Yahoo Autos Racing In Reverse Is a Comedy Act of Mishaps and Crashes
At low speeds, driving in reverse is pretty easy. If you're careful and know what you're doing, you probably won't hit anything. But what happens when you have to go as fast as possible around a racetrack with a bunch of equally fast cars next to you? It, uh, gets a little more difficult.
Back in the 1980s, the Dutch had this crazy idea to hold wheel-to-wheel racing events where the drivers could only race with their cars going backwards. This meant racers would have to rely on mirrors and over-the-shoulder angles to see where they're going, and steering was done exclusively with the "back" of the car.
The results, as you can see from this race at Circuit Park Zandvoort in the Netherlands, were unsurprising. Thanks to the inherent instability and limited vision, crashes happened left and right, even at extremely low speeds.
Reversing out of your garage every morning might be simple, but setting a lap time? Not so much.
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