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Jeremy Clarkson crashes a Porsche GT3

Soccer_playa1579

what a dumbasss

AznX TL

Jeremy clarkson is far from a dumbass.

Python2121

and that is why he is on a track

srika

damn that seemed scarily too easy to do...

BC2G

he said their notorious for "not tolerating fools"



those things stick so tight your grandma is a pro in it

Maximized

Wasn't too bad. Even Micheal Schumacher crashes, so I fail to see how hitting a barrier on a race track makes Clarkson a "dumbass".

LIPPSTUH

iTrader: (2)

not much damage from the hit.... sexy car..

fdl

Leave the driving to Tiff.

srika

someone i know recently totalled his 07 GT3 at Road America... he was pretty new to the car and probably shouldn't have taken it there.. those cars are shaky at/near the limit in the wrong hands, for sure.

SeCsTaC

Woulda never happened if he was driving a GT-R. Oh well

iTimmy

That video is old news, I think that was from the super car shoot out. People say Porsches don't suffer from the lift off/snap oversteer like they used to, but its still a common complaint, no matter how much suspension tweaking they do, no matter how much stagger they set up with the tires, the engine is in the wrong effing spot! The balance of the car is off and physics will take over when at the limits, which every car has. That said, I don't drive at the limit, and love Porsches because everything before the limit is sublime.

srika

^^ yea come to think of it I do remember seeing it before.

The Dougler

iTrader: (1)

It's certainly not a new video, the best part is after being into the wall it was still faster than the Audi R8. Porsche, there is no substitute still rings true. And by no means is Clarkson a fool, even the stig has put cars into the wall, it's inevitable when trying to film cars at their limits, your not pushing hard enough if you don't hit the wall once and awhile, especially when it's not YOUR car.

Maximized

I've only driven an AWD Porsche, but I have been in a GT3 on the racetrack as a passenger. It felt very stable to me. You just need to use common sense. Porsche has done a considerable tuning to the suspension to remove as much of the lift throttle oversteer they could.

savage

The GT3 or the GT3 RS are as close to a Porsche racecar as you can get. They are designed to be crazy tight and have incredible handling, but these cars are definitely not forgiving once you push them to their extreme limits.

They take out the forgiveness which you may ordinarily have in a regular 911 and let you drive it to a point, where engineering can no longer defy physics...


so what if Clarkson hits the wall, it happens to the best of them. It is not gonna stop Porsche from sending him more cars for his show...

TL1999

damn................

6MTUA5

iTrader: (2)

The man can drive.

TheMirror

That clip almost looked like he was trying to hang the back end out on purpose.

SicK TypeS

looks like he was trying to drift through the turn but came in too hot and tried to muscle the rear end out. problem is he's trying to muscle a good gripping rear engine car uphill sideways. props to jeremy clarkson for test driving cars with some balls and giving us something to watch

cmschmie

Car and Driver tested the new Turbo a few issues back and said that it has the "lift off - tail happy" issues that must plague Porsches.

http://www.caranddriver.com/comparis...911-turbo.html

phil2

Everytime I run with pca at watkins glen sure enough one of them crashes because of this tail happiness.

TheMirror

Indeed, yet understanding that the tail wag in the new Turbo and the violent lift off oversteer of the old torsion bar cars are two very very different things.

One you can catch with some counter steer, the other snaps you around and hammers you into the guardrail.

Cheers,
-Mirror

jlukja

looks like the tail didn't come out as much as he thought and he counter steered it into the barrier.

TheMirror

I agree.