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[lulup]

Yesterday,I created a topic [What is the most ridiculous incident you ever seen in F1].My choice was 98 Silverstone.

BUT!!!after watched today Macau GP,I have another idea,that's create this new topic.
My choice is today(19 November)morning warm-up of GUIA race(Touring Car race),Two people hit by a race car and 1 died 1 injured.Normally [race-car-went-to-the-spectator-area-and-kill-some-people]
is not so strange,LeMans,CART or Rally had some accident like this in the past.
BUT!!!That two people is not a spectator or marshal,they were completely NO relationship to that race,they're just the tourist.
Can you imagine you are visit some place and when you were taking photograph with your friend,suddenly a race car "dive" to you and then kill you??????I can't imagine!!
It's the most ridiculous and strange accident I ever seen!!
No doubt about that!!

[hyper!! james]

The most ridiculous accident I've ever seen in F1 was Martin Brundle's "Top Gun" in Melbourne '96, not because of the scale of the accident, but due to the fact that the team's rivals were making waves about the size of the head protectors in the cockpit of the Jordan 196.

Ferrari and McLaren had interpreted the rules slightly wildly and had come up with huge protectors, whereas Jordan had taken it to the extreme and theirs were practically non-existent save for the foam. Their rivals were claiming that a driver would never survive if he had a serious accident...

However, after ITV's pundit flipped his car upside down, flew over half of the field and then proceded to disintegrate as it barreled through the yellow painted gravel and came to rest as a mangled heap of engine and atom-sized carbon fibre pieces, Brundle walked calmly away from the incident and made the restart.

[DangerMouse]

Hitting a pitwall on the warm up lap.

Spinning off on a warm up lap.

Cubehead rules when it comes to silly accidents.

[Maldwyn]

Piquet v Salazar at the German GP in 1982

[Phoo Kinnell]

I think I will pick one where no one was killed...

Definitely cubeheads drive into the pitwall.

[schumilover]

poor folks

cubehead no return no refund no questions asked!

[Manson]

Monaco 1988.
Senna had stuffed it into the barrier before the tunnel with a 30+ second lead. The marshalls were rolling the car backwards and the marshall between the side pod and the broken left front slipped and fell. The other marshalls rolled the left front right tire over top of the fallen marshall. When they realized what they had done they all stopped in horror to run to the left front of the car. The fallen marshall then jumped up as to say "I'm okay" with this classic look on his face. I must've watched it ten times and laughed harder each time!!!

[Dironey]

One of the best happened in CART a few years ago. Bryan Herta had spun and was beside the track, facing the wrong way. Then someone else, Alex Barron I think, went off at the same place and was coming straight at Herta, and it looked like it would be a head-on collision. Instead, thanks to the low nose of Herta's car, Barron's car climbed it and ended up completely on top of it. It looked hilarious, but with a bit of bad luck Herta could have been decapitated.

[Spot]

If you want ridiculous, I think you need to look no further then the brazilains deliberate crash into Prost at the beginning of the Japanese GP in 1990. But then that was no accident...

People talk about DC crashing on the warmup lap. I seem to recall Prost doing the same thing ... in a Ferrari ... at Imola.

Indy 500 - can't remember the year. One of the front row starters on the warm up lap spins and takes out the whole front row.

[mhferrari]

1992 Indy 500?

On pole, Roberto Guerrero.

I guess he got on the throttle too quick, and went into the infield wall.

All on a pace lap.

[jk]

Or the CART race at Surfers Paradise this year. First Servia overtakes Tracy by taking a shortcut when a car block a chicane. Then Tracy overtakes by almost drive through a chikane, and then finally, Servia tries to overtake Tracy på going over the curb, but it launches him into the air and take Tracy out!
That was somekind of a fight!

[Zawed]

Its funny, noones mentioned Taki Inoue and his adventures with vehicles used by F1 officials in 1995.....

[Hooster]

Cooltart.