Video: 600bhp Stadium Supertruck crashes wildly

Fans of Nineties video games may remember Micro Machines. If you can't, don't bother picking up a copy.  

It was impossibly hard, incredibly frustrating and would always end with you losing at least one friend. However, there's a new, modern day version that's a lot better. And infinitely more realistic.

It's called Stadium Supertrucks, and it’s a rather excellent form of motorsport from the rather scattered brain of NASCAR and off-road racer Robby Gordon. It has all the hyper-competitive elements and big jumps of Micro Machines (admittedly not over household items), but in the real world.

The vehicles of choice are lolloping 600bhp trophy trucks, all fighting for gaps that aren’t there, while tripoding around circuits made for cars with high downforce.  

There are also crashes. Big crashes. As proven by pilot Pat O'Keefe at the most recent round in Long Beach, California. On the eleventh lap of the race, O’Keefe pounded down the front straight and hit one of the massive, strategically placed jumps. When he took off, his truck veered to the left, so when it came back to the ground he corrected to the right.

This cocked up the truck's approach for the next jump, skewing him straight into the pit-lane catch fencing. Luckily, they're made of solid stuff, and sent the car rolling down the straight instead of steamrolling the busy pits.

Thankfully, O'Keefe is built of stuff as hearty as the fence, and walked away with a smile. You can check out the amazing footage for yourself above above.

Fancy a go?