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

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Tired Tyres
I hate seeing that. It was the end for that truly great circuit.
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Yeah, it was really the last of the balls-out tracks. One chicane and lots of sweepers with varying radii curves and lovely countryside. Probably would have been emasculated by 1990 or so, way before becoming the A1 Ring.
 
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nitrorocks
Why? That crash made them change the Osterriech Ring?
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Hard to say, sounds like more of an "excuse". The Austrian GP never had huge crowds, as it was typically held in mid-August when most of Europe's on holiday. Couple that with a location that makes Magny-Cours look like a metropolis, and it just wasn't going to survive in modern F1. It basically got a stay of execution when the '87 Canadian GP was cancelled due to a sponsorship wrangle.
 
^haven't they realised? Never start a fight with a guy wearing a helmet, you can't punch him.
 
Pupik
Hard to say, sounds like more of an "excuse". The Austrian GP never had huge crowds, as it was typically held in mid-August when most of Europe's on holiday. Couple that with a location that makes Magny-Cours look like a metropolis, and it just wasn't going to survive in modern F1. It basically got a stay of execution when the '87 Canadian GP was cancelled due to a sponsorship wrangle.
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Oh. I thought F1 was still going there a few years ago. I remember driving it on some of the games. It's a great track.
 
Pupik
Hard to say, sounds like more of an "excuse". The Austrian GP never had huge crowds, as it was typically held in mid-August when most of Europe's on holiday.
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I don't know where people have got the idea that half of Europe is on holiday. First Prisonermonkeys, now you. Having lived in Europe for 23 of my (nearly) 25 years, I haven't encountered this before.

nitrorocks
Oh. I thought F1 was still going there a few years ago. I remember driving it on some of the games. It's a great track.
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Yes, they went to the redesigned A1-Ring.
 
Skip to :40.

Look, no DRS!



Watching videos of Rubens' first win always gives me goosebumps. Hard to believe that that was 12 years ago now. Still remember it like it was yesterday. How time flies.
 


Apologies if this is a repost.

EDIT: Surprised no-one's posted this yet
 
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Some videos about John Watson led me to this crash of his at Monza in 1981. The benefits of carbon fibre really showing here. But the point of the video is how.. lacklustre the safety was for the marshalls on the track. Drivers simply storming past.

What yellow flags?
 
Pretty sure this has been posted in this thread, but its so awesome it wont matter :lol:

 
MazdaPrice
Some videos about John Watson led me to this crash of his at Monza in 1981. The benefits of carbon fibre really showing here. But the point of the video is how.. lacklustre the safety was for the marshalls on the track. Drivers simply storming past.

What yellow flags?
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPZ_eU8rHWU">YouTube Link</a>
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Even looking back 25 years ago, track marshal safety was no where near as professional as it is today. Elio de Angelis' fatal accident at Paul Ricard was the big wake-up call, and within the next five years, corner workers would really be trained to handle just about any situation.

Although Taki Inoue might disagree...
 

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