What the #*$!: "Schwalbe" Introduced In Motorsport?

[Bram Hengeveld]

We have seen this behavior develop in football matches in the last 20 years. A player that fakes an injury to get his opponent penalized or deliberately tries to get a penalty kick. The Germans even have a beautiful word for this phenomena: Schwalbe. This disgusting behavior now seems to have spread to our beloved motorsport as well.

Primaguida, a member of our community, posted the following remarkable video on our forums about a Brazilian motorbike pilot faking a fatal injury and deliberately tries to red flag the race but forgot that nowadays there are such things as camera's recording your actions. Welcome in 2012 dude!

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[Hampus Andersson]

hilarious

What people will do amazes me every day.

 

[morsify]

Haha. I really want to know what happened after !

 

[Lee Ross]

Funny but also disgusting. I will never forget that image of Marco Simoncelli lying there lifeless in Moto GP for real live on tv. So to see some idiot like this doing this is poor. The funny part was the roll he did and looking up to see if people noticed

 

[Bruno Sousa Ferreira]

Funny thing is that you don't need a license to play football or whatever, but in motorsport you do, so if someone does that there is only one punishment in my eyes

 

[Lee Knight]

I hope they cancelled his race license for not clearing from the track & endangering others....

 

[Scott Webber]

what a complete ass, this rages me so much , total disrespect

 

[Jon Turner]

A Grand Prix Moto Racer in Brazil has been banned from a local championship after pretending to faint during the race.

The city of Santa Cruz do Sul in Southern Brazil witnessed one of the most bizarre scenes ever in Moto Racing.

During the Rio Grande do Sul State Moto Grand Prix, competitor Marlinton dos Reis Teixeira - known by his nickname Kalunga - was unable to make a turn on the rainy track and slipped.
He lost precious seconds trying to return to the race and decided to go for a red flag by pretending to faint in the middle of the track.

Several racers passed by him and luckily Kalunga was not hit. Some of his fellow riders then stopped to help him.

An ambulance and a safety car were sent to help the apparently stricken rider and paramedics took three minutes to remove him.

Later, the MotoRacing Association of Rio Grande do Sul State found out about Kalunga's apparent faint and banned the rider from the championship.
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[polariNator]

LMFAO that fall on the track, lost it there xD

 

[Tom]

#1 Cristiano Ronaldo Racing Team!

 

[Jordi Casademunt]

Well deserved.

FIFA should take note. That's how you keep a sport clean.

And the guy shows a complete lack of common sense, and care about everyone's safety, including his own. He has no business in a racing track, or in any kind of vehicle, motorized or not. In fact, I'm not sure he should be allowed to walk around.

 

[Nico Van Elk]

Tomorrow's newspaper: Hollywood discovers new acting talent!

 

[magicfr]

Should be life banne.

 

[SVP Skins]

The bike was to heavy and he called it all the names under the sun so the bike secretly punched him.

 

[Peter]

#1 Cristiano Ronaldo Racing Team!

#3 Arjen Robben Racing Team!

 

[Mark Birney]

Where the hell were the stewards? What an ass.

 

[Dennis Phelan]

Absolutely disgusting! My club would have never run the race without corner workers properly stationed.

 

[Tom]

#3 Arjen Robben Racing Team!

The video of my people; watch it!

 

[Dinca Andrei]

Hey....there is some on track

 

[morsify]

Where the hell were the stewards? What an ass.

Yes I am surprised the flag marshall prior to the bend was not watching him anyway ? And never mind getting banned from the championship - he must surely be ashamed to show his face ever again in the paddock.