When Idiots Invade the Race Track

the sport of Formula One attracts some of the greatest Minds from all across the globe in the areas of engineering technical Innovation marketing leadership and every now and again driving ability their ability to manufacture these things and make them life attract a billion times faster than anything else on this Earth is a miracle to behold and thus attracts a wealth of people who watch the Gladiators of the world joust and technological eye candy although not all of said people are the brightest spark plugs in the engine bay and put it that way in fact there have been some who have seen these things Zoom across the landscape and thought I know armor joined the track with them on foot I mean what could possibly go wrong of course back in the 70s 80s and 90s there was no social media to speak of but of course it wasn't all good news so fans get themselves amused after the race by attempting to touch the race-winning car while it was moving this involved the novel process of jumping the fence and running onto a live race track gifting the grand prix winner a post-race minigame of avoiding putting any one of those 100 000 Spectators through a 200 mile an hour cheese grater some sometimes I couldn't even wait for the chicken flag to fall before running out instances like the 1992 British Grand Prix and pretty much every Italian Grand Prix that ever happened but if we're talking about proper racing conditions there have been a handful of times where lunatics took their chances the German Grand Prix of the New Millennium was the 11th round of the championship a close championship at least it was once Ferrari remember there was Italian and started blowing their cars up every couple of rounds in this race however Michael Schumacher's Ferrari did not blow up although that was because I didn't have a chance to Gia califisikala neglected to break for the first corner and kind of rammed into the back of him and sent them both into the barriers and out of the race which was a not so ideal tactic of scoring points this was all music to the ears of Mika hakonan and David Coulthard who were running away in those McLarens whose underbody exhausts were music to the ears of everyone else around the Hockenheim ring [Music] [Applause] [Music] which back in those days was a pure unbridled scream through a wood it was a lot of racetrack for security to guard with 24 laps in the books whilst the mercedes-powered McLarens were running away to Victory a different type of Mercedes power would change the complexion of the whole race the sky clearly not in the right frame of mind decided to invade the track in between the first and second Corners see the man in question used to work on the Mercedes production line in Limon France for 22 years before being released on medical grounds which he did not take too kindly to to exact as Revenge he decided to take his satisfaction out with Mercedes on a very public level at the French Grand Prix two rounds prior he tried to venture onto the track but only got As far as the pit Lane before being carted off to the Bastille he then tried his luck at the German Grand Prix he initially tried to run onto the track just before the start of the formation lab but again he was hauled away but then on lat 25 Third Time Lucky he got onto the track and started wandering down the street toward the pit Lane wearing a poncho that bore a myriad of anti-mercedes slogans only difference between this and modern day F1 fans was that at least this guy's reasons were not so trivial after being ushered away and handed over to the authorities he was released on bail the next day but as want to punished Mercedes-Benz did pay off because McLaren the team that carried Mercedes engines to Victory throughout the late 90s and early 2000s got royally screwed over by the sky the safety car came out to give the marshals an opportunity to escort him off the track and with the field bunched up and the McLaren pitbull in a slight Haze of disarray it allowed the Ferrari of ribbonsparagello to close up past hackenan and win the Grand Prix his first Grand Prix it must be said in the end the sky was reward a compensation from Mercedes-Benz for his dismissal he also apologized claiming that he was actually a supporter of McLaren and that he didn't realize that what he did had actually cost them the race funny you would think that after 25 laps with no lead changes it would have been easy to keep tabs on who was winning the race so much for being a supporter after that we never really had any more lunatics try and invade the racetrack at least until 2003. back in 2003 when formula one wasn't entirely one-sided we had a scintillating battle for honors amongst the Ferraris Williams renaults and McLarens this particular race was interrupted after six laps AI you guessed it and Aaron hairdresser had dislodged from David coulthard's car it lay in the middle of the racetrack and bought out the safety car we eventually got back racing again but only for a couple of seconds before it appeared that sir Jackie Stewart had congested the wrong type of mushrooms [Music] your eyes do not deceive you full kill running down the hangar straight head on toward Formula One cars the Joker in the ACT here is Niall Horan a lay-sized Irish Roman Catholic priest and Human Stain he claimed that after seeing an opening to a live racetrack being a sign from God he decided to run down the street brandishing signs saying read the Bible and the Bible is always right I don't know is there really not a passage in there that does not say thou shall not run down thy race track you gigantic melts thankfully a hero by the name of Stefan green tackled this lunatic down to the ground and dragged him off the racetrack following this he was gelled for two months after pleading guilty for trespassing and being a general nuisance to society also thankfully Bernie Eccleston did not attempt to use this opportunity to take away the Grand Prix contract from Silverstone after likening the track's facilities to a cave the race also wasn't very much ruined and still had an awesome showing with Rubens barakello winning in style although it does seem to me that this guy likes to win races when people start running onto the racetrack and the man who tackled Horan was awarded the BRAC running medal for outstanding bravery and tackling a track Invader during the 2003 British Grand Prix at Silverstone the second recipient of the award after David perley who back in 1973 had heroically attempted to save Roger Williamson's life at zanfort Horan meanwhile continues to plague the world with its existence to the present day but fortunately he's kept himself well away from the sport and after that no one else attempted to invade a Formula One Track for 10 months the 2004 Spanish Grand Prix legendary match invited Jimmy jump ran onto the Catalonia circus waving a banner that no one could read as a genius head of backwards thankfully the cars were on the other side of the circus on their parade lab he was tackled to the ground dragged away and for a long while after that nothing actually happened no one else did run onto a live race track again though I never said it never happened again though we all dream of having a goat and a Formula One car at some stage in our lives but for one man at Shanghai they decided to take the initiative he got up from a seat in the main grandstand scaled a 10-foot catch fence that surrounds the circus and proceeded to run across the start finish straight toward the pit Lane whilst free practice one was happening cars running around there at Full Tilt but this guy well he didn't care but there was method behind that madness he hopped the pit wall ran down the pit Lane arrived at the Ferrari garage and said I want to try the car oh yeah sure bro here's the keys just try and keep it under the limit and you know he'll be sweet he was truly arrested taken away and the weekend went on as per usual in other words Mercedes ran away to victory in fact they only ever lost three races that year the last of them being in Singapore and that race had another interesting fan encounter Sebastian fettle was enjoying quite a nice race the car was hooked up he was leading the hallway his main rival and the championship was having engine issues couldn't have gone any better really although the sight of a man just taking a stroll along the back straight taking a freaking selfie all the while would have taken him a bit by surprise the man in question was a British citizen who suddenly found himself in a Singaporean jail with a bail that he couldn't afford his literally wander bought out the safety car but thankfully it didn't really affect the outcome of the race it wouldn't be the last time that Singapore would have an on-track intruder although most of the time they were just lizards although when it comes to track Invaders the one that a lot of modern fans would remember is from the 2022 British Grand Prix when the race was stopped after Joe guanyu was dumped on his leg a bunch of just the oil supporters hot the fence and sat down along the Wellington Strait hoping that the watching masses in the crowd would look at their actions and think putting themselves and drivers in danger and interrupting an event that I paid hundreds even thousands of pounds for they seem like my kind of people their reasons for the protest environmental issues of course Noble reasonings and they were supported by Sir Lewis Hamilton Sebastian Vettel Fernando Alonso and Carla signs but all agreed that sitting in the middle of a live race track is one way to get you minced and lose favor with the people whose event you just disturbs seven people were arrested six were charged and in the end only one person got completely screwed over that day it of course was Charlotte Claire so yeah track invasions are hardly a new thing and odds are they'll happen again it's human nature to do some of the catastrophically stupid even in a sport that attracts some of the best and brightest Minds out there but let it be known to all those would-be track Invaders out there in your eyes you may be a crusader for good or hero to yourself or your mates but to everyone else you're just a minus and if you really are hell-bent on being one just do what every other stupid person does when it comes to Formula One create an animated Formula One YouTube channel [Music]

Channel: Josh Revell

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Keywords: f1, formula 1, f1 track invaders, track invaders, 2000 german grand prix, 2003 british grand prix, f1 fan on track, formula 1 fan on track, fan on track, 2015 singapore grand prix, 2015 chinese grand prix, 2022 british grand prix

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Length: 10min 1sec (601 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 13 2023