How not to park your Mini

[Rex Ironstone]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC2oArZP8wg&fea...


Crash in today's V8 support race.

Edited by Rex Ironstone on Saturday 1st May 12:03

[groomi]

Hardly surprising it reached the crowd - that fence was pathetic!

[Dan_1981]

Didn't have time to run the woman says - surely they could see the great big red mini hurtling towards them over and over???

[Bugeyeandy]

An overtaking attempt to be proud of

[The Black Flash]

Ouch

[EDLT]

Its Australia, so they are probably going to ban racing, Minis and crashing off the back of this.

[caz4213]

Jeeeesus, and everyone thought Buemi's wheel making it over the fence in China was bad!

[mattsayle]

fk a duck!

[Simond001]

end over end and they didnt consider the car was rolling higher than the fence, even after it cleared the concrete barrier.

i would have though the normal human reaction would be to back away from that sight?

[Jungles]

Queensland Raceway -- a track with so much grass they didn't think proper fencing was necessary, until now.

[Norbury90]

How did he manage to get it up on two wheels? Did he bump wheels with the guy next to him? He was certainly going at a fair old lick when the camera sees him!

[sleep envy]

Jungles said:

Queensland Raceway -- a track with so much grass they didn't think proper fencing was necessary, until now.

technically, it's all the Queen's land.

[SoliD]

Oof quite a bad crash, remember speccing at brands many years ago when I was only about 3 or 4 and a wheel bouncing over the crash barrier over my head and smashing the motorbike helmet behind me on the outside of clark curve. Pretty much one of my first memories. Remember moving then, so why didn't these people think of getting out the way when you have a 6 ft crash barrier and a 1000kg mini rolling towards you at a rate of knots, probably too drunk to realise, bloody aussies

Edited by SoliD on Sunday 2nd May 07:13

[HereBeMonsters]

Simond001 said:

i would have though the normal human reaction would be to back away from that sight?

Ever met any Australian motorsport fans?

[Jasandjules]

If no-one got squashed to death that would be quite a lucky escape...

I guess most of the people in the path of the car thought it would stop a lot earlier than that...

[RJB_666]

Thats crazy. I would have been away from that fence in any instance. It would have done nothing if the car had hit it and not gone over it. Surprised it's legal to race over there like that when they say it's a nanny state.

[RobM77]

That fencing is shocking! Plenty of people could have been killed. Hopefully those injured are ok, and this will change their attitude to racing down under. They need proper spectator fencing like we have here in Europe.

[lord summerisle]

lets face it - that point on the circuit - the fence isnt designed to stop a car going through, its a crowd barrier.

looked like there is a big gravel trap, then a double layer tyrewall, 4 tyres high, with a banking behind it - the throught of a car rolling over the trap and over the bank is very remote.

in the same way at say Oulton Park - over hilltop. the crowd are quite close to the track, with only about 3ft to the tyrewall/banking then a further 6ft to the track - as its been for a good 30years and seen as safe(ish) yet the Clio Cup last year sent 3 cars into that tyre banking and a tractor tyre into the crowd.

That is why 'motorsport is dangerous' signs are everywhere.

[Dan Friel]

Agreed.. couldn't have put it better.

[Man-At-Arms]

World record for most number of rolls ?

last i'd heard it was the Aston from Casino Royale