How to lose a Championship in 1 move!!! 23 images

Hoppy · Oct 14, 2008

This is Tim Hastings who needed to win the race to secure the British 125cc GP championship....

The following sequence is possibly the worst 4 seconds in Tim's Life

click pictures for larger view.

lostprophet · Oct 14, 2008

125cc?!?! Did he hit a passing chicken? :lol:

SrBiscuit · Oct 14, 2008

brutal!

i dont know anything about this sport....what did he do to cause that flip?...too much weight on the front of the bike?....looks like maybe he over compensated?

Heck · Oct 14, 2008

Man, That sucks for him but you did good to get the whole thing. The shots even have a good DOF! lol

Heck · Oct 14, 2008

SrBiscuit said:
brutal!

i dont know anything about this sport....what did he do to cause that flip?...too much weight on the front of the bike?....looks like maybe he over compensated?

Most times the back end will lose grip and if you go sideways too much the rear tire grabs the road again and its just so violent when it does it just wants to buck you off the bike.. check you tube for super bike crashes and you will see..

matt-l · Oct 14, 2008

^exactly what looks like happened.

great sequence of a horrible incident, was he alright after?

Hoppy · Oct 15, 2008

lostprophet said:
125cc?!?! Did he hit a passing chicken?

He was looking for a Lamp post!!!! :lmao: :greenpbl:

SrBiscuit said:
brutal!

i dont know anything about this sport....what did he do to cause that flip?...too much weight on the front of the bike?....looks like maybe he over compensated?

If you look in the first 2 of the sequence you may make out a faintish black line curving round to the back of the bike then nothing. He opened the throttle too hard too early and the back broke away and then skipped in the air just as Heck said......

Heck said:
Man, That sucks for him but you did good to get the whole thing. The shots even have a good DOF! lol

I was aiming on getting a shot of just him with the track dissapearing in the distance behind him, but he seemed to have different ideas

Heck said:
Most times the back end will lose grip and if you go sideways too much the rear tire grabs the road again and its just so violent when it does it just wants to buck you off the bike.. check you tube for super bike crashes and you will see..

Exactly what happened

matt-l said:
^exactly what looks like happened.

great sequence of a horrible incident, was he alright after?

This is the exit of a Very steep blind bend at the end of the start finish straight and they need all the power they can get to go up the other side of the hill so they open up as early and as hard as possible. Sometimes they get it very wrong

He was bruised but got up and walked away

polymoog · Oct 15, 2008

Great sequence, poor guy ... he must have been gutted afterwards. And I'm not at all jealous that you can get 23 pics in a row within 4 seconds from your camera

lostprophet · Oct 18, 2008

Hoppy said:
He was looking for a Lamp post!!!! :lmao: :greenpbl:

:lmao: ouch!!!

KD5NRH · Oct 18, 2008

The second shot alone would be a great one to have printed large, put in a heavy frame, and use it to beat the next person that denigrates continuous mode shooting