This Audi R8 Driver Probably Needed Fresh Underwear After This Nurburgring Slide
While the R8's Quattro all-wheel system does give amazing grip in the wet, there is still a limit to what it can do in soaking conditions like these...
We’ve been lucky enough to spend quite a bit of time with Audi’s new R8 this year, and while we’ve been impressed with the ridiculous amounts of grip on offer whatever the conditions, there is a limit to what you can get away with in the wet. Particularly if you’re driving on a sopping wet Nordschleife like this guy.
Fortunately, after a slide and a violent snap he’s still just about on the tarmac, avoiding what would have been one of the most expensive touristenfahrten crashes we’ve seen this year. As for the state of his underpants, we can only speculate…
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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ESP and all other three letter life saving acronyms or not but the greatest success is that the guy didn’t overcorrect by turning the wheel further than needed (over hand)…. and thats pretty much the first lesson to learn when starting trackdays or driving in winter.
Braking point was a bit off but i would have been scared too. Specially with that car.
I see he did well with the car.
That was a good save. I reckon that someone who has a car like that and goes to The RIng doens’t perform mediocre at all.
Saved by Quattro!
Meh electronics saved him, can clearly see it hench the car back in (have driven S8 so I know)
Commence dislike (don`t care).
Avantler83 Wenn wir rennen fahren xD
IMMER :DD
Yikes! I would have been over the wall, probably in the woods.