Car lovers, avert your eyes.

[CommanderCrazy]

Now I dont know how old this is, but while youtube stumbling this afternoon, I found this.

As a car lover myself, it was painful to watch.

 

Edited March 27, 2011 by CommanderCrazy

[Vindekarr]

Im just going to directly place the sound I made during the explosion right here:

 

HE-HE! hahahahaha!

 

Im a HUGE car lover, I live and breathe motorsport and have worked on many engines, but I dont cry when I watch a priceless Formula One get turned into priceless shrapnel, instead my reaction varies from laughing if it's spectacular (Webber's 2010 Valencia crash, where he decide to become an airline pilot), or feeling sad if it's a bad one (Timo Glock @ Suzuka 2009, inch-long scrap of shrapnel embedded in his thigh)

 

Some are obviously too tragic to be funny, ever, such as Robert Kubica's recent crash in Italy, which nearly ended this vastly talented younbg man's career before it could begine, and virtualy severed his arm, or the events at Imola in 1994 (Ayrton Senna, Roland Ratzenberger, two talents the world should not have been deprived of) But some I must confess, leave me cackling with glee, such as watching Greg Murphy(Bleugh!!1) roll it in '99 or Ayrton Senna and Allain Prost getting so into their utterly epic battle for the win, that they locked wheels and both crashed out(early '90s, just prior to Senna's death in 1994 at Imola)

 

Lets face it, sometimes a good wreck is just too funny to take srsly!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttBhGiuMUmU

[CommanderCrazy]

Sometimes I feel bad if the driver is doing excellent, and then something mechanical or otherwise fails, and the driver goes from 1st to last, or is badly injured.

 

But, there is some that are just too funny to feel bad with, like Webbers, as you mentioned.

[Vindekarr]

Yeah, he should totaly be an airline pilot, with talent for leaving the ground like that, Im surprised he didnt exchange his RB-6 for a 747 and helmet for a captain's cap.

 

For me some of them are also funny for technical reasons-in that clip there's a moment where a Jordan's wing just comes flying off, THAT is a technical funny, because rear wings are supposed to push you onto the road, not go flying off and pitch you into the wall!

 

 

That and, I must admit some drivers I just dont click with: Daniel Richiardo, Rubens Barrichelo, Louis Hamilton, Vitaly Petrov, nice folks, great racers, but able to be humble and respecful to others. Their talent is undeniable, as many have done quite well even in poor cars, and they can atleast hold onto the notion that they're racing car drivers paid to do a job, rather than rockstars at the height of the charts. And besides, Rubens has been in 36% of all Formula One races in the sport's entire history, 307 races is a total I dont think anyone, alive or dead, has ever come close to.

 

Jenson button? Vettel? meh, annoying overconfident prima-donnas with more salary than sense! I'd like to see them be so cocky after doing a few laps in a hispania, I still remember the days when Button was an amount-to-nothing journeyman in an underperforming car, he talks big, but his level of talent is questionable at best. Yes, they have won a World Driver's Championship, but so have so many others. Winning a WDC in a dominant car does not make you anything special, Sterling Moss is a special driver, Jack Brabham is a special dirver, Jacky Stewart is a special driver, Allain Prost is a special driver, these two? kids with fast cars.

 

When those morons kiss the concrete, I laugh for purely spiteful reasons, I really dont like people like them, watch a VCR of one of the early races, before the era when the cars drove themselves, and you'll see what a real World Driver's Champion is, back then people died, Atleast once a year, in F-1, sometime sseveral fatalities in a single race: strapping yourself into a car, especialy during the true dark eras, the 50s and 80s, was an act of heroism: it was impossible to forget, sitting behind the wheel waiting for the flag to wave, that just months ago men had burned to death in a car not to dissimilar to yours, but putting the fear aside, and giving your all in a car with only the most rudimentry safety devices, not to mention poor downforce and unbelievable power, is a feat no modern driver faces, there hasnt been a fatality in F-1 for twenty years, and while Im not doubting that's a good thing, the massive downforce, huge computerisation and the ever increasing disemphasis on the driver has tamed the sport and the men involved in it.

 

Lining up on the grid today would leave a man feeling more excitement and performance anxiety than anything else. Lining up on the grid in the 1980s would leave some men too frightened to go on, in those days a crash had about a 50% chance of being fatal, and it wasnt a quick death, fire was the main killer, and men of the greatest drivers in memory burned alive in their cars, we forget too easily just how brutal this sport of ours once was, and it leaves me genuinely offended when some preppy 20-something german twit who's never watched a man burn to death trying to win a race talk about how great a driver he is, great driver of what, Sebastien? this is a real man's car:

 

http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/ee454/Vindekarr/Shadow_DN9_at_Barber_03.jpg

[CommanderCrazy]

Yet these days, that ad would be enough to have him banned from motorsport for the rest of his life.

 

Now, my major gripe. V8 supercar racing.

Back in the day, you had a REAL car. Almost exactly the same as the one you would drive out of the dealers (save some upgraded parts). I'm talking REAL manual gearbox too, where as these days, the cars are longer, thinner, and basically a rollcage with a plate metal cover. And the transmission? Sequential manual or goddamn flappy paddles.

BRING BACK THE OLD DAYS I SAY!

[ub3rman123]

I winced at that engine.. Especially since I'm busy rebuilding the engine (And rest of) an '74 über käfer. Eep.

 

And that Webber crash would be half as funny had he been sponsored by anyone but Red Bull. Maybe Virgin Airlines as a sponsor. That'd be worse.

[CommanderCrazy]

'Red bull gives you wiiiiiiiiings!' right ub3r? :D