Flying Mercedes?!

[dyerkhalim123]

Please Dont Tell Me Thats A CLK GTR

[kyokuryu]

thats a parking method for ya!

[MrBellboy11]

was anyone else hoping the car would hit that wooden stake holding the sign and make it fall?

[valkalin2]

@MrBellboy11 nah dogg,i was hoping i wow, i dont even know what i was hoping o.o

[capricornGTR]

Should I buy flight insurance or hope that car insurance covers this?

[demonikous]

Vtec kicked in

[ecmjr]

HOLY SH!T!!!

[durdened]

I think he was trying to rip the banner like track and field races :)

[beaman220]

There is no winning. Because I've already won.

[simonbalk1]

Mark Webber likes to fly :P

[PortugalFabiano]

Red Bulll give you wings .....

[0sawyer0the0ginger0]

your doing it wrong



[william198888]

the car : ''hmm nice road they have here! OH look at those nice trees! Must.... get....into....them.... now... ''

[foxhounduk2k8]

if that was the SLS, it would just open its gullwing doors and fly away!

[Gummby69]

help me jesus! help me oprah! help tom crusie!

[rps13ka]

Normal putting stickers on a wing isn't visible, but for stunts like this it pays off to the sponsors to put stickers on wings. If you pause at 0:10 you will see the big MOBIL 1

[BmxDieseldude]

this really just puts into perspective the amount of forces that are applied to the car at the speeds these guys go.

[TTcrashes]

he is lucky with that plate across the street

[Hotshotmech38]

That was kinda funny

[Speedrifik]

Cамое главное гонщик выжил)

Кстати таких мэрсов было построено всего 25 экземплэров

Mercedec-benz clk-gtr

[jiminija11]

「もう疲れたわ｡いち抜け～た!」

[Lordcamilo2]

TS020 1 of my favorite cars

[vidmanx0]

Mark Webber has had an eventful career. He really got some air here.

[RandomDirectors]

I thought it was going to transform into a robot and run away...

[BjornIn1979]

Never underestimate the powers of O2!

[McLarenMercedes]

@BjornIn1979

Air is just 21% O2 (Oxygene)

78% is Nitrogen. Less than 1% is Argon.

[S14VH45]

he wasn't even in the slipstream?!

[stupidbitcheverlive1]

he want to wheelie. hehe :)

[DontbuyChineese]

Nope, your car is too expensive for my taste! ZAP!

[bleakspeaks69]

mercedes is hiring aeronautical engineers!??

[ratzinator1]

@bleakspeaks69

looks like it, doesn't it? that was a nice launch in all except for the driver and his team perfect 10 that he landed on his wheels

[zmicier]

ооох, еббать)

[kanattu2]

mitä paskaa

[skynet091287]

Tom Kristensen actually told the danish fans that, according to the telemetry in the Audi R8's, the cars where actually completely airborn for a total of more then 20 seconds over the course of the 24 hours. He added, "Of course, that's during the entire race, you don't want to use it all at once..."

[rFactorRaceSetup]

he's lucky that the trees were cut over there

[jetpoweredgriffin]

Who says they don't build flying cars?

Seriously,he was drafting and passed on the crest of a slight hill.

Coming out into clean air on the top of that little hill was all it took for the design flaws to manifest.

McClarens and Porsches have done it,too,though,but not as much as these.

Adios,CLR...

Viva Toyota!

[Armalizilto]

There goes another legend, trashed!

I hope the diver is alive.

[ratzinator1]

@Armalizilto

yeah, his name is Peter Dumbreck and he went back to Le Mans in 2006 driving a Porsche 911 GT3. That year was the final year Mercedes built cars for Le Mans.

[ratzinator1]

@ratzinator1

excuse me it was 2007 actually - he got out of that car perfectly fine in 99 just decided to take a break from Le Mans and do other racing for a while then came back

[krasteller]

@ratzinator1

this is Mark Webber in 1999

[PttyBlue43]

@krasteller mark webbers was in practice laps. this is peter dumbreck

[bamboali]

@PttyBlue43

peter dumb+wreck?

[PttyBlue43]

@bamboali good 1

[vladi2993]

WAAATAAAF?

[Miakehl]

Track, track, track,and suddenly TREES!

[Georgeous129]

I'd have wet myself if I was the driver

[gerysc]

Merceplane

[dmarkj22]

@gerysc Lol

[Sara0090]

no is mercedes, is OVNI =OOO

[SlimSombrero]

That is Mark Webber!

[BloodRain23]

Its Dumbreck, Webber crashed in warm up lap

[cleansilvia08]

They did hours of road testing on the clr but never any wind tunnel testing.

[totszhin3204]

Who can tell me. Why the car was fly ?

[Falloutman666]

the wind went under the car and picked it up. listen to the commentator

[DingeZZ]

Because it had bad aerodynamics.

[faesar]

totszhin3204 car needs more downforce at the front >>>>>

[MetroidFreakPrime]

well i think both of them need the same amount. because the back was down while the front was flying

[ripousse]

@faesar No shit hey !

good observation Einstein !

[Xx74Murat74xX]

Mark Webber

is that

[Routti]

peter dumbreck

[babalew1]

lol

[zead2]

lots of lollipops

[zead2]

You would think they would find that out when they tested it!!!

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

[DatCanuk]

This is why wings come on handy not for thoes stupid hondas lol.

[teedot]

thats the 3rd different CLK-GTR i've seen flip... what piles of crap.

[emmerich79]

It was Mark Webber?

[bigshot1990]

And the cheif designer thought "Hey what about downforce?" Im a topgear youtuber!!

[epicvelocity]

TG mag anyone?

[epicvelocity]

TG mag anyone?

[ace8455]

Lol thats wen u really need a rear spoiler.

[sherwin544]

oh dear

[donaldmarshall]

wow.....a flying merc. I read it in Top Gear as well.

[cgm545]

Ascal im pretty sure the driver actually got out without any injury which is lucky considering

[Ascal1]

I read it in the top gear magayine aswell. Was the guy kiled?

[GKellyLFC4Life]

good vid, how shit are mercedes at designin cars tho lol. CLK-GTR's cost to much anyway. This video is advertised in issue 175 (February 2008) of Top Gear Magazine ya know, so you could be havin alot more views lately.

[BMAtubes]

i believe i can fly (mercedes's cars)

[Spyker88]

Actually Weffew, thats the CLR, not the CLK GTR as you pointed out, this is 1999 when the aerodynamics cause the to flip in pratice, Morning warm-up, and here the actual race.

[pedetr2namunn]

not blood but dirt

[animewacher]

omg when he landed was that blood?

[MikeyBoy1130]

think that was dirt, pretty sure its not blood

[GliderDaughter]

Yeah, as gross as it looks, I don't think the human body *has* that much blood.

[moony2082]

Yeah I remember watching this live, the Mercedes team had their aerodynamics absolutely screwed up and these crazy crashes were the end result.

[weffew]

Summitshow - your're wrong. veyron's correct. It's a Mercedes CLK GTR. The video is from the 1999 24 Hours Le Mans race. This is one of three such incidents that weekend (Mark Webber did it twice, and the video was taken with Peter Dumbreck driving). Only after this third incident did Mercedes decide to abort the race!

[SidiousX]

not sure but i know its not a prche

[toracer32]

Actually, Mercedes CLR, 1999.

[veyron]

No its the CLK GTR man not a Porsche GT1??

[Summitshow]

no, as i said on the ohter, no mercedes. its a porsche gt1!