“What a bottom, Boludo!”: the true story behind the turnaround of the rally that went viral

“How carefully, Claudio? Stupid!” was the phrase that went viral in the last few hours, through social networks, thanks to an incredible recording that shows a accident during a rally race. This occurred due to a confusion in the indication of the navigator’s coordinates. The protagonists of the story are the pilot Ricardo Martignolo and his co-pilot Claudio Musacchioteam members Lusqtoff Racingwho came out of the situation unscathed but went through a roller coaster of emotions. However, the fragment has a background to tell.

“Background. Late“, are the first words heard in the video recorded by the cameras filming the interior of the vehicle. But since Martignolo did not fully understand the ordinance, his delegate added: “Come up here, this. Forty, spine, left, bottom“However, when the pilot followed the coordinates provided by his companion, he immediately noticed that the curve they had to navigate was narrow enough to press the accelerator.

“How carefully, idiot! How carefully? Claudio. How carefully?“, asked Martignolo, owner of the Lusqtoff company, in defiance to his co-pilot when he noticed the mistake. Even though it was already too late. Parallel to the screams, one could see how the vehicle began to spin.

Fortunately the pilots were unharmed during the crash. Once the car stopped moving, even if it turned around, there were a few seconds of silence in the team environment. “Sorry Ricardo, sorry“Musacchio said, taking the blame for giving the wrong instructions.

After those first moments of annoyance, Martignolo decided to put aside his competitive side to focus on the human side of the team. “Watch out Claudio. Are you OK?. Ready, enough, go ahead. Give me your hand. Don’t worry, nothing’s wrong, brother“, he has declared.

This fragment has attracted the attention of social networks in the last few hours, both from motorsports fans and from outside. However, The context of the said segment refers to March 2023. Yes, The accident occurred in the first round of the 2023 Argentine Rally Championship. Precisely at the Pagos del Tuyú Rally, in General Madariaga, while special stage 2 took place on Saturday.

AS, How did the recording come to light a year later? The program follows Rallyty, the country’s only rally reality show, dedicated to documenting each of the national championship dates in series. In this case, the Lusqtoff Racing team accident corresponds to chapter 194 from Rallyty, which was uploaded to YouTube as part of season 7 of the program.

With the aim of describing the drivers’ day in depth, in this video Rallyty interviewed Martinoglio about the accident in which he was involved. “We made a mistake in a corner, he was in third and he was all the way in sixth. Obviously he wasn’t in sixth.“, he expressed.

And although he was “angry” at not being able to finish the day’s racing, he clearly expressed his support for teammate Claudio. “The navigator, a crack. He made me win many races and in this one we made a mistake and it can happen. When we win, we both win and when we lose, we both lose,” she confided.

A year after the incident, the fragment that would go viral on social networks was published for the first time on Rallyty’s social networks, as part of the project National Argentine Rally Dayin commemoration of the death of Jorge Recalde in 2001, one of the references of the category.

After the situation went viral, Martignolo told Clarín behind the scenes: “They asked the team if there was a problem uploading it and we said no because we saw it as something comical and normal.“, one of the protagonists confessed in this regard.

However, he was surprised by how users underlined the importance that the team attributed to the health of the riders. “It strikes me that people are surprised by one person’s treatment of another when it should be the most normal thing in the world. This speaks to how short-tempered we all are or how altered our values ​​are, which leads us to care more about a car than a person.. I took it completely naturally, How can you not worry about the person in front of the irons?“, he has declared.

Aware of the extent of the accident, Martignolo did not take long to talk about the situation with his co-pilot, and confessed: “We’ve already talked about it several times and laughed about it, of course. We are a team in every decision we make“.

This is how the team remains intact. So much so that this year they competed again in the Pagos del Tuyú Rally after failing to complete the circuit in 2023. And this time they took revenge by taking fourth position.

Now, at the next match, which will be played in Córdoba, the team will not play due to Martignolo’s personal reasons. But the pilot has already assured that on the third day, scheduled for May but without a confirmed venue, he will race with Claudio, his navigator. “For better or for worse, this is how we are,” admits the character in the viral video on social networks.