"Dr. Dingleberry" (thedingleberrydiaries)
12/25/2013 at 07:21 • Filed to: None
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"Dr. Dingleberry" (thedingleberrydiaries)
12/25/2013 at 07:21 • Filed to: None | 1
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Some of the best (or worst ?) crashes and fails at the 'Ring this year. My favorite starts at 7:08 !
Justin Young
> Dr. Dingleberry
12/25/2013 at 07:39 |
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No E30's were harmed in the making of this compilation. Phew!
San4ezlp
> Dr. Dingleberry
12/25/2013 at 07:48 |
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So bringing smart to nurburgring is definetly not smart
Alex87f
> Dr. Dingleberry
12/25/2013 at 08:30 |
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It's a shame for the guy in the bimmer around the 5:00 mark. He did all he could to avoid the biker and ended up putting his car in the guardrail.
Rainbow
> Dr. Dingleberry
12/25/2013 at 09:01 |
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Laziest flag guy ever at 3:25. Just casually walks over and sort of flops the flag around.
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Rainbow
> Alex87f
12/25/2013 at 09:06 |
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Since it's technically a public road, couldn't they have faulted the motorcyclist? I mean, I don't really know how that works over here, let alone in Germany, but it does look like the BMW's crash was unavoidable 100% because of the biker going down. I mean, I don't like to think that the poor guy is out one bike and has to pay for a car on top of that, but I also hate to think the driver just won the negative lottery without even buying a ticket.
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Alex87f
> Rainbow
12/25/2013 at 09:44 |
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Well I'm afraid he actually won the negative lottery..
Most insurances exclude "trackday" driving from their contracts, and even though the Nürburgring is technically an open road, insurances have ways to say that their contract doesn't apply there (for example because it's a one-way toll road that gets you back to your starting point).
Then again, some insurances cover the Nürburgring on their basic contracts, and some others offer "track options" which will cover it against some sort of extra. Hopefully the BMW driver had one of these.
48 Spoons
> Dr. Dingleberry
12/25/2013 at 10:01 |
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smart car was definitely my favorite.
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Rainbow
> Alex87f
12/25/2013 at 10:10 |
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Ahh, makes sense. Yeah, Hopefully he did.
Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT
> Dr. Dingleberry
12/25/2013 at 10:18 |
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That Civic....holyshit
John Norris (AngryDrifter)
> Dr. Dingleberry
12/25/2013 at 10:23 |
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Takes a little wind out of the sails for me on my occasional thoughts of "You know I'd like to go drive the ring some day". There were a lot of significant financial issues documented there for average Joe's.
You either have to go there and be completely sensible and drive the whole track at about 70%; and not really get a thrill, or throw caution to the wind, and have a pretty good chance of making it a very expensive lap.
Every time I've driven it in a video game I've at least gotten a tire on the grass. Granted, my video game throttle is much less governed then my real life one, but I think if I went through the trouble and expense of going there, I'd want to take a lot of hard corners.
m2m, apex detective
> Dr. Dingleberry
12/25/2013 at 10:40 |
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That Smart "crash" was just so avoidable ... don't take a short car on skinny tires to the track. Boom, solved.
I chortled about that one, though.
//edit: Was that a Civic at 8:32? If I had to pick one of the crashes that I'd rather not be in, it would certainly be this one.
Renescent
> Dr. Dingleberry
12/25/2013 at 17:08 |
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Seeing that Corrado eat the armco makes me sad.