N24 Racer Hits The Pit Wall After Being Blinded By His Own Bonnet

When the bonnet on Rudi Adams' BMW M4 popped open, he had to try and navigate his way back to the pits blind - with incredibly amusing results

For any racing driver, having the bonnet pop open and blocking the windscreen is never a good thing. Usually, there remains some sort of gap at for the driver to see out of well enough to find their way uneventfully back to the pits but in this case, that didn’t happen.

His vision almost entirely obscured by the bonnet of his M4 late on in the Nurburgring 24 Hours, Rudi Adams slowly and comically tried to navigate his way to the pit lane, only to just miss the entrance.

Despite causing significant damage to the car in that colossal impact, incredibly the team was able to perform repairs and get it out on track again - once they’d stopped laughing, of course.

Endurance racing - especially at the Nordschleife - really does have it all!

A version of this article was originally posted on WTF1

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Mr. Kei (A Random Corolla) (ZoomZoomer32) (Käfer für i

That’s sad

06/23/2019 - 17:41 |
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Anonymous

Should have looked

06/23/2019 - 17:55 |
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Lord Saucius The Divine

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Ikr

06/23/2019 - 19:05 |
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Lord Saucius The Divine

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Ikr

06/23/2019 - 19:05 |
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Anonymous

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Can’t do that anymore with Hans system

06/23/2019 - 19:18 |
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sarveshinde

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what race is this from? Link pls

06/24/2019 - 07:42 |
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Robert Gracie

That car started, it got to that stage hood latches broke, and then they used enough duct tape on it to patch up the Titanic and make it water tight again and it finished!

06/23/2019 - 18:16 |
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Chewbacca_buddy (McLaren squad)(VW GTI Clubsport)(McLaren 60

Best part is when he hit the pit wall, he got stuck lmao

06/23/2019 - 18:48 |
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Anonymous

Is everyone forgetting Marko Martin. Who managed to win a rally with bonnet completely obscuring the front windsheild. Legandary status this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70GwcsbHsO8

06/23/2019 - 19:17 |
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VT3CYO

Guys I thought that this was my dads racing team

06/23/2019 - 19:33 |
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BMWfan

Why not try to hit the brakes very hard to get it back down?

06/23/2019 - 20:33 |
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🎺🎺thank mr skeltal

In reply to by BMWfan

Because it’d just instantly lift back up. That’s a carbon fiber hood so it’s incredibly light, even at low speeds the air that goes under it can lift it up if the latches are broken.

06/23/2019 - 20:37 |
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1950 Mercury Coupe

Well, at least crash closed the bonnet.

06/23/2019 - 21:34 |
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Ali Mahfooz

They used so much tape that they turned their car into an amateur version of BMW art car. 😂

06/24/2019 - 02:43 |
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REAL_sluggo

Folks in america be thinking: “what’s a bonnet??”

06/24/2019 - 14:09 |
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