Sometimes, as our friends at JustGoFaster say, it's better to Just Go Home....Middle Eastern Rally Champion Mohammed Ben Sulayem got his first and surely last ever ride in a Renault R28 F1 car and managed to produce something certain to be included in the annals of FAIL. He was drag racing a Ford GT driven by Romain Grosjean who narrowly escaped being smashed into the pit wall.
Can you say embarrassing?
UPDATE: Newest video from Axis reader Dan Frawley who was there!! !(thanks Andre!)
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Did you notice how quickly the safety car was rolling versus the time it took to deploy in Melbourne!
ReplyDeleteAnd did you notice that he didn't feather the throttle at ALL. He just stood on it and expected it to stick... IDIOT.
ReplyDeleteJust about as embarrassing as the crew of ETHIAD airlines crashing a brand spanking new Airbus into a wall while conducting ground tests and doing something stupid to silence the alarm...
ReplyDeletehttp://blog.flightstory.net/418/airbus-a340-600-ground-test-accident/
Look a bit down in the comments to read about the way it happened and why.
Maybe the French shouldn't let people from the UAE touch their machines anymore :)
If he was in the R27 car he probably could have gotten away with flooring it, not with the R28 car with no T/C...
ReplyDeleteAnyone got pix of the aftermath?
To be expected to be honost..
ReplyDeletehere's a video from the pitwall,
run for your life!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MXNn5IaUbM&NR=1
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Andre
hey guys, I got a better view than this other footage, plus some of the pre-race stuff and crash in slo-mo check it out.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJpURLp4wYI
You will notice from the first vids that we were actually standing exactly where the R28 hit the wall, glad I wasn't there! better footage from my seat!!
DIRKA DIRKA MOHAMMED JIHAD DIRKA!
ReplyDeleteMOHAMMED MOHAMMED REVLIMITER DIRKA CRASH!
That was not an R28, it was just a tarted up Enzo!
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CW (JNM)who posted on Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:11:00 PM.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you should actually read the official french accident report rather than repeating slanderous comments you read on the web.
The aircraft in question was undergoing a runup test by an airbus employee under the supervision of an airbus test pilot. There was one UAE representative on the flight deck but he had no role in the accident.
http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2007/f-cj071115/pdf/f-cj071115.pdf
There were two main causes: 1) no chocks were used to hold the aircraft’s wheels in place during the test. 2) All four engines were brought to full power to test one leaky engine. Procedures required the use of chocks and running up two engines - the one leaking and one on the other wing (to prevent torquing and yawing of the fuselage). These two procedures had been frequently ignored by all Airbus technicians at the test center for some time.