Huge go kart crash at Teamsport Basildon on 4/11/23

[@ghost4004]

in his head he was thinking "If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver"

[@Scraze8]

True 😂

[@rickyspanish4792]

the mistake was the gap didn't really exist :P

[@xXSlImReEfErXx]

Zactly🤣🤣🤣

[@boardertrashtv8638]

You beat me to it 😂 This is where that motto gets you!

[@AlessandroRomanelli]

Yeah but the guy who said it f**king died so he should have thought twice about who to quote 🤔

[@freakinccdevilleiv380]

The most violent 8 mph crash in history

[@Leecart1]

🤣

[@jerome8670]

😂😂 to be fair id of got out of the throttle ages ago being the behind driver …. That gap was never there at all 😩

[@NickthaGeek]

​@jerome8670 I wouldnt of got off the throttle but would of changed my point of entry to try and get a better line on the exit. That said, these tracks are always quite difficult for overtakes as the karts are slow with low top speed

[@jerome8670]

@@NickthaGeek yeah exactly … 👍🏽 I’m just saying I think to follow that situation in the middle of the track is a bit naive! I’d of been a lot wider to get the jump after the corner … in turn able to avoid actually hitting the guy who fell out of the kart 😂

[@Freedom-hornet24]

Racing for the spot he tried to used the door that was open but it slammed shut in his face wasn’t wrong for going for it just didn’t have the time to clear

[@slowpope]

The guy should never have gone for that move 😅 hopefully he learns from his mistakes 😂

[@robainscough]

That's a classic Max move ... "he didn't give me room" excuse that Max uses all the time ... even when Max is off the track because he made such a stupid pass attempt.

[@fkez0510]

​@@robainscoughdamn, a Max hater spotted in the wild

[@dusk33r]

​@@robainscough is Max all you can think about?

[@robainscough]

@@fkez0510 Where did I say I hate Max? Because Max fails in talent has no bearing on if I like or hate the guy or indifferent. I don't know Max personally, never met him, probably never will. His public persona during races and off the track are one of a man-child. In order for me to "hate Max" he would need to do something that impacts my life in a negative way ... no offense racing a car around a circuit isn't exactly life impacting for me, just entertainment not a cure for cancer.

[@JGunit]

Oh I can promise he dosen't want to do that again.

[@pthtjogon]

"If you no longer go for a gap, ejecto seato cuz" Ayrton Senna, 2 Fast 2 Furious

[@sj_bakowski7934]

😂

[@OfficialAiyyo]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@roblucas6097]

I haven't laughed that hard at a comment in a long while. Well played!

[@endlessmotion2255]

Bro ffs🤣

[@Driftuner]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jimnasium452]

Dude took the suicide line into the corner! And it worked.

[@harveyball5900]

🤣🤣

[@robdavies82]

I spent about 18 months working at an Karting track (now a TeamSport) and I never once saw anyone flying out of their kart. The worst incidents we ever saw was someone breaking a leg and crying because the paramedics had to cut her jeans, someone broke their hand, but the most common was people being sick in the toilets afterwards because we had lack of air ventilation at the time (it got closed for a few weeks to fix it)

[@drifter402]

For real. Never seen that in my life

[@Okipouros]

something most dont realise is, blood cells attract carbon monoxide 210 times more than oxygen, and dont let go easily..

[@SenyorCapitàCollons]

What is a Team Sport apart from a Team Sport?

[@rumelahmed4539]

I used to work at few of the Teamsport tracks. I once saw a kart drop 12 feet from the mezzanine level and land on the drivers head, someone else died at one of the tracks once, saw someone thrown out of a kart but their shoes were still stuck to the peddles, saw many broken arms and legs and saw some kids long hair get caught on the rear axle and get scalped. Once saw a manager accidently lock customers in the building too lol. Those were the days.

[@robinvekety4639]

I broke my upper arm without even crashing in an electric kart. I was wrestling with the steering wheel in an hairpin while the back of the kart was drifting out. When it snapped back to straight line when I stepped on the throttle at the end of the corner, the steering wheel somehow broke my arm. Still don’t completely understand how that could cause it. Tried to look up similar cases online but I got no clue. My radial nerve got damaged in my arm and my wrist and fingers were paralysed for half year, I’m doing fine now and everything is same as old. That was my first time karting, was always a bit afraid of it but I really like racing and F1, don’t know what to think of it now. Not the best first experience

[@adamjones90]

Guy diving down the inside needed to be more aware. The gap was closing very quick so he needed to back off & wait for another opportunity to make his move.

[@arranmc182]

the gap was never wide enough at any point so any move would have been a crash

[@adamjones90]

@@arranmc182 thats what im saying he wasn’t close enough or he Didnt get a good exit out the corner to gain the speed for an overtake so why he tried to go down the inside with virtually no room when there when he wasn’t close enough is crazy.

[@JB-xd9dr]

Agree. And even IF it had been possible, on that corner, with the entry speed at that angle, he’d have gone far too deep and not made it round. Net net, needs to learn some more about corner entry and exit and best corners for overtakes etc.

[@adamjones90]

@@JB-xd9dr absolutely. Crazy why he would even try that there. Should learn a little bit of cornering & exit speed & breaking zone’s if he wants to do some overtakes like this.

[@surgegamer]

There wasn't even a gap... he was way off the racing line based on the previous turn and the driver ahead was proceeding as expected. That close to the inside wall of the -hairpin- tight left-hander would only ever result in a dive/contact vs smartly backing off the throttle and biding time til another opportunity. Hopefully he was ok, but at the same time, hopefully there was a valuable lesson learned. This isn't i-racing 😅

[@TheAlphaDingo]

Ragdoll physics on point! RIP to the NPC driver 🙏

[@f1ferrariclub831]

Bro flew

[@fighterboy]

man has 0 racecraft anyone with common sense will know that there is no possible way you can dive up the inside there

[@alessandroledda6480]

When you are inexperienced you tend do do some really dumb shit. Good judgement comes from experience. In my first ever kart race i sent the dumbest T1 lap 1 divebomb known to mankind and i am now considered to be a really clean and patient driver

[@4znn]

@@alessandroledda6480 Cant lie i dont blame him either, now ive done karting a bit i know how people drive the guy was probs new so he didnt know about racing lines and stuff

[@millerchassis6119]

@@alessandroledda6480 nah he;s just an idiot.

[@ForzaPolska06]

Sergio Perez 💀

[@mervunit]

anyone with common sense will know driving directly into the tire wall will not be good for anything or anybody.

[@ChrisPBacon21]

Never seen anyone fly out of a tea sport kart before. Impressive how he's managed it.

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[@gregoryd.robinson8610]

0:14 that was "give the turn to your opponent" spot, not a "dive bomb" spot.

[@FUJITRACK10]

When ambition outweighs ability

[@Leecart1]

🤣

[@John14710]

Ambitious but rubbish 😂

[@nextgenownage]

No amount of ability is getting you through there 😂

[@NickthaGeek]

Not only that but theres a great chance that even if that kart weren't there, he would of gone straight into the tyres anyway with a line like that

[@boxsterjones]

His body's ambition to leave that kart seat was impressive, though

[@roryfraser9210]

I see Checo Perez is getting in the pre season training early

[@wamphyr000]

Only if he blames the other driver for it. "He turned in on me".

[@mandst5466]

Harsh !!! But fair 😂

[@marineduardojr]

Three blind guys over here 😂

[@Arrows]

Haha

[@malcolmmitchell6529]

You could not get an f1 car to move 6 feet

[@kasperhansen532]

As a guy that works in a rental karing center, it is a mystery to me why its not mandetory to have seatbelts in rental karts. We have them in my center and i can say for certain that it has saved lifes and made some crashes less heavy

[@schiedinator8074]

Saved Lifes? Never heard of people die at rental karting except for hair/scarfs go under the tyres where a seatbelt wouldn't help in anyway.

[@jackbrown1358]

well i mean the video just kind of proved seatbelts would help. please explain how it wouldnt @@schiedinator8074

[@matthewwhittenham7528]

Because these karts don’t have roll bars. If a kart with no roll bar was to flip over, it’s safer to be thrown out of the kart than be belted to it.

[@EmmieFloding]

It's because without a roll bar or crash structure it's more dangerous to have seatbelts. You're more likely be trapped under your kart without being able to escape or if you're in a high speed crash you'd have all the forces transfer to your body instead of being ejected and negating the forces. Because of this seatbelt are only used in slow rental karts with a tall roll hoops.

[@beau25]

if you flip the kart it’s safer to come out of the kart than to stay in it with a seatbelt

[@wko78ms]

I've raced cars and it's funny how nobody ever realizes how much slower they go when blocking. Most of the time if people weren't blocking, they'd be too quick to catch

[@johnstonlee]

Yep busy looking behind rather than ahead ins this exact issue once, it wasn’t even a race it was about fastest lap endurance what’s the point of blocking under those rules

[@whatilearnttoday5295]

@@johnstonlee Losers look behind.

[@bottledit5379]

You are somewhat correct but times I’ve been faster and not blocked it’s easy for the driver behind to send one up the inside blocking your entry and in turn you lose a place

[@JBofBrisbane]

The Dick Dastardly Strategy.

[@Audi_Rs_5]

I’ve been going go karting at that track for a whole year and I’d never think something like that would happen

[@Leecart1]

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[@petebanham4916]

I was in that very race, these guys were behind me when this happened. No one was hurt and laughed about it after. But there were 4 very young guys in the same race and the out would have been different if one of them was involved in a crash like this. One of them did have an incident where his Kart became lodged under the tyres in the race previous to this one, but again nobody was hurt. The venue itself is very good and challenging due to its split storey design, its a very well run venue.

[@cbrunnem6102]

younger guys are less likely to get hurt? am I missing something?

[@petebanham4916]

@@cbrunnem6102 No, they could have sustained an injury and may not have been as understanding and laughed it of as the guy in the video did. This accident was a fluke.

[@xziuma]

Hate to break it to you mate but this was no fluke, he tried to dive the inside when there was never space to begin with. @@petebanham4916

[@tgrimshaw]

I was in this very race and I don't remember you being there at all...

[@petebanham4916]

@@tgrimshaw I was there. We waited 10 minutes while the staff had to pull a Kart from under the barriers, just before the ramp that goes to the lower level. I finished 6th, 6th, 10th. My son finished ahead of me in two of the races.

[@Alext165]

First of all I hope the driver is okay. Beyond that the move is not there, the opportunity is not real. In karting there’s no mirrors so you can not rely on the driver in front that he’s seen you. Also at the turning point he was even alongside and had no right to try the move. Either if he has got through his racing line would of meant he’d come out wide and the other driver would of retaken the position

[@malcolmmitchell6529]

How can you get hurt at that speed

[@nelsongranzow1197]

@@malcolmmitchell6529 you can get hurt walking down the street. any impact at all has the chance to cause injury, it just depends on what parts of the body get impacted and how

[@TheFatSandwhich]

@@malcolmmitchell6529 Ever hit your toe on the corner of the table at snails pace? Yeah, you can get hurt at any speed.

[@morris2450]

Went indoor karting yrs a go with a bunch rally drivers and jetboat racers. One guy who has just recently had another huge rally accident spun and hit the tyres head on in practice cracking a rib or two from the impact. Another launched the front of his kart onto the rear of another.

[@racing1000]

That guy was trying to emulate "If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver" but he did "If you no longer go for a gap that doesn't exist, you are no longer a rental karting driver" 😂

[@sirvosa767]

are there no seatbelts in the rental carts in the UK? In the Netherlands you require to were the seatbelt at all times?

[@Leecart1]

No seatbelts in the UK @sirvosa767 please subscribe 👍

[@rayhib]

In racing karts you DON'T want to be seatbelted in, since the kart can flip. It's the same reason why motorcycles don't have seatbelts, you want to be as far away from the bike as possible.

[@gun3ro]

in Germany are no seatbelts as well

[@Formaldehydex]

You had your chance to finish him off, but you blew it.

[@Leecart1]

🤣🤣🤣

[@xamier9122]

Fr

[@apocryphgaming9995]

Lotta comments from armchair experts about how #8 should never have gone for the move. And whilst they're correct, here's the thing: They're rental karts. The people who rent them aren't exactly Lewis Hamilton. More Jeremy Clarkson. The last time I went to TeamSport was in Nottingham as part of a Stag Do. There also isn't a professional racing driver alive or dead who hasn't made stupid moves on-track in their careers. It's how people learn. Especially if they get Shadow Realm'd in the process like #8 did. Hopefully he's okay. He'll have felt that one in the morning for sure.

[@TheSpeedGodz]

That was impressive. He must have seen something no one else saw. Don't think he'll do that again

[@DeFausti]

Yeah what a dumb move, lesson learned I guess x)

[@northeastbaddriversuk]

Hi, could I use this clip on my channel, linked and credited of course?

[@Leecart1]

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[@northeastbaddriversuk]

@@Leecart1 Cheers mate, consider it done 👍🙏

[@northeastbaddriversuk]

@@Leecart1 Was the lad ok?

[@Leecart1]

I need more subs hopefully that might help 🙏

[@Leecart1]

Yeah he was fine, even made it out for the last race.

[@ank0ru]

Was the guy okay?

[@darthwater999]

He died in the hospital

[@hughunptfs]

@@darthwater999he was okay bro.

[@gibbs677bg]

Do you not have a seatbelt In these carts?

[@Leecart1]

Not in these karts @gibbs677bg please subscribe 👍

[@daveg5857]

It's pretty dumb, as evidenced above.

[@benjaminvanced765]

He was clearly inexperienced. It was obvious the dude infront will go for the apex and there will be no space to take over. Even if he left space, that would be too sharp of a turn to make sense.

[@Wrenchingandnursing]

That's why gear is important. Guy whacked his helmet off of the ground and the barrier pretty hard. Could have been a lot worse.

[@PbPomper]

What gap was he aiming for? Luckily he seems to be okay.

[@Danny-Craig]

Actually if u watch closely the driver infront of him cuts him off resulting in him hitting the barrier.

[@rayhib]

@@Danny-Craig He had the racing line

[@ItzHazz21]

@@rayhib by the looks of things i dont think the guy ur replying to knows what a racing line is😂

[@carsandstuff365]

What was your best lap time .. I’m going to get mine out of the draw and see .. was back in 2019 at that same place ..

[@Leecart1]

40.03 on that session @carsandstuff365 please subscribe 🏁

[@waynehyde7071]

Good gosh he saw a gap 😳 spec savers

[@undeadpanther1162]

where was the seatbelt?

[@earnearn6398]

Some karts got seatbelt yet some dont, i prefer the ones with seatbelts in case of mishaps like this

[@TheLads1112]

I think the guy just didn’t understand that the driver was going to go on the racing line and tried to overtake him there

[@Name-lt2tz]

wow, how much hors power carts are there? Maybe seatbelts are needed for those ? :)

[@AB7F9]

Thats what happens when you try a Verstappen into a corner.

[@biltongandboba]

Pahahahaha, true enough

[@driftking8855]

wait a minute.... how did he fly out... like i dunno about this particular track... but at my local track the karts are comparitively slower and they do require seatbelts to prevent this from happening.... sooo like seatbelts not mandatory here or smtg?

[@leomalone1718]

Hope he is ok should of tried an overtake somewhere else but bad crash be careful when your racing ❤

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[@leomalone1718]

Done

[@choppe8228]

what is the point of the tires if there is a metal piece in the way?

[@darthwater999]

You're not supposed to crash with your body there 😂 with the kart weight the metal should bend and the tires would absorb the impact

[@VykronianF1]

Overtaking in go karts is SOOOO hard if you’re of similar skill! It seems the only way past is to push/ bump. I wish drivers would look behind themselves more often to avoid this kind of thing!

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[@JerremyvdH]

Did he not have his seatbelt put on or something?

[@MrYoungkimba]

Man I hope he’s okay. That looked painful.

[@Leecart1]

All good, even raced in the session after 😎

[@szybkiwojtas7895]

I hope he didn't get injured and walked out safely after this crash.

[@TheJGamer-b8s]

Is he ok when it happened

[@jgregg7100]

Must have been Max Verstappen, dude always cuts other drivers off from the inside

[@Carnyzzle]

first time I've seen someone in karts go straight to the shadow realm

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[@TMJ32]

That looks like something Lewis Hamilton would do

[@InvertedGroundhog]

Where did the seatbelt go??🥺🥺🥺

[@ErewhonGB]

What seat belt? Karts, at least in the UK, don't have seatbelts for adults.

[@skev303uk]

IRacing veteran no doubt

[@introaether937]

Rookie Class first rodeo ;)

[@iPodtouch12346]

Are there no seat belts in british go karts?

[@Leecart1]

No, not in the UK 🏁

[@FreshYummyCaca]

This is the reason why the "outside-inside-outside" racing line exists

[@iacorenx]

Or the safety belts

[@FreshYummyCaca]

@@iacorenxkarting safety belts r actually pretty dangerous

[@NekoMMDGTS]

@@FreshYummyCaca Why?

[@samuelgarrod8327]

​@@NekoMMDGTSbecause if they flip it's safer to get thrown clear than be trapped under the kart.

[@NekoMMDGTS]

@@samuelgarrod8327Thanks

[@kevinmcauslan-crine8564]

i'm curious to know, how quickly did the marshals react? please tell me that they turned it to red straight away? i remember someone flying out of a kart in Leicester and lying on the exit of a hairpin. they only put it to amber and people weren't slowing down. he nearly got splattered.

[@CallumGoesKarting]

The leicester marshall are a different breed. That’s my regular and several times I’ve had to tell the marshall to wave the red flag

[@Leecart1]

Race stopped straight away, he managed to race in the last session so all good 👍

[@mccoypauley2775]

Most teamsports are the wild west when it comes to rules, you'd have to kill someone to get black flagged

[@jazzabighits4473]

@@Leecart1 The hit he took wasn't that bad. I've seen people take bigger hits in footy tbh

[@Aximand]

@@jazzabighits4473but from a vehicle? didn't think so.

[@weallbenefit]

Are there no seatbelts in those karts?

[@RacingB26]

Was he ok

[@couchiepotato8189]

did he not buckle in? Where's the safety harness?

[@lordlucan529]

That’s why in public karting sessions I always take a slower and tighter line around hairpins, so that nobody tries to go into a disappearing space. Any wider (and faster) and you get shunted off.

[@MyRealName]

Checo?

[@vmafferreira6466]

That GAP closed so fast he can´t even have time to know what hell hapend LOL

[@LordGebus]

Who is seatbelt, and why have I not met her?

[@Mir4o.8]

any seatbelts?

[@Sussex192]

Don't they have belts??

[@DoorTechnicianRick]

No

[@scottgarmon4865]

When I was a kid in the 90s a new go cart track opened in my area called the track. They had go carts that were pretty fast and their opening week Me and my best friend were ripping on the track all day. the track had a section that was a bridge and I wrecked my buddy on the bridge section that caused his cart to jump the railing, It was a good 6 ft drop, his cart was dangling off the edge. He almost went over. next time we went there they put high railings on the bridge section. No joke, another 3 inches he would of fell off.

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[@buzincarl]

Could we see the full video

[@Leecart1]

If I get chance to upload it will do. Please subscribe @buzincarl 👍

[@Nerdybetta]

Are there seatbelts?

[@Leecart1]

Nope @Nerdybetta please subscribe 👍

[@salpirwani]

He's got posters of Lance Stroll in his bedroom! 😂

[@xnopyt13]

Do these not have seat belts?

[@DoorTechnicianRick]

No

[@dave7526]

now can you upload the huge crash you mentioned in your title?

[@Leecart1]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Qalexani]

Banda ayer fui por primera vez a los go karts de gasolina y no sabía cómo frenar y me salí dos veces en la misma curva ¿Es normal?

[@romanoguttadauro6116]

No racing harness or seat belts??

[@daisygirlmochi768]

Go karts in The UK don't have any seatbelts/harnesses

[@coldude2559]

Where was the seatbelt?

[@Leecart1]

Don't have them on these karts @coldude2559 please subscribe 👍

[@dg8062]

At least he had an Arai on as his noggin hit that wood😅🤣😂

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[@BocoGreenpeace]

No restraints?

[@danielamorones9153]

Why wasn’t he wearing a harness?

[@Tintoycar]

He's not Senna.

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[@greenfj1466]

Dont go karts have seatbelts?

[@bramvantongeren681]

Is he okay tho

[@Leecart1]

@bramvantongeren681 all good, even made the last race session. Please subscribe 😉

[@stephentorr2233]

Erm....why no seat harness?

[@daisygirlmochi768]

Go karts in The UK don't have any seatbelts/harnesses

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[@Daniel-uj1nu]

What happened after?

[@Leecart1]

Race stopped, dusted himself off and back out for the the next race. Please subscribe @Daniel-uj1nu 👍

[@StefanNiculae0005]

Is he OK, though?

[@IoskaNe]

Seat belts? Harness?

[@wow-vv5im]

why is there no safety belts

[@Boostguru]

The most real GoPro ad I've ever watched.

[@anandhapadmanabanm2980]

No belt?

[@johnh9200]

Just Max trying the inside line on a hairpin and George going "I'm in front so I have the racing line"

[@arnobashtar6707]

Can you comment on his injuries? Just curious from a medical standpoint.

[@jordanbrazinski8260]

How is there no seat belt?

[@epicgamingchannel318]

because it would be even worse for the driver

[@boxsterjones]

Racing gear: check, Racing ability: skip that move down the list, Safety check: skip that move down the list, Brain: skip that move down the list, Did we miss anything? At least his visor was down!

[@Leecart1]

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[@Tailspin80]

Safe to the point of boring. Real kart racing is anything up to 150mph and similar to a bike in term of protection. When you’re racing safely is the last thing you’re thinking about.

[@crazywildman]

why there is no seat belt ?

[@Leecart1]

Karts in the UK don't have them. Thanks for the comment @crazywildman please subscribe

[@crazywildman]

@@Leecart1 well I guess why karts need them so people don't fly out of the seat

[@Jenolic]

Lessons were learned, and notes were taken💀

[@4znn]

was he ok?

[@Leecart1]

A bit sore the next morning, thanks for the comment please subscribe @encryptedmyth428 😀

[@ChefThatcher]

Hope he is ok and where was his seatbelt

[@Leecart1]

He was a bit sore in the morning @thatcherbukart9943 thanks for the comment please subscribe 😎

[@ChefThatcher]

@@Leecart1 will do

[@jimh2061]

How is he not wearing a seatbelt harness?

[@roneified4405]

Seatbelt???

[@FransN51]

Seatbelt?

[@daisygirlmochi768]

Go karts in The UK don't have any seatbelts/harnesses

[@LiljamezZz]

no seatbelt tho?

[@androidunit56]

Was he wearing the racing harness?

[@daisygirlmochi768]

Go karts in The UK don't have any seatbelts/harnesses

[@androidunit56]

@@daisygirlmochi768 What the!? Why not!?

[@BHKarting]

@@androidunit56 cos its a kart mate it isnt that serious,especially indoors

[@Rich_efect]

Does anyone find it odd that he wasn’t strapped in? The Kart track I go to has 4-point belts.

[@Leecart1]

@richardpascual5715 most karts in UK don't have seatbelts

[@Leonmmxii]

Does a seatbelt just not exist anymore?

[@supaflydrone250]

Was that verstappen driving?