Watching This M3 Driver Trying To Avoid A 'Ring Crash Is Proper Heart-In-Mouth Stuff
This BMW E46 M3 driver is seen desperately trying to regain control of his car, but in the end, he can't keep away from those dreaded Nordschleife Armco barriers
Earlier this month, this E46 M3 driver had an unfortunate coming together with some Nurburgring Armco, despite his best efforts to avoid it. At the very least, the impact doesn’t look too severe, but it doesn’t do anything to change our opinion about the risky nature of timing your Nordschleife laps, especially with a big, distracting stopwatch displaying on a phone in the middle of your dashboard…
Video via Car Scoops
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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Love his reaction: uuurgh fu**
Overcorrected that’s the term
Always are asians that come from uk :v
Sounds like he’s got straight cut gears!
I am the driver of this M3. Use a Laptimer to record date is pretty normal for local people here. I drive more than 100 laps this year like this and we record not only time but also all the detail to analyse and improve yourself. This crash lap is the first lap after 20mins brake. (Temperature is cold and tyres are cold down very quickly) I compared my video of that day. I found that I braked my car at that corner schwedenkreuz to same speed like the lap before. but the grip is changed and suddenly i lost traction. I saw some grass and dust on the apex side of the road surface.Or maybe I should give more gas to move more weight to the back. unfortunately, I really shame about forget my helmet at home.
Seems that you are OK and that is the most important thing, you could reduce a lot of speed before crash ¿can you tell us how is the car or show it to us?, error or not that is something that anyone racing has to experiment, you and your car are at the edge so this things happen, many computer-reaction pilots in here will let you know how wrong you was but is easy to tell that from screen and not driving, for me you did very good at slowing the car and avoiding a worse situation.
Seriously, You’re traveling how fast on a track that is KNOWN to be behind the times in crash protection, in a car with how many mods, and you STILL haven’t purchased a helmet? You give all of us a bad name.
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if he would have hold that 360 entry it would have been in slap’s top 10 drifts of the week
in GB a good E46 is probs £10K or €12K
More downforce needed!
nop, less speed and less sharp of a turn in was needed. Also more downforce won’t help if the track surface is cold and possibly has some dust on it. Schwedenkreuz is a very bumpy corner, a less bouncy suspension setup would’ve also helped a ton.