Racing's Most Bizarre Accident 

Uff

This is golden.

The cars: "Funny you should say that..." Wow. Just wow.

_"In the year 2000"_

mercedes are 100 years ahead of us

Great example of the risks inherent of group think.

Mark was so young and relatively inexperienced at the time that the Germans didn’t really trust him. That the first two accidents happened to the same driver, they thought he must have been doing something different. Mercedes didn’t so much as throw him under the bus, as throw him over the bus! Even after it was proven by the third crash that it was a car problem, they soured on their relationship with Mark Webber. He would never end up driving a Mercedes engined F1 car his entire career.

@@hamiiham2985 Underrated comment.

Listening to Mark Webbers book (I listened to the audiobook) , it's shocking the way Mercedes treated him when this happened. Absolutely abyssmal.

crazy…

A reference to WW2 and the June 1955 disaster 😮‍💨

Infamy follows everytime a has taken Mercedes flight.

@@LessGo7921 Yes, we did indeed watch the video.

@@hazeust Imma be honest I didn’t watch the vid when I wrote that, I only guessed it

It's smart when you think the first one flying killed 83 People

I don't think they planned to act like that if it happens again. I see this more as a feeling of shame about a so obviously wrong desecion, that you don't even want to argue anymore and lessen the shame by quickly accepting it.

@@electricpaisy6045 But that's the point. They all know it was the wrong call, and yet nobody stood up, they all went along with it and it expectedly did go wrong...

@@Langharig_Tuig well first of all not all of them. That one driver said no. And they tried to be careful and avoid certain situations. They took the problem serious. They just said we can take the risk. It's not like they ignored it.

@@Langharig_Tuigwho would want to take the blame in that instance. They just closed up shop so that the media wouldn’t try to vulture them in a time of shock and desperation. Idk wt yall expected, yall would do the same thing too. And I’m sure they also got orders from higher ups to not talk to anyone

Engineers and Scientists are very alike, so it's no surprise that they would prepare for all outcomes... positive or negative.

I hate that understood that reference in record time 😢

its actually kinda funny how much Mercedes dominates F1 but they cant make a single good Le Mans car

@@papaspoon1550 CLK LM'98, Mercedes c9/c11?

@@papaspoon1550 Goes to show how each race discipline is different from each other.

⁠@@papaspoon1550 Lol I guess winning Le Mans twice is never building a single good Le Mans car

Well, rules ARE written in blood often enough, so it checks out.

In this case, it took quite a few catastrophic failures before they learned anything. How many cars do you need to flip before you learn that your car design is dangerous?

@@flightmaster999 Oh, don't believe they didn't know. Remember one of the pilots even said to not race, but was overruled. That to me is just a story of greed too. Not just for money, but for fame too.

What a mid quote

@@umbaupause exactly. There needs to be a statement about that: not everyone who falls into a trap is an idiot. Some just fall for the bait.

There’s no way this entire series of events wasn’t some form of divine intervention

​@@yourlocalasleeponioperativ4095 God said "racing trolling funny moment"

Gold!

@@yourlocalasleeponioperativ4095 Payback for all the slave labor and death.

Nice

Legitimately too good

Yo batman guy

Madlad jumpscare

thank you, every superhero ever

Actual night enhancer

Aye, funny man 😅

Yup. Really shows how quickly it all unraveled and all the history behind that infamous 5 second clip.

karma

Irony at its most tragic.

In another Emp video about NASCAR he said the longer you watch racing, the more you see things come full circle

I had to double-take while I was listening to that. Irony in motorsports is just absolutely fantastic.

​@@bfaproductions7121 a circuit is really just a fancy circle of life

The Gorillaz instrumental really elevated it to cinema 👌.

Right?! 😂 The whole video I was like "hold on I know this..."

as fan of history and racing man THAT got me laughing. so frikin true.

For a straight week I thought I was schizo from those memepost captions

Is this video connected to the meme page captions?

For anyone wondering why they do that: The Instagram algorithm will show posts with those Mercedes Chat-GPT captions more because they assume the post itself is educational

Nah, those AI bots were speaking about the CLK GTR, which was the first iteration of what will become the CLR. (CLK GTR -> CLK LM -> CLR)

Real

Babe? Babe!!?.... oh yeah, I'm here alone.

I just let mine sleep... She watched Shoeonhead without me so now we're even.

we love lemp emon

this comment is the modern day version of “first!”

NEW MOVIEEE

Peak emp, along with the funny wind video. Love your vids btw.

Hey!! You are that guy from youtoob!!

I would argue that 2012 was better. How can you beat 7 different winners in the first 7 races? A titanic duel between Red Bull, McLaren, and Ferrari while teams like Mercedes and Lotus were also competitive, challenging the big 3.

It's been a hot minute since the last Never Ever. Wow, it's already been 3 years?

​@@McLMP4-22for the sport sure but for a story that EmpLemon normally tells 21 really fits his format.

⁠@@grantduerst8060I personally don’t ever see EmpLemon making a video about championships. Those stories are things the fans already know everything about. He makes videos about more specific and culturally impactful events/people.

that would be so hype omg, but that hole abu dhabi fiasco wouldnt really fit his style i think.

😝😝😝

It wouldn't just be because they build rubbish cars? Hello, 3 cars became airborne in the one event!? I can't believe Mark Webber got back in that garbage.

Or they just suck at making super high speed vehicles? There was a documentary where they were designing harnesses to attach small kids forward on the hood to increase down force. But with Germany s declining fertility rates, they had to give up on the idea because testing was too difficult. It's one of the reasons why they moved production to Romania.

It's funny that Le Mans will never let the Germans off for what they did in France

@@shianeruu4359 the 2 manufacturers with the most wins are German

I am so fucking here for it. He makes me care about Nascar and i couldnt care less about it lmao

it’s crazy how i grew up on this guy’s YTPs but as i grew and found different things (like the SAINT PEPSI vaporwave Mac Tonight tape), he would be on the same page (the Mac Tonight video). and when i got back into racing + sports and being completely obsessed with racing, i end up seeing Dale Earnhardt vids, NASCAR content, sports stuff etc. he must be the FBI agent that spies on me or something, because seeing him do all of this in real time while i’m also getting into it is almost eerie. but yeah, can’t wait until he covers more racing, ESPECIALLY when he does a Never Ever on Tom Kristensen, Senna/Schumacher or Sebastian Loeb/McRae.

slowly?

why are you all so passionate 😂

@@RatGangisMYusername why aren’t you? find a hobby and maybe you’ll understand

Nils Bohlin! Who designed the 3 point belt at volvo after working on developing ejection seats at saab!

sucker

The story of man who invented modern day soft body armor is also interesting

Thankfully the peeps at another german based pharmaceutical company did similar with the rollout of that mRNA thing to save lives for the greater good of humanity... ...only evil ppl would cash in on such an unfortunate once-in-century event. What a time to be alive amirite?!?!?

Thankfully the peeps at another german based pharmaceutical company did similar with the rollout of that mRNA thing to save lives for the greater good of humanity... ...only the most sweetest and nicest ppl would cash in on such an unfortunate once-in-century event. What a time to be alive amirite?!?!?

Yes, in 1955, most drivers wouldn't wear seat belts, because they thought they had a better chance, if they were thrown out of the car.

Gotta thanks Sir Jackie Stewart and a lot of his friends for promoting racing safety back in 70s and 80s before it became a priority.

@@alieffauzanrizky7202promoting safety by each of them getting wiped out one by one, the 60’s and 70’s was without a doubt the deadliest time in motor racing for most categories. Thankfully the FIA actually took note of those decades

Pierre Levegh's partner for the 1955 24hr du Mans was an american named John Fitch, who wasn't just a capable driver but also a prolific engineer. He too began to devote much of his time to improving safety in Motorsports and on public roads, developing countless safety systems for race cars and tracks, but his most well known invention are probably the Fitch Barriers found on almost every highway in the USA.

@@mrspandel5737 I notice they also use them at some race tracks in America, at pit lane entrances for example, like Indianapolis Motor Speedway (which has saved lives of racing drivers as well)

People seemingly cannot grasp the fact that auto racing is ummm.........DANGEROUS!

@@bobbys4327 of course, in 1987, NASCAR very nearly had a similar incident at Talladega where Bobby Allison had a tyre failure that sent his Buick Lesabre into a spin, the airflow pitched the airborne towards the crowd. By sheer luck, the car's front wheel hit the barrier before the car hit the catch fence, redirecting the worst of the momentum away from the crowd. To their credit, NASCAR took the near miss very seriously, deciding to not allow the cars to travel as fast as they did that weekend (Bill Elliott's average speed for his Pole for that race was 212.809MPH, a record that won't be topped, unless NASCAR decides to remove the restrictions on the cars at superspeedways)

While somewhat true, Jackie essentially changed everything about motorsports, 55 meant fences and pit walls, Jackie meant fire retardants, proper harnesses, tracks that didn't exist to kill someone (nord and old Spa), cars that weren't just a bath tub on wheels and a lot, lot more 55 probably made it safer overall, but Jackie made it so it could actually be classed as "safe" I mean, you have 16 before 66, and 16 after, that's 16 years vs 58, most of which being in the 70's, while he was still campaigning for some of the bigger changes Also, Jackie was a driving force behind changes to the pit lane as well

Exactly

Sort of how I imagine a major roller coaster accident must be like.

The thing that baffeled me the most is that almost 100 people died but they just continued racing

@@zeppie_ what were they thinking. They were like "yeah that's pretty bad but let's see who wins this thing!"

​​​@@MORONIC_officialthere was a very reasonable meaning, stopping the race creates traffic of people leaving the track, slowing ambulances

they actually did not stop because they know anouncing the news would cause a stampede and make things even worse, because people around the track did not know what happened (it was 1955). And also, the stampede would have blocked the ambulances who helped the victims, and the situation would be even worse. That is the offical explanation anyway. Cheers for everybody and Emp from Serbia :)

You have it backwards. They made the car longer for aerodynamic reasons. The wheelbase was limited and shorter for handling.

@@asymsolutions as far as I understand, they made the car as long as allowed by the rules, but with a comparatively short wheelbase so that they could maximise the overhangs for larger diffusers.

@@namenamename390 no, it was to reduce turning radius and response for low-speed corners at a sacrifice of stability, you can still have a strong frontal splitter design as long as the tunnels can expand enough after the front wheels. This pattern and it's problems weren't limited to just the CLKGTR, the 911 GT1 had the same issues and flipped at Road Atlanta, McLaren long tail also had porpoising issues. It was a product of the late GT1 ruleset. I don't remember if the GT-one ever had the issues discussed publicly, but the GT-One never raced enough before the LMP ruleset kicked in for it to be noticed by just watching, and cars like the R390 and Panoz didn't run a long nose, the Panoz because of the mid-front engine packaging restricts and the R390 because of reasons that I don't think any of the Nissan Engineers at the time ever really discussed because well, it didn't perform well enough to gain attention.

Lmao, you mean "Benefactor"

@@stingysmailbox8209 he even references Shlag in the video, Shlagen GT

@@Bishounen My German is all but non-existent, but I'm guessing "shlag" means "strike": Shlag Eins = Strike One Shlag Zwei = Strike Two Shlag Drei = Strike Three

Mercedes-Benz: I've made a huge mistake

I mean they should have the means to lock down the area for exactly this occasion?

@@SianaGearz Back then? They were remarkably unconcerned about safety at the time.

@@SianaGearz And risk people going "hows about nahhhh" and just walking through any barriers they try

That is a stretched truth. While they did used a rebodied F1 as a testing car, the CLK GTR was already a thing. The development of the CLK GTR began in December 1996 and was finished by Mid March 1997, and wouldn't you know, the test with the F1 was in March 1997. So no, that rebodied F1 wasn't the original prototype of the CLK GTR, the purpose of that test was to build a bodykit inspired by the '97 F1 GTR and see if its aero solutions were better than the CLK GTR's, it wasn't and Mercedes didn't used any of the aero modifications of that test, but they surely knew a lot more about Mclaren's car.

Fun fact: this video is on the CLR, a V8 LM car, not the CLK GTR, a V12 GT1 car.

I'm so terminally online that I saw the first sentence of your comment and thought it was the AI generated "Sure thing! Here's the information about the Mercedes SLR:"

@@stickman3214 the "CLR GTR" 😭

@@Starfire_Storm it's also a test mule so other teams can't copy their aero work.

so true, especially how they're in order and fit the album's themes of hubris and disaster

Squid a car youtuber has done three really good documentaries on the F1, the Porsche 911 GT1, and the CLR.

@@DevinEMILE the Squidd? Checking out his McLaren F1 vid rn

@@DevinEMILE Squidd? Enjoying his McLaren F1 vid rn

LMP1 were also amazing but most people will realize that in 10 years, writing comment like this. Spaceships. Hypercars are great for competition though, times when brand could spend 250M annualy for one racing team are gone

The best part of GT1 was how BS and nonexistent the rules were. Toyota essentially showed up to GT1 with a prototype race car with license plates glued to the front and nice upholstery, which, ironically enough, was called the GT-One, but whose real name, TS020, immediately gave away its lineage to the ill-fated TS010, a car so fast it broke its driver's ribs just by cornering. The rules stipulated that to qualify as a GT1, a car needed to have a trunk compartment that could fit a suitcase in it. However, nowhere in the rule book did it say that said compartment had to only serve as the trunk. Toyota put a suitcase in the TS020's fuel tank. By the rules, it was legal. And it was allowed to race. The racing gods did not take so kindly to Toyota's mockery of the regulations as the FIA did. The TS020, despite being faster, would fall victim to unreliability and freak accidents and never won the 24h in its two tries. Some would even say Toyota's punishment for their chicanery has never gone away, and their incapacity of winning the 24 against more than one factory effort is proof of that.

that's why it's the most prestigious baby! oh they change the drivers no worries. I believe depending on the teams but usually they have 3 persons on a 3-4 hours rotation.

Toyota can do it year after year.

​@@btfo420 I love endurance racing

Speaking of which, Pierre Levegh's most legendary accomplishment as a driver was his feat in the 1952 Edition of the 24h of Le Mans, where he singlehandedly drove his Talbot Lago for 23hrs straight before he retired with an engine failure just an hour away from victory. By that point he held a FOUR LAP LEAD over 2nd place. The team that inherited his lead was Mercedes, handing them a 1-2 Victory and their first at Le Mans

@@wendyandgeoffpattison2610 They didn't in 2016 where one of them broke down on the last lap

The downward spiral is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural

@@NyronGTor supernatural almost…

It's a meme rn?

​@@toshido_yamada I guess it's the copypasta?

@@toshido_yamada Yeah, somehow posting an AI generated description of the car, albeit using the wrong name (because tik tok) became a meme

Pretty simple, it was a fraction of a fraction of a second, and an athlete whose job is to take G's better than average That and dumb luck

Bro had a whole NASCAR arc though.

Bro hasn’t made a youtubepoop in years, at this point this is his style of video

Mf is frozen in time

Someone has a lot of good content to get caught up on

Mf were you frozen in carbonite for a decade?

Indy 500 this year: Josef Newgarden's reaction, vs Pato O'Ward's reaction.

great song!

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed the similarities of all the songs haha

Brother 😂

Especially as their main competitor, BMW was the one building the jet engines (some of them at least)

When I heard that…My heart stopped.

i had to go back when i heard this to make sure that i was not hallucinating...

The whole video is extremely weird and "off" feeling to be honest

What are we complaining about? The use of the word "jets" or the word "fighters"?

You should change that. I recommend indycar best racing right now. If you like bikes motoGP

Try to find a replay of this year's Indianapolis 500. That was a fun race this year. Or, if you want something more chaotic and unpredictable, NASCAR's Atlanta race this year was spectacular

i wish LATAM had a racing scenes or most other countries in general

Literally same. I'm not even remotely a fan of any racing or sports and I just watched a fantastic video about Mercedes' 100 year curse and how failure truly is our greatest teacher. Emp just knows how to tell 'em. He really can make anything interesting. :)

Fully agree with what the 2 comments above say. Indycar right now has a tight championship battle between the top 3 at the moment too 🔥

>the fbi for crime ethnic demographics

American companies were involved with them too lol

@@hank1556never ask Americans anything

@@buhketz I'm american and agree 😆

​@@buhketzamericans will answer without ever being asked

I need the link to this lmao

le mans (the very race mentioned in this video) is on this weekend so you have another racing series to be a fan of

@@xxn00bhunterxx remember that it's more than just le mans. It's a whole championship

EmpLemon can do that to you. I'm mainly an F1 fan but recently im also watching NASCAR whenever I have the time, its a good balance between the constructors battle in F1 "who can make the fastest car and be most consistent" to the chaos and unpredictability of NASCAR

@@xxn00bhunterxx no

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