Those crazy Aussies and their lust for smoky burn-outs and drifts have offered us tons of online entertainment over the years – even when things turn sour.
This video was shot a couple of months ago at the 2015 Longford Revival festival, which according to the organizers, celebrates “the historical home of Australian Motorsport”.
It shows YouTuber “Motha Spangler” blasting through a corner in his supercharged Holden (Commodore) Ute and doing an awesome burnout-drift combo when he suddenly loses control smacking the pickup into a fence on the corners of a garage.
The driver, who previously recorded himself going 260km/h or 161mph, seemed unhurt and was pretty cool about it.
This is how he described / explained the incident in a posting on YouTube:
“To all the haters that think they know what they’re talking about & make assumptions… This was my ute,” wrote Motha Spangler
“One of the cars a few cars before me hit a hay bail & dragged hay across the road surface. Which with any other event I’ve done, the event is paused by the marshal’s (which I never seen any with flags etc), assessed, cleaned up & the action resumed. This wasn’t done, I wasn’t aware of the hay & the surface became like ice once the back flicked to the left, then the back hooked, bit in & whipped around before gathering control…”
“In all the years I’ve been doing motorsports with the ute, it has never whipped or dug in like this & I wondered what had happened when I got out, trying to figure it out. Then someone mentioned the hay across the road & it made sense. Not laying blame to anyone be any means…. Its one of those unfortunate things that happens with any kind of Motorsports. Its a risk we accept when we sign the forms to enter any kind of motorsports event. No one was hurt or injured thankfully, we clean up the mess & move forward in a positive way.”