Sports Rubbish » GP2 http://www.sportsrubbish.com The Weirdest And Worst Of The Sporting World Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:01:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Video: GP2 Asia Crash Between Sakon Yamomoto and Yelmer Buurman http://www.sportsrubbish.com/2009/02/17/auto-racing/gp2/video-gp2-asia-crash-between-sakon-yamomoto-and-yelmer-buurman/ http://www.sportsrubbish.com/2009/02/17/auto-racing/gp2/video-gp2-asia-crash-between-sakon-yamomoto-and-yelmer-buurman/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:45:00 +0000 Jonathan Sacks http://www.sportsrubbish.com/?p=366

Standing starts can be dangerous, something which two drivers found out in this weekend’s GP2 Asia Series race at Losail International Circuit in Qatar.

At the beginning of the race, watch as Sakon Yamomoto fails to get his car started, which results in the quickly accelerating car of Yelmer Buurman crashing into him from behind as he can’t get away in all the chaos of swerving cars.

Amazingly, neither of the drivers were hurt in the wreck, which just goes to show how much research and technology goes into keeping these racers safe in an accident.

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On my way home last night, I saw two coyotes dart out in front of a car.  The car slowed down, and the coyotes went on their way. One of their distant canine relatives was not quite as lucky during this weekend’s GP2 race in Istanbul, Turkey.

Watch as driver Bruno Senna (nephew of Formula One legend Ayrton Senna) enters the pits with heavy damage from an unknown source. He eventually can be overheard explaining it all though: "F—ing dog in the middle of the circuit, man!"

Sure enough, not one but two dogs had wandered on to the track in the middle of the race. The 2nd dog brought out a caution. The first, well, you can see what it did to Bruno’s right front wheel. The video doesn’t show too much of the incident, but if you don’t want to see a dog getting hit by a race car, you might want to skip this one.

Following in the trend of last week’s horse attack, I fully expect to see a story soon where a dog driving a car runs over a human. This war between animals and man is only just starting.

Senna retires after hitting dog during GP2 race (Reuters)

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