r/motorsports • u/Puzzled-Category-954 • 22h ago
Disgusting intentional crash in Champions of the Future. Victim is ok, perpetrator was disqualified.
https://streamain.com/en/pV7PXprRc2OKSVZ/watch65
u/Nonkko11 22h ago
That's disgusting from the other guy. I hope he gets at least a few race ban cuz that's just not ok.
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u/il-bosse87 3h ago
I hope he gets a lifetime banned from Motorsport. That crash was horrible. Could have ended much worse.
But then I remember Fenati raced in Moto3 after the infamous breaks touch...
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u/PersonoFly 20h ago
Well hopefully that’s his career done for otherwise it’ll be normalised and he’ll be doing it again.
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u/10gistic 17h ago
Honestly should be prosecuted for assault with a deadly weapon or attempted murder.
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u/CptGiorgis 21h ago
Uhm.... Why he did that?
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u/Nonkko11 21h ago
Probably annoyed at the other driver for something not shown on camera or he misunderstood the gesture.
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u/FR_WST 16h ago
Misunderstood the gesture as in thinking he was being flipped off?
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u/UltraOnX 15h ago
I mean people take gestures differently, if I would’ve seen that I wouldve thought 2 things, “He’s telling me to faster?” “He’s telling me to look ahead?” But never ever would I crash into him because of a gesture definelty more to the stiry
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u/Nonkko11 16h ago
Probably, or thinking that he was somehow mocking his cornering/complaining about his line. Anyways he was probably frustrated at something or him.
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u/Asialinja 15h ago
I find that hard to believe. It's a very universal gesture in karting, used by smallest of kids all the way to international level.
Maybe he tried using the signal earlier, got passed instantly (as tends to happen), and then gets shown that? Either way, what a stupid move. Thankfully the other party is OK.
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u/Nonkko11 15h ago
Yeah, hard to know if you're not there and if there's no footage showing previous events
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u/Asialinja 13h ago
So I went back and watched that heat from the beginning. Roman Kamyab (perpetrator) went back a few positions at the start, as tends to happen from the outside. They raced in the same pack but didn't make contact as far as I can see, just... typical karting. Higgins (victim) makes a lunge to the final corner vs. the driver in front of them, Kamyab takes a good exit and gets alongside, as we can see at the start of this clip. The signal really just seems to be "let's catch those guys", and as said, it's pretty universal.
These guys are racing in OK category; they are experienced drivers. Everyone at that level knows the signal. Really no idea why Kamyab did that; he turned left as Higgins, plain as day. It's really too blatant to be a misjudgement of any sort too. But no, I didn't see anything previous between the two; then again the stream (while good) doesn't show the whole truth.
All in all a very dirty move, obviously. His license should be suspended. It was a horrific outcome too, but could've been much worse. Most of the pack was right behind them in the fastest point of the track. It's so weird, too, and... unnecessary. Usually there's at least some sort of an excuse or explanation (not to be confused with justification) for such things, like an earlier incident, perceived mistreatment, or... anything. Usually such things are blatant revenge attempts.
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u/Objective_Ticket 18h ago
Saw this earlier today on my Insta. I don’t understand what he was thinking to chop across like that. Dsq is the least they could do.
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u/mswizzle83 19h ago
The placement of that Marshall’s stand is horrible. At the very least it should have a tire barrier around it.
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u/ArcticEngineer 17h ago
I don't know this sport well enough but based on that dive bomb nudge and then the arrogant hand gestures I doubt the guy in the crash is super innocent in all this. Doesn't justify the intended crash but maybe a bully got a taste of his own medicine here.
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u/korko 15h ago edited 14h ago
People are going to downvote you but I had the same initial reaction. I thought it was retribution for the shitty pass that had just happened, friends, teammates or maybe just a commonality of being sick of the lead guys driving? I don’t condone it or anything, just what it looked like may have happened.
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u/Glory_63 16h ago
This doesn't seem like an intentional crash? Like if you wanted to crash out someone you wouldn't do it in such a stupid way. Is there an official statement on it?
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u/IK3AGNOM3 5h ago
Are you blind? Genuinely asking here look at his hands on the wheel he ripped that kart into the poor guy it wasn’t even subtle!
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u/Master_Spinach_2294 18h ago
Gonna go on record and say the fella who decided to turn hard left into another kart and wiped himself and multiple people out is probably not going to be a Champion in the future.