197 Nurburgring Fail...

[Mr Burns]

A bad day for someone...

 

[imprezaworks]

And that's why I will never go lol.

 

[Matthew]

Did he hit the barrier?

Would never take a road car on there and give it the beans.

Not got the minerals.

 

[Coops Mk1]

I will try again one day, preferably in a half a grand crapper I don't care about, which is what i'm hoping the new track car will be.........sorry Danny

 

[The Chubby Pirate]

Not that bad??

 

[guysy]

Beep beep, painful !

 

[Mr Burns]

Not that bad??

Nah, it's a Clio though and it's a new video so I thought I'd post it up.

 

[George182]

Whoops

 

[Stu172cup]

And that's why I will never go lol.

Your missing out I promise you

Treat it with the respect it clwarly deserves and youll be fine.

Looks like his car went light on the rebound of the suspension when he went on the brakes too. The Astra crash in other discussion is worse

 

[marshall878]

I HATE that bit. The dip is too close to the corner and feels awful. I bottle it and slow before the dip. The m3 I went out in I swear the lad was off the floor then just drifted the corner.....nutter

 

[jon_r]

Sharp stab of the brakes after the dip, not before! You could see that happening a mile off.

 

[Bobby.]

Not that bad??

Thats what I was thinking, might not of even hit the barrier.

 

[Clio-Ell]

Driver error, trail braking and at the wrong point.

 

[Advikaz]

Billy!

 

[The Chubby Pirate]

Thats what I was thinking, might not of even hit the barrier.

Aye Bobby i'd say he was probably lucky - and if he did it would have been light!

 

[Tutuur]

he does react correct though, best thing to do is keep the brakes applied and hope for the best. i've seen enough cars trying to correct steering and then slap the other way around hitting the barriers way more awfull!

 

[Lawro]

Sharp stab of the brakes after the dip, not before! You could see that happening a mile off.

This! Car was unsettled before he even turned in.

 

[Advikaz]

he does react correct though, best thing to do is keep the brakes applied and hope for the best. i've seen enough cars trying to correct steering and then slap the other way around hitting the barriers way more awfull!

If you can get away with it (space wise) i'd say you'd be better off coming off the anchors tbh.

 

[Nick172Cup]

Surely throttle and correcting lock is the answer than being on the brakes???

 

[Advikaz]

Surely throttle and correcting lock is the answer than being on the brakes???

Yep

 

[Lal B3N]

Could of been a lot worse.

 

[Martin.]

Surely throttle and correcting lock is the answer than being on the brakes???

Agreed, but maybe he's not experienced enough with that situation. I understand the principle but have never had the chance to practice it.

 

[GrahamS]

this is another one of the corners you can watch from. I'm surprised there isn't a track side one to go along with it!

 

[Tutuur]

Surely if you are tallented enough but try searching for nurburgring crash video's. 80% catch a drift/slip by correcting and then slap the other way around.

 

[Advikaz]

Surely if you are tallented enough but try searching for nurburgring crash video's. 80% catch a drift/slip by correcting and then slap the other way around.

Only because they're useless lol

 

[FLOBALOB]

Looks to me like he had naff road tyres on , lost it a little , crapped it and hit the brakes too hard.

 

[Chip-mk1]

I will try again one day, preferably in a half a grand crapper I don't care about, which is what i'm hoping the new track car will be.........sorry Danny

Trouble is, a half grand crapper doesnt stop you getting a 6 grand barrier bill.

 

[Chip-mk1]

Driver error, trail braking and at the wrong point.

TBH from what you can see in that vid it looks to me like his steering inputs were all too aggressive on all the corners before that as well, he just didnt seem like a good driver.

 

[Mr Burns]

Correcting the steering can be quite difficult as most road cars have quite a slow steering rack. From what I remember my 197 was quite controllable when the back end broke away, but I'd have to be put in the same situation to know how I'd have handled it. Probably wouldn't have lost in the first place though lol.

 

[Chip-mk1]

Correcting the steering can be quite difficult as most road cars have quite a slow steering rack. From what I remember my 197 was quite controllable when the back end broke away, but I'd have to be put in the same situation to know how I'd have handled it. Probably wouldn't have lost in the first place though lol.

This is the thing, if you look at how violently he turns in on each corner (as the car seem to be jolting around), it means that not only did it break away but it did so quite quickly, he just seemed to be not smooth enough, Id say it was just inexperience from looking at that, and if he is inexperienced enough to be sawing at the wheel like that his odds of catching it were pretty slim IMHO.
He did have a good crack at putting the oppo on still though, but when it brakes that quick you have little chance really.

 

[Knuckles]

Wouldn't have happened had he had the cup chassis

braking mid corner? Tut tut

the car did seem very skittish in the corners I did notice

 

[Advikaz]

Or cup spoiler..

 

[Tutuur]

Lol!

 

[Chip-mk1]

Or cup spoiler..

Yeah, With the HUGE downforce created by the cup spoiler the backend would have been planted far too solidly to ever break away, lol.

 

[Advikaz]

Yeah, With the HUGE downforce created by the cup spoiler the backend would have been planted far too solidly to ever break away, lol.

If you polish it, it's more streamline meaning faster cornering speeds also.

 

[Knuckles]

Cup spoilers save lives

 

[Mr Burns]

It was always the rear diffuser that got me out of trouble.

 

[Knuckles]

40kg of downforce iirc

 

[NorthloopCup]

Sharp stab of the brakes after the dip, not before! You could see that happening a mile off.

I disagree there Jon_r I'm afraid. I never give a sharp stab of the brakes before or after the dip either. I have a confidence lift on the throttle and threaten/cover the brake pedal (which can be seen in my 8:31 ring lap on YouTube) then as soon as I'm down the dip, I'm immediately back hard on the throttle.