look how easily GT3 997 can be wrecked
 

I once sat in a 996 GT3 in a torrential downpour, scariest drive of my life.
But I thought well I guess its only easy to lose in the wet....NOT

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LZpJYWe8s0A

p.s.
I'm surprised this guy didn't let go of the wheel just before impact. That's a good way to hurt yourself. But I guess its hard to think in such a situation.

Is that smoke near the end of the video?

I think its dust smoke would really suck no insurace when ur on the track!!

edit: nope deff smoke :ah:

It is from the airbag.

wow!....that will get the blood going.
thanks for posting

im surprised that throughout the whole video he didn't say a word.
i know if that happened to me it would be bleep bleep all over the place.

What exactly went wrong there? I was watching with no sound (at the office) - didn't know if there was some clue I missed?

Looks like he carried too much speed + over correction with the steering + braking while losing traction.

no i don't think he was going too fast. If you look at the very momment he rides up on the curb the rear of the car starts to swing out and he wasn't prepared.
Not sure if that could have been prevented with an eariler reaction. He also might have erroneously let off the gas just slightly, when when he made contact with the curb.

But I'm just amazed at how easily it happened. I would have thought that the whole 911 'superior rear grip due to weight over the rear axle' theory would have given the driver a little more lattitude.

Its airbag gases

From the looks of this video, I think my 1992 toyota corolla can outhandle a 911 gt3. All that money wasted on buying performance when you have to relearn how to drive a backarse rear weight car.

WOW!

That's how my Porsche Sport Exhaust sounds!

Did the guy have PASM/PSM on?

How does insurance work for something like this? Call to State Farm agent, "I have no idea what happened, I came out to my driveway this morning and this is what I saw..." :eek:

I rememeber no insurance company covers off-road driving.
He would have to pay for it himself or made up a fraud.

well typically you buy extra insurance for track events. Being that this happened in Belgium I'm sure they are more willing to offer insurance for these sort of things at much lower rates vs. the USA where there is a lawyer camped out in the parking lot waiting to have a chat with the guy who just wrecked his $100,000.00 Porsche. "Oh yeah sure I saw the whole thing, I think we need to look at those Michelin Cup Tires I bet you they were faulty."
At the Nurburgring you sign a waiver that basically says its all your own fault if you crash. Yet the scrape people off that road every day, they keep coming in bikes and cars to go flat out.

If I lived near the ring, I'd be flat broke from going every day, but damned if I wouldn't see what my yugo (All that I would be able to afford after track fees.repairs) could do!

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

cursed

nice follow up....

Outch!!! Thats wasnt a nice day for him...

Imagine what this woman could do in that GT3!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os16l7oeFjE&mode=related&search=

Love it! That video is a timeless classic. It never gets old and makes me laugh every time.

you can see what happened there.. combination of an unloaded suspension at the top of the hill, correcting a wide line through the turn, and adding power, results in the spin...

That rolled over awfully easy.

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.

OMG LOL LOL LOL, That is classic!

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.

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

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.

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. :cheers:

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

http://www.spa-francorchamps.be/gfx/...s/BLD_5388.jpg

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.

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.