Ouch...

I have no audio so it may have been said, but - are those guys all on the wrong tyres or was the surface just really really bad?
 
Matt-Page said:
They should have called it off much before then, insane! Absoloutly no grip for them.
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Totally agree. Always saddens me to see soo many of those cars trashed unecessaryily - since they're so expensive to repair, especially for the privateers.

Looks like FIA GT, and having seen similar at Silverstone where they did stop the race, I bet the marshal's there got I right rollocking!

Edit: They were already on wets, but the sheer volume of water coming down, and lack of decent drainage, turns race tracks into rivers.

Re-edit: Tyres look like slicks/inter's, having watched again. No full grooves indicating wet tyres.
 
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Is it bad to laugh when that fat bloke nearly got ploughed down?

I'd have been over the armco like a cat off a hot tin roof :D
 
Lemans can get like that when it's wet, then they drive back to the pits on three wheels with half the body missing, they stick it back together with black tape and continue racing. It's awesome :cool:
 
Bri said:
Is it bad to laugh when that fat bloke nearly got ploughed down?

I'd have been over the armco like a cat off a hot tin roof :D
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Not at all, he's a penis for being out there, didn't look like he was doing anything and wasnt even looking the way of the incoming traffic. What a dimlo.

He's lucky to get off as easy as he did - he could have been easily crushed between the car and the barrier.
 
I remember the TT at Silverstone in the mid 80's. It had been dry for the start of the race and then about half way through the heavens opened, but only on the start finish area just as the cars came down the old Abbey and under the then Daily Express bridge at full chat, on slicks!

We just sat there and watched Jags, Rovers, 635CSi's, Metros, Toyotas and all sorts aquaplane totally out of control into the catch fencing. There is film of it as I had it on video so it might be out there on the web somewhere. I think about 8 or 10 cars were smashed to bits in about 2 minutes and another 10 or so came close!

Drivers like Tom Walkingshaw, Gerhard Berger and Steve Soper totally out of control with NOTHING they could do about it!
 
It was the BGTC race at Oulton in 2002.

It was a dry day...It was literally as if a tropical storm hit - it went from dry to those conditions in about 30 seconds.

If I recall correctly, the Lister was in the pits when it started raining and got Wets on...Everyone else was on slicks!

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