RACING AT MELTON WIER IN VICTORIA AUGUST 19TH 2023 BE THERE !!!

I like how everyone stopped, cut the power to their motors, didn't race over the area of the crash, not knowing where he was under the water. The human concern, compassion was amazing!

@jerrycoggin9434

Жыл бұрын

Sarcasm noted

@stanley1554

Жыл бұрын

What the hell are you talking about? Did you not see the same video I just saw? The guy obliterated his boat and then 10 or 15 seconds later some clown drives right over where the guy's head probably was at like 70 miles an hour and full throttle... What are you talking about compassion? At least that one guy was incredibly reckless and could have killed that man.

@jerrycoggin9434

Жыл бұрын

@Stanley Have you no sense of when someone is being sarcastic?

@Dave-kb6je

Жыл бұрын

I hope your being sarcastic cause I saw two boats screem right through the spill scene

@wanderingwarrior5626

Жыл бұрын

@@Dave-kb6je I though everyone would immediately pick up on that, it was so obvious!

Good to see everyone's okay, excellent response time from dive boat and rescue crew. Also great job on the camera

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

Exellent job from the rescue crew today indeed , was a shocking accident. Hoping for some Fast,crash free racing tomoz 😎

Crazy I saw that boat win a few weeks ago at Raymond terrace, very good boat,

just going out on the limb to say I raced drag boats back in the day and it appears to me the windy conditions should have cancelled that race. Just glad the driver made it out safe.

@paulm7448

Жыл бұрын

If you let that much wind stop the racing there would be very few races. Unfortunately in circuit racing accidents happen for a variety of reasons, it's a dangerous sport that has been made much safer by using cells.

@kevinellebracht5154

Жыл бұрын

@@paulm7448 Cancelling a race for unfavorable conditions guarantees you live to race another day. I watched friends die because of your attitude, and yes we all knew its dangerous when we signed up for the hobby that we all love but that doesn't mean you have to be stupid about the decisions you make during that time. You have control over your boat while you're in it and user error has contributed to many accidents along the way, but you throw in things like wind and water condition because of that wind and you have lost that control.

@paulm7448

Жыл бұрын

So you're saying that the officials at Melton were negligent? The organisers regularly call events off for one reason or another, they use their judgement. I doubt anyone at this event considered those conditions too dangerous. The racing continued after the course was cleared. There will always be accidents due to the drivers pushing as hard as they can , unfortunately despite the best efforts and skill of the drivers , things occasionally go wrong. Pretty sure all the drivers would have confidence in the officials .

@Dunkolunk

Жыл бұрын

I raced Progas and top fuel motorcycles. I know at several races. Different racers would want the race called for wind. I would always tell them. Feel free to stand down. However, the rest of us spent $$ getting here. If you cancel this race. Then another. The points race is ruined. Call enough of them. Soon we won't be racing at all.

@dakotaautosales9673

Жыл бұрын

Wind conditions lol a drag boat is completely different get a grip skip

Glad dude made it out of the boat, I was worried there for a sec.

Love how they just full steam through the crash site with no idea where the driver is. That'll probably be the most dangerous part, survive the crash and get yeeted by one of the other boats

@mikes28j

Жыл бұрын

There are no brakes, if you're close behind an incident, even letting go of the power won't slow you fast enough & engine momentum for a short time will continue to power the propeller[s]. As a racer, your time to react is short.

@timford3599

Жыл бұрын

@@mikes28j What? You can't hit the brake pedal? What kinda' Mickey Mouse rig is this?!?

Those guys at Vitton Motors know how to build em , ! "haulin ass" . !

I was watching the video thinking to myself how much better Aussie boat racing is then here in the states, how quick their boats are, and how many more boats they get for a show and this happens. SHIT. Looks like he just got it to loose and it took off on him. Very scary looking crash, hope he was OK. Sure had his boat flying. No pun intended. Wind didn't look that bad, water wasn't real rough. Australian runabout circle boats are much different then American boats but they really know how to make them fast. A few years ago they brought a gaggle of 6 litre boats to the states and man were they impressive.

@HighlanderNorth1

Жыл бұрын

😕 It's just a shame the cameras weren't here the day before, when I rowed a canoe around this course just 4 seconds slower than the times posted by ^these speed boats! I would've completed it 35 seconds faster, but my paddle broke halfway through lap 1, as a result of the extreme amount of force I was applying to it. So I had to complete the race while rowing with just the handle of the paddle, which really reduced my speed.... 😉

@timford3599

Жыл бұрын

@@HighlanderNorth1 Oh man you had me goin' there for a minute. But then you said the paddle broke and it slowed you down. Everybody knows that you can turn the paddle over and use the handle. C'mon man! who are you tryin' to kid here? LOL

Scary how fast that boat slipped below.

That safety crew really needs to get a raft to drag behind their jet ski, like the lifeguards have for big wave surfing events. just pull him up on the raft and get him straight to shore.

Odd that rescue boat driver put on flippers and abandoned the boat when there was already a person in the water with the driver and the driver was OK.

Capsules save lives!

@VirtualR

Жыл бұрын

100%

Watching it in slow motion. The boat hit a wake wave and lost control. It hit just right.

@onedayiwillmakesomecontent

8 ай бұрын

Nope. I was there. Wind gusts across the valley. Was super windy that day and you could see the gusts push across the water surface in the same spot. Wrong place, wrong time unfortunately.

Wow, this is just down the freeway from me. I'll definitely be checking out next year's schedule. I'm glad the driver was safe

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

Bloody Oath !! such a Great Weekend !

@Campingthesuburbs

Жыл бұрын

@@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807 My mates from Melton should be telling me about these kinds of things. Love abit of high speed action Haha. I wonder when Calder Park will be opened again now I talk about it

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

@@Campingthesuburbs Yes i agree ! would be awesome to have calder open for more events again.monster trucks are on at calder park 4 weeks from now

One of the most dangerous sports in the world, but so fun to watch

Wow, he had literally seconds to escape before it went down.

@FlatlandMando

Жыл бұрын

Very motor- heavy I'm sure, these boats

Holy poop!

All the People complaining about my Language..Thought i was about to see a man drown.its called shock ! cant believe i had to do this.

@rnmike1569

Жыл бұрын

Don’t worry about the complainers, you were only showing your humanity friend.

@jeremymorrison3494

Жыл бұрын

no worries brother, its the internet, i feel you, it was a scary moment.

@rsmith3033

Жыл бұрын

it sounded like what i was thinkin an hell yea holly shit ! 😎

@gt1man931

Жыл бұрын

You can't do anything about people being idiots on the internet. I was saying the same 'holy shit' as soon as he started flipping. That man is lucky he made it.

@BaradineAllawa

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't sweat it.. you did the normal thing. Those bitching.. well.. lets just say I hope they never watch an aussie dashcam compilation.. their ears will bleed

I don't know if he was hurt bad but he was very lucky to be alive, those boat fly.

He was lucky to get out of the fixed capsule in the boat as it sunk. Many Drag boat drivers in the states in the early days drowned.

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

Thank goodness for capsules

@racefanwfo

Жыл бұрын

NOT A DRAG BOAT. CIRCLE BOAT.

@jerrycoggin9434

Жыл бұрын

Tim Capaldi

I was at the races and I was going to video that race and I’m shattered I didn’t I’m so glad I found this so I could see what happened all I saw was a big splash and the boat sink

That is a really pitiful rescue plan ! God forbid the rescuee was unable to move or needed to be immobilized... How about a "sled" behind the jetski, something !

Who was the idiot racer that screamed through close to the sinking boat while the driver was no where in sight?

@johnmcgovern3806

Жыл бұрын

I agree, should have his licence revoked

@jb243wp

Жыл бұрын

No wrong there, that boat should have been one of the first responders, potentially the next boat through could have stopped at the crash site also. That 2nd place driver should have known at the time that the race would have been called off because of the seriousness of the crash. 2nd boat driver case of "Bugger the rest of you, I'm alright, thanks Jack", and I'm going to win. 🏆

@stewfletcher2564

Жыл бұрын

Yep, thought the same, like they need the equivalent of massive caution flashing light poles mounted on the course buoys to alert of an accident/incident(man down/boat down). It seems primitive that in 2023 that Drag boat racing doesn’t have to comply with similar safety standards that Drag car, Sprint car racing has to! Seriously- wtf???

@russbrown3159

Жыл бұрын

@@jb243wp obviously, the driver didnt see the crash. It's not like driving a joystick from the couch....

@loganstewart9661

Жыл бұрын

When your going 130+ mph it would be fairly hard to see what had happened when your trying to control your own boat?, the course had 3 buoys one at each end and one in the middle which has a red flashing beacon on each buoy which is activated when they have been notified that there is an incident on the course, a lot if not all the drivers in these boats have a radio which has someone on the other end back at the pits, I was standing near the pits when this happened and it happened that quick that a lot of people on shore didn’t know what had happened until the boat was pretty much sinking. The rescue boats and divers on the course also happen to have radios to each other and the spot where the boat smashed was right in front of one of the divers and the boat they were in. So the time it takes them to radio it in and the time it takes the teams to radio to the drivers in the other boats plus for the drivers to see the red flags and the red beacons activated was what you have just watched, to slow a boat that is doing 130+ and to have all of that information passed on to you is actually a really quick response time by all drivers on the course. Yes it was close from the other boats the other red boat Xplicit would have been just coming out of the first corner by the time the incident happened and the blue boat workhorse would have been mid corner coming around. The main thing here is that the driver and all other drivers were okay and the incident was handled more than professionally.

Moving well bruz 👌👌👌 #moneyshot

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

cheers legend !!!

W T F ! ! ! Dude crashed,.. has to bail before the boat sinks. Then, has boats flying over his head to avoid. The RACE STOPS, and all boats Avoid the area, when we have crashes in our part of the country. We don't see who can finish the dude off first. ... from an H1 dude

So Who Won The Race ? Just kidding ! That Boat Pilot was Really Hanging Tight on those Turns, Shame he Wrecked. 😬 Nice Video ! 😁😎

"Hooo0EEY, Bubba! Let's dew that agin!"

Those things are 5 MPH away from being planes, not boats. That was a hard crash. Wonder if they will recover the drive train from the bottom, or if its just a really expensive fish house now.

@loganstewart9661

Жыл бұрын

They recovered the boat later that evening/night

Great video dude!

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mate 😎

Unfortunately, on these "runaboat" boats transmissions with inclined shafts are still used, which generate a thrust component that raises the bow and at those speeds, a tidal wave or headwind is enough to capsize. On the other hand, if propellers faired inside the keel were used, the "TOW" would develop in a single direction, without bow lifting components (as occurs in fighter aircraft).

Them things are crazy !!!

There will be a feature of this race crash on channel nines tv show Emergency.will keep everyone posted of air date.

WOW!

That dude was eatin up the track too. That sucks.

The 2 boats who went through the crash scene should of got a 2 year’s suspension!!!!

Maybe a wing on the stern would have provided a bit of down force that may have helped?

@craigkaschan4822

Жыл бұрын

No they’re only a hindrance when boats porpoise like that they have the opposite affect than a car.

HOW THE FUCK ARE THOSE GUYS STILL RACING THRU THE DEBRIS FIELD GUY COULD HAVE BEEN UNDER THERE ...WTF!!!!!

Crazy how fast it sunk. There must be no positive buoyancy requirements in these boats at all.

@10secrx7

Жыл бұрын

the air tank came out of the boat when the deck ripped off.

@jimknox6139

Жыл бұрын

With a 700lb engine strapped to a small boat. I'm not surprised it sank by the stern.

Good engines in all boats. Thats where its at

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

Bloody Oath !!!

Thank goodness everyone is ok 💜❤️🙏

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

Definitely :)

Deu dó

And this is why you don't race in windy conditions.

Safety team is important when seconds count

Did you see how those other guys drove by he could have been killed

Ausie’s are flat nuts! They look like they’re running faster than the U.S. “K” class!

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

These guys sure do push the limits ! Straya !!!

The lead boat was literally s screaming around the course. Did a wind gust surprise him?

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

It was windy and too much underneath him as he was bouncing.

0:31 why does the white boat in the foreground have a white flag up briefly? Is that an official boat indicating the start of the race? He doesn't appear to "compete" after that. Thought it might have been a protest flag at first.

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

5 ай бұрын

you are spot on mate !

I was amazed that the rescuers jumped in the water and it don't look like they have no flotation devices on themselves, At least it looks that way

He just pushed it to far. Glad he is save.

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

That boat had been quick all day

That's going to hurt tomorrow!

@timford3599

Жыл бұрын

Ah, it'll buff right out. No worries mate!

@rfiskillingussoftly6568

Жыл бұрын

@@timford3599 with a bit of elbow grease maybe! Lol!

If I had to take a guess, I think the vegetation looks Australian. Otherwise, who would know? Never hurts to give some info.

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

Melton Gold Cup,never hurts to have a google !! lol

Writing on the wall in exactly the same place one lap earler,sideways skip.

Bro, did you see the boats literally trying to run him over after he crashed? Wtf? Some hillbilly stuff if you ask me…

What is this boat class/ model? Where I can get more info about them?

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057617043027&paipv=0&eav=AfbU_jpjTeu9wOxyjUAwYebKWLKCMJDthVKqP8BQ0k6ssfpcpH8Mh9dwYsP6FW3sxk4

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

6ltr Injected and 6ltr Carby class

@paulm7448

Жыл бұрын

Joe JNR used to race in the 6 litre class. At the time of this incident I believe it was running with a twin turbo engine, no idea what capacity, but was racing as unlimited class.

Huge crash!

agree with having a diver or two in full gear plus they don't have a boat that two guys can drag an injured driver on. No way are they getting him into that raft very fast.

@sidepass

Жыл бұрын

Especially when the driver moves the dingy away from the 2 and jumps in also. Grab the driver by the shoulders and pull.

About how fast we're these boats traveling at time of accident?

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

Rough estimate, atleast 250kms an hour

@petewerner4597

Жыл бұрын

@BAKESmcgaming & Planespotting Thanks. About 155mph is really fast on water. He's one lucky guy.

i wonder did they try and recover the boat ?? still sitting at the bottom ??

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I’ve been wondering the same thing

Dude was out of control on every pass... It was inevitable

@warrickrichards3104

Жыл бұрын

Fool!

@davelew86

Жыл бұрын

@@warrickrichards3104 don't go labeling yourself like that just because you disagree

@barryf5479

Жыл бұрын

Actually, he's a damned good driver. The way he trims in on the corners and hooks them is quite skillful.

@davelew86

Жыл бұрын

@@barryf5479 good driver or not, you could see he was out of control well before

I hope that cockpit did its job!

@timferguson1593

Жыл бұрын

Ok, it did! Man, this kind of racing takes a serious pair of steel balls!

Happy the safety blokes where there quick! Please tell me who was going to save him if he did not get out himself? Answer no one not a kitted up diver in site, boat sank like a stone toke them yonks to find it when they had to. Fact

I thought the purpose of the rescue boat was to "rescue" the driver. As in, help him into the boat. Instead, the second crewman drives away, then abandons the rescue boat. Geezuschryst, what am I missing? 🤕🥴😵‍💫🤔

49 hrs later

I am still lost trying to figure out where the heck ya put a fridge & gas grill on that thing and then go to sleep with the old lady........

And I thought my twin 40 horse 14 ft flat bottom John boat was fast

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

JNR was a very fast boat

ตอนแรกคิดว่าไม่เร็ว โคตเร็วว😂....

I expected the normal crap youtube video. Well done 👍

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

Thanks heaps mate, trying to get as best raw footage as i can.

Man, no kidding, "holy shit!" I hope he's alright. You did a fine job commenting my friend!!!!

Do they not have Radio headsets for these guys? If not they should, sure would help a driver bobbing in the water to not get run over.

I played it real slow to see if it was what I thought it was - He caught air yeah, but he crossed a wake coming from port and went through a trough along with the wind, his keel fins catch air, prop walks it sideways and he's helpless. Hull absorbed a lot of energy for sure. I have issues with the following boats, I'm not sure they should be on the grid without some education Adjustment.

An accident waiting 2 happen . He was allowing 2 much air under the front from the get go & as soon as u hit waves & wakes no front skegs & u r in no man's land

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

Hey mate, I agree with what your saying.

is mistake by the captain

Boats driving passed the crash scene at those speed not knowing where the driver is should not be allowed to race anymore. That was absolutely ridiculous

Safety Crew needs a lot more training

Sucks for the leader

Rescue team looked a bit shabby.

Hard to imagine that the other racers just kept speeding by with no concern for his safety

And noone stopped or slowed down to. Make sure they avoided him... Clearly he was hated...

No excuse for the blue boat to buzz by the wreckage and right over parts of the boat floating next to it. Could have killed the driver in the water.

commentator needs to lighten up

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

10 ай бұрын

wah wah wahhhh

Survives crash Gets to the surface And…….. ooooops Gets chopped/slashed/ mutilated by his racing pals Gosh darn it

Big surprise. Grown men chasing after what?

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

10 ай бұрын

prize money.........

Why the "h s" talk man. Keep it clean.

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

Go away buddy !

Speed kills😵‍💫

@fredbugden6935

Жыл бұрын

No , sudden deceleration kills.

Those other boats not slowing down was a shame to watch !!! Just saying

Was the BOAT OKAY ????

@bakesmcgamingplanespotting5807

Жыл бұрын

she sunk real quick,dont know if they got her out !

Incompetent rescue crew