In Boat Footage From A V8 Superboat Crash – Hang Time, People Diving Out Of The Way, Crazy!


In Boat Footage From A V8 Superboat Crash – Hang Time, People Diving Out Of The Way, Crazy!

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This is one of the few crash videos we’ve ever posted that made us actually curl up and brace for impact! V8 Superboat racing is no stranger to us here on BangShift. We’ve shown a ton of videos featuring these machines over the years and we’re awed by their ability to turn on the water like a Formula One car does here on land. During this lap, the driver and navigator get out of synch, the driver is late for a turn, and then it all goes wrong. Don’t get us wrong, this isn’t some violent flipping end over end wreck, but it is scary when you know that the people driving that thing cannot stop it. Once the boat becomes a low flying cruise missile, all bets are off.

Pay close attention to the guys in the orange shirts because those fellows become the stars of the show as this wayward boat bears down on them. A couple of the quicker reacting guys are off a moving before the watercraft gets too close, but there’s a slow buffalo in every herd and that guy makes a Jackie Chan-esque flop to safety just before the boat runs his ass over. This is crazy stuff.

When the driver misses the turn and gets the boat up on the tires marking the outside of the track, the people in the boat are officially helpless passengers. It skates over the water, over land, through a tire wall, and ultimately is stopped by a fence! The driver is able to click the engine off so he (or she) was with it and we heard no overt screaming, so we’re going on the premise that everyone is OK.

This is truly nutso stuff and it reinforces how absolutely crazed the people who race these boats are (we still want to drive one)!

CLICK TH “WATCH ON VIMEO BUTTON” BELOW TO SEE THIS WILD AUSSIE V8 SUPERBOAT CRASH!

V8 SUPERBOAT from MotorsportsTV on Vimeo.


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