Mark Martin did that at Martinsville in a Busch race once. Once.

On on hand, there's very little comms out on track unless you have a team feeding it to you constantly.. it's happened before and will happen again..

On the other, the fact that EVERY other bike was at it.. should have given it away. Even the tail end of the track was elbow to pavement...

I guess nobody told him about that checkered flag thingie that they wave at you to make you stop.

A bit more information for those who don't speak French.

http://motoring.iafrica.com/features/ 805328.html

You might want to point out that that whole page is covered with NSFW videos. Doesn't affect me but some might want to know.

After a 2nd look, not more like PNSFW if you work somewhere fairly uptight.

Or, you know, you could just link to the YouTube video itself...

http://youtu.be/6iwnnE12HCM

do'h

Japan is awesome!

Hysterical. The French guys thought he was having engine problems... it took awhile before it dawned on them, but damn that was funny. By the tone of their voice, they were trying to remain professional but you could tell they really wanted to just laugh at that moron..

snuff3r: On on hand, there's very little comms out on track unless you have a team feeding it to you constantly.. it's happened before and will happen again..

On the other, the fact that EVERY other bike was at it.. should have given it away. Even the tail end of the track was elbow to pavement...

There are no radio comms in motorcycle racing.

DeltaPunch: Hysterical. The French guys thought he was having engine problems... it took awhile before it dawned on them, but damn that was funny. By the tone of their voice, they were trying to remain professional but you could tell they really wanted to just laugh at that moron..

The French word for incredible cropped up quite a lot in the color commentary.

That was at least a minute and thirty seconds too long.

Well, that was an exciting copyright violation! I drew a blank