Ouch - Safety car crashes
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Video here: https://i.imgur.com/EZ8GUMh.mp4
It looks like it unsettles as he hits the brakes, then he pitches it into a spin when he realises he’s not making the corner. He’d have been somewhere close to 300kph at the start of his braking zone, they drive them pretty hard on Thursdays when they do the recce laps.
As it starts to spin, you can see that the rear brakes are glowing but the fronts aren’t, which says to me some sort of front brake failure.
The course cars are very much based on a road car rather than a race car, it’s basically out of the showroom minus the cats and plus a roll cage and all the FIA stuff. It’s not a GT3 car in disguise, and runs fast road tyres that can cope with rain. Brakes and suspension are all standard road car, supposedly for reliability reasons!!
It looks like it unsettles as he hits the brakes, then he pitches it into a spin when he realises he’s not making the corner. He’d have been somewhere close to 300kph at the start of his braking zone, they drive them pretty hard on Thursdays when they do the recce laps.
As it starts to spin, you can see that the rear brakes are glowing but the fronts aren’t, which says to me some sort of front brake failure.
The course cars are very much based on a road car rather than a race car, it’s basically out of the showroom minus the cats and plus a roll cage and all the FIA stuff. It’s not a GT3 car in disguise, and runs fast road tyres that can cope with rain. Brakes and suspension are all standard road car, supposedly for reliability reasons!!
CLK-GTR said:
Oh dear Aston Martin! I think it very unlikely a driver of Maylander's calibre simply lost it there. Looks much more like a mechanical issue.
That's very presumptiveThey push the safety car hard on Thursdays in order to prepare for the race weekend.
This is the first time I can recall the safety car actually making contact with a barrier but it's certainly not the first time the driver of it has lost control.
I am inclined to think he hit the brakes...nothing..., hits the handbrake, the rear locks, then one tyre gains more traction as his hand comes back to the wheel, just as control of the rear is lost.
It may be better to wait for an explanation as to the circumstances though - if one is forthcoming.
Good job they have a backup safety car!Jasandjules said:
Looks a rear axle issue. Brakes or the actual axle to me as it went a bit "floppy" then lost it...
I'm going with this, axle ^^^^ looked unstable maybe before even braking. Monza curbs have been flattened this year apparently, was Maylander therefore hammering it harder over the curbs rather than threading it? White-Noise said:
I cant believe the standard brakes would be up to the job!
The Mercedes version of the safety car, the AMG GT Black Series, set the Nurburgring production car lap record when it was first introduced. The AM version isn’t an awful lot slower. Both have carbon ceramic brakes as standard. If you’re going to use a road car rather than a race car, which you want to because you don’t need all the performance but do need the reliability, there’s not much better out there. The SC needs to be able to start on a button every time, happily sit idling for an hour without cooking anything or anyone, and then launch into half a dozen hot laps at a few seconds’ notice.
Sandpit Steve said:
White-Noise said:
I cant believe the standard brakes would be up to the job!
The Mercedes version of the safety car, the AMG GT Black Series, set the Nurburgring production car lap record when it was first introduced. The AM version isn’t an awful lot slower. Both have carbon ceramic brakes as standard. If you’re going to use a road car rather than a race car, which you want to because you don’t need all the performance but do need the reliability, there’s not much better out there. The SC needs to be able to start on a button every time, happily sit idling for an hour without cooking anything or anyone, and then launch into half a dozen hot laps at a few seconds’ notice.
Muzzer79 said:
That's very presumptive
They push the safety car hard on Thursdays in order to prepare for the race weekend.
This is the first time I can recall the safety car actually making contact with a barrier but it's certainly not the first time the driver of it has lost control.
Watch the video closely. The car twitches briefly at the braking zone but does not slow down, then you can see a second later he purposely flicks the wheel to send it into a spin. The image of glowing rear brakes suggests brake failure.They push the safety car hard on Thursdays in order to prepare for the race weekend.
This is the first time I can recall the safety car actually making contact with a barrier but it's certainly not the first time the driver of it has lost control.
I'd be amazed if that's driver error.
Edited by CLK-GTR on Friday 30th August 14:18
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