I take it that everyone else was slowing down for the yellow flag but the scooby guys both missed it and almost crashed as a result?

Keith

Well what I'm guessing from watching it a couple times. It's Nurburgring, the track is so huge that they don't have enough staff for yellow flag incidents. You don't see any track official until the incident occurs.

The Black Subaru was behind the camera car so even he didn't see a yellow flag.

The whole incident would have been avoided if the drivers who had stopped for the yellow hadn't done so mid-track and had pulled off to the side of the track. Or at least hadn't stopped at all and slowly went past the accident like the Subarus did after they wiped the shit out of their seats.

Theres a POV from the other two subies incase anyone didn't see. Everyone got lucky is wasn't worse!

Red one (starts at :50)


And the black one (around 1:30)

They pass the "inciting incident" of the yellow flag latter on in the video... a crashed car being hauled off on a flat bed truck. I think the officials were there to caution drivers about the big slow flat bed truck in front of them, not anything at that specific point in the track.

Keith

<edit>Other two camera views helped show what happened... but that third video had horrible camera view... was the camera trying to auto focus at different distances due to the changing view out the windshield? </edit>

Unbelievable. Wow.

Driving on the ring looks like it would be scary as hell. Not only is it a challenging track in its own right but you have a huge range of skill levels on the course at one time. That kind of environment creates situations like this where someone sees a yellow flag and responds in a very dangerous way almost causing a serious accident when the experienced drivers who are flying on the course have almost no time to correct.

Makes for good vid though.

Yeah. The tool in the rustbucket caused all of this. If he had just slowed down to highway speeds and motored by safely none of it would have happened.

hey i have a good idea: let's get to the middle of high-speed top-gear straight and then stop in the middle of it.

End of the black Subaru clip he said he was flat out in 6th...jesus christ I'd need several stiff drinks and a muscle relaxer to calm down after that.

And four new tires.

Reminds me of this, start at 1:40

BMWs refusing to give my slow miata a point by

Nobody gives point-bys in hyperdrive/first session of HPDE1. Most of them are still trying to learn where to go.

But it was the second session...

not track, dont care:



sorta track, still full of asshattery, carnage and stupidity:

With the second one, why am I seeing a video with "watch the video you are already trying to watch by clicking here" advertisement over the top? I am leery of clicking links like that.

Keith

Move cursor over to the top right corner of the ad and see the X (close) button.

yeah, jsut close the two boxes that popup, or search yt/google/news for like 15 other videos of it.

Edit: Didn't read the posts above mine...