This Audi Can't Escape Its Understeering Fate On The 'Ring

Trying to thread an Audi estate car around the Nordschleife was always going to be tough, especially seeing that they're known to understeer...

Michael Fernie

24 Aug 2016

Audis are famed for their understeer and this clip shows the perfect example of a front-end washing helplessly wide, culminating in a trip to the gravel and a sickening collision with an armco.

Thankfully the impact was completely side-on so a quick trip to the bodyshop and a precautionery wheel-alignment should see the German wagon back in ship-shape.

Comments

It took that well, they must have ticked the “Saab” option when buying it

Well, this one was not about the car, but about the driver.

The corner ist Aremberg and really dangerous in the wet. In the dry, you come there with 200 km/h (depending on the car) and have to brake hard to ~100 km/h. In the wet, you should of course be slower.
The problem is, that it goes downhill and the ideal line in the dry is the worst line in the wet. The dry line on the left side of the track has absolutely no grip in the wet und even when hard on the brakes you just slide straight into the gravel.
So the Audi driver didn’t know how to drive that section in the wet, so he was way to fast for the corner and simply just went into gravel because he was too fast. This would have happened with every car, not just Audi. (No, I’m not an Audi fanboy, I would never think about buying an Audi ;))