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

[nitrorocks]

Holy crap!!! Who is that?

 

[Liquid]

None other than the Brundlefly himself; 1988 World Sportscar Champion Martin Brundle.

 

[Earth]

Schumacher's World Championship car split in two by its new owner.

http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforums/1498187-post3.html

Makes you wonder how the car ever passed safety tests

 

[GOTMAXPOWER]

Schumacher's World Championship car split in two by its new owner.

http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforums/1498187-post3.html

Makes you wonder how the car ever passed safety tests

I heard it might've been the car Schumacher crashed at the British GP in 1999 which hadn't been repaired properly. The driver was lucky it was only a slow crash though.

 

[Roo]

None other than the Brundlefly himself; 1988 World Sportscar Champion Martin Brundle.

Fun Martin Brundle fact: he finished first and second in the Italian round of the 1991 World Sportscar Championship at Monza.

 

[Liquid]

Another addition to the Brundle crash;

 

[nitrorocks]

He split in half at Monza???

 

[Liquid]

He split in half at Monza???

No, the crash I described was the infamous incident at the 1996 Australian GP. First race at Albert Park, Melbourne.

The car did split in half, which was quite an alarming thing to happen and the fuel cell leaked and petrol spilled, which could have been horrific if it caught fire.

Roo just stuck in a fun fact that at the 1991 1000km Monza, Brundle did two drives; drove one half in one car and then instead of resting drove the other half in a sister car of the same team.

 

[Sam48]

Skip the first 30 seconds. Also, keep watching past 2:30.

 

[Liquid]

Man, I remember that. Such a long wait. Itchy clutch releases.

And the rollhoop collapsing was unbelievable. Is it true that HANS would have been detrimental to Diniz in this crash?

 

[Spacegoat]

Couple more classic Bathurst OMG/WTF Moments.

The scary Tomas Mezera roll over from 1997



And Marcos Ambrose and Greg Murphy crash in 2005
Replay at 3.25.

 

[Roo]

And the rollhoop collapsing was unbelievable.

If I remember rightly, the Sauber was the only car on the grid in 1999 to have a secondary rollhoop crash structure built in below the primary one. It wasn't mandatory - nothing in the rules said they had to have it, and no other team did - but it probably helped a lot in Diniz being mostly unscathed.

 

[ZeGermanBastorD]

Schumacher's World Championship car split in two by its new owner.

http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforums/1498187-post3.html

Makes you wonder how the car ever passed safety tests

Well, the car was from 1999, so I guess the safety (monocoque) wasn't as good as todays.

Another thing, it was a used car. Purchased & driven by a private person/team. And they crashed the car. No info how fast he was at that time or into what he crashed. Mabe a bollard or something?

Under the pics the most alarming thing:

I wouldn't wonder if after they "modded" the car one of the genious "tuners" forgot some screws. Not to mention that these modifications probably affected the cars frame strengh under some conditions.

Anyways, never heared about it. So, thanks for the laugh. 👍

 

[Bopop4]

^lol, I think that those are the mods that the poster had done to his car, unless a Ferrari F1 was ever equipped with a radio.

 

[AlexGTV]

Senna's death no doubt. So unexpected.

 

[vfrmaverick]

^lol, I think that those are the mods that the poster had done to his car, unless a Ferrari F1 was ever equipped with a radio.

Yea i think its his sig for that forum

 

[scarslasher]

Not sure if already mentioned, but...


For WTF, I choose:



For OMG, I choose Jeff Gordon's latest wreck:

 

[Liquid]

^Fixed.





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But without the spaces, of course.

 

[scarslasher]

There. Fixed it so it doesn't look as spammy. Thanks for that.


I like how he keeps trying to steer after the wheels break off.

 

[nitrorocks]

I never understood why the tires just came off like that. And I watched Gordon's crash last night. Scary stuff.

 

[scarslasher]

I see your Fuji and I raise you an Oulton Park.

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I've seen that Oultan Park wreck on TV, but never seen ALL of the chaos that was happening at the time. Crazy.

 

[Lizard]

I never understood why the tires just came off like that. And I watched Gordon's crash last night. Scary stuff.

The tires came off because of a brake failiure that caused them to expload.

 

[SuperShouden]

For OMG, I choose Jeff Gordon's latest wreck:

Talk about your instant Karma. If Jeff hadn't been riding Kyle like that, then he wouldn't have flipped.

As for the tires coming off...really a break failure? It looks to me like the breaks worked a little too well; like the tires stopped too fast and the momentum of the car just pushed the car through the stopped tires.

I've seen brakes explode:



But I've not seen them explode with enough force to take out the suspension and and bolts from the car.

 

[Ardius]

I never understood why the tires just came off like that. And I watched Gordon's crash last night. Scary stuff.

The tires came off because of a brake failiure that caused them to expload.

Suspension failure, neither the tyres or the brakes exploded. It was a flaw in the construction of the right-upright of the suspension. The wheel tethers are attached to the upright, so as soon as it fails, so do the wheel tethers.

 

[Lizard]

Suspension failure, neither the tyres or the brakes exploded. It was a flaw in the construction of the upright of the suspension.

Come to think of it you are correct.

 

[Roo]

I never understood why the tires just came off like that.

Upright failure caused Buemi's crash

Sebastien Buemi's spectacular accident in practice for the Chinese Grand Prix was caused by the failure of the front right upright.

Both wheels flew off Buemi's car under braking for Turn 14 near the end of first practice in Shanghai - pitching him into the barriers.

An investigation by the team has concluded that the incident was caused by a front right upright failure - which was a new design introduced for this weekend's race. Exactly what went wrong to cause the malfunction has not yet been established, however.

Once the right upright failed, the load on the left side component was too great for it to handle which is why that failed simultaneously.

The team also concluded that the wheel tethers did not work, with the tyres being pitched over the spectactor fences. The tethers were attached to the part of the uprights that broke off.

Toro Rosso will fit uprights from a previously used proven design to both its car from second practice in Shanghai.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/82899

Edit: turns out when I posted that last night there was another page I hadn't noticed

 

[Furinkazen]

Wet Track, one of the greatest drivers of all time, pure magic. Truly jaw dropping.

 

[LancerEvo7]

Definitely an OMG moment.

 

[Schwartz]

Never seen anything like it.

 

[Liquid]

Bit dangerous that a dropkick penetrated the windscreen! Imagine how dangerous it could have been if it had been something like a flailing tyre...

Not that the dropkick was particularily smart, of course.