Hello all,
As someone who owned a 5 for a few years (and hope to again very soon), I really enjoyed watched the racing 5’s for the first time at Snetterton on Sat. I was lucky to capture a collision at the start of a Group B race, so as requested by a few of the fans on the hill, I have uploaded it to you-tube. Just search for mx-5 snetterton 3rd april. I’m not sure why there are 3 separate series or what the differences are but hope to go to more races.
cheers
Hi Boldtop
If you become a member of the club you would be able to bid for free race tickets at the MX5 events.
Peter
Lucky, for who?
Well seeing that everybody, especially the owners/drivers, know that motor sport is dangerous, and as nobody was hurt and one car got a bit bent, I guess pretty much everybody really. I bet lots of people were photographing/filming the action and posting the results to just about everybody they know so I really don’t understand your point.
Seeing as I was not replying to a post from you then it matters not a jot whether you understand or not.
Is it lucky that someone has an accident, be it on track or on the road? Of course not.
My response to your post is no more irrelevant that yours is to the original.
It’s the accepted risk in motor sport, so don’t make such a big issue out of something as minor as that particular incident.
Nick and Janes post was not at all irrelevant to the original poster.
I considered the original poster mention of being “lucky to capture a collision” in somewhat bad taste.
How can that be good for everyone as you said. A collision is bad news some worse that others but bad news.
Your post Countryboy was making excuses for what the orininal poster said when you do not know why he posted those remarks in the first place.
Well Ivan Leary, the driver involved was grateful for any footage. I’m repairing one of the wheels at the moment.
The car was repaired in time for the final race, but unfortunately it was cancelled due to an incident in another race meaning the track curfew was reached.
That round will be run at Anglesey instead.
All’s well that ends well.
It’s all Greek to me!
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I considered the original poster mention of being “lucky to capture a collision” in somewhat bad taste.
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Tell that to the media and everybody else who takes photos/videos at such events and maybe they’l! delete any images you consider to be in “bad taste”.
Thanks Eddie, it seems that once again Countryboy has nothing better to do.
To clarify, note the title of this topic is incident footage requested, by a few people including drivers in racing gear I might add. They didn’t think it was in bad taste, and they’re the guys risking their necks out there. It was lucky because one of the guys filmed my camera footage on his phone to take to the clerk of the course to assist them with the incident.
I was going to post more footage including the re-start and other races, but the strong breeze ruined the audio track.
I enjoyed watching the 5’s racing - good day out.
That makes sense now. On a phone it is normal text. Not even sure why Symbol, which was selected by accident, is even on this forum.
I raced motorbikes at national level for 10 years, everyone appreciates all the thrills and spills associated with motor sport wether its a good move on someone or a racing incident, look at the Alonso crash, we were all “lucky enough” that it got caught on camera just to remind us of the risks involved with the sport, but also gives the fans some appreciation proving design of the cars as he walked with relatively minor injury’s, then when the dust settles the finger pointing can be start.
I think it would be in bad taste if there was a fatality and people were looking at the footage for some morbid fascination.
I was always happy to see some footage of myself racing wether I was upside down or winning a race.
Mr Leary’s wheel
All better now though
Insofar as there might be an investigation to determine the cause of the incident (was it just a normal racing incident or was one driver in error etc etc) then I think it’s perfectly fair for the OP to say they were lucky to capture the incident on film, and it would seem the drivers and marshals appreciated it.
Some people seem a tad too sensitive and need to stop and think before passing judgement.
Starts are always the most fraught, nothing deliberate occurred.
Even if there was, which there wasn’t, you risk ruining your own race in doing so.
I blame the tyres! I knew those Hankooks you sold me Nick was dodgy…
should have stuck with T1Rs…
That was the one car on T1R’s Martin.