7 Ridiculous Moments Where Spectators Got Too Close To Motorsport Action
This took place on Silverstone’s Hangar Straight on lap 11 of the race, with a kilt-wearing protestor running towards insanely fast F1 cars with signs saying “read the Bible” and “the Bible is always right”.
We really couldn’t believe this when we saw it. Security at F1 races is usually pretty good but someone managed to sneak onto the Singapore street track during last year’s main event. He was later arrested and sentenced to six weeks in prison.
3. 2014 Federated Auto Parts 400
The Nascar Sprint Cup race at the Richmond International Raceway went under caution for a bizarre reason after a fan climbed the catch fencing and was literally sitting over the track. Apparently he climbed the fence to get a selfie with his favourite driver Kevin Harvick. It’s no surprise he was found guilty of being drunk in public and disorderly conduct, picking up a fine and a year in prison.
A disgruntled ex-Mercedes employee managed to make his way onto the Hockenheimring and ran across one of the longest straights on the track’s old layout during the 2000 F1 race. Information revealed after the incident claimed he had initially tried to protest before the formation lap but was dragged off by marshals.
A man apparently wanted to “try a car” during second practice for the F1 Chinese Grand Prix last year, running across the circuit as cars approached and climbing into the pits before being arrested.
Here’s another brilliant example of some people’s stupidity. These two teenagers drove a VW Polo onto a live race track during a Fun Cup race at Brands Hatch in 2014, much to the dismay of the female sat in the passenger seat. The driver was sentenced to eight months in jail.
Sebastien Buemi was completing a demonstration run in a Red Bull F1 car back in 2011 when a marshal watching the action chose to run across the road at the complete wrong time. Fortunately he was uninjured, but was clearly a dumb move. Look both ways before you cross the road!
What other similar situations in the world of motorsport can you remember? Let us know in the comments below.
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No Group B?
If you were to list all the times in Group B spectators got too close, you’d have to list every single Group B race ever held…
Excuse me Sir, would you like to talk about our Lord and Saviour?
-I can see the light!
~Of course you can you idiot. You are staring to one of the lights on the racetrack
xD talk about Jehovah’s witnesses. This guy disturbs people while they’re racing
“Sorry bro, I don’t have time atm. I’m busy driving a F1 car.”
“Uh why is there a VW Golf on the track?” XD
I love that he actually mistook it for a Golf xD mr “Race marshall”
Only thing I can think of while watching is the song : run to the hills!!! Run for you life!!!
Love that song! Of course, I love all Dickinson-era Iron Maiden songs, so that means nothing. :/
What about the crash in portugal that ended group B or is it NSFW? It’s pretty grousome.
Joaquim Santos’s RS200 ran of the track. In that case one could say it was on the organization rather than the spectators. It was a terrible accident and people shouldn’t be allowed to be there.
Lol someone needs to put a hitmarker when that guy got hit by that wheel XD
It’s everything but high-class motorsport, but at a local/national rally-sprint here in germany we got “environment-protectors” trying to block the rally-track by sitting on it while cars are on the way (and usually without a radio-connection to people outside the car) two years in a row.
Nothing happened so far, luckily.
Also, they don’t have a point in their action, since the rally is on private property, so there’s no “protected forest being murdered” for it.
If I were there (racing) the car conversation would be somethng like: “Brian! There are enviromentalist protestors in the track!” “Why do I care” They’re human lives!””They don’t count”
Also, last Bahrain GP a random dude entered the track during free practice.
Watching the 2000 German gp video makes me miss the screaming v10s. Ahhh the good old days of n/a
That were V10s, but dat sound
She was really trying to get jack off
Pagination