is this guy rude or unsportly?

is this guy rude or unsportly?

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Grandad7184

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2,016 posts

134 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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5Club MX5 Cup Silverstone International 2014 Race…: http://youtu.be/a6iO3TQjXp4

Personally i find this rather amusing but would be rather pissed off if it was me driving.

Disastrous

10,072 posts

216 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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rofl

That's class!

Nezquick

1,453 posts

125 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Saw that this morning.
Pretty dangerous thing to do at those kind of speeds...could have seriously hurt himself. Very funny to see though!

I would have loved to have seen the post-race reaction.

Taita

7,590 posts

202 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Gets a thumbs up from driver, prevented wing mirror being snapped off.

Not dangerous at all, bit annoying to not have a mirror but at least it isn't smashed off.

mattmk391

224 posts

207 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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I used to race aganst Ben (white #4) in the mk1 mx5s and I'm 100% sure this was done purely for comedy value, it certainly made me laugh! Nothing to do with preserving wing mirrors as there is plenty of room on the hanger straight for 3 wide in mazdas.

Not sure what the advertising kick back is like on YouTube, but maybe with the number of views the video is getting HavenRacing might get enough to cover his next entry fee!

Hoofy

76,253 posts

281 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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From the title, I knew it'd be this video. biggrin

Tuvra

7,920 posts

224 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Disastrous said:
rofl

That's class!
+1 Creased.

I was expecting a huge coming together for some reason hehe

FussyFez

972 posts

175 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Great stuff, made my day so far . To be fair, it looks like he squashed his hand between the two mirrors slightly, the white cars wing mirror folds in slightly as he grabs the camera cars mirror. Risky, but very amusing.

The Moose

22,820 posts

208 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Rather amusing smile

Guess he trusts his own abilities and that of the other driver.

It is after all club racing which is a bit of fun smile

HereBeMonsters

14,180 posts

181 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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And to be fair, an MX-5 is so small you can probably lean across and flip it back. I have done in the past, but not when driving around a racetrack.

The Moose

22,820 posts

208 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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HereBeMonsters said:
And to be fair, an MX-5 is so small you can probably lean across and flip it back. I have done in the past, but not when driving around a racetrack.
Probably a tad tricky with a proper harness on.

furrywoolyhatuk

682 posts

153 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Very good smile

crispyshark

1,261 posts

144 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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brilliant! Bit on 'in-race' non verbal banter!

Thumbs up!

Schermerhorn

4,342 posts

188 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Look what's actually going on.

The other guys folds his mirror in to prevent it from being broken off during wheel to wheel contact.

The driver even gave him a 'thumbs up'. I assume they all had a pre-race brief about debris, close contact racing etc.


Grandad7184

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2,016 posts

134 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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When ts first appeared I was expecting one big crash but that brightend up my day

J4CKO

41,277 posts

199 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Yeah, that was funny, not malicious, just arsing about.

paulmnz

470 posts

173 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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I race in the series with both the guys in this video - it was Ben (the white car) having a bit of fun with James. I was in the pitlane at silverstone as I'm unable to race at the moment and there was a lot of chat after the race about it and plenty of banter between Ben and James.

Interesting the 'theories' about folding in the mirror to avoid it being broken off - you've obviously not seen much MX5 racing :-) . It was indeed just for comedy value / banter. The tumbs up was more of an ironic 'yeah, cheers buddy!'.

Ben was thinking of opening the passenger door, but decided that would indeed be dangerous ;-)

Amazing it's managed to go viral, I'd seen the video a couple of days ago and about 20 people had watched it!

LordHaveMurci

12,034 posts

168 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Disastrous said:
rofl

That's class!
Yup rofl

k-ink

9,070 posts

178 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Great stuff biggrin

Hrimfaxi

1,036 posts

126 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Got a laugh here!

Got me looking at more MK-5 Cup race videos, good stuff!
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