Flying Aston, how did this happen?

[Streetrod]

Ok folks, check this one out, how the hell did this not end badly???

http://www.snotr.com/video/5760?ref=nf

[deevlash]

welcome to 2006...
The distance it flew was further than the Wright brothers first flight iirc.

[woof]

lucky guy - guess the rear wing acted as a wing !

[FraserLFA]

Bloody hell!

[skeggysteve]

deevlash said:

The distance it flew was further than the Wright brothers first flight iirc.

Well it does say that on the caption

[Chrisgr31]

Difficult to see why it took off, but guess the circuit is higher than the gravel trap

[Matt Harper]

I was at that race - up at Mid Ohio. There is a small hump in the back straight that he 'got light' on and over-did it on the brakes, which got him sideways. That right-hander into the esses is scary because, as happened here, the outside kerb is high and acted as a ramp. I have seen lots of cars/drivers come to grief there. Luckily there is a wide, flat gravel trap there that is well drained, so errant cars dig-in less. Had that happened 10 years earlier, he would have hit the barrier in mid flight, which would have been very ugly indeed.
Mid Ohio is a wonderful circuit - a little like Brands, with all it's elevation changes.

[PabloTeK]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9FsYDEIZWk

It's what happens when a wing is reversed at high speed as the above video shows, hence now why NASCAR mandate a large plank instead.

ETA: That's what caused the exaserbated trajectory, as the poster above said, it was the kerb that launched it.

Edited by PabloTeK on Tuesday 2nd November 22:41

[Eric Mc]

deevlash said:

welcome to 2006...
The distance it flew was further than the Wright brothers first flight iirc.

I think the Wrights were exercising a little more control of their flying machine.

[FourWheelDrift]

Not the first time Pedro Lamy has flown, he tried to leave Silverstone early during a test with a Lotus F1 car in 1994 without using his pass. If you have been to Silverstone and know the pedestrian tunnel on the outside of Bridge corner, that's where the cockpit with him in it ended up, in the tunnel.

[Mazda Baiter]

FourWheelDrift said:

Not the first time Pedro Lamy has flown, he tried to leave Silverstone early during a test with a Lotus F1 car in 1994 without using his pass. If you have been to Silverstone and know the pedestrian tunnel on the outside of Bridge corner, that's where the cockpit with him in it ended up, in the tunnel.

'Kinnell!

I've heard about a few testing accidents that got quietly covered up.

Bjorn Wirdheim(sp) had a big one in the Jaguar which set it on fire whilst he was sat in a bare cockpit...on it's side...in the middle of the pit straight.

I believe the Marshalls all got a souvenir that day.