Porsche 911 GT1 Lemans Flip

A porsche flips in the 1998 Petite Lemans at Road Atlanta.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• lemans
• porsche
• 911
• gt1
• alms

[ColtOwned]

the car is a mercedes. not porsche! and both cars from mercedes had this wrong constuction! they both "flied" ^^

[sidewalk4004]

You fail. This is a porsche. The other one is a mercedes.

[natedog2008]

they should rethink the cars if they can lift that high and flip yes their going fast but everyone should have a weight add on so there heavy enough to stay on the ground i mean there low enough things like that shouldnt really happen ... they all should be doing that then

[sidewalk4004]

They probably, if anything, should just increase drag and downforce on their aero. It could have been their setup that caused it.

[brup123]

The guy behind him must have had a spectacular view.

[eleanorroosevelt1]

just push forward on the stick to get the nose back down.

[thesymphoniclife]

If he actually hit the gas harder the Centrifugal force of the rotating wheels would / could have actually balanced out the car enough to not lift it off the ground.

[ejkddorai]

Achievement Unlocked: Backflip.

[roddy0]

@TheCarlsonsRaiders The problem is that these cars are on the bleeding edge, which is how they win races. The car has just enough downforce and no more, to maximize straight line speed. In this case it came back to bite him, lesson learnt hopefully. Stick half the car out of the slipstream when going over a rise.

[JessManc1987]

@SpeedFireARL That's what I was going to say

[SpeedFireARL]

Все просто, 911 двигался в зоне разряженного воздуха от впереди идущей машины, и на пригорке переднее антикрыло не смогло обеспечить достаточной прижимной силы.

[spprtatpscm]

@sidewalk4004 one of the other reasons for cars flipping is if they tail another car. Turbulence in the air from the car in front is what was partly due to the mercedes clr crashes because apparently the engineers told the drive not to "trail the car in front" of them.

[spprtatpscm]

@ColtOwned Yea this is a porsche 911 gt1-98. Though they might look the same they're not. Mercedes did the same thing, but the BMW LMR and this porsche did too. The hills a leman races were too high so many cars have flipped and they eventually lowered them.

[TheCarlsonsRaiders]

It's rather simple what happened. The open top car in front of him was blocking air flow to the GT1, so he didn't have much downforce. As they came over the little rise, what air there was got under the car, and with no clean air above to push it down, the car took off. Considering they took the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1-2 with the same car, I'd say it's simply a lot of circumstances coming together at the same time to create the problem. The 911 GT1-98 still rocks.

[KrZyChUuU02]

@rawoodruff

That's ALMS- American Le Mans Series, but track is Road Atlanta. That's all.

[leonardofredrizi]

very good aerodynamics