Le Mans 24 Hour 2008 Crash - MG-Lola

[sonydominates]

oooh, looks like the brakes might have locked up. Also that part of the track is pretty bumpy

[2010TheYuta]

salt ??

[nimzo47ify]

The fuck happen the car jumped or what ? O-O

[Lurer187]

@nimzo47ify upforce

[nr2003kid]

@nimzo47ify This is what we in the racing world call a blowover... It's where the car is turned around backwards at high speed, allowing air to get under the car and picking it up.

It's like if you take a piece of paper, and then blow under it, the air lifts it up and off the desk

[MikuHatsune10728]

he must have been pissed

[ursuss100]

Wow, lucky guy not to capsize completely...Nearly exactly where Sebastien Enjolras crashed to death :/

[MattB613]

I WANT THE 787B BACK DAMN IT!!!

[forzamotorsports]

And it still goes back to my comment that its the Bugatti circuit and i know its not the small track this is the 8mile long track still connects with the BUGATTI CIRCUIT and who said grid is good? lmao how many people still play that? like 30 people right? that game will never compare to forza...

[69houyt]

@forzamotorsports no. Its the full circuit de la sarthe. play forza 3, youll see.

[TheInnov8ive]

@forzamotorsports You're really stupid, i'm french i going to la mans each year, and i can tell you this is le mans 13km685m. Not the bugatti one. you're such a douche ....

[TheInnov8ive]

@forzamotorsports For more video check my old channel : Zv8innov8

[forzamotorsports]

I know its the Le Mans smart ass but its still on the Bugatti circuit

[HoMeGrOwN544]

@forzamotorsports Circuit De La Sarthe smart guy. the Bugatti is only 2 1/2 miles long with 10 turns. dont think they could fit the 24hr grid of cars on that lil fucker. Circuit De La Sarthe is over 8 miles long. the Bugatti circuit does share the Dunlop curve/chicane with Sarthe but that is it. 2 diff. tracks.

[forzamotorsports]

That is the buggati circuit lol i only know this cause of Forza 3

[DrLov3xGaming]

@forzamotorsports Dumbass its the 24 hours of Le Mans not 24 hours of Buggati circuit

[defofsaradomin]

@DrLov3xGaming true!

[defofsaradomin]

@forzamotorsports it is Le Mans and forza sucks.. >.> If u played Racedriver grid then u would know it was Le mans...

[05dabest]

@forzamotorsports stfu n play a true racing game: Gran Turismo 5. Then you'll see this is Circuit De La Sarthe.

[nr2003kid]

@forzamotorsports Nope, this is the part of the street course where you turn into the series of esses that lead back to the pit-straight and Bugatti cuircit

[megabowzer100]

@stuntkid121 no offence but thats a really stupid question

[watfernando]

The guy seems to be like: OH FUCK! I'VE CRASHED AT THE 23 HOURS AND 59 MINUTES? FUCK!

[CR125MANIAC]

@watfernando lol

[TheDaweda]

fantastic driver :D:D



[kayuk1234]

@stuntkid121

-.- LE MANS!!!!! CIRCUIT DE LA SARTE!!!

[timp955]

I understand there is a bump at the breaking zone that can really bite.

[XxWICKEDSSxX]

I would say the rear wing broke or flew off, that looked really similar to other wrecks ive seen where the back rotated that quickly.

[Bobobidodo]

Pretty similar to the way Rosberg and Perez crashed at monaco last weekend? The way the back suddenly goes ape-shit.

[n1u2t3z4]

i almost shot a laser beam out of my penis! >x0

[emanueljoab]

FPS looks really high.

[gerarddela]

He applied the brakes and was just starting to turn in and as he did the rear end went light and broke traction.

[buku111]

what happened at all? i didnt see any mistake :< Car jumped or what?

[BCandCCK177]

@buku111

the rear did suddenly oversteer. this could has been caused by a braking mistake or too much acceleration in front of the last curve which might has been supported by ground wave or something.

the races are really hard because if something like this oversteering suddenly happens in a race on a high speed track, you cant do anything and will crash. all you can do is never being inadventertly!

[01supercrash]

awesome video

[IbonedDerekDsister]

I like lights.



[thesoftish]

Oil on the track?

[lucasrenatops3]

oh its not gt5 lol

[rioross]

Did you see that vest the marshal was wearing? straight out of Tron!

[Specialized1989]

This RARELY ever happens, especially when i watch racing footage...... but that blue light had my attention for the entire time i could see it... maybe im devolving

[s2000amuse]

damn talk about shitty luck probably the rear wing or the road wasnt even in that area or a damn bump.

[fastmannnnn]

damn..

[aftermathsample305]

1:39 that guys outfit is the shit!!! straight outa TRON!

[TFToxixity]

Im glad he's okay, the damn thing almost flipped over!

[teikec]

How is a lifting front end of the car in any way connected to this spin? If you lift the front end, front tyres lose grip. You get "understeer" or better yet, you lose the ability to steer. In this crash he had the ability to steer, but the back end stepped out too fast(lost grip in the back) to be able to correct it, when he spun, he started going sideway, car list all aerodynamic ability it took too much air underneath and with no downforce from aerodynamics it slightly lifted off the ground.

[hoestess1]

@teikec

I wonder if there was some sort of rear wing failure. that back end came around fasssttt

[DannyBoySmith1993]

that car had aerodynamic problems earlier in that race, according to eurosport! apparently on the mulsanne, the front end kept lifting off slightly! that accident could've been a replay of Dumbreck's incident in 99, glad it wasnt!

[striderhiryu201]

Damn that's crazy. It doesnt seem like he got hurt which is a good thing.

[BigMike2521]

damn that bump before the porsche curbs!!

[ollie7400]

Best part is that he never actually crashed the thing, he just spun :P

Car still seems beat up alil tho ^^

And was a quite nice save with some fast reactions on the wheel, but like ProdriveGTR says, there was nothing more he could do.

[Blueball0120]

What car was this? The Audi R8? 

[ProdriveGTR]

quick countesteer good driver!,but nothing could be done really.

[Smngorin]

I love the part, everyone is taking pictures in the background! red light and flash, red light and flash...=)

[MrSockery]

Wow. Just completely out of nowhere.

[0zZChrysosZz0]

@dung805 but the race feeling is great ;) ..

[mackc6r]

in all of these type of videos you always hear the vette go by

[dung805]

Try the game Race Driver Grid! You can´t race 24 hours.

[Mordax14]

@dung805

???

get the Lambo, pretty easy then...

i am playing it with keyboard and without any drive helps and i win....

[dung805]

@Mordax14 You just can'trace24 hours only in grid world.

[MaddProductionz]

WOW THAT SUCKS!!! i would be mad =[ my car, my 24 hour race wasted

[vivaSchumi7]

He hit the bump, that bump has taken out so many cars

[kingdong4]

these porsche curves are damn dangerous

[angelking231]

i always hate it when during this race one of these awesome cars crashes...

their teams are all doing such a huge amout of work for the race, and then it ends like this! naw, i dont like it :D

[SynthieAl]

@angelking231 yes indeed. it fucks me up each time I see a car retire in such way.

[carsismeZ06]

It wasn't as bad as I thought it was. Now if we could only get a look at that Pescarolo Peugeot crash from last year.

[razgriz55]

@carsismeZ06

There is a amateur vid of it somewhere here on YT. Shows him flipping coming into the esses after the dunlop bridge

[iiM4GiiKz]

Great footage! I think the crash was caused simply by driver error, just snatched a break and lost it.

[eikrules]

I remember seeing this crash, i was watching from the small hill at the porsche curves when this happened.Things often happen there.

[sunnysang]

@59 did he hit a slick bit of paint (i noticed he crashed after rolling over a painted arrow)?

[AnAngryPossom]

@sunnysang no there's a bump on a part of the porsche curves that causes a car to lift and when these cars leave the ground even a little bit they act like big wings, especially at those speeds. so he hit the bump and it lifted his car off causing it to spin and flip :\ nothing he could have done, luckily he was alright, the Circuit de la Sarth is a dangerous one no doubt about it

[Jaiv74]

Why??

[Enri2077]

the crash maybe more dangerous

[spencermel]

what caused it?tire went?

[saskLS1]

That was into the Porsche curves right?

[sardosfish]

great video

[africanjungle52]

oooops! ;-)

[speedf1league]

Fantastic footage!

[XxDrOpShOtZxX]

Oh and it was tommy driving he was uninjured but he was lucky

[XxDrOpShOtZxX]

I know both drivers mike and tommy I been mikes house and there both good freinds with my dad

[bigredbosshog]

good video.......one of the best

[PeatCowman]

The crown of the road there makes braking pretty tricky. Unlucky. Fabulous footage.

[Xeonos]

hoooow ! ! !he's so unlucky ! ! ! the car had a problem??

[Enri2077]

unluky? sure!

luky? too much more

[Andyfreak1993]

WTF ???

[speedimages]

Great footage

[KKCavan]

wtf! oil?!

[inLeMans]

one of the best vids on you tube ...

[brainfadeonmulsanne]

I think Tomy Erdos was driving wasnt he?

[AngloDesignGroup]

It's Mike Newton doing one of the night stints - drove the car back to the pits after this too!

[Waitingforriki]

What absolutely beautiful footage! I could watch it for hours..Incredibly aesthetic..Thanx for posting..a great vid! ^_^

[k1o1x]

Is it my imagination or there was a blowover?

[Spyker88]

That was definately a blowever. In fact, one of many blowovers from 2008.

[playingbass45]

What a wild ride!

[coach777777]

Way to hang in there. A broken car can be a cruel mistress...

[rozdani]

effect go-kart

[Preenline]

Stunning, how did you get hold of this?

[SAMMYJS991]

I do have 1 question about this on-board:

youtube user "Gamer901" has video coverage of the entire 2008 24 hour race of lemans. I am not sure in what hour this crash happened. but if this car has an onboard camera, why is it that we never saw this video from this camera after the crash??

[SanitariumHome]

Cause its the teams own camera that they used, no TV channl had access to this camera, this footage was only released several months after the race.

[wrestlerrob1]

Andy Wallace is a cool customer.

[chap1964]

He is but that is Mike Newton driving, even cooler!

[wrestlerrob1]

@chap1964 Andy Wallace, you can hear his voice at the end of the video.

[alzenporsche93]

that´s hard

[thebadger05]

Did something break to cause that?

[24bcarver]

Probably so. That car was in an accident earlier in the race, so it's likely that something did break.

[taidokazu]

Yeah, the Muscle Milk car took it out in a three car scuffle at the 50min mark at the start. Only did front end Damage then. I think this was oil or a puncture. Love the ALMS teams but their LMP1 Lola caused some other teams grief that year. Interesting footage, as far as I know at this time of night ACO sends most of the Camera men to sleep intil about 6am, so no wonder this wasn't on TV. thx