You'll Struggle To Unclench After Watching This Biker's 100mph Save At The 'Ring
Anyone who takes to a Nurburgring touristenfahrten session on two wheels is a much, much braver person than me. Why? Because you have to worry about the potential mistakes of others as well as your own.
This footage - uploaded by David Monaghan - is a scary case in point. The buttock-clenching part starts shortly after the 7min 30sec mark, when a Seat Leon driver moves back over to the left, having just been overtaken by a Porsche Cayman. He can’t have checked his mirrors, as if he had, he’d have seen Monaghan on his BMW S1000RR.
After being hit by the Seat, Monaghan is seen leaving the tarmac and clipping the barriers on both sides of the track, while somehow staying upright. An impressive save at over 100mph, for which we doff our figurative caps.
In the comments section on YouTube, Monaghan had this to say about the Seat driver:
“I take responsibility for myself and the position I put myself in but this guy is definitely to blame for dangerous driving and is under investigation by police for it. In hind sight I should have spotted that he was a risk as he nearly hits [sic] the Porsche.”
In another comment, he said that the Seat driver “didn’t apologise or admit any guilt on his part as he insisted on going through insurance to repair his car”. He added: “If he does insist on claiming then at least I can claim from his insurance for the gravel rash damage…but I’d be surprised if his insurance even covers him on the Nurburgring.”
Hat tip to Andy!
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
under investigation by the police? it’s a damn racetrack, you take the risks with you! however that driver was a moron
The Nordschleife is not a racetrack during Touristenfahrten.
Tagged a wall, a door, and a curb, and still kept the bike up. You the real MVP
Unpopular opinion incoming. The biker shouldn’t overtake the car that is already being overtaken, because that dangerously narrows his field of maneuver. At least in my opinion
Its your opinion, thats fine but its still wrong. The car that hit him was overtaken and had NO reason on at all to go behind that Porsche like that. What was the reason to do that? Close the door and the biker because being overtaken hurts your feelings?
I agree
skip to 07:30 if you are only here for the actual clipping
Thank you kind soul for saving me ten minutes of my life.
Big skilled balls keep you alive in these scenarios, but anyway you’ll need clean underwear right after.
Superb riding. However could have anticipated that move from the car just overtaken by another getting into racing line. Should have not gotten in there too quickly. Too many things going on for amateur driver.
The racing line around is on the other side of the road. Exactly where he/she was.
Skip to 7:33 and selec lower playback speed, is that Seat turning left blinker on ? Rear stop light on leon are whole width of taillight
I’m no racing expert but I’m preaty sure that the porsche went out of the racing line for the overtake on the outside of the corner and went back infront of the seat to set it up for the next left hand turn. I don’t know where the seat driver was trying to go but it sure as hell should have not been going infront of the bike
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The clench is real