look how easily GT3 997 can be wrecked

[porsche986spyder]

Originally Posted by trogdor

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LYDEHQWsgyc&mode=related&search=

cursed

Wow, that looks like the same track and the same turn as the other video. Both going uphill and then just after that section they both wreck.

[RandallNeighbour]

Originally Posted by porsche986spyder

Wow, that looks like the same track and the same turn as the other video. Both going uphill and then just after that section they both wreck.

I believe you are seeing the same car from two different angles. The first is the cam on the driver's helmet. The second is the car he passed, who also had a camera in the car. Watch the first one again and you'll see the second cam-enabled car.

[Back2DTM]

Originally Posted by porsche986spyder

Wow, that looks like the same track and the same turn as the other video. Both going uphill and then just after that section they both wreck.

I think that camera car was the one who was passed in the first video.

[Perfectlap]

the onboard car is seal grey. the 2nd car is black.

either way the similarity of the two wrecks tells me the weight distribution of the car makes it prone to driver error in this particular type of corner. Which incidentally is one of the five most famous flat out corners in sports car world, used to be even more extreme.
p.s.
I bet you if I were doing that same speed in my BoxsterS I would not spin and if I did I wouldn't do a rear end hammer throw into the wall. The mid engine car would not travel far from the point of the spin.... far away from the wall, albeit with less warning than the 911.

[porsche986spyder]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

the onboard car is seal grey. the 2nd car is black.

That's what I noticed too. Makes me wonder if it is indeed the same track? It certainly looks like it. I can only asume that particular area of the track must be a difficult spot to get through in that type of Porsche. They both had the same problems.

[Perfectlap]

Yeah its the same track Spa in Belgium. aka 'the driver's circuit'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_de_Spa-Francorchamps


always made me think of the big hill at Road Atlanta

It's the same track for sure. 2 different events. Vid 1 (1st person) doesn't pass cam car in correct location, besides Vid 2, car spins 360 degrees, Vid 1, no spin.

[racer_d]

It's only a flat out corner if

1) Your car is really slow or

2) Your cajones are amply sized or

3) your car creates mucho downforce

F1 cars go flat out (then again, they create what, 2000lbs of downforce (on a 1300lb car?)

I don't want to critique our original GT3 vid, but I can see the car getting light as it crests, plus what seems to be a gentle nudge of the turtles/curbing.. it looks lit he was going to save it but seemed to overcorrect at that speed and whoosh.. smack.