This Viral Meme Ruined His Racing Career

Samir Thapar, aka the guy from everyone's favorite meme of 2013, "You're Breaking The Car, Samir!" Turns out, he's actually a legit rally driver, along with his codriver Vivek. The video we laughed at, doctored. And us laughing at them ended in a defamation case and an arrest of the memelord who made it.
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#Samir #Rally #memes

[Arraxis]

"the car had to be retired"
Sooo... Samir broke the car?

[MxMaxyImpress]

I'm really appreciate him to gave this golden yet hillarious moments, such a badass rally driver with carrying his own sponsorship, despite the chaotic results

[TheRedGlint]

It's misleading to say the video was "doctored" or "fake"... It all happened, it's just that the funniest bits are clipped together for convenience.

[jhonnalbisa]

Yow I was 10 when this blew up. I'm 20 this year and still a diehard rally fan, now a tuner, and currently studying in college.

[versthappening]

samir's legacy lives on as a racer in nfs: prostreet pepega edition

[royliber]

Watching the rally video first time around and many times later, I never thought Vivek was "incapable" of co-piloting a rally driver like Samir. Infact, Vivek did excellent job and he read the pace notes even before they got to the corner. I always thought none skilled one between the two of them was always Samir and he kinda was that stage. I kinda feel bad for Vivek but im happy he got back on his feet.

[tdon]

I'm a Navigator in offroad desert racing. Our stages are into the hundreds of kilometers, if I'm yelling at the driver that much, in such a short stage, there is something dreadfully wrong. Just because a driver has decades of experience, doesnt make them any good. The edit wasn't the problem, the driver was. I guarantee, a powerful man like Samir wasnt happy losing face because of Viveks comments and that, I'm betting, was the cause of Viveks troubles. Might post some in car footage of ours, it can get pretty heated in there!

[motodude]

From a step back point of view. It is absolutely ridiculous that we as humanity have reached the point of letting social media have actual effect on real life thoughts, feelings, and subsequently ones actions are driven by it.
We all owe eachother a favor, and need to stop treating social media like it is our lifeline.
Start living in reality again.

[descentmvm]

wow i never knew the video was edited like that. and it costed them both alot of issues after... I hope this video blows up and gets more views so everyone understands the truth.

[DarkSignal]

I can never find the proper words to describe how much I enjoy video essays (or whatever the term might be), especially those that tell the story behind something I once wondered about a long time ago.

[canaryellow.]

Rest In Pieces

Samir "You're breaking the car" Thapar


😔😔😔

[qwertycoupe]

Theres no way he had 20 years experience before that video, thats amazing 😂😂

[Alex-UMGTE]

I feel bad for Vivek after watching the vid.

[Riku-Leela]

"nothing terrible happened"
Pretty sure he almost killed someone at one point lmao

[kirklandexotics]

It's so satisfying to hear you pronounce the Indian town names correctly 😌

[oregonfelder]

My God man, I laughed so hard the first time I saw that video I couldn’t breath! It took me a few more attempts before I could get through it without laughing so hard I missed things. Thanks for adding the rest of the context to this.

[FreshTillDeath]

Thank you for giving the real story more attention. It's always bothered me that people don't know the full story of how both of these guys really are legends.

[julianbrelsford]

I haven't got a clue about the laws in India but in the USA, lawyers usually tell us that a critical component of defamation claims is a false statement. So if you took a raw video and removed everything that wasn't fun to watch, and you're not not splicng phrases/sentences to fundamentally change their meanings...
it doesn't seem to me as though any "defamation" happened!
Copyright is a whole other thing though; taking the rally video and reposting without the owner's permission might be a copyright violation

[foxhound]

Excellent video and presentation! I will definitely be sharing this for so many reasons to my friends, absolutely superb, please keep up the hard work as I love this content!

you cant save samir. the meme video has no manupilation. it cant be a crime.