Crashing At The Fastest Part Of The Nordschleife Doesn't Look Like A Whole Lot Of Fun
An incident with a backmarker during the Nurburgring 24 Hours led to Audi driver Dries Vanthoor suffering this scary, high-speed accident at the fastest part of the circuit
Vanthoor was threading his No.8 Audi R8 LMS through some very slow-moving traffic at the end of the 1.3-mile Dottinger Hohe straight when he lightly tagged another car and ran onto the grass. That’s enough of a brown trouser moment right there, but as a result he developed a puncture, causing him to spin and slam into the wall backwards. A less than ideal situation, to put it mildly.
The driver was OK but the car certainly wasn’t as the whole rear end was torn apart, unsurprisingly putting the crew out of the race.
Now, there’s no such thing as a nice place to crash in motorsport, but if there was, it certainly wouldn’t be at the fastest part of one of the most fearsome race tracks in the whole world.
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tbh, crashing doesnt seem fun at all
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his rear right tire got damaged after the impact,going over the grass was maybe the thing that finished it off,I wonder if the result would have been different if he didn’t go over the grass.
That’s one less Audi R8 LMS in the world….
He definitely messed something up by going off track with almost the whole car before the crash…
No Yellow flag?
There absolutely is a nice place to crash in motorsports… It’s called the grassy no man’s land on the outside of Lime Rock. No big impact, nothing to shunt too badly, and lots of warning.
I didnt even see the very slow moving car the first time, that must have been a brown pants alert moment treading that needle
The number of people commenting who haven’t watched endurance gt racing is too damn high.