Garry wrote:
I read the TT is hard to handle, but that seems a bit twitchy ...
The first TT's had some aerodynamic lift problems on the rear axle (only noticable in long, fast, WET corners), but that was solved with a major recall action.
If you watch his steering angle versus corner radius you will see that the car basically understeers, so that is not the cause of the tail-end snap.
I thought that he might have been bumped from behind in the braking zone (which typically causes such snap spins), but when you slo-mo the video there is no perpetrator in the background.
However, the slo-mo showed that in an effort to take a wide line thru the curve, the dork put his left wheels off the track and then hit the brakes.
INSTANT DESASTER!!!!
The first video incident was also his fault.... he clipped the inside kerb, which momentarily lifted the car's nose, reduced the front-end traction and sent the car with a terminal dose of understeer straight into the tire wall.
To his defence I have to say that the guy is propably a (rich) rookie, because he drives like a stiff robot "by the book", exactly as we teach in driving school. As you gain more experience you tend to loosen up and not make those beginner's mistakes.
PS: OK, even semi-experienced drivers have been caught out excessively warming their tires on Hockenheim and going home on a flat-bed. Of course nobody that we know.........
