Ferrari F50 Crash Video

[Jordan]

This is terrible! I think something must have broken...there is simply way too much understeer going on there.

Ferrari F50 Crash

 

[made in holland]

Wow! Luckily he wasn't driving that hard, otherwise that man wouldn't have been that lucky.

Hurts the eyes to see such a beautiful car crash though.

 

[misnblu]

That car had some serious understeer or something. For it to push like that with virtually no speed, bad driving or push.
Ive seen this video before, from sometime back.
Nice find Jordan, its on my hard drive again.
Misnblu

 

[vat_man]

It's curious, isn't it? You can hear the front right locked, but it never looked like turning.

Must confess to a bit of a laugh there, though.

 

[Hyperion]

wtf

 

[F094/H]

Excactly!

 

[f50]

for some strange reason i can't see it.the realone player start to load but don't finish the load.(can some one tell me whats wrong).

 

[f50]

i try it again and didn't work.(say the load was timeout or something like that)

 

[Garconis]

Originally posted by Jordan
This is terrible! I think something must have broken...there is simply way too much understeer going on there.

Ferrari F50 Crash

Thanks Mr. Jordan.

 

[X5.]

O.M.G

 

[Tercel_driver]

Weird.

I can see the driver trying to realign the car to take the next curve, but it seems the driver is looking for one direction, while the car is going to another.

A close-up of the wheel at that moment would've been nicer.

 

[Magic069]

Yeah, I was just wondering what the tires were doing in reaction to his turning the steering wheel.

I am with Jordan, I think something broke. Very unusal for a F50 to have that bad of a understeer at such low speeds. Of course saying something broke on fairly new (from what you can see) F50 is unusual too.

Looks like the guy that got hit was OK, lucky for him.

 

[viperman]

wet ground + too much steering= hydroplaining that is my vote

 

[sn00pie]

He obviously locked up the brakes, and kept them jammed.

 

[halfracedrift]

Yeah but if he locked up the brakes and tried to turn, would it tail out instead? i woudln't know but i wanna know why this happened.... so strage

 

[nefyre]

An object in motion will continue in motion.

If all four wheels are locked solid, the car will continue in a straight line no matter what direction the wheels are turned.

When the wheels are locked, they become solid objects. Think of them as the legs on a chair. If you push a chair on ice (unless it hits imperfections in the ice) it will continue in a straight line.

Note that this is also true if the car (or chair) are spinning.

Once the tires begin rotating again, they regain traction, and redirect the car. Hence the reason the Anti-Locking Braking System was invented

 

[Jordan]

Originally posted by nefyre
An object in motion will continue in motion.

If all four wheels are locked solid, the car will continue in a straight line no matter what direction the wheels are turned.

When the wheels are locked, they become solid objects. Think of them as the legs on a chair. If you push a chair on ice (unless it hits imperfections in the ice) it will continue in a straight line.

Note that this is also true if the car (or chair) are spinning.

Once the tires begin rotating again, they regain traction, and redirect the car. Hence the reason the Anti-Locking Braking System was invented

The F50 doesn't have ABS?

 

[Cobraboy]

Maybe the driver planted his foot firmly on the accelerator instead of the brakes. Maybe he panicked (sp?).

 

[F094/H]

 

[nefyre]

Nah.. The Ferrari F50 is a drivers car (and 9 years old)..
http://www.ferrari.it/cgi-bin/fworld.dll/ferrariworld/scripts/gt/car_data.jsp?car_type=GT&CAR_ID=F50

There is no mention of an ABS system there, and in fact a quote from http://www.carsurvey.org/review_23234.html 'All controls are perfectly weighted, and very precise. Again, the spartan theme holds true -- no power steering, no ABS, no fancy electronic driving aids.'

 

[sn00pie]

Originally posted by Cobraboy
Maybe the driver planted his foot firmly on the accelerator instead of the brakes. Maybe he panicked (sp?).

No, that would've made the back-end go wild.

 

[risingson77]

I'll vote for a lousy driver who turned in too fast and tried to turn in to correct the understeer.

 

[qjasonp]

whatever happend that guy is luckly. I got hit by a car when I was 13 and I was in the hospital 4 a week and a half with two broken bones in my right leg, a broken rib and a dislocated shoulder

 

[Concept]

I saw that video on a TV show that shows car wrecks and such. Poor camera man.

 

[TVR_Mad]

yes what a stupid f50 driver u see that its not turning so he doesnt brake just carrys on and wiping out people as he goes what a stupid old man

 

[TVR_Mad]

yes what a stupid f50 driver u see that its not turning so he doesnt brake just carrys on and wiping out people as he goes what a stupid old man

 

[TVR_Mad]

yes what a stupid f50 driver u see that its not turning so he doesnt brake just carrys on and wiping out people as he goes what a stupid old man

 

[Concept]

Originally posted by TVR_Mad
yes what a stupid f50 driver u see that its not turning so he doesnt brake just carrys on and wiping out people as he goes what a stupid old man

Yeah that makes sense. I'm sure they hired an idiot to drive a $200,000+ car. If he were able to brake I'm sure he would of.

 

[risingson77]

You only have to say it once, TVR_Mad.

 

[TVR_Mad]

yes i know lol but i never knew it was was done so i kept clicking submit