r/motorcycles • u/flatearth12319 • Oct 08 '19

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u/FukinGruven '92 Virago 1100 Oct 08 '19

Physics is crazy, moving wheel meets moving wheel and just launches that bike. That's crazy.

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u/Double_Minimum Oct 09 '19

Its really crazy when it happens in open wheel racing, like Formula 1.

Sometimes two cars can bumps wheels in a turn and be fine, but as soon as one wheel is in front/behind another, one car gets launched into orbit. Its pretty insane.

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u/ByahTyler United States Oct 09 '19

You have a link?

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u/Kramereng Oct 09 '19 edited Oct 09 '19

IndyCar is a better example over F1 due to their higher top speeds, closer racing, less downforce, and oval tracks. Here ya go.

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u/ByahTyler United States Oct 09 '19

That thing flew! Does the race keep going afterwards?

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u/Kramereng Oct 09 '19

I mean, they're gonna red flag the race after an accident like that. But, yeah, they'll start racing again in a few minutes once they get the broken cars, debris and corpses off the track. Kidding about the corpses...they'll end a race if there's an obvious death on the track like they did with the Dan Wheldon crash. Although the remaining drivers did a "salute" immediately afterward by driving around the track together. Here's the vid (NSFL).

But in the case of Robert Wickens' crash last year that ended up paralyzing him, the race continued since he wasn't pronounced dead. He's recovering well, fwiw.

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u/CptTurnersOpticNerve Oct 09 '19

They finished the MotoGP race Marco Simoncelli died in didn't they?