Spins, saves, recoveries and near misses

[KekeTheKing]

I guess this is a thread now for posting spins, saves, and recoveries. Here is the most recent example, and a damn good one too!

 

[Brogan]

Interesting that Coulthard was actually caught out on the commentary - it looked like an almost definite spin there.

 

[Jos the Boss]

That is a catch, James Allen describes it best! (It's not Hamilton's, just the commentary!)

 

[tooncheese]

KekeTheKing, do you have that video of Keke spinning at the start of some street race and carrying on losing no positions?

 

[ExtremeNinja]

The best save is Max Biaggi when he pulls that wheelie back across the finish line. He gets way beyond vertical at sme serious rate of knots. I'll try and find the video.

[Edit] And here it is!

 

[KekeTheKing]

This was from a 1985 review video I think. Stefan Johansson is doing the commentary and he was amazed by Keke's quick recovery here.

 

[Galahad]

Great idea for a thread. The one of Keke puts me in mind of Mansell doing a 360-degree spin at Imola in the Ferrari and continuing at apparently unabated speed, without the merest bead of moustache sweat.

 

[ExtremeNinja]

This one?

 

[Galahad]

Yes! Well done, what a masterpiece of coolness.

 

[Brogan]

A bit of crowding there it would seem

 

[Boyle]

Not going to lie, I thought Alonso's save during qualifying at the weekend was brilliant!

 

[KekeTheKing]

Here's another one of Mansell in a Ferrari, from Phoenix 1990. The guy was pretty good at saving cars that had already given up on him!

 

[Incubus]

Some great saves on here but to me the one from Mansell at Imola 1990 showed the two sides of him as a driver. The narrator claims Berger pushed him of f the road but it seems to me Gerhard was simply following his normal racing line to the left in anticipation of the following right kink and Nigel went for a gap that didn't exist... incredible skill to recover it but it could be argued he drove himself onto the grass trying to get alongside Berger.

 

[F1Yorkshire]

I do miss watching engines blow. It's the shame we still won't get frequent blow outs when turbo's return as by then the regs will probably mean you only get 2 engines per season!

 

[KekeTheKing]

Here's a more recent "spin and continue". The Finns are excellent at this. It's like they grow up driving on ice or something.....

 

[ExtremeNinja]

Here is a spin and overtake in Club100 taken from the karting thread!

 

[Brogan]

Stolen from Speshal

 

[ZakspeedYakspeed]

Dino wore the brown overalls that day for good reason...

 

[ZakspeedYakspeed]

Berger... Hockenheim... in between two cars no less...

 

[KekeTheKing]

A Finn avoiding a spin, imagine that!?!?! Here's Kimi at Hungary 2008.