Nordschleife 'ring crashes

[bikertomm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to85pIpIJqo


Plenty of bikers hitting the deck! Guessing there must have been oil or something on that patch?

But mad how target fixation does that.. looks like it could be the cause of quite a few of them!


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[Tungtvann]

Yeah, I wonder if the surface at that corner was slippery. Nasty corner though, double apex, catching loads of people out!

[Jayy]

Makes you wonder if someone had put something down on the surface or it's just fuel/oil from another vehicle as that's a hell of a lot of crashes in one day on the same corner.

[chris-red]

[Walloper]

[Rogerborg]

They make a big deal of billing you by the hour if they have to close and clean up the track after you bin it.

Presumably that cuts both ways if they fail to clean it up before you bin it?
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[mistergixer]

Quality old footage of 'Ring crashes here.

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[Valentino Mossy]

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[0l0dom0l0]

Watch at 3.19, that Porsche spews oil all over the track. You can see the line behind it after it passes through.
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[DEN MONKEY]

looks like the bike gets him at around 2:20
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[chris-red]

[Lord Percy]

Looks a bit like the extent of my skills on gran turismo

[-Savage-]

Major difference I can see between the old and the new, the old cars generally seemed to roll. Is this because new cars have anti roll bars to help keep them level when cornering?

Also 70's cars were made of cheese! lol
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[thx1138]

the biker at 2:05 came off further up the track,

did the camera operator suspect he'd crash and follow him and zoom in on him?

i think 3:39 is interesting, I first thought it was just ineptitude, but did that first chap see something he didn't like about the track and deliberately run off?

edit: just noticed the comment about the porsche spewing oil, I thought the smoke was heavy braking

[Lord Percy]

[thegubner]

[Lord Percy]

[-Savage-]

AFAIK anti roll bars are part of the suspension and stop the car rolling outwards when cornering, what I'm asking is, is it this which has made such a difference to the cars likelihood to roll, or is it something else?
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[thegubner]

I would dare boldly to say it's got a lot to do with it yes.

[covent.gardens]

Some of those car drivers would have been OK if they'd spent their last remaining moments on the tarmac steering, instead of panic flooring the brake.

[thx1138]

1:38 wtf? car doesn't crash, driver falls out.

but at 2:28 we get an open top beetle, no seat belts and no crash helmets, and 4 occupants. In your face health and safety

edit: the old school clip, sans seat belts I mean.

[Lord Percy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_liGnV3PTiQ

anti-roll bars explained. So yeah, they do help with roll prevention

Basically they connect the suspension between the left and right wheels, so if one wheel goes up, so does the other, which causes the car to stay much flatter.

[swampy]