Bad Driving Pics and Videos Thread - Asshattery, Carnage, Stupidity
 

Post 'em up!

One of my favorites:

Porsche vs Mustang NEMESIS!!!!! - YouTube

Don't know how to embed....

Holy shit what was he thinking!!!

^ potato.. That about sums it up.

Moron taking the video needs to concentrate on keeping his speed up rather than clapping. Like a moron.

^ thank you

I can't be the only one here that's an avid F1 fan....

FYI he got a one race ban for this, which is the harshest penalty that race stewards can impose on a driver/team.

Probably the dumbest thing I've seen on track - and most unsafe... pitting in at BOTTOM of T12 of Road Atlanta

Skip to 4:10

WTF ? I hope they sat him out for the rest of the day to think about how dangerous that was for everybody else.

How did he not get hit?!

It was the guy's first time at RA - in DE4. He got a black flag and missed pit-in so instead of taking one more lap, he unwisely pitted at the bottom. He's very fortunate he didn't cause a wreck.

Yes - he got an ass chewing and was punted for the rest of the day I think - should have been the rest of the weekend.

Skip to 6:00 for the start, lap 1 turn 1 last year at Infineon. I started in back due to a motor change after qualifying. The car that gets dumped never even climbed on the brakes, he just lets the car roll back across the track. Its hard to tell, but it was a pretty good hit. Did a lot of damage to the car that got clipped.

Game over at 11:33 - lose the tie rod after hit? I lol'ed when he sneaked to shut you out and ya'll made contact... all in the sport - that was an awesome flyby before hand, picked up some dirt and pushed too deep - then got blocked by a miata of all things and they took you! Looks super fun - envy

Yeah, it bent the tie rod, but the major damage was the slash in the side wall of the tire. That's why I couldn't continue. Worst part of it is, the guy in the red car is my brother :facepalm:

He must have done it on purpose. lol

simply because of how slow the reaction time is in this video. Its almost as if he just wanted to roll.

Double post fail.

on the bright side a gtr was saved =/

Porsche drivers- It's their track and you are always in their way.

maybe Joker was in the porsche?

IK the old pavement sucked at lime rock but jeez. Most people crash at the crest of the hill, not before it.

So glad its nice and smooth now :party:

And just to back up Steve's statement... Porsche drivers are asshats - which is why you won't see me at any PCA event - ever.





https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1350947506

Ha, our PCA events are awesome. Fairly slack rules, and about 3 porsches that break down anyways.

Causes multimillion dollar "racecar" thing to flip over. Then flips him off. Seems legit.

When something the width of a motorcycle is at your fender, it's hard to remember that its 5' wider on each side at the rear...because you don't know what you don't see.

Whether it was a normal car, with a normal front track width he still would've drilled him in the side. He got sideways and couldn't gather it up in time. Maybe the delta wing should've given more space when passing him, but still, it's a little ridiculous to flip the guy off after crashing him.

Deltawing should have picked a safer place to pass. The fast class drivers sometimes seem to believe that slow cars should unload and leave the track when they come to pass. There is enough blame to spread around. The Deltawing never presented itself before making a pass during corner entry and got tangled up.

That's what I meant, it was a bad place to pass, plus he was crowding him when he did pass. So you are right, the blame can be spread. I was just commenting on giving the dude the bird. Is the delta wing still filling the prototype slot or whatever it is? Or is it actually racing other cars?

I don't know but it being so narrow up front and so wide in the back is a huge problem.

Bad place to pass - hell no. People pass on the top of 11 into 12 ALL the time - hell Batman was already side by side before the bridge when he got punted by Green Lantern. The Porsche guy should have been aware - if he honesty couldn't see the wing, then something needs to be done to the wing to make it much more obvious. The blaze orange mirrors and peaks of the cage aren't cutting it.

I think is that the Porsche driver had no idea batman was behind him as it's profile is so small - you got it right about being 'used' to normal car width...
Alos, his car might have also been upset b/c those 10b gators are rough and can be unforgiving - and he was all over them which might explain the 'sudden' jerk into the track. Watching the race, most stayed clear of them.

What's even more alarming is how easily that wing flipped... like my old Honda 3 wheeler.

I drive this track all the time on Forza, come at me.

I think that crash is just part of racing. I did not see anything that was blatantly wrong by either driver. The wing tried to make a tight pass and the other driver slightly lost control and they wrecked. It is just the nature of the sport.

On another note the wing finished 5th overall at Petit Le Mans which is rather impressive considering it started in the very back because it was a prototype. It passed 8 cars in the first lap.

I think the "finger" in that picture is Photoshopped in. I watched the aftermath in the YouTube video and see no sign of an extended hand when the Deltawing driver threw up his hands in frustration.

Deltawing finishing 5th would be more impressive if it was the same weight as the other cars in its class. Being significantly lighter because it was a not bound by the rules that the competing cars were held to gives quite a bit of false hope to the design.

I thought the whole idea was for it to fit into classing via power to weight ratio hence while it is like half the weight it has half the horsepower. I haven't really researched it, but from the handful of articles I have read about it, that was the point of it in the first place.

You know, I was kind of thinking the same thing. But wasnt sure.

:rofl:

2400lb 185whp turbo Miata vs. 4200lb 320whp SRT8 Dodge Challenger at the track - Same 13 lbs to 1 hp weight ratio but who laps faster?

I think this is the point of the Deltawing, exactly. It will also use less consumables while doing so. If the rules classify by power-to-weight ratio, then this is an ingenious way to go faster while still remaining "equal".

Oh I know what the advantage is but that was the whole point of the project. They are not gonna spend millions to develop a whole new platform just so it can be slightly faster. It was suppose to be a new design that used weight and enhanced aero as an advantage while sacrificing hp. Are you trying to make the argument that it is not impressive because they did not use the same design as everyone else?

I'm not sure to whom you're directing this. To be clear, I'm all for radical new designs and fresh (mechanical) blood in racing.

I'm just saying lighter car will be faster. Because lighter car is 5th and not fastest, I wonder if design shape is costing them instead of benefiting them. Or if there is some other shortcoming?

yeah, this -

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...L0SYP3HVoJx11g

Just because it finished in fifth does not mean it is not the fastest. I do not know what lap times it put down. Its position in fifth probably had more to do with starting in the very back of the field and having to work its way through traffic than its actually speed around the track.

I also wonder if the pilot of it has been able to fully adjust to its handling characteristics or if, as you say, it has any large drawbacks due to its design.

More vidz.

So this was a race in June, it was NASCAR weekend and we were invited to race on Saturday before the NASCAR K&N West series. I got wrecked in qualifying, spent all day repairing the car. Replaced the right front corner and had to change the oil pan. The car went air born off the track and when it landed I must have hit a rock or something rather large and knocked a hole in the pan.

Long story short, I started last. The video starts at a re start with 3 laps to go. I clearly hit him pretty hard at the drop of the green flag, there was no question there. But in tech, he came up to my car cussing me out, calling me a dirty driver because he said I spun him in turn 7. I told him I never touched him, he said, "I felt you smash in the back of me and spin me out." Unfortunately my fans kind of drown out the dialog.


I was called a fucking fa99ot, cheater, dirty driver etc etc. I have been racing since I was 11. I have never once intentionally spun someone or wrecked someone.


You can see my chubby self getting mad, thats my brother, the short dark hair guy that was standing next to me and drove my car away. I look at the front end of the car, because it was toed in a bunch, the impact from hoping the curb with the left front coming out of the NASCAR short chute sheered off on of the steering arm bolts on the spindle. Luckily it still had one, or turn 10 could have got exciting...

What are we looking at? Looks like you nudged him in the first shot, then he spun all on his own in the later shot, presumably later in the race?

That's exactly what you're looking at, where he lost it by himself is where he claimed I punted him. It's the edited version of the video I sent to him proving I never touched him when he spun.

The first video is of the race, the parts involving him. And the second video is what happened in tech after the race

One of my buddies in HPDE had a rear brake rotor failure in a braking zone before a tight turn at Sebring. He said he heard a bang and the car lurched forward and spun out ending up in the grass. He thought he had been rear ended. The car didn't actually lurch forward though, it just lost some of its braking and felt that way. Until he figured that out he was looking for the sonofabitch who hit him.

Here is another one from last November, it was our Nationals. This is the heat race. I almost ruined the entire weekend in turn 10 on lap 1. The first 3 or 4 laps I was driving out of the mirrors so bad, missing all my marks. Just driving like an ass in general. I Q'd on pole, started P1 in the heat, won. Started P1 in the main, fell back to 4th with an oil leak. Got back my 3rd and then 2nd blew a clutch basket. So I finished 2nd in the main which let me win the Championship by 1 point.

Skip ahead to 7:40 for the start.

Camaro faggotry at it's finest - Hockenheimring, F1 track.

This is about 3 laps into my first W2W race, so there is probably some "bad driving here" considering I've never, ever gone W2W before.

The good racing was the second hour with the "pro" SM guys and a WC driver in a Saturn who I battled with, got out of the car, and came up to me. I thought he was going to be pissed about me driving dirty but he only had good things to say like, "That was awesome!!!"

Please critique. I have really never done this before and just applied a few things I learned in Forza. I was shocked by how much it's like a video game.

I like the wing on the mustang in that video, hustla. /critique.

Here's one where I made a couple more mcsteaks, I also wen't two wide in 7 "which you don't do" and thought that was pretty cool. The dude in the yellow car has huge balls to go outside me right there, I would not have done that. That takes a lot of trust because if you put two off there, the car almost certainly ends-up on the roof.

Subaru's were built to jump, right?

Not bad driving, but bad wrenching habits created an inferno in this race car:

:laugh:

Wow.