Silly ways to lose a race...

[MinardiFan]

Bottom post of the previous page:

Just stumbled upon this at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeVTm0aZEsc

[kals]

I was watching the 2002 FIA F1 review recently and I had completely forgotten about the USGP from that year...

[PTRACER]

Just stumbled upon this at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeVTm0aZEsc

That's beyond belief.

[CAXEMIRA]

how about this one

[Quintin03]

That can't be real. No way on Earth you can lose a race in a more silly way.

[caneparo]

At Brands Hatch, he ran out of fuel on the last lap, with Rindt again the beneficiary. One of Brabham's mechanics was a certain Ron Dennis...

Dennis took the blame for having mess up the carburation after the warm up but it wasn't him and was fired. The actual guy who screwed it came out in the nineties taking all the blame from Dennis. BTW, does anyone miss Dennis in F1?

[FloP]

BTW, does anyone miss Dennis in F1?

Who was that again?

[DoubleFault]

"Dallas was what I would call an ‘old-fashioned’ North American street circuit, delineated with concrete blocks. It was a very tricky circuit, and bumpy enough to make even Monaco look smooth: the drivers literally had to fight their cars all the way round as they skipped and jumped from bump to bump. I remember during the race, Ayrton hit the wall, and then later retired because of the damage. When he eventually made it back to the pits, he didn’t seem to understand how he could have hit the wall. It seemed to come as a complete shock to him that he had hit the wall, and his immediate reaction was “I know I didn’t make a mistake – the wall must have moved.” Remember, we were talking about a twenty tonne concrete block here, but he was so insistent that he persuaded me to walk round the circuit and take a look. When I did so, the wall had indeed moved – somebody had clearly clipped the previous block and in doing so, displaced the next one by only about 4cm. Instead of the transition from block to block being smooth, a 4cm difference had caught the rear wheel, broken it and punctured the tyre. That was when it really came home to me, the precision to which he was driving, and made me think he was a bit special… And remember this was a guy in his first season of F1, straight out of F3…"

[FloP]

DF, Who wrote that?

[kals]

I was wondering that as well. It must have someone high up in Toleman, but who? There's a name on the tip of my tongue, someone who's part of David Richard's Prodrive organisation. Can't remember his name.

[kals]

I was right and wrong, it was Pat Symonds - http://www.worldracingforum.com/world-r ... story.html

[DoubleFault]

Sorry, should have quoted that it was Pat Symonds..

Interesting quote though isn't it!

Thought it was apt for this thread, because losing a race because you are TOO PRECISE is a classic.

[kals]

Bit of a bump...

[erwin greven]

BTW, does anyone miss Dennis in F1?

Who was that again?

At the moment a guy, who was a m-m-m-me.. engineer at Brabham, is at the helm of McLaren. (Redman said Ron Dennis hated it when he was called a mechanic instead of what he would call an engineer.)

[caneparo]

Repost. One of the best ever

[hocuspocus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bjDvvwhJ2U

In this video you can see how Lionel sotro loose an easy race.... winner was Bonelli, TC pista Series, Autodromo de Río Gallegos, Argentina, year 2011
( i'm spanish parlant, excuse my poor english )