brake dust

The ring has the look of the wild, wild west. The only way I would like to experience driving there is thru a club. Lack the confidence otherwise!

Carrara

The moment I saw the title I knew it'd be at Brunnchen! Based on a bunch of videos, that looks like a very tricky and unpredictable turn!

aj986s

Never been there, but the landscape reminds me of T9 at Summit Point. Subtle change in elevation between apex and track out (though at SP the change is closer to the apex). The car gets light going over the rise, and must be kept straight going in and over. Need to let the car "land" and settle before inputting any additional steering or throttle.

Laps on the Ring are on my bucket list.

Condor Man

LOL!!

He would have been changing his undies for sure!

Carrera GT

Hard to say what happened here. I don't think the driver lifted, I think that section of the track (cresting, adverse camber) induces some unweighting (I know that's not a word) of the inside rear. This driver reached the point of "save it and lose face" or "try to hold it and risk a wipe out" ... discretion is the better part of valor in this case, but it should have been a more immediate transition to "both feet in" or perhaps the driver was right on the ball and allowed the car to reverse off the track out of the way of the following traffic.

Here's a prototype GT2 RS taking the alternate reaction and applying more power, but not counter-steering so much as to risk a tank-slapper -- you'd have to know the ring and be a helluva confident driver to take this approach once the rear of a GT2 RS started to move ...

http://www.youtube.com/user/FlatCran.../1/gOtE_x4zJj4

911SLOW

That is a tricky section.. prays worked for me twice

jenk12m

That's what you call a " close call"...

quickxotica

No doubt the guy in that video is PAID to drive. That says something about his skill level.

Either that or he carries his ***** around in a wheelbarrow.

Carrera GT

I took another look at that video on a larger computer display and it's just a monumental fail once, fail twice -- the spin occurs on the uphill section before the crest and was middle of the track, then he drives back into oncoming traffic.

Also, it's not necessarily a GT2 RS. The wheels have black centers, but silvers outers (the factory painted wheels on a GT2 do not have the silver outer.

LastMezger

Thank god that "blue cupcake" didn't panic and went right, otherwise a real disaster for the RS.

Too many vehicles with mixed driving abilities and $ values on the track at once for my liking.[/QUOTE]

Different values aren't half as scary as the different skill levels...

carrering

he pinched the exit trying to line up early for the entry to the left after brunnchen. still pushing car to the right when extra energy bound up wanting to go left and when all the grip of the hill started dropping as it crests the car would have to rotate.

RAPID

I believe his line was too tight, it is an easy mistake to do on exit from Brunchen, you should let you car run wide until you feel the grip is back, because the track is like concave shaped on exit (neg camber on both side)....

Greg A

According to a post on another forum, these pics are supposed to be the same car in the video.



Greg A

Larry Cable

Yep, I'd agree he was tight and he lost grip as he crested ... amazing that he managed to get it to do that ... the understeer on that exit is epic!

a very lucky man indeed that he didnt meet with some expensive armco...

Larry Cable

there are a TON of locations that are incident magnets arguably the brunnchen exit is one of the less likely ones ... unless its wet when the understeer is completely unbelivable, the entry is the more common place to make a mistake (early apex)!