Elliott qualified on the pole at Talladega in 1987 at an average speed of 212.809 mph / 342.482 kmh.

 

[Mike Rotch]

Someone give the guy in the red Astra a rally contract, stat.

 

[Niku Driver HC]

The guy in the red 127 wasn't half bad either, if I may say so myself. But yes, the Astra driver definitely has his gung-ho driving down to a tee, not bad when drivers with far more powerful cars (supposedly more experienced drivers given their cars) aren't doing as good.

Also, these LanEvo drivers don't really help the average crash rate in that video, do they? A lot of snap oversteer and bang clang on their part... And was that a 550 Maranello at 4:32 in the video? Sounded like something fierce...

 

[Samus]

At 2:08, amazing how stupid rally fans can be in where they stand.

 

[dingodile_r89]

At 2:08, amazing how stupid rally fans can be in where they stand.

Rally fans in a nutshell, especially during the Group B days

 

[Flex0r]

Someone give the guy in the red Astra a rally contract, stat.

I believe this was posted before, I did recognize quite a few shots, nevertheless still very entertaining.
The red Astra driver certainly nailed it.
And that Audi is a bloody monster.

 

[Panoz]

Laurens Vanthoor walked away from this crash and shortly later declared the winner of the race.

 

[Dylan]

Laurens Vanthoor walked away from this crash and shortly later declared the winner of the race.

How was he declared the winner if he was passed before he crashed, and the race still had 14 minutes left?

 

[catamount39]

How was he declared the winner if he was passed before he crashed, and the race still had 14 minutes left?

I'd like to know as well.

 

[Spirit]

How was he declared the winner if he was passed before he crashed, and the race still had 14 minutes left?

I'd like to know as well.

When the race is suspended results are usually reverted the last completed lap, where Laurens was in the lead. Thus when they decided to end the race, he was the scored leader and therefore the winner.

 

[catamount39]

When the race is suspended results are usually reverted the last completed lap, where Laurens was in the lead. Thus when they decided to end the race, he was the scored leader and therefore the winner.

Oh okay. But why did they suspend it? Surely it wouldn't take 15 minutes to clean up? I'm guessing the barrier was too badly damaged?

 

[cunny17]

I thought if you were the cause of a red flag you could not be declared the race winner. Maybe some other race series.

 

[Jimlaad43]

I thought if you were the cause of a red flag you could not be declared the race winner. Maybe some other race series.

Alonso got to keep his third place after causing the Red Flag at the 2003 Brazilian GP

 

[Carbonox]

At least in MotoGP you won't be classified if you crash and a red flag comes out.

 

[psychoazubi]

Oh okay. But why did they suspend it? Surely it wouldn't take 15 minutes to clean up? I'm guessing the barrier was too badly damaged?

That accident was just after another red flag which caused 1 hour delay and they couldn't delay it further because there were other races after that. There was only 1 lap under green in the whole race.

 

[Jimlaad43]

That accident was just after another red flag which caused 1 hour delay and they couldn't delay it further because there were other races after that. There was only 1 lap under green in the whole race.

Is there video of that incident?

 

[psychoazubi]

Is there video of that incident?

I'd guess it's the BMW at 9:24 in the video. I only read that it was a BMW in the article but there was no video of it there.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Alonso got to keep his third place after causing the Red Flag at the 2003 Brazilian GP

That was a weird podium, no driver was on the correct step and the wrong winner was initially declared.

 

[Chris123]

 

[Dylan]