Mini crash at F1 GP in Montreal

[vmcguy]

Here's a video of one of our competitors crashing his mini at the Formula one in Montreal last weekend. Pretty nasty crash, he got up on the curbing and high sided the car onto its side and smashed the wall with the roof.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8BqcKZozmk

 

[KennyGS]

Oopsie. Tough luck.

 

[Dar-Dar]

Two wheelin'! Good thing it was a small crash and the driver probably just suffered a very minor concussion.

 

[Dar-Dar]

And thank goodness for roll cages. That thing was solid.

 

[webby]

did hitting the apex actually get him started? It looks like he starts lifting up while starting the turn

 

[vmcguy]

I saw some in car video and it looked from that angle what started it was riding up on the curbing. Our car tripods around corners all the time but we probably have more down force because of our aero.

 

[vmcguy]

Here's the in car shot.


View: http://vimeo.com/43874251

 

[webby]

interesting to see it from inside the car. Thanks for that vid

 

[Dar-Dar]

Wow. That 5 second crash probably felt like 50 seconds.

 

[jrotax101]

did hitting the apex actually get him started? It looks like he starts lifting up while starting the turn

Missed apex 1 on RHS and took too much kerb on the LHS.

As an aside, that back straight looks so painful in a slow car..

 

[KennyGS]

As an aside, that bad straight looks so painful in a slow car..

I thought that too. I was trying to read the speedo. Were they even going over 100 mph?

 

[webby]

looks like it's hitting right around 110? ^ you'd be there in like 5.1 seconds from a stop.

 

[vmcguy]

Ya it is painful to watch, the spec B cars are VERY VERY slow. Just to give you an idea, that's a fit in front of him very slowly pulling away and that was an RSX that flew by them. We are in super touring.