This apparently happend at the mazda VIR event the other day...

http://jeffsweb.net/viperattack.php

 

I would have filled my fireproof underwear on that one...

 

damn that scared the bejezzus out of me!!!

wow, that was a close one..

 

Dammm

 

WTF happened there?

 

what could get someone to cross so fast in a straight? I guess the straight wasnt wide enough ............................and he dropped a rear wheel and panicked.

 

Thats upsurd. What happened there? Can't believe no one mentioned this incident when I asked how the Mazdadriver event went...

 

damn, that's crazy.

 

The remarkable part was that it happened in the MIDDLE of the front stretch, and the Viper "exited stage left" into the expansive field to the left of the track. He slid for what looked like two time zones and never hit anything... you know you must have done something pretty spectacular in a previous life to pull that one off!

Damnest thing I've ever seen!

Though I will refrain from expresing my opinion on what exactly happen, suffice it to say that Vipers have a VERY nasty bite if not handled with inordinate caution!

 

It looks like he lifted off the throttle in the middle of the kink on the straight right at the start finish line, and unsettled the rear end as he was blasting past the camera car

 

OMG! I would have done the same thing!

 

Why would he lift while passing a car? More than likely either one of two things happened. Either he hit the dirt and whipped the wheel back on the track...or more likely....
he tried to get back left too fast after the pass and gave it too much throttle.

 

 

lol that was nuts

 

As someone who has driven that track on several occasions I can attest that until you gain some confidence it is hard to go flat out down that straight. You actually have to make a turn out of the kink and hit the Apex if you are going 140mph plus which I would imagine that viper was. I can totally see coming up to that point and having a car right next to you and lifting if you havent driven the track before and gained the confidence that you can take it flat out.

 

This reminds me of those annoying chain-emails that tell you to look for the ghost in the picture. http://www.unmelted.com/puzzle/whatswrong.swf

... !!!!!

 

I almost thought this was fake at first... WOW. Talk about lift throtttle oversteer... and I thought the damn things understeered and were kind of numb.

 

Holy crap!

 

damn i expected this to be some n00b spinning out or something but HOLY **** that was close...

 

wait, i dont understand somthing here, the video shows the out of control car going straight, in other words, the nose first then the tail followed, almost a straight line across the nose of the camera car, its not like his rear passed over first like the rear came arounds on him, ...i dont get it? did the rear come loose further back, then he over correctd and shot straight across the track in front of the camera car?

 

That is what I would guess. But who knows, it is definitly very strange to say the least

 

that was a viper that crossed in front of the car? It didn't look like one....

 

That's the new body style Viper:

http://www.dodge.com/nav/photo/viper_srt10_3_main.jpg

The look more like a C6 now than what the old Vipers looked like.

 

that's a pretty scary video...

and about the new viper:

i saw one on the street, highway 17 in NY

that car definitely looked great, and sounded badass

REAL sharp car

 

Did you see Amp's pics in the other thread? It looks like that Viper hit something in the rear. There is a pic of a Viper pretty banged up in a trailer.

Don't know though