Funniest racing experiences
 

come on then, cough up...

whats the funniest thing you have done, seen or been part of in your racing life????

make me laugh and win a prize.......

the best one will get the prize at ozwastree..................

:D

I saw wayne lander (some might know him) glue his eye lid shut once :D

I have also seen him being escorted away from stafford by police:D

russ woodhouse trying to marshall at southpot national a few years ago, with his trousers round his ankles, mind you don't know if thats funny or horrid:D

That's nice, you're going to give away your BX. :D

Over the PA system during my 2nd ever final (got bumped up from my first ever) leading it iirc "Car 3 we have your transponder at race control" :p

One night at our local club a guy broke a shock tower and didnt have any replacements. So he tried to superglue it and ended up having to go to casulty to get the car removed from his fingers.

When racing tourers i hit a marshall flat out on the striaght my car didnt even slow down but he landed on his shoulders:D

Bathy turned up....

one of the nationals many yrs ago..they had a rugby club bar onsite.

watching ben riley throw up in a waste paper bin in the rugby club bar blind drunk,then trying to hide a smashed ashtray under a rug infront of the fire hoping no one would see it... then outside after closing..daring ben riley to race dave snee up the rugby posts ,i chucked snee up for a head start,he was up and back down as ben just got to the cross bar....just in time to get caught up there and was hauled before the race directors the next morning on raceday and was soooooo close to getting kicked out of the meeting and the brca!

im sure graham and jim remember it..funniest thing ive seen.

dave

joe cockill marshaling at the euros when he slipped on the the table top rolled down it in front of the oncoming cars, and to top it of his trainer did a slow motion slide down the table top after him,would you belive no one shouted MARSHAL

A more recent one at our club, a marshall slipped on the floor while marshalling and landed flat on his back and was run over by the top 2 cars before he could move out of the way.

what about cutting spikes off tyres and saving them to glue on for times of needing more grip:rolleyes:

I'm not saying it was me ....... :D

liking the finger gluing and hospital one...but nothing has amazed me yet

Wayyy back in time - The Team Tanaplan Grand Prix circa 1990. Big open event, 150 drivers, loads of prizes. The race director called out for a driver called Billy Bellringer to report to race control. Billy Bellringer???!
Must have been the stress of the moment but me and my mate couldn't stop laughing for the rest of the day, although It loses a little in recollection admittedly ;)

hahaha......................

the Doc at the euros always makes me laugh!!!

amazing!

in austria when he told everyone the mayor died.....

so harsh.....but toooo funny....tricky just started laughing lol

Not amazing but funny when you look back!!!

I remember many years ago me and Pidge was mucking around in Mannie Panesar's brand new Gazebo. We managed too fall and snap one of the legs !!! oops.

What was funny now is Mannie was the genuine budget racer, prob took him years to get that Gazebo and we broke it on it's maiden voyage!!

Do you remember that one lee ???
It was at Stotfold

Why would it not surprise me that Tricky was laughing at that haha ;-)

One thing i do remember hearing about was Craig ramping his Cat 2000 out of the Hotel window (Euro's) - 3rd/4th floor i believe...... Then there was poor old Matt Needham having his car nailed to his table, followed later by it ending up in a tree and not to mention all of his tools and wheels etc super glued to his pit table - that was pretty funny.

Ellis and Sloppy's "incident" at the Kiddy Nat's a few years back, involved a certain someone turning off the other persons Tranny mid-race...... it wasn't at the time but looking back that was really funny (i'm sure Ellis will agree now)

Best thing was Roger 'sooty' Sutcliffe standing racing on rostrum when it fell forward you heard a real girly scream and then a thud!!!

Roger broke his arm, someone's dad (Mr Springer) ran over and grabbed poor Roger's broken arm and was squeezing while Roger shreeked in pain asking if he was alright.

thats going back a while.................

mannie the budget boy!!!!!!

what about craggy ramping his pred off the worlds venue in finland?????

tht was awesome!!!

about 150 ft high!!!!!!

i remember tricky setting fire to a certain persons pit table :)

oooo yeh!!!

Jukka!!!

hahahahaha

france was funny....we were throwing stuff between out 6 story windows...then moody threw a melon!!!

made a right mess

Sh***t yeah how could i forget!! Then the Crazy germans were wanting to set it on fire haha

There was one time when Craig Drescher and steven lander were sharing a room, but down the corridor some danish guys (i think) were also sharing, i think it started off by either steve or craig soaking one of the danish fellas with a bucket of water, then they replied by barging in to their room and nicking all of the bed covers from craigs room which you wouldnt think was too bad but they came back and when craig opened the door they fired a powder fire extinguisher into the room, supposedly craig and steve were hanging out the window completely covered in powder and they still had to sleep the rest of the night with the windows wide open in denmark in january:D

I supoose my dad being attacked by a pissed 25 stone hell's angel at the Tatton Park weekend meeting years ago, cos he claimed that we (me, Rob Jones and Lee Wyatt) nailed his daughter, was one to remember!!

Lee Wyatt, i remember when he shot someone on the rostrum with a BB gun:D


Did you nail her stan?

nah man, it was a hell's angel's daughter for god's sake, she was scary (i think Rob did though)! I was only 15/16 at the time, and was more concerned about not throwing up on my 3 cans of carlsberg special brew.

that same night, Lee was telling everyone in Tatton Park that there was a party going on at our tent, and free beer for everyone. We eventually stumbled back to the track area an hour later to notice hundreds of people looking for our tent. Genius!!

I haven`t seen him in years, the last i heard he had got some 15 year old up the duff:D

lol, u know him well then!

Does anyone remember a Border Counties meeting at Bridgenorth years ago when the rostrum was on a wasp's nest? During the final, i think the wasps decided to go at us, me and Lee screamed off the rostrum like little girls within seconds, and i think Phil Channon was the only person left on the rostrum, covered in wasps but not even remotely fussed. What a guy!!

Leg-end:D

I remember when neil cragg fell through the rostrum at ellesmere port, i think he was probably only about 10 then.

Do you remember gavin stephenson?

Remember that one.. think it was the finals meeting.

Think it was the same year Matt Needham and the other factory Schumacher drivers came to test out the Fireblade before it's release.

thts the funniest thing.....the fireblade lol

hell yeah!

Not sure if i should bring this one up, but remember Andy Jones' dad stamping on a lad's car cos he took Andy out in the race? :D :D :D :D

I remember me and Doddy setting fire to our tent once too :o

i remeber a meeting at oulton park race circuit,many years ago when i got accused of racing around the fullsized car circuit with my ople manta, and it was some kid (well know racer now) razzing round on someone's motorbike. me simon pickering and paul mckenna nearly got kicked of the circuit buy some 20 stone skinhead from security

I think Gav is back racing(micros though)

I think lee started this thread because i said about that in another one, that was not a good day, but bloody funny now:D

Last winter some lad had a rag on his table and when he turned his car on something shorted a spark hit the rag and woof! xxxs gone:D :D

So funny, i think he cried:D

oh hell yes... i remember that one... at the Ellesmere Port Civic Hall...

FMCC staged a mass walkout, and I think it left one car in the A Final... Wasn't funny at the time, but a bit of wee came out when you brought that one up Stan... :D :D :D :o

Another thing that always makes me laugh is watching stan glue tyres up... never fails to get towel, hands, other tyres glued to everything... I encourage anyone to see it... book your tickets for oswestry now!

Perhaps it's about time I admitted to this now after so many years.

Many years back.. went to a national @ Holbeach and in the middle of the night we decided to "modify" Nick Goodall's pitting tent by removing a few poles and changing it's location.

Remember waking up the following morning to the raised voices of "family" Goodall going ballistic about it.

Sorry Nick, it was funny at the time. :D :rolleyes:


Seem to remember the same trick being played on the Bowaters at a Tiverton National. There was poles everywhere. Infact it seemed to happen to the Bowaters quite regularly. :D :D :D

yes...i did it to the bowaters at bury St edmonds.......

hahahaah

We raced a few times in the hall at Bury metro, the one which is burnt to the ground, just during the winter of one year only before they made it an aerobics centre. Anyway, there was this lad called Martin McElroy and he always had to have the best, be the fastest and brag the most but he couldn't drive for toffee, although he liked showing off if chance to.

One meeting after the finals, he took his ZXR out on the outdoor track and sprayed his rear tyres with motorspray, lit them, accelerated and with a burst of flames it went out and drove back to himself again. It was dark so it looked cool.

As a crowd gathered he put more and more spray on, plus whatever else people offered. Until eventually he was driving around a ball of fire and it didn't go out, we all expected it to happen and he couldn't put it out, was hilarious watching him panic. It soon fizzled out, lots of melted bits but the car was still a runner really. Don't think I saw him again.

All in one weekend:

Then there was Gav Crolla, who brought to life an old Pred he had and raced it at Batley (might have been 2002/3). Every race it broke, was so fragile! So after the final which it did finish, he proceeded to jump on it..... and it didn't break, so I think he buried it in his garden.

Then Duncan Lomas too busy drinking to notice airbed over-inflating and going bang, blamed his girlfriend in a drunken rage and threw his credit card at her to get a Taxi home. Gav went and picked the card up "What the f@ck she meant to do with this, wave a Taxi down with it?"

Went to the Pub down the road, all went to the bar and went out to the beer garden. We all put our drinks down on this wooden bench and Stu Mahon was the first to sit down - all the drinks went.

loved tht!! longs in the lead.........