Next Media Animation’s “Taiwan Animation” of the Daytona crash has all the absurdity and hyperbole you’d expect — fans being killed and turned into cheering ghosts, all the cars being Toyota Corollas because they don’t have a stock car stock animation, NASCAR literally erasing the video from YouTube — but the best part is easily the fact that nobody at NMA thought, “hey, it’s probably a bad idea to ask NASCAR fans what they think of this insulting, wacky parody video made by Asians.”

From the YouTube description:

As every NASCAR fan knows, you come for the crashes and stay for the races. But are NASCAR officials taking fan safety seriously enough?

NASCAR fans are stoic. Talk to any fan and they will admit to accepting some level of risk when watching the races live. Furthermore, the fine print on the back of admissions tickets would seem to absolve race officials of liability if fans are injured.

But despite the risks, are NASCAR officials doing enough to ensure no fan is ever hurt? Leave your thoughts in the comments.

Predictably, NASCAR fans left their thoughts.

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Here’s a hang glider crash that goes about as well as one can. It ends with the glider practically diving through somebody’s bedroom window. If it wasn’t scary for the guy crashing, look at the image below. That’s straight out of a horror movie. Have fun never sleeping again, random strangers! (via DOTD)

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Today’s A.M. edition of Hot Clicks featured a bike race crash video with an hilariously enthusiastic description (“F2: Main Race, part one! Awesome fish hook crash! XR100 Racing. Glad that you are OK!!”) and a lesson for Brandon Stroud: do not ever go near bike races.

If you’ve ever played Road Rash for the Sega Genesis (or driven a Sanchez in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas), you’ll be right at home watching this poor guy fall off his bike, get caught under the helmet by another rider until the apology reflex reaches said dude’s brain. Things work themselves out in the end — I would not share an actual beheading with you, and UPROXX doesn’t have a Faces Of Death channel — but it’s not any less scary.

You can check out the video below.

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This year’s Daytona 500 was undoubtedly one of the strangest in recent memory. For starters, there was that whole 36-hour delay and holding it on a Monday night for the first time in history. But between the multiple crashes in Saturday’s Nationwide race, the crash in the opening of the 500 and Juan Pablo Montoya inexplicably flying into a track dryer/jet engine, the entire weekend felt like one really bad Days of Thunder remake. Except this one didn’t feature Nicole Kidman screaming, “LET ME OUT OF THE CAH, COLE!” or end with Tom Cruise running like a sissy.

But it did end with people wondering, WTF is up with Danica Patrick? The not-really-first lady of racing wrecked three times during the 500 weekend events, including both the Nationwide and main races. So what the hell happened, DP?

“I just wish the beginning of the race could have been a nice single-file line like it was when I got back out there, but it wasn’t,” Patrick said. “And honestly, that’s my lesson to learn, maybe. Write off that first little bit if you’re not up front.”

“I would have loved to have run up there. I would have loved to have got the experience when you actually were racing for positions as opposed to just feeling it out,” Patrick said. “But I truly believe everything happens for a reason.”(Via CBS Sports)

That’s a good outlook, I suppose, but she crashed three times. This was supposed to be her big chance – her first Daytona 500 – to hang with the boys and take one giant leap forward for women in racing. But if everything happens for a reason, I think someone is trying to tell Danica to tighten her HANS device, because it’s gonna be a long year.

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After a 36-hour delay and what felt like 36 caution flags, Matt Kenseth was finally declared the winner of the 2012 Daytona 500 after he held off the feisty Dale Earnhardt, Jr., but nobody really cares about that, because DID YOU SEE THAT CRASH??? Juan Pablo Montoya inexplicably slammed into a track dryer truck, which is, of course, just a giant jet engine. So Montoya’s crash led to quite the toasty bonfire. Thankfully, neither Montoya nor the driver of the truck were severely harmed.

But out of a massive inferno rises a different kind of winner – aside from, you know, Kenseth who won the race and all – as driver Brad Keselowski became the first NASCAR driver to ever Tweet a race photo from inside his car. Keselowski Tweeted a cell phone pic of his view of Montoya’s crash and it resulted in him gaining 100,000 followers within an hour. Damn, son. That’s exposed breast followers right there.

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Here’s a video getting a lot of play on Buzzfeed today wherein two guys crash their motorcycles, and somehow it ends up a beautiful little reminder that God is real and true love exists. Okay, that might be overstating it a little, but it’s funny and I can’t provide any deeper context because the phrase “at Magny-Cours, during a round of the promosport Championship” might as well be “Yahoo Serious Festival”.

I can’t decide if my favorite part is the guy in the yellow helmet desperately trying to ride his bike while it’s spinning around on the ground, or if it’s the guy in white waiting for the perfect time to cross the street. “Hey baby, I drive a motorcycle for a living” is a great pick-up line, but not worth the full-on existential crisis of something like this.

Be sure to watch until the guy in blaze orange wanders out, as he’s basically the only guy in the video who looks like he knows what he’s doing.