That will be a really interesting insurance claim

[FROSTY]

I did the second round of the nationals at levels this weekend--bloody good fun
There is a marshal however who is going to have to put in a VERY interesting insurance claim.
itll go something like
I had my vehicle parked in a feild alongside a very solid tyre wall.
There was a road the other side of the wall
A high powered motorcycle leapt 3.0m in the air OVER the tyre wall and landed on my bike.
The rider ran off and about 5 minutes later I saw him going past at extremely high speed on an identical motorcycle.

On a serious note --Young mister Fitzgetrald has a bruised knee a buggered bike but otherwise got off from a high speed crash very lightly -thank gosh

[Macktheknife]

Ooooooerrrr bugger! lucky little bugger then.

[slinky]

gee.... the most you expect is a ball flying over a fence and smashing the windscreen at a sport event.....
But a motorbike flying over the fence and smashing your whole vehicle! i bet no one saw that coming!!! thats crazy!

[Kickaha]

wouldn't be to suprised if it's a write off, it was a Terrano the bike landed on, and it landed on the roof

[FROSTY]

Id like to put a smallwager on that the guy will be driving a NEW sang yong soon :Punk:

[limbimtimwim]

I remember years ago at a Nissan Mobil 500 an open wheeler of some kind (Probably Formula Ford) had an accident and a wheel came off and bounced down the road, over a fence and went into a car. Smashed the windscreen, bent the roof in good.

[Toast]

Can someone explain how the hell this magician managed to launch a bike 3m in the air and clear a fence? The world's greatest highside? Hit an obstacle? Out of a corner? On a straight?

[Joni]

Can someone explain how the hell this magician managed to launch a bike 3m in the air and clear a fence? The world's greatest highside? Hit an obstacle? Out of a corner? On a straight? Thats the million dollar question I reckon...

:shit:

[nadroj]

Hayden may have to revert to coming on out Pie n Pints again for more practice.

[onearmedbandit]

I remember years ago at a Nissan Mobil 500 an open wheeler of some kind (Probably Formula Ford) had an accident and a wheel came off and bounced down the road, over a fence and went into a car. Smashed the windscreen, bent the roof in good.

I remember that. And one of the sponsers was (iirc) Winstone Glass. They paid for the repairs as it was great publicity. The replay got played over and over. Amazing with each bounce how much higher the wheel got!

[_Gina_]

I remember years ago at a Nissan Mobil 500 an open wheeler of some kind (Probably Formula Ford) had an accident and a wheel came off and bounced down the road, over a fence and went into a car. Smashed the windscreen, bent the roof in good.


this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6DsYlaGuj4

[onearmedbandit]

Different to the one I was thinking of.

[limbimtimwim]

That's the one I remember. Funny, I remember the car being on the other side of the road and facing the other way.

Still, it was a zillion years ago and I was probably about 2 years old or something.

[Shaun]

Can someone explain how the hell this magician managed to launch a bike 3m in the air and clear a fence? The world's greatest highside? Hit an obstacle? Out of a corner? On a straight?

I think it was caused by some riders braking sooner than Heyden expected them to, his handle bar got caught up on top of one of the Yamaha seats and tipped him off, and then the bike just started to bounce and tumble along and off the track and landed on the vehicle

[DemonWolf]

Lucky no one was seriously injured... would have been something to see thats for sure.

[212-Motorsport]

I remember years ago at a Nissan Mobil 500 an open wheeler of some kind (Probably Formula Ford) had an accident and a wheel came off and bounced down the road, over a fence and went into a car. Smashed the windscreen, bent the roof in good.

Funni You say that I have Video footage of that lol

[Flash44]

This is the result of the crash.

50978

[Momentum]

DAMN !!!!!

i would say that will be a write off

[What?]

Can someone explain how the hell this magician managed to launch a bike 3m in the air and clear a fence? The world's greatest highside? Hit an obstacle? Out of a corner? On a straight?

Could have been any one of those options. I have seen a few bikes go up high like that over the years. Even seen a chair do Pitt Special imitation.

[MadDuck]

Ended up being the most photographed "vehicle" all day.... the tyre mark on the roof was pretty impressive :shit:

[Slim]

I think it was caused by some riders braking sooner than Heyden expected them to, his handle bar got caught up on top of one of the Yamaha seats and tipped him off, and then the bike just started to bounce and tumble along and off the track and landed on the vehicle

I don't know about how the accident happened, but it was in the braking zone at the end of the back straight, and the bike managed to hit the tyre wall in just the right way to shoot it straight up in the air, higher than the 3 meter hedge surrounding the track, and it landed on the marshalls 4x4 as documented in the photo attached to an earlier post. I don't know how far back the marshalls car was parked from the wall, but the entrance of a corner is not where you expect something like that to happen.

Ssangyong are talking with the marshall about doing him a deal to get him in a new Ssanyong of some description, and this offer was witnessed by everyone at the prize giving on Sunday night.

[Kickaha]

Slim I thought I saw you leanng on the fence when we came in from the sidecar race, but I didn't spot you in the pits anywhere