The 11 Most Dramatic Motorsport Moments So Far This Year

It’s been quite a few months for motorsport so far in 2016, here’s a look back at the craziest and most attention-grabbing moments

Jack Leslie

Updated: 10 Oct 2024

Kevin Harvick edged Carl Edwards by 0.010 seconds in the Nascar Sprint Cup race at Phoenix to claim victory!

The No. 911 Porsche 911 RSR collided with the No.3 Corvette C7 R at Sebring and both went spinning hard into the barrier.

Sacha Bottemanne’s Ferrari 458 GT3 was completely destroyed after this crash in a GT Tour race in France.

Fernando Alonso suffered a monumental shunt during the 2016 F1 season opener in Australia after contact with Esteban Gutierrez’s Haas. He felt fine afterwards but injuries forced him out of the following race in Bahrain.

Augusto Scalbi was racing in a TC 2000 touring car series race in Argentina when an issue forced his car off track, rolling a staggering six times.

In motorsport, one of the worst things to do is crash into your team-mate. That’s exactly what Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Iannone did to Andrea Dovizioso on the last lap in Argentina…

Wet grass and dry tyres on Nicolaj Møller Madsen’s Audi R8 LMS caused this hilarious spin at the final corner of the Blancpain GT Sprint qualifying race at Misano.

8. Last lap drama

Peter Hickman and Shane ‘Shakey’ Byrne were involved in a brilliant battle during the final lap of the second British Superbike race at Silverstone.

9. First corner chaos

The 11 Most Dramatic Motorsport Moments So Far This Year

The first few turns of the F1 Chinese Grand Prix were all kinds of mayhem, with the Ferrari drivers and Red Bull of Daniil Kvyat tangling and Lewis Hamilton getting caught up in chaos behind too. It mixed things up, that’s for sure!

Stefan Mücke lost control of the No. 66 Ford GT at the infamous Eau Rouge/Raidillon complex during the 6 Hours of Spa and suffered this huge crash! Amazingly he was uninjured.

Mercedes unintentionally spiced up the F1 Spanish GP when Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg collided on the first lap!

Plenty more to come from motorsport in 2016! What other dramatic moments have we missed in this list? Let us know in the comments.

Comments

You just missed out on including today’s MotoGP race photo finish. Marquez had it in the bag until Lorenzo pipped him onto the line by 0.019 seconds. The Honda bikes struggling with the acceleration all year.