Mercedes CLR-GTR Lemans Flip

[zooyorkchild45]

WHOOOAAAAAA leave it to German engineering to fuck up on the aerodynamics

[eatordie94]

it's just like a sheet of paper XD

[jsizzle711]

first ever landed quad cork?

[DrJCCC20]

isnt this y the cars have big fins now??

[NuxingFutz]

Only Mark Webber could survive that..

[farodealer]

@NuxingFutz That was Peter Dumbreck. Webber went in qualifying and morning warm up. i actually saw the accident as I was about 100 yeards from it. After the 2 Webber flips Merc installed small winglets on the front of the car. One was knocked off on the previous lap and the draft from the Toyota interrupted the airflow and caused the flip. the Mercedes had been porpoising all through practice but looked better during the race until the accident

[Couldburdaddy28]

that was one of the problems with the clk gtr, it had a tendency to flip at high speeds...

[bringonthe12]

5.4.3.2.1.0. houston we have liftoff. LOL

[TheFlyingSwede]

Webber seems to have a knack for flying cars.

[N1ceGuyEdd1e]

air goes under, car flips over, cant explain that

[Sprebound]

@N1ceGuyEdd1e How'd the moon get there? Tide goes in, tide goes out...can't explain that

[aryatololHTF]

Mark Webber repeated it in Valencia... hahaha 

[mrhogfors]

Mark Webbers best crash ever =)

[csykes23]

I have never seen the full footage of the camera view facing back from Indianapolis....from the shakiness of the camera I imagine the cameraman was filming the cars cresting round that corner. Has anybody else got the whole footage of this? It always seems to be this awkward switch between the views during the crash. I bet the aforementioned clip would be really interesting, to see the car leave the ground from a forward facing position.

[FormulaOneFan4Eva]

he was drinking red bull even back then :o

[supraelite07]

that happens when the car is too light and when the underside of th car is completely flat of course its gonna fly high

[JP69SSCAMAROFAN]

Not Enough Front End Downforce.

[NascarManiaco99]

I say Carl Edwards or Mark Webber we're driving this car lol

[redbaron10785]

Die ingenieure mussen aus Lufthanza wurden , zie machen die dinge dort zu fliegen/facepalm

[KingVirmire]

not enough down force =(

[HYPHYDUM408]

Downforce my ass, LOL.

[SkylerandFriends]

I guess the car got so excited it wanted to do a backflip!

[123HAKKO]

how this shit happens?!! i men the other cars are going with the same speed,and nothig happens. must be on aero dynamics...

[hbmitch]

incredible insight hakko...

[123HAKKO]

go fuck your self!!

[oddguy314]

jesus christ!! that may have been a good 30 feet

[dantsuale]

poika lähti keuliii

[A7V2]

speak english

[dantsuale]

the boy went popping a wheelieee

[A7V2]

thats not funny, y dnt u learn 2 take thing seriously?

[dantsuale]

yeah, go away, I wasn't obviously talking to you anyways. Fucker.

[5thCent]

Another similar accident after the ground effect has been banned in F1. (That's why Massa is alive)

[G0ML3]

holy shit it looks like its made out of paper. unbelievable

[willcobbsail]

180 tripple backflip :p

[Navohk]

Take me down. That car is all down force. Thats why it's so lolw. What happened was the car went up the hill and because of air resistance the cars front end lifted and flipped!

[TakeMeDown2FunkyT0wn]

No downforce at the front.

[Navohk]

THe car has tons of downforce! What happened was the air resistance lifted the front end of the car up after it got at the top of the hill!

[TakeMeDown2FunkyT0wn]

So it has no downforce. How do you call it then?

[Ymeth]

I guess that could be avoided by allowing venturi tunnels, like the BT46 had.

[futahroid]

Le mans 24 HR 1999

Driver, Peter Dumbreck, car landed right way up, uninjured.

Team mate Mark webber flipped in practice AND in pre race warmup, unhurt.

Mercedes CLR - Aerodynamic fault, stopped racing them after this.

[dreyer3421]

YOu do know that is not the CLK-GTR right? It's the Mercedes CLR. Different are all together. GReat clip though. I watched that race when I was little.

[TheGuyFawkesFactor]

Reminds me a bit of the 1955 lemans. . . Thank God no one got hurt and that the flipping car didn't shower parts on a dense croud of people

[codymaxed]

dude that was AMAZING! I JUST CANT GET OVER OW COOL THAT LOOKED

[chrisohyeah]

Im glad none of the drivers of these cars were seriously injured.

[dumbCrakers]

i heard it was something having to do with slip stream, he either go in or out of it, and air gets thrown under the car

[kizzagt]

it was a miscalculation on aerodynamics the reason the clr took off was cause of the tubulent air got under the clr and lifed the nose and took off

[MikeBerry3]

who's the guy driving?

[AHiFi]

@MikeBerry3 Mark Webber. Now racing for Red Bull Racing in Formula 1.

[udipta21]

@AHiFi Mark Webber is it? He sure loves flying :)

[Porsche917LH]

After lifting from the ground the car's shape weight transfers backward which which lifts the front slightly and reduces front end down-force. The car essentially becomes a air foil and flies.

[Chuichupachichi]

I wonder why nobody has posted the Mark Webber "flight of fancy"? From what I can remember, it was almost identical to this one, only I think Webber flew even higher.

[XXNERVEXX]

cos mark webber is useless. cant do shit cept crash or faqil to finish rofl

[o0HouzE0o]

Flying Free!!

ROFL

[l1ght7x]

I remember watching that race and seeing that crash. I was telling someone about it recently but they didn't believe me. I will forward them the link.

Thanks for sharing a bit of race history. If I remember correctly it was one of the fastest cars on the track for the first 2 hours of the race before they withdrew after that accident.

[TheMandoor]

I heard that it got air under it because of going over the crest of a slight hill that slightly changed the distance between the front spoiler & the ground to more than the tolerances would allow. This is only the difference of a few cm's but that was all it took to cause the air to change from down force to lift. This isn't an SUV this cars suspension is so stiff that if the right rear tire went flat the front left tire wouldn't touch the ground. A couple cm's is a big deal.

[nezy37]

I heard it was an aerodynamic flaw, but I reall don't know for sure.

this happened a while ago and I just thought about it and decided to see if was on here,

Youtube kicks ass

[Triple88a]

not enough down force in the front and with the huge engine in the back, the front took off.

[Blacklist94]

holy shit.

how did that happen?

[sidewalk4004]

air gets under the car and it goes up

[Blacklist94]

what do you mean?

like is it cause of the speed that caused air going under the car, lifting it up?

[sidewalk4004]

Well yes I guess. Probably a problem with the setup, but yes thats basicly it. There was just too much air directed under it.

[Blacklist94]

OK.

[whiteman78]

@Blacklist94

the car lost a front canard and that cause a loss of front downforce.

[domeracer666]

he got behind the toyota, the less dense; more turbulent air got under the car, as soon as the nose is raised the air pressure on the back wing rotates the car into a flip. lucky the guy lived

[bboyrets]

this is the mercedes benz CLK GTR...not clr gtr...

[Duff4444]

It's actually a CLR... no GTR

CLK GTR was the first iteration used in FIA GT in 1997 and early 1998, CLK LM was used at Le Mans at FIA GT in late 1998. The CLR was used only for this race.

[ravelizard]

that's the problem with prototype cars :D

[Praet0r87]

Err...no, it's not a fake. This was the le-mans 24hr race back in 1999. I remember watching on the telly. The merc should have won as well!

[Spyker88]

No problem. I don't mean to sound like a snob, but I just don't like it when people get the wrong info.

[Spyker88]

sidewalk4004, this is the CLR, not the GTR.

[sidewalk4004]

thanks, i have ignored anyone else who said it is

[kjbrooks2010]

@sidewalk4004 was that car in front of the clk the toyota gt-one

[Twin540i]

This is real, It happend during the 24 race at Lemans in 1999.  Mark Webber was a team driver who fliped during the morning warmup. Mercedes tried some last minute adjustments with little flaps on the front of the car. After less than two hours into the race, Mercedes withdrew from the race after this accident.

[twil178]

it wasnt the CLK that did it it was the mercedes CLR

[Johntheschizoidman21]

It is real, and there's a perfect explenation for it. Air got caught up underneath the car, and due to the cars speed, the air lifted the car much like an airplane. Thankfully the driver was unhurt.

[SilentDrifter]

Got to thank the engineers for making the car tough. I dont know how he thought it was fake though.

[fx4movies]

No its for real...in fact it happened three times that year!

[bpyo]

this has to be fake.