M3/M4 E46 M3 ruined by idiot

[Sunny]

BTW if any one wants to know what understeer looks like, pause at 34 secs into the video. And if you pause at 38 secs, why seat belts save lives.

 

[Centurion]

BTW if any one wants to know what understeer looks like, pause at 34 secs into the video.

More like what taking flight looks like. The wheels weren't even in contact with the ground. He clearly hadn't counted for that. Even if the car wouldn't have taken flight he would had under-steered badly into the rocks carrying a bit too much speed.

At least he was wearing a seat belt unlike a speeding driver who died this week speeding in his Zonda, while his passenger walked away without a scratch. The driver's body was found quite a distance from the car. And yeah you guessed it right, he wasn't wearing a seat belt.

 

[Mr Robert]

More like what taking flight looks like. The wheels weren't even in contact with the ground. He clearly hadn't counted for that.

Exactly. He flew off the road. That's what I, ironically, meant by him knowing that stretch very well.

 

[martinbo]

Yeah, interesting vid. I had a good laugh and then felt somewhat sorry for the hapless lad. Simple case of too fast on an unknown road. And, when the road is unfamiliar you a) need to adjust your driving speed and b) learn to look beyond the visible road surface in order to anticipate what it's going to do. You have to scan as far ahead as possible - if there's a hill in front of you and no visible road surface on it, then you need to be ready for a bend. [Or, in this case, a crash.]

 

[Levi68]

The only reason he didn't ruin a life was cause no one unlucky enough to be there at that time, it had absolutely nothing to do with his driving skill.

I never said he had driving skills. But it does not mean nothing can happen to skillful drivers. And many young drivers are good. Quite a number go to track or race illegally. How about "Mr Bean" that crashed his F1? Stupid kid? How about Advevo drifting on open roads? Irresponsible douchebag?

 

[deity]

Lol, no no, this was back in my "street racing" idiotic days. The W212 is a testament to how out of the "sports car" game I am, in terms of keeping me good (too many close calls to count really). I was in a Mustang 5.0 with no bumpers, completely stripped, and going in the opposite direction of a GT3 who was racing other cars in the opposite direction. The GT3 was using the wrong lane (only two lanes per side therefore only two cars allowed to race) making it a 3 way race on his side. We literally skimmed each other by a fraction (all I saw ahead of me was Porsche headlights coming at over 100 MPH, and we both swerved just in time to avoid a literal head on) and side swiped each others front fenders heavily. My car wouldn't start and some guy who was a life saver ran over to my car, told me to pop my trunk, and pressed some gas-reset button, which allowed me to get it into a nearby parking lot. Otherwise, I'd have been caught red handed in a big street racing accident.

This is one of the reasons that sports-style driving or fast cars just doesn't interest me as much anymore, and/or I try and keep myself at bay about them.

I'm glad you've made it out alive. Don't do anything stupid like that anymore!