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

[squirlybmx]

I met a guy that raced it on my plane fight home from the Indy 500 last year

My friend's father runs in the series. The man's garage is an amusement park for car guys.

 

[nitrorocks]

My friend's father runs in the series. The man's garage is an amusement park for car guys.

Really? Like what kinds

 

[Ardius]

Forgotten about the Ferrari Challenge series? They don't use FXX's, but the point still stands. I actually saw the North American version supporting the Indycar race at Toronto last year.

The Ferrari Challenge uses significantly cheaper model cars than the XJR-15 (in relative terms at the time, obviously the value of the XJR-15 has reduced with time but back then it was a brand new £500,000 supercar). Hence why I cited the FXX instead as it repesents an exclusive car that is extremely expensive - that it would be crazy to then hold a race series for the owners to then potentially smash them up with.
And the Ferrari Challenge is a bit more than just a marketing ploy like the Jaguar thing was.

 

[Tommi]

 

[Sier_Pinski]

^HOLY 🤬!

And it's no wonder why everyone at Le Mans is urging all LMP's to go closed-cockpit. That driver could have had his head or hands crushed or sawed off by those fast-spinning tires.

 

[mattythedog]

^bit of a close shave! And the driver of the green car almost fell out when the car rolled.

 

[nitrorocks]

What an idiot! You shouldn't drive that way at all especially in a vintage race.

 

[Liquid]

Finish to the 1992 Bathurst 1000

 

[daan]

What an idiot! You shouldn't drive that way at all especially in a vintage race.

Drive what way?

 

[nitrorocks]

It looks like the green car was going too
Fast on the warmup lap

 

[Furinkazen]

Supreme control by Sean Edwards.

 

[McLaren]

When TWR - Jaguar staged the most ridiculous race series ever:

Kind of like Ferrari staging a race series with FXX cars or something, just for marketing purposes. Shame there is barely any footage of it.

The FXX is much more than a marketing ploy. There is plenty of experimental equipment & development that has stemmed from it & the 599XX Programme. It's also not a racing series like the Ferrari Challenge or Super Trofeo. There are no points, no trophies, etc.

It's just a bunch of millionaires getting to do testing for Ferrari.

 

[Peter.]

The FXX is much more than a marketing ploy. There is plenty of experimental equipment & development that has stemmed from it & the 599XX Programme. It's also not a racing series like the Ferrari Challenge or Super Trofeo. There are no points, no trophies, etc.

It's just a bunch of millionaires getting to do testing for Ferrari.

He meant that the Jaguar Programme was similar to if Ferrari set up a FXX Race Series, in that they are very exclusive, and very expensive cars.

 

[SuperShouden]

^HOLY 🤬!

And it's no wonder why everyone at Le Mans is urging all LMP's to go closed-cockpit. That driver could have had his head or hands crushed or sawed off by those fast-spinning tires.

Well, I know Indy Cars and Formula cars should all be closed cockpit. If they were, Henry Surtees would probably still be alive and Filipe Masse might not have spent a couple months in the hospital when spring slammed into his helmet. Sure, Helmets and Hans-devices are great, but it's been shown in recent history that they're don't completely prevent deaths. And closed cockpits don't either. But...having that extra barrier might reduce the deaths. Heck, maybe the death at Vegas wouldn't have happened if they were closed cockpits...who knows how many lives they could've saved with closed cockpit cars.

 

[Ardius]

The FXX is much more than a marketing ploy. There is plenty of experimental equipment & development that has stemmed from it & the 599XX Programme. It's also not a racing series like the Ferrari Challenge or Super Trofeo. There are no points, no trophies, etc.

It's just a bunch of millionaires getting to do testing for Ferrari.

This:

He meant that the Jaguar Programme was similar to if Ferrari set up a FXX Race Series, in that they are very exclusive, and very expensive cars.

I didn't say the FXX is a marketing ploy. The XJR-15 race series was never a serious race series because the whole idea was completely ridiculous! Owners either drove their own cars or allowed race drivers to drive them (as can be seen in that video with Warwick, Brabham, Needell, etc). Naturally it didn't last past the initial 3 races (and I seem to remember seeing some footage of an American version too on Youtube but I can't find it).

I said that the only way to really emulate this would be if Ferrari (I only use Ferrari as a random supercar example) made an FXX series where owners raced their own cars....FXX being an example of a very rare and exclusive car much like the XJR-15 - wouldn't it be ridiculous for Ferrari to encourage owners to race and potentially damage or write-off the cars just for a marketing exercise? But like the XJR-15 series, it would be a fantastic spectacle to watch for any car fan....

To put it very basically for you - the point is no one races the FXX. No one races any ultra-supercars. So to have a race with 20 or so of them around tracks like Monaco with professional race drivers pushing them is both crazy but fantastic.

Replace "Ferrari" and "FXX" with whatever rare and exclusive supercar you like..

 

[GTPorsche]

This:



I didn't say the FXX is a marketing ploy. The XJR-15 race series was never a serious race series because the whole idea was completely ridiculous! Owners either drove their own cars or allowed race drivers to drive them (as can be seen in that video with Warwick, Brabham, Needell, etc). Naturally it didn't last past the initial 3 races (and I seem to remember seeing some footage of an American version too on Youtube but I can't find it).

The American version was the Fastmasters series and they used the XJ-220.

 

[Ardius]

^Ah yes thats it thanks. Man I miss TWR.

 

[nitrorocks]

Well, I know Indy Cars and Formula cars should all be closed cockpit. If they were, Henry Surtees would probably still be alive and Filipe Masse might not have spent a couple months in the hospital when spring slammed into his helmet. Sure, Helmets and Hans-devices are great, but it's been shown in recent history that they're don't completely prevent deaths. And closed cockpits don't either. But...having that extra barrier might reduce the deaths. Heck, maybe the death at Vegas wouldn't have happened if they were closed cockpits...who knows how many lives they could've saved with closed cockpit cars.

Yeah but it's open wheel racing the drivers know what their getting into.

 

[SuperShouden]

Yeah but it's open wheel racing the drivers know what their getting into.

True.

 

[Jdm-Integra-R]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRuj-Ztm2FQ&feature=related

awesome rally navigator/driver

 

[otakukid96]

Not your typical motorsport but crazy nonetheless.

 

[Spacegoat]

Anyone catch this yesterday?. V8 Supercars at Albert Park.

Skip to 0.35.

 

[Sach]

OMG moment...


MPH... 'explained'



*sorry, don't know how to imbed this one

 

[Lizard]

^ That should go in the funny vid thread.

 

[sumbrownkid]

If I were that guy I would've just bailed out of the car.

 

[Marbles]

"... and Kurt's gettin' the worst of it!"

I think 1:41 can say otherwise

 

[Furinkazen]

"... and Kurt's gettin' the worst of it!"

I think 1:41 can say otherwise

ESPN camera's always fail.

 

[Earth]

Jimmie Johnson loses his brakes, like Schumacher at Silverstone in 1999. Schumacher breaks his legs, Johnson walks away. The styrofoam really helped absorb the impact here.

 

[nitrorocks]

I remember that. He was just starting out. Such a hard hit.

 

[Marbles]

ESPN camera's always fail.

true, true.