This Is What Happens When You Combine A Track Day With An Idiot

This video shows the potential pitfalls of taking your car on track, as the Fiesta camera car gets wiped out by a Clio carrying far too much speed through a corner

Matt Kimberley

26 Jan 2017

Track days offer some of the biggest fun you can have in your car. The track is a place to stretch your car’s limits, check out how well performance mods are working and enjoy a bit of banter with mates in other cars.

But as soon as someone starts breaking the rules, all hell can break loose. On a notorious Oulton Park bend, which the organisers had warned the day’s drivers about, a Renaultsport Clio 182 apparently driven by Captain Jean-Luc Picard attempting to achieve warp 9 smashes into the side of the camera car, momentarily lifting the Clio onto two wheels. The impact kicks both cars off track.

This Is What Happens When You Combine A Track Day With An Idiot

The Fiesta camera car is slowly moving back towards the inside of the track when the furiously-driven Clio appears. Given that track days in the UK all seem to stipulate very clearly that overtaking on bends is not kosher, there’s no excuse.

Apparently, according to a post on YouTube, the driver in question was already on a warning for his behaviour. We don’t think he’ll be back at Oulton Park any time soon.

Comments

To be honest, this crash could’ve been avoided if the camera car stayed on the right..

Balls!
On UK track days, you are free to take your corner. Other cars must hold back and can not pass through corners. You pass on the straights. It’s not a race, it’s a track day.

My totally unbiased opinion as a Clio owner says:

-Fiesta appears to be driving relatively slow to traffic

Fiesta tries to turn tighter, leaving less room to anyone. At that speed on the racetrack he should have kept to the right as much as possible

Nevertheless, both got screwed here…

When you pull off that perfect skid but some fiesta knob gets in your way so you just slam into him

I think the camera car did some bad aswell, he let the other cars past but then randomly decided to go left past the “middle line” on the track and completely block the clio off on the exit of the corner. The clio was probably assuming he would stay right

Bottom line is on a track day you are not racing for points or money so you should not drive on the limit while overtaking other cars, just to make sure you don’t end in tears what otherwise should be a nice day out with your mates.
But it’s also true the Fiesta should have stayed fully on the right side since he was clearly watching his mirrors and definitely knew the Clio was there.
As usual, you need two idiots for an accident to happen.

Dope in the camera cars fault! Cruising around with his new dash cam to show his mates how cool he is, 3 years off the racing line and pulls in across everyone, He should be banned from earth.

This question might seem stupid. How does it work with insurance on track days? Are you fully responsible for what happens on the track?

I would Imagen very similar to normal insurance, you have an accident on track so both party’s claim off one another track insurance which would probably go down as a 50/50 there fault your fault, which could mean that getting track insurance next time might be more difficult. Most insurance companies do state in bold that if your going on track days, your not covered by normal insurance mine happens to put that if you were to drive on the Nürburgring I’m not covered despite its classed as a “Toll Road” over a track.