What's the cruellest defeat you've seen in motorsport?

After Toyota lost Le Mans victory with just minutes left to run last weekend, we’re wondering: what’s the cruellest defeat you’ve seen in motorsport?

Image via: Toyota Blog

Jack Leslie

21 Jun 2016

After Toyota lost Le Mans victory with just minutes left to run last weekend, we’re wondering: what’s the cruellest defeat you’ve seen in motorsport?

Image via: Toyota Blog

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rally new zelanad 2007 that sebastien loeb lost to marcus gronholm by 0.3 seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxToXc-yoPs

2011 Indianapolis 500. Damned lap cars

1966 LeMans. Fords 1,2,3 finish totally embarrassing overconfident Ferrari.
That priceless look on Enzo’s face

Carlos Sainz on the last stage of the RAC rally. This engine blew a few hundred metres from the finish and if he made it we would have been world champion again. Not the biggest Sainz fan but i don’t know why he didn’t push it over the line https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P2hvDCAiOU

Quite a lot of swearing in the original video, in spain when someone breaks down, this is recalled

https://youtu.be/b-V6jkrPI3U
Makinen giving a sad interview when he got a phone call declaring him a champion. Priceless.

Imho this is the only competitor to this year’s lemans mishap. And guess what? It was a Toyota too! 😛

When scumbag Porsche purposely took out the leading Vette at Long Beach… Or the time at Laguna Seca where they ran another Vette into a wall last lap.

How about Daytona where Corvette took out the leading Porsche? No love lost between those two, is there?

A friend of my dad’s was racing in the Minot Moto Magic enduro last summer and was in 1st place for about an hour and a half when he hit a car that had broken down, killing his engine and cooling system. Then, before the race was over and he was out of the car, another racer rear ended his car, twisting the frame. So, he lost the race and his car was completely destroyed. I think he’s already got another car built though.