NASCAR driver scared witless around Bathurst

[Mr Gearchange]

Picked this up from Monkey Harris' twitter feed.

The guy looks fking terrified. Yeah buddy - that's what racing's like when you don't just go round in circles.

http://jalopnik.com/5848213/

[stemll]

What a girl (not saying I wouldn't be the same mind).

[Allyc85]

Haha that is quite amusing, they do say racing drivers can make crap passengers!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT5yLR4aluY&fea...

Isnt that right mr Plato!

[Pints]

"This is a geological oddity!"

[Matt Harper]

Mr Gearchange said:

Picked this up from Monkey Harris' twitter feed.

The guy looks fking terrified. Yeah buddy - that's what racing's like when you don't just go round in circles.

http://jalopnik.com/5848213/

It's called hamming it up for the camera - you do know who he is, right? He was lapping at 200mph+ 20 years ago. Scared witless, my ass.

[ZeeTacoe]

I find it amazing that all of these Superior drivers paying money to race in random series around the world when they should just go to america and win everything for a few years then retire. Why do they do it?

[williamp]

Maybe. Most racing drivers mkake terrible passengers. If he was driving, he would be giving it some. As someone else said: he was doing 200mph+ 20 years ago, with less protection then a V8 supecar

[Crafty_]

Matt Harper said:

It's called hamming it up for the camera - you do know who he is, right? He was lapping at 200mph+ 20 years ago. Scared witless, my ass.

+1

200mph about 6" from another car and about 3" from a very solid concrete wall, for several hundred miles.

[MonkeyHanger]

It doesn't matter whether he's hamming it up or not really. All i know is i'd pay good money to be taken around the Mountain in one of those cars...

[Fire99]

I would find racing at Bathurst very very appealing!

[Hartge210]

Crafty_ said:

+1

200mph touching & pushing another car and about 3" from a very solid concrete wall, for several hundred miles.

Bump drafting

[Glen320]

DW..LEGEND

[Mister V]

Glen320 said:

DW..LEGEND

Boogity, boogity, boogity!

[Crafty_]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8nD7AJvi-k

Wikipedia said:

Just two races after celebrating his second win of 1991, Waltrip would again be involved in another serious crash, again at the Daytona International Speedway, in Daytona Beach, Florida. It came after completing the 119th of 160 laps on the 2.5 mile superspeedway. Waltrip and driver Alan Kulwicki were racing side by side, leading a large grouping of cars, battling for 5th position. The car drafting Alan Kulwicki bumped the Kulwicki car, causing his car to hit Waltrip’s Western Auto Chevrolet at speeds approaching 200 mph on the long backstretch. Waltrip’s car slowed and was collected by driver Joe Ruttman’s car, both cars sliding sideways several hundred feet on the grassy infield. The tires of Waltrip’s car clipped the edge of an access road causing it to become airborne and tumbling end over end several times before coming to a stop, up-side down, in a grassy area near turn 3. Waltrip was extricated and only suffered minor injuries but many feared that he could have re-injured his shattered leg from the crash at the same track the previous year. (Slow-motion video and still photography showed that Waltrip's left arm was outside the car as the car tumbled, and came to rest). Waltrip still had a plate in his left leg from the compound fractures he suffered in the earlier crash at the 1990 Pepsi 400, at the Daytona International Speedway.

[vtgts300kw]

Gotta a wonder why they edited it like that putting the corners out of order. Bizarre.

[entropy]

Matt Harper said:

It's called hamming it up for the camera - you do know who he is, right? He was lapping at 200mph+ 20 years ago. Scared witless, my ass.

I thought it was Will Ferrel and not DW being the passenger

[DanDC5]

Darrell Waltrip is well known for being a crap passenger apparently. This is nothing new.