Torrential rain smashes the Nurburgring & chaos ensues l Europe 2007
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2024
- During the 2007 European Grand Prix, rain smashed and hit the Nurburgring circuit. Cars aquaplaned everywhere, going off track, spinning, and 5 cars collected in one gravel trap before a safety car and red flag.
Some sections are cut due to copyright, one being Kimi Raikkonen missing the pit entry due to wet conditions and having to go round again on slick tyres, slipping and sliding, while almost everyone else went into the pits. The second is the commentators talking about Marcus Winkelhock leading a Grand Prix. He was 27, in a Spyker, on his debut. And he led the Grand Prix. Enjoy!
![50fps] Rain Madness @European GP - w/ Murray Walker commentary (2007)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/z3kmZe6ErxU/mqdefault.jpg)
![50fps] Rain Madness @European GP - w/ Murray Walker commentary (2007)](/img/tr.png)
That safety car sped up... he was like "Not today, not today!"
It's shocking how the rain came so fast that in less than 4 laps, they went from slicks to full wets
Nürburgring is located around one of the highest summits of the Eifel range, and even if they are low altitude mountains (the circuit's elevation is around 600 metres), the weather here can get extremely wet at times-the circuit is also subject to hailstorms and snowfall in the cold seasons...
My grandparents and parents have been there many time the past 50 years and no matter it it was in spring, summer or autumn - they always hat clothes for all kinds of weather and temperatures with them. Snow in May did not only happen once. @100
So they had this problem before Jules Bianchi and did nothing to ensure a car never hit a tractor getting cars off the track? Astonishing.
Now it's happened again
Or maybe dont drive at racing speeds on a yellow flag? Deserved it for that tbh
@@R9naldo Are you actually for real? "Deserved it"? You are sick...
In this scenario there was a safety car which should have made the area safe. In fairness Martin Brundle always shouted about this, including in this race. But I think the idea being that with a yellow flag, drivers have to slow down so they wouldn’t lose it there.
@@R9naldoYou’re saying he deserved his death?
This was my first f1 race that I went too and sat just at the end of the straight.. Probably my favorite f1 memory ever
Martin Brundle previewing what happened to Jules Bianchi years later when that Toro Rosso hit that tractor
Same narrow escape from Michael Schumacher in 2003 Brazil GP when he slipped away at Senna Curve but retired at the end
@@abdzire_94 I remember that Brazil 2003
Had Bianchi hit the truck backwards, he would have survived. RIP
@@huwillysh Bianchi did hit the truck backwards...
@@DoubleWavedYellows Uhh...No he didn't chief
Here after Suzuka 2022. Must agree with other comment about this incident being in 2007 and Bianchi would lose his life after Suzuka 2014. Why won't logic intervene? No tractors or recovery vehicles on track when there is threat of aquaplaning with cars still on trac k.
Cars 2 Italy race in a nutshell
Lol
Except that they didn’t crash but rather slid into the gravel trap
I didn't know you could compare that to Cars 2.
Good awareness by the safety car team!!!
"f***** wet, can't see a thing"
Charlie whiting: "yeah sure let's send marshals and tractors into a danger zone that will have other cars flying into it out of control, keeping the race going is more important than human life."
And then in Turkey 2020 qualifying, Michael Masi does the exact same thing.
Putting Hamilton back on track was their priority number one. The same happened in China, it was digusting.
@@superjarri Don't you get tired of your hamilton rage boner blinding every single thing you're thinking, including situations that have zero to do with him?
I'd be willing to bet race control was so much chaos at that moment they couldn't spare one iota of brainpower to try and rig anything in favour of anyone, particularly a driver who was driving for a team that the FIA were on record as trying to destroy at that time.
But yeah, apparently all they cared about was getting Hamilton on track, sure....sureeeeee
@@cdname47 oh yeah, it was a coincidence that this happened like three times in F1 history, two times for Hamilton in the same season... In favor of a british driver, in a sport directed by british people, in a british team. I don't know if you are naive or just a hoolingan, I hope it's the first option.
@@superjarri I think Abu ahabi 2021 proves your points are a bit deluded, if there was a Hamilton bias there wouldn't have been a restart at all....
_No one can break the Winkel Rock_
5:09 the big crash starts
There is a reason the Nordschleife at NBR is called green hell. I worked at the 24h race at the NBR for a couple of years, and it had to be paused multiple times due to bad weather(usually fog).
Plus the weather is just ultra unpredictable.
It can be sunny on one part and freezing on a different part of the 25km track.
Of course the red flag was inevitable with the intermediate drivers being unable to follow the Safety Car, but it surely would have been entertaining if they just kept the safety car out until everyone went for the heavy wet tyre.
I was 6 or something this race made me start watch f1 i think back then
Has anyone in any motor race ever crashed into the Safety Car before?
I think it happened in a GT Race at Spa
Safety cars and Medical cars have been hit a few times there a few compilation videos on UA-cam of them
I remember Nick Heidfeld crashed into the medical car once, also remember in a world touring car race someone actually did crash into a safety car
There’s actually compilations of safety car crashes like one where a driver crashed into a safety car’s door (I think it just bent the door)
The WTCC one was Franz Engstler I think-both cars were totalled and Engstler was pretty mad at the organizers afterwards xD
The cars sliding off was my earliest memory of F1
Compared to these days, the red flag took so long 😒
NYC EPrix brought me here.
Edit: I'm back for Seoul EPrix's pile-up.
Sadly it was his only start.
What a legend was he
And his car fucked up on him later on, as his hydraulics failed on lap 15. Poor Markus... :(
the 3rd lap of the race was really frightening to me, we couldve had something like what happened to Bianchi in 2014 happen in 2007.
Marcus Winkelhock's only claim to fame
Interestingly if he did that today he would get a penalty for "driver coaching"
30 sec gap from p2, nobody mentioned that
My fav race ever 😂 it was a nice one, glad to witness these moments again 😍😍
It's been 15 years since Markus winkleholk debut here in nurburgring.
Came here after yesterday's Dutch GP, 2023
Mike isn’t in the mood for talking 😂😂😂
I've noticed that there's no audio of the team radio or the boss of Spyker, whoever he is.
Yeah, TV glitch which didn't allow for outside audio...
NO ONE CAN STOP THE WINKELROCK
Nice video
Thank you mate!
Hamilton pulling a MarioKart move
Anyone know what the red sign is that pops up on the redbull at 3:12?
It’s the lid of the fuel filling port lifting up ready for the pit stop
@@gavgrewal2704 Was it normal / legal for the fuel filling port lid to be opened while the car was still in motion? Seems like thats the type of move that FIA safety officers would frown upon.
@@germanpolarbear It used to be legal but then it got banned at the end of 2009. The fuel port lid would not close immediately after a pit stop, so there were some incidents where the fuel hose would get stuck and fuel would be sprayed everywhere (Massa at Singapore 2008 and Kovaleinen at Brazil 2009 for example). So after 2009, the FIA said that the cars can only be refuelled in the garage and the fuel port lid must remain closed whenever the car is outside the garage
Insane!
Nobody:
Today at the Nurburgring:
Spa 2021 bring me here
That was madness
Clever from Hamilton.
Rosberg did something similar the year before in Hungary... but that was for retirement not for continuing in the race
I thought illegal. Getting assistance to rejoin the race using a crane means you are out of the race. Massa would have won championship otherwise.
@@GK-qc5ry I thought too. But maybe Lewis knows something that we didnt know.
@@GK-qc5ry how would Lewis retiring from this race affect a championship 1 year later lol
In the end I think Lewis didn't even score any points here so it didn't matter for the championship
Massa was always bad In the wet and this more than anything else cost him the title
Exelentw carrera verla completa
rip mike
whos mike
Slender_04 F1 idk
@@slender_04f14 9:58
Schumi 😍
Hamilton was stuck in the sand with all those others How are they still racing is it double standar?
He kept his engine running and had no damage. The others either hit the wall or stalled.
Davidson too reverses out and keeps going If you notice.
If your car is operational the rule is you can be rescued.
As they say in the commentary, it happened to Micheal Schumacher here after he lost it when Montoya brilliantly passed him in 03, marshals pushed him off and he still got 6th place
The junkyard
As impressive as it was that Lewis got out of there, it kinda makes everyone else who spun off look like complete jokers who didn't even try.
I thought illegal. Getting assistance to rejoin the race using a crane means you are out of the race. Massa would have won championship otherwise.
@@GK-qc5ry Lewis still would have won the title even if he retired or got DQ'd as he finished outside of the points in 9th that race in any case.
@@GK-qc5ry this is 07 not 08
@@GK-qc5ry it was illegal back then and it allways has been ..
its outrageous how they simply put him back into the race..and he knew something cause everyone else got out of their cars when they got stuck in the gravel..and he just sit there waiting for no reason for a crane to pick him up back to the race.. wich is exactly what happent..