"Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
11/05/2014 at 01:24 • Filed to: None
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"Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
11/05/2014 at 01:24 • Filed to: None | 2
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Seriously, why do they always run over to the cars? I can understand if the people inside are in immediate danger, or if the car is stuck in such a way that a small push will bring it out, but not when it's upside down in a ditch with three wheels.
See 3:10 in the above video for an example of why this is a stupid mentality.
wabbalosthiskey
> Rainbow
11/05/2014 at 01:32 |
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Is this a real question? To make sure the people inside are OK and not dead/stuck/bleeding/dismembered/on fire/trapped/injured, and flag off oncoming cars from hitting them...
And if all is well, give them a push back onto the road for fun
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Rainbow
> wabbalosthiskey
11/05/2014 at 01:33 |
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But they're spectators. They're not the ones who should be doing that.
Dusty Ventures
> Rainbow
11/05/2014 at 01:36 |
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If not the spectators, who else is there?
lonestranger
> Rainbow
11/05/2014 at 01:41 |
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At a rally, the spectators are often the only people there.
PS9
> Rainbow
11/05/2014 at 01:45 |
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Any able bodied person capable of pulling a human sized object away from danger should be trying to do that. It would be better if that person was a first responder, but a lot of times it won't be. They can't be at all places at once.
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wabbalosthiskey
> Rainbow
11/05/2014 at 01:46 |
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True, I guess if a car flips twice & lands on it's roof in front of them, and the driver's arm is trapped broken underneath it and the navigator was just impaled by the brake handle, while fuel floods the interior, they should just spectate and wait patiently for help to arrive.
You did ask...
Tohru
> Rainbow
11/05/2014 at 01:55 |
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First one to the car gets first crack at stripping it for souvenirs.
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Rainbow
> wabbalosthiskey
11/05/2014 at 01:55 |
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That would constitute the occupants being in immediate danger.
Iheartmy365kHonda - Car enthusiasts do like FWD
> Rainbow
11/05/2014 at 01:57 |
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Oh god the horror! These can't even be repaired! =( too sad to watch.
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wabbalosthiskey
> Rainbow
11/05/2014 at 01:59 |
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That's the point - so from 40 feet away they should stand there and decide that none of that is happening and go ahead and chill out? No, you run your ass over there and make sure no one is about to be dead.
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Rainbow
> wabbalosthiskey
11/05/2014 at 02:01 |
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No, you never run onto an active race track before the car has even come to rest. If nobody gets out or moves, THEN you can check on them.
Arben72
> Rainbow
11/05/2014 at 02:04 |
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I was at this racetrack in Eastern Europe. Road course, no bleachers, or paths, shitty acommendations for spectators, but absolutely amazing track no ones heard of. Well this Alfa Romeo gets clipped on this 180' corner, catches air and flips landing no more than 15ft from me (but in a roped off area). Luckily the vodka wasn't worn off by then and I managed not die, but all of a sudden the crowd of spectators surround the car preventing emergency crews from getting all the space they need. All so they can most likely get a pic for facebook.
Tl;dr people are assholes.
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wabbalosthiskey
> Rainbow
11/05/2014 at 02:12 |
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Lol - A basically unregulated rally "course" that's allowed to be lined with thousands of people through any combination of public or private roads is hardly a race track in any sort of sense where that sort of regulation or control would apply. You would be far ahead to argue that standing anywhere near a rally race is stupid as the very nature of it is anti-racetrack, not running to help a trapped driver in a rolled/crashed car.
bob and john
> Rainbow
11/05/2014 at 02:13 |
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usually its make sure drivers are ok, or if the car is still moving, get it back on track ASAP.
or move it so it doesnt get hit by another car.
You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> Rainbow
11/05/2014 at 10:56 |
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TL;DR Because rally.
These cars are racing on closed public roads where there isn't necessarily safety equipment or personnel close by. A rally might have a 100+ miles of race stages with several hundred miles of transit stages between them. The stages are manned by a few hundred volunteers which means there are probably not going to be race officials nearby when there is an off. Of those volunteers only a small handful are medical personnel. Any given stage might have a dozen volunteers spread out over several miles of stage with most of the volunteers at the start finish for timing and traffic control purposes.
It's an assumed risk spectator game with rally. If you're lucky there might be a little bit of caution tape to protect you from the cars. More likely the only protection you'll have is simply your common sense and the spectating location that you choose. Rally spectators are active participants in an event. They didn't pay $100 to go passively sit in some bleachers and pay $10/beer. They actively drive long distances during the rally to watch a few seconds of action at a time. They haul coolers full of their own food and beverage to their chosen spectating point if they want food and beverages. They hike through the woods to find the perfect vantage point. Not only do rally fans accept the difficulty added risk of watching from remote areas, they realize that they are the first responders when there is an incident.
To top all that off, just because a rally car only has three wheels left doesn't mean its out of the race. It is not at all uncommon for a rally car to finish a stage on a flat tire, and they often finish stages with even worse damage. Loeb drove his car 80km while missing a wheel.
Petter Solberg finished a stage after a halfshaft locked destroying his wheel in the process of finishing the stage.
Then there is this one posted a while ago where Chris Greenhouse and Billy Irvin backed into a grader at speed and went on to finished the stage with a busted up car and some busted up ribs.
Spend a little time on GIS and you'll see that rally cars keep going even when they're damaged. Heck the LSPR used to be called the Press on Regardless because of the amount of damage the cars would take and keep going.
TL;DR Fans run out to help crashed rally cars because rally.