Donuts on the M25 - A word of warning
Donuts on the M25 - A word of warning
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Crook

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7,980 posts

253 months

Tuesday 25th August
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A bit dramatic however I didn't really know where to put this and I felt it needed to be noted.

Driving on the M25 over the weekend from junction 20 towards Heathrow I saw a large set of tyre marks I assumed were from someone involved / avoiding an incident however further on there were some more then a large donut where some utter utter idiot had decided to do some donuts followed along a bit later with more tyre marks obviously from drifting.

I assume it was done at night when it's quiet but the thought of driving at night and coming across a car doing this doesn't bear thinking about.

I've seen it on social media happening in the US and sadly it has made its way over here.

Don't assume an empty motorway is without potentially very very fatal idiots.

spitfire-ian

4,209 posts

257 months

Tuesday 25th August
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Crook said:
A bit dramatic however I didn't really know where to put this and I felt it needed to be noted.

Driving on the M25 over the weekend from junction 20 towards Heathrow I saw a large set of tyre marks I assumed were from someone involved / avoiding an incident however further on there were some more then a large donut where some utter utter idiot had decided to do some donuts followed along a bit later with more tyre marks obviously from drifting.

I assume it was done at night when it's quiet but the thought of driving at night and coming across a car doing this doesn't bear thinking about.

I've seen it on social media happening in the US and sadly it has made its way over here.

Don't assume an empty motorway is without potentially very very fatal idiots.
Tyre marks from a late night road repairs perhaps? There were some on a road around here which caused someone to comment to me about boy racers however it was from an all-wheel-steer telehandler on full lock from the adjacent building site which I'd witnessed the day before.

brillomaster

1,862 posts

199 months

Tuesday 25th August
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You'd have to be an utter, utter plum to stop on a motorway to do a donut. There are a million better places to do it. That level of idiocy would get weeded out the gene pool pretty fast.

Im guessing telehandler thing.

Crook

Original Poster:

7,980 posts

253 months

Tuesday 25th August
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spitfire-ian said:
Tyre marks from a late night road repairs perhaps? There were some on a road around here which caused someone to comment to me about boy racers however it was from an all-wheel-steer telehandler on full lock from the adjacent building site which I'd witnessed the day before.
Nope, 100% big drifts followed by a donut followed later on by more big drifts.
Hard to comprehend really that someone would be that stupid.

Glenn63

3,898 posts

113 months

Tuesday 25th August
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As above, HGV s and work machinery doing tight turns etc. A tri axle trailer doing a tight turn makes a donut type tyre mark as it pivots on its centre wheels.

Although I have seen videos of stupid similar stunts so I wouldn’t be suprised.

Or Smokey Nagata is back in town biggrin

Edited by Glenn63 on Tuesday 25th August 09:51

s p a c e m a n

12,034 posts

177 months

Tuesday 25th August
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Yeah I've seen them, definitely not roadworks related. I assumed it was one of those Indian wedding things where they block all of the traffic, start acting like dicks and take a load of photos.

I don't see how else you could do that even at 3am on a Sunday on that section of the road, there's always moving traffic.

twing

5,770 posts

160 months

Tuesday 25th August
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Not donuts or drifting but a few years ago I was on the M25 behind a couple of RS4s , an RS6 and an M3. They were spread across all lanes, slowing traffic to a near halt and then going flat out for maybe half a mile at a time. They did it a few times before belting off at the next junction. Hell of a sound but not the greatest idea.

LRDefender

760 posts

37 months

Tuesday 25th August
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s p a c e m a n said:
Yeah I've seen them, definitely not roadworks related. I assumed it was one of those Indian wedding things where they block all of the traffic, start acting like dicks and take a load of photos.

I don't see how else you could do that even at 3am on a Sunday on that section of the road, there's always moving traffic.
Wowser's...!!!!

Is this really an Indian wedding thing?

Have you personally witnessed this? Do you have any photo's you could share?

Sounds a bit made up to me....

Crudeoink

1,367 posts

88 months

Tuesday 25th August
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LRDefender said:
Wowser's...!!!!

Is this really an Indian wedding thing?

Have you personally witnessed this? Do you have any photo's you could share?

Sounds a bit made up to me....
I don't think it's Indian specifically but yes there's loads of videos of this sort of thing on social media. Lots of lambos, G-Wagons etc stopping motorway traffic for a photo shoot before videos doughnuts and burnouts

cliffords

4,189 posts

52 months

Tuesday 25th August
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LRDefender said:
s p a c e m a n said:
Yeah I've seen them, definitely not roadworks related. I assumed it was one of those Indian wedding things where they block all of the traffic, start acting like dicks and take a load of photos.

I don't see how else you could do that even at 3am on a Sunday on that section of the road, there's always moving traffic.
Wowser's...!!!!

Is this really an Indian wedding thing?

Have you personally witnessed this? Do you have any photo's you could share?

Sounds a bit made up to me....
Has there been a wedding on the M25 . Where abouts. Why would they want to do that .

rodericb

8,839 posts

155 months

Tuesday 25th August
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cliffords said:
LRDefender said:
s p a c e m a n said:
Yeah I've seen them, definitely not roadworks related. I assumed it was one of those Indian wedding things where they block all of the traffic, start acting like dicks and take a load of photos.

I don't see how else you could do that even at 3am on a Sunday on that section of the road, there's always moving traffic.
Wowser's...!!!!

Is this really an Indian wedding thing?

Have you personally witnessed this? Do you have any photo's you could share?

Sounds a bit made up to me....
Has there been a wedding on the M25 . Where abouts. Why would they want to do that .
To have a memento of the occasion, I guess.

Hoofy

79,977 posts

311 months

Tuesday 25th August
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Tiktts, probably, doing it for likes.

vikingaero

13,125 posts

198 months

Tuesday 25th August
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Krispy Kremes from Clacket, Cobham or South Mimms? biggrin

gotoPzero

20,622 posts

218 months

Tuesday 25th August
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Anyone know where Smokey Nagata is... LOL

Pic for those who dont know / remember..




normalbloke

8,820 posts

248 months

Tuesday 25th August
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Glenn63 said:
As above, HGV s and work machinery doing tight turns etc. A tri axle trailer doing a tight turn makes a donut type tyre mark as it pivots on its centre wheels.

Although I have seen videos of stupid similar stunts so I wouldn t be suprised.

Or Smokey Nagata is back in town biggrin

Edited by Glenn63 on Tuesday 25th August 09:51
The difference between heavy machinery scrub type marks, and under power drift and donut marks, are glaringly obvious, even when glanced at speed.

aterribleusername

633 posts

92 months

Tuesday 25th August
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gotoPzero said:
Anyone know where Smokey Nagata is... LOL
https://youtu.be/sJH0AGMlDqo?si=Sh_-OWj2NHBd8lhJ

Autoshenanigans' video all about the attempt.

s p a c e m a n

12,034 posts

177 months

Tuesday 25th August
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rodericb said:
cliffords said:
LRDefender said:
s p a c e m a n said:
Yeah I've seen them, definitely not roadworks related. I assumed it was one of those Indian wedding things where they block all of the traffic, start acting like dicks and take a load of photos.

I don't see how else you could do that even at 3am on a Sunday on that section of the road, there's always moving traffic.
Wowser's...!!!!

Is this really an Indian wedding thing?

Have you personally witnessed this? Do you have any photo's you could share?

Sounds a bit made up to me....
Has there been a wedding on the M25 . Where abouts. Why would they want to do that .
To have a memento of the occasion, I guess.
I mean you could just Google Asian wedding stop traffic, or you could mock outrage racism.

I know of a few they've done on the A13 in the middle of the day.


https://vm.tiktok.com/ZN8NfoAmf/


https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_FsHNfo1Eg/?igsi=a...

LRDefender

760 posts

37 months

Tuesday 25th August
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s p a c e m a n said:
rodericb said:
cliffords said:
LRDefender said:
s p a c e m a n said:
Yeah I've seen them, definitely not roadworks related. I assumed it was one of those Indian wedding things where they block all of the traffic, start acting like dicks and take a load of photos.

I don't see how else you could do that even at 3am on a Sunday on that section of the road, there's always moving traffic.
Wowser's...!!!!

Is this really an Indian wedding thing?

Have you personally witnessed this? Do you have any photo's you could share?

Sounds a bit made up to me....
Has there been a wedding on the M25 . Where abouts. Why would they want to do that .
To have a memento of the occasion, I guess.
I mean you could just Google Asian wedding stop traffic, or you could mock outrage racism.

I know of a few they've done on the A13 in the middle of the day.


https://vm.tiktok.com/ZN8NfoAmf/


https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_FsHNfo1Eg/?igsi=a...
Genuine LOL's..!!

Do you live in the UK and did you check where your instagram clip comes from?

But thank you for your balanced, investigative journalism, P.H's is all the better for it.

littleredrooster

6,357 posts

225 months

Tuesday 25th August
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LRDefender said:
Genuine LOL's..!!

Do you live in the UK and did you check where your instagram clip comes from?

But thank you for your balanced, investigative journalism, P.H's is all the better for it.
Both appear to be in the UK to me...English registration plates...driving on the left...not sure what your outrage is about?

s p a c e m a n

12,034 posts

177 months

Tuesday 25th August
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LRDefender said:
s p a c e m a n said:
rodericb said:
cliffords said:
LRDefender said:
s p a c e m a n said:
Yeah I've seen them, definitely not roadworks related. I assumed it was one of those Indian wedding things where they block all of the traffic, start acting like dicks and take a load of photos.

I don't see how else you could do that even at 3am on a Sunday on that section of the road, there's always moving traffic.
Wowser's...!!!!

Is this really an Indian wedding thing?

Have you personally witnessed this? Do you have any photo's you could share?

Sounds a bit made up to me....
Has there been a wedding on the M25 . Where abouts. Why would they want to do that .
To have a memento of the occasion, I guess.
I mean you could just Google Asian wedding stop traffic, or you could mock outrage racism.

I know of a few they've done on the A13 in the middle of the day.


https://vm.tiktok.com/ZN8NfoAmf/


https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_FsHNfo1Eg/?igsi=a...
Genuine LOL's..!!

Do you live in the UK and did you check where your instagram clip comes from?

But thank you for your balanced, investigative journalism, P.H's is all the better for it.
Yes. I live in East London, the footage was taken on the A13. Wasn't the first time that it happened and it still continues. It has also happened in the Limehouse tunnel and on the A406.

Where do you live, tell us your experiences

Here's the original tikytok for that one. I can't be bothered to go searching for the doughnut and burnout ones in Limehouse

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZN8NHFEMs/



Edited by s p a c e m a n on Tuesday 25th August 21:25